Joe Friday takes on cop killing gun nuts 

"Flinch and you'll be chasing your head down 5th street!" I think this was one of Joe Friday's most badass moments!

Joe Friday didn't need any SWAT team to capture a couple of cop shooters, he brings a shotgun and an attitude and takes them down.

One of my favorite episodes! I love the way Friday lays into those two hoods there in the interrogation room 😎

Best Jack Webb rant ever!

"I've handled jaywalkers who were tougher than you". I had to bust out laughing at that line.

"...why- if it wasn't for PRISON food, you'd starve to death! You haven't been out of the joint for more than 2 or 3 years in your entire LIFE!"

These guys aren't gun nuts, they are just plain nuts.

“ you remember her name don’t you? You should, she was your sisters daughter.”

Joe Friday tells a story like no one can!

"What's he doing still alive?" A reasonable question to ask about someone who's been gut-shot at point blank range with a sawed-off shotgun. And it's always fun to see Dick Miller, one of favorite character actors, in any role.

Absolutely BAD-ASS! I especially love the part where the Officer just stands in the door of the interrogation room, just the sight of the Officer gets the mouth little peep to sing like a bird and send his “friend” down the creek without a paddle.

“Joe Friday takes on cop killers”…….the gun had nothing to do with them being nuts

What I enjoyed about this show is it cut to the chase, it had a human quality, just the facts. It kept your interest, and had interesting characters. Law enforcement back then didn't have computers or national data bases. Just good hard police work.

One of the best episodes of the entire series. "Flinch and you'll be chasing your head down Fifth Street."

"You need a witness...and that you ain't got!" "Ain't we?"

"Flinch and you'll be chasing your head down 5th St.!" Love it

the wounded cop, i believe is actor Don Marshall from Land of the Giants. Better known for Star Trek episode The Galileo Seven, Lt. Boma.

Gun nuts? Don't you mean criminals, felons, wanted men, robbers, or drug abusers? All the "Gun Nuts" I know are nice law abiding people.

I wish more of the current police shows got back to the basics of solving cases and trimming the fat in the storytelling. One thing about Dragnet is that it showed the human side of police work and I always loved when Friday gave his speeches. They cut right to the chase when it came to the cases. There was no drama, sex scenes and bullshit. Only police show that is the best on TV now is Chicago PD.

FYI Mert Howe who was mentioned by Capt. Brown was the Deputy Chief of Detectives. He is alleged to have been Friday and Gannon's first commander they served under. Later he would head up a shooting board for Friday who kills a burglar at a local launder mat nearJoe's appt. He had come across the guy when he went out to buy a pack of smokes. Chesterfields I believe. Anyway Howe was a REAL Deputy Chief as Jack tried to use as many of the real names of the LAPD detectives that were serving at that time. Kind of neat how he managed to include so many names and so few people. The miracle of shooting by Jack Webb.

Did you notice how quickly Friday and Gannon reacted when they heard that it was A Policeman getting shot?

"Why, if it wasn't for prison food, you'd starve to death".

11:25 - “While you waited for the owner to show up, you sat in the back of the car popping pills and chasing it with cheap port wine.”

"Flinch and you'll be chasing you head down Fifth Street!"

Nice try, but I've seen the entire episode. These two weren't gun nuts. They were a two-man team of petty, violent thugs who went around robbing liquor stores, gas stations, and other small mainly cash-only businesses using a sawed-off shotgun as their only weapon. Far from a pair of gun nuts.

Jack Webb in real life was nothing like Joe Friday. As a director he was very controlling, he was also a very heavy drinker. After a shoot (be it Dragnet or some other production) Jack would hold court in his bungalow and listen to ideas from cast and crew members. Jack invited everyone. The price of admission was the next day's hangover. Everyone would show and Jack would pour away. Not to mention he was a heavy smoker which everyone knows. But he had a unique way of directing. On the Dragnet shoot if anyone was acting too natural, he would simply say; "Cut!" and then he would coach the actor by telling them; "Stop acting! Just read." And that's how Dragnet had that unique appeal. Either an audience loved it or hated it. Look at the difference in Harry Morgan's acting in Mash. A far cry from Dragnet because Harry was less tense as Colonel Potter.

