My brother & I watched this every Thursday Night @9:30

Dragnet is a killer show! Growing up in the 60s my Dad and myself watched it together. RIP Dad .

@rosemaryedwards7239

Жыл бұрын

I have it on VHS SOMEWHERE!

@RemoWilliams1227

Жыл бұрын

That's great I grew up watching the 1967-70 run in the 80s

@glenw-xm5zf

Жыл бұрын

that one and Highway Patrol. Both very realistic

@donhagerty5669

Жыл бұрын

In my opinion the thing that set this show apart from others, but tombstone territory was the fact that it included information on them being convicted and how much time they would be doing in prison 👍👍👍🤠

Could you imagine what police in 1955 would think of America today?

@Mjp74

Ай бұрын

My grandfather retired in 86 after 30 years of police work, and i often wish he was still around just to hear what he thought

@dariowiter3078

13 күн бұрын

I can! The members of the LAPD of that time would say that America has turned into a country of q***** & dy***. 😒😒😒😒😒

The part where that woman is looking for Ethel’s picture is sooo hilarious that I think she should have won an academy award 🥇 for it. I nearly died when she stuck that recipe in her bra. 😂😂😂😂😂

@randallloomis4756

Ай бұрын

Didn't she say "now I always know where I can find it!" Lol

Jack Webb might have been the straightest square type ever, but he had style.

@RayPointerChannel

Жыