I'm 75 and enjoyed this show as a kid. The manners, dressing up to go nowhere special!😂❤❤ Respect and courtesy were part of daily life ! A reflection of reality !😂
Notice how the criminals always squeal the loudest when they get hurt but they have no problem hurting and killing others? Those squealers are the REAL pigs.
Im 63, right on the cusp of manners still being taught, my mom told me to stand when a woman entered the room, take my hat off in an elevator and not to sit until the lady sat.
Actually, just yesterday watched another episode with a taxicab driver with same uniform, down to the glasses. Might even have been the same actor. Different accent though. At least properties department is getting their money's worth.....
8:24 That whole scene was the worst😭😭. She acted that very well. She seems so pretty and young to be a widow. After they went to the apartment I was expecting a little more of an explanation. He should have gotten more than 10 years too😠
Can we take a moment to give a shoutout for Aaron Spelling for playing the part of a reformed Mission habitue? Other than the hillbilly depiction on "I Love Lucy," this is the only acting role I have ever seen him in.😄
Eternal mystery of time: I get that bar keepers and coffee shop attendants recognize occasional customers. What I don't get is how they know the customers by first *_and_* last names, *_and_* they know the customers' addresses, even when they live in hotels and flop houses..... "Man in dark suit"? Oh yeah, that's Joe Kelly. He's been here a few times, not often. Lives in the Schmaltese Boarding House on Alameda. 3rd floor I think. 2nd door down the hall on the left. Potted flowers in the window. That's all I know. I gotta right to defend my business, y'know.
He gets "not to exceed ten years" for deliberately killing a policeman while the dead policeman's family has to go the rest of their lives without him. Just wrong. All wrong.
What a terrible thing to happen for the wife ! The more I hear about cops, the braver I think they are . Imagine going to work and not knowing if you will be killed !
Thank you! Police officers / Law enforcement, who patrol &/or work out in the field, are in constant danger, & risk their lives every hour on the job. Citizens demand protection & expect crimes to be prevented, & criminals to be jailed, & the roadways policed, & drugs & thugs off the streets. Then, those same citizens, gripe & curse about getting a speeding ticket. Some citizens complain about Law Enforcement, comment on defending the force, vote for restricting the Officer's power & control over situations, & talk about police officers who've overstepped using force. But yet, these citizens demand & expect immediate attention from Police, when they call for it. Save me officer! Help! But don't expect a decent paycheck for busting your ass to save & protect, while risking your life. Enjoy your few dollars a day while being shot at, to protect complaining citizens.
did a little digging and i think i found the case this was based from.. Mario V. Deiro Policeman Deiro was shot and killed by a man he was trying to arrest for public drunkenness. The 40-year-old suspect was convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to prison, and paroled on October 17, 1947. Policeman Deiro was survived by his wife and three children. dated December 31st 1942 records seem to match.
Hmmm, I guess they gave him a manslaughter rap because he was drunk and presumable not in control of his faculties. I don't know. Shooting someone 6 times seems pretty in control to me.
since the show was based on real events, it might have been the reduced manslaughter sentence because of flawed evidence, no witnesses, or maybe in reality he never admitted the crime, and his lawyer plea-bargained the sentence lower.
stopped to checkout a a call on a man in the gutter , surmised it was just a guy imbibing for New Years was gonna leave 4 guys started accusing him of running him over must’ve been more to the report that I what I know cause he dropped his gun went to pick it up that’s when he was shot, the guy that did it admitted it said he didn’t know he was a cop as he was in plain clothes and feared he was gonna get shot ! Therefore the 10 yr manslaughter .. thanks to clumaster for initial sleuthing 👍
As someone who never saw these because I didn't arrive into the world until '66.. I still got to enjoy these thanks to my parents and more, like you. Thank you!! Damn men, neither hold the wife, just set her down. 🤷♀️🙄😲😁
Party like it's 1955. This episode aired on November 11, 1954... likely as a plea to keep the festivities of the coming new year sensible. The actor who played suspect Harry Talmadge looks like he could be a marine.
Excellent/realistic (for 1954) story. HOWEVER, it’s MISSING part 2. How does a punk murder a police officer in cold blood, and get off with A 10-YEAR MANSLAUGHTER SENTENCE? In 1954 I was just starting to read the daily Palo Alto Times, and for the next 5-10 years it seems 99% of this type of case, a police officer being murdered in the line of duty, ended in the killer BEING EXECUTED IN THE GAS CHAMBER, SAN QUENTIN PRISON. Jack Webb, PART 2???