"Ya sat in the car popping pills and chasing them with cheap port wine" LOL

Rarely did Joe Friday flash a gun. Usually his words were enough.

"I still don't remember them." You don't have to. They remembered you well enough.

Note how Johnson seems surprised Kensington was doing his own niece

I'm always amazed at the lack of medical equipment in hospital rooms in shows from the 50s and 60s. Seems like the doctors told the injured to rest and hoped the body cured itself.

I like how Friday handled the store clerk who hates the police. The store clerk says when a cop gets it you drop every to catch that person. Friday told him we go after them because a police officer is armed if a criminal shoots an armed police man he won't hesitate to shoot an unarmed civilian. (this was missing from the clip)

Back in the 1950s detectives were their own SWAT teams. Firing tear gas and shoot outs. Times changed when the cops got outgunned.

It's pretty sad in retrospect and especially today that a former Marine Corps Drill Instructor, or D I for short, which Webb was in real life, and he actually wrote a book with the simple name of D.I. as the title of it. How A Marine would take on the unconstitutional task of placing the blame on guns and white guys back then. The plan has been in play for a while. There are so many things wrong with today as far as the unjustice system operates. There are so many laws on the books now you can't do anything without breaking one of them and if they want to charge you with any of them they can do it 20 times a day or more. They got the squeeze on us. They've got the squeeze of bullshit laws taking away our freedom in effect.

"Shut up tunnel mouth!" lol

I submit, one sawed off shot gun does not a gun nut make. Epilogue: The guy with the striped shirt did time, got paroled, eventually opened up his own gun store, but was himself killed in a robbery in 1985 by a mysterious, heavily built man with a robotic German accent, who was never caught...

Never sween composit drawings that looked like photographs before

Those sketches look like Patrick Swayze and James Dean.

In case you're wondering why Sgt. Al Vietti looks familiar, it's because he was played by a veteran Mark VII acting talent, Alfred Shelly.

11:39 Dropping bennies and swallowing wine...Luv it!!!!

love these stories Glad we have Police we support you!!

"This is the city". You can tell by all the smog.

A couple of cop shooters talking to LAPD like that.. BACK THEN?? be lucky to be feeling anything below the neck.. RIGHTFULLY SO TOO.

" I hope you write my book" best line ever

“All right, tunnel mouth! Let’s all save time!”

Those two thugs in today's modern era belong in the Supermax federal joint 23 hours straight in solitary!

Holy shit - Johnson was the gun store owner who was shot by Arnold in the first terminator.

A couple of things I noticed: A) they put the two of them in the same interrogation room, which cops would never do. They would question them separately so that inconsistencies in their stories can be used against one another. B) Friday left Gannon in the room with the both if them. Who's to say they would not try to overpower Gannon and escape. They already shot one cop.

Those guys aren't gun nuts.

Gun nuts? You must have never seen the episode

The doctor was a murderer in another episode

Anytime an officer is hurt; every law enforcement agency is there. A State Trooper was attacked at the Driver Testing Center ( formerly in Midtown) and in a matter of seconds, officers from the Memphis Police, VA Hospital Police, University of Tennessee Police, Memphis Housing Authority Police and Shelby County Deputies arrived.

Actually the cop lived.

Grew up watching this show before it went into reruns. Then for the past 5 years on Me-TV. Lost the signal last year when too many buildings blocked it.

Officers are part of a kingdom, and the nicer people are they nicer there job is. Whether are called a guard or a officer.

Great episode but they are just plain nuts not gun nuts.

No nonsense Friday is the best

The Little Bad Guy was Character Actor Dick Miller. He goes back to the 50's. He was in GREMLIN's and probably most remembered as the Gun Shop Owner in "TERMINATOR"-1984. When Arnold is requesting different model firearms. He says Phase Plasma Rifle in the 40 watt range; which Miller replies Hey,Just whats on the Shelf. He was going to close early and Arnold helped him do that permanently ...

God, the dialogue was sharp. We are lesser men of greater sires.

these were not gun nuts. these guys were just killers. to see that cop survive a double barrel .12 ga is astonishing. my son was shot at point blank range with a load of #6 from a single shot. he lost 19 units of blood, they took 2 ft of large intestine, the shot went through his liver, and into his kidney. they dug the wadding out of it. so he lost it. they said it was a miracle he lived. how the cop lived, was crazy luck.

Joe Friday is Joe Friday ( Jack Webb). Just the Facts.

- Knock, knock! - Who's there? - Joe Friday, his shotgun and his gigantic brass balls!

So what's a "gun nut"? Anyone who owns guns, enjoys shooting, and takes pride in their marksmanship? If that's the case, I'm a candidate for a padded cell and straitjacket and will apologize to nobody for it.

Hopefully MeTV will bring this to the prime time lineup instead of 5-6am while I am sleeping.

"...you look good." Best Joe Friday line ever.

The guy in the yellow sweater made the most out of every single syllable he had.

Back when CA had sense and put up with no nonsense

Mr Fuddermen's dark past. How did they let him open a gun shop?

One of the few episodes that the suspect were handcuffed in.

Notice the way Joe Friday holds up the table when he runs. Já Já.

Really, what Friday is fighting against is enjoyment, jouissance. He wants to return to a pre-Oedipal earnestness towards all one's undertakings in life and cannot rest until others as well stop emitting signs of their enjoyment. But of course that's how his enjoyment works: he doesn't glance off int he distance when the boss gives him a lead about a liquor store, he looks earnestly at his partner as if to say, "Figures." And the TV series itself adopts this same gaze. Little does he suspect, though, that we the viewer are watching Friday's gaze out of a sheer sense of...enjoyment.

To be an actor all one needs is an exceptional memory to recall all of those lines.

So Harry Johnson beat the rap. And somehow was still able to get a job at a gun store and was ultimately killed by the T-800??? Tough run...

Friday and Gannon are both dressed alike.

Thank You for your Work the Editing is perfect

there are still decent cops

Son Im gonna tell ya something, and it aint pretty, Theres a thousand ways to die in this stinkin city!

From the episode, “The Big Shooting.”

I can only attempt to imagine exactly how you feel, but I can say that I understand where yer coming from. The problem (I think) is that we're just too scared. "You think I can 'talk' my way outa' getting shot in the back? I don't think so!" This is a quote I made up to remind myself of what dangerous people go through in the "business world". Now not the kinda business with professionals in limos and private jets. I mean the kind you would see in "The Godfather". That kinda business.

Premise was sketchy all the way through. But if they got the right guys, then Hell yeah! Go Cops!

Make a hell of cop today. Need a detective like Friday today

Could you imagine Joe Friday trying to arrest someone in todays age, big black woman caught shoplifting at walmart and throwing haymakers upside his head

It would take an incredible will to live to survive with 276 shotgun pellets in your body. But then there's nothing that's really impossible for man if they're will and determination is strong enough. This episode had great dialogue, an awesome 1960 Mercury which are seldom seen anymore and the interrogation of the two hoods. All played their parts exceptionally well. Season One of the revived Dragnet series is about the best. How does anyone live with themselves after they raped their sister's daughter? That is sick.

Anybody know the name of the bigger actor that shot the officer? I just saw him in the movie One Minute to Zero with Robert Mitchem and Ann Blyth.

Threatening a police officer during interrogation; sounds like a felony.

Superb quality upload THANKS

Excellent editing.

Those nuts got a big shock when they saw Ofc. Dave Roberts alive. They thought he died.

I DON'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED.

Joe Friday gave the crooks a well-deserved chewing out in this episode.

but,but,but, sawn off shot guns are illegal.

You just know Bill Gannon is going to give them hell..."BULL COOKIES!" 12:22

JOE FRIDAY - BAD ASS MOTHER%+×÷=#% !!!

One criminal in this episode is Dick Miller. Gun store owner in The Terminator movie, and in many Roger Corman movies

Love how Jack Webb recycles his band of thespians.

ahhh the "good ol' days" in smoggy LA

why is half the episode missing ? Scenes are cut...and some of the good ones ?!'

Dragnet is some of the funniest shit I've ever seen..."Yassir !"

If it’s illegal to sleep with a shotgun then I’m guilty

if that pipe is going into his trachea would he be able to speak