I hate it when the cops prolong telling the family that their husband is dead....... just tell them and stop making them freak out !! For crying out loud.
I'm a little confused about his sentence 🤔 Everyone else in these episodes gets the gas chamber or lethal injection, but this guy ?? "Manslaughter"? Doesn't seem right for someone who put 6 bullets into a police officer, from BEHIND!!! 😤
I Was Born In 1967 Most Were In Color By That Time But I Grew Up Military Family My Friends Had Color 📺 We Had Black& White Until I Was 8 Or 9 But Watching Them In Black & White Reminds U Different Times When Your Parents Grew Up I Have Classic TV I'd Still Watch BW Occasionally
I like that s show very much The vintage landscape of beautiful Los Angeles the shops ,cars clothes...so interesting ..but i didnt like feeling blah"& down after wards watching as a child..😞
Friday shoulda dropped Talmadge with a .38 caliber mellon-splitter the moment Talmadge leveled his automatic at the back of his partner’s noggin. And, even though The Sarge didn’t have a crystal ball, that would’ve been the proper justice see’n that all they gave the scrot was a conviction for manslaughter. By the way, That bartender was just begg’n Friday and Romarro to dispense a little “Street Motivation” in the back room of that pissant bar owner’s establishment.
That would be a good way to get his partner shot too. Better way to handle the bartender would be to tell him that you're going to have a black and white park outside and question everyone coming and going until someone talked. The guy knew he had a shady clientele and that's why he didn't like having police around as it cut into his business, so I'd make sure he knew that until I had an answer I'd go for, the cops would be VERY present around his bar.
Heck, I was watching an episode the other day, and a traffic death (manslaughter) was 1st Degree Murder. The driver got the gas chamber at San Quentin. Geez. Old fashioned justice. I guess.
It wasn’t. Quite a number of episodes a person guilty of murder receives the gas chamber and is put to death. I’m surprised in this case that didn’t happen, especially for someone who’s killed a cop. Maybe because he was under the influence and had a a very good lawyer. Manslaughter, not first degree murder and a very short sentence, then paroled as well. I’d have thought life in prison for sure.
Not to exceed 10 years? In another episode, I think the one where the teenager killed a girl with a car, they said the punishment for manslaughter cannot exceed FIVE years. Are (or were) the punishments different in different districts of California? I don't see how that can be.
Excellent footage sample!.. It shows a bug-a-boo of "incorrect field order" when it was converted digitally, (the edges simply turn to a blocking effect in the action of the video). Even though you don't see it happening so often these days it can be useful to have an example to hand if you are dealing with such an issue so thanks so much!
The guy only got a max of 10 yrs for cold blooded murder in the first degree that is a crime ina and of himself, you’d think life, don’t seem right, listened to the sentencing part twice, that’s really weird, that light of a sentence would promote murder, how bizarre.
Aaron Spelling, went on to make millions as producer of Charlie's Angels and dozens of other highly successful TV shows. Couldn't believe it when I saw his name at the end in the credits.
Wow the LA Prosecutors allowed him to plead to manslaughter for a max 10 years? Dang, that's straight up wrong. Just very, very wrong. His wife & children must have felt so disappointed, along with utter devastation in the first place, for losing him to a senseless murder! I remember that in the earlier B & W Dragnet episodes (tv and radio) from the 1940s & 1950s, it seems that the state of California had a much different stance on Capital Punishment. In a nutshell, ANYONE that killed ANYONE was charged & convicted of first degree murder, and pretty quickly "put to death in the California Death Chamber"...using gas...and that's a quote....and a wrap!
I believe that's not the point. The show was about stories that really happened. This was clearly a trial that went wrong. But that's a story for a different show.
All the old shows did this. It was called acting. There was an entire profession of what were called character actors. I don't understand this weird Obsession people seem to show starting around the year 2000 that actors never repeat on the same TV show except as the same character.
The cold blooded premeditated murder of ANYONE, cop or not is not manslaughter. If a cop the rest of the force wouldn't have stood for that. I call BS on this "true" story. If a conviction for manslaughter was returned this story contained a bunch of falsehoods.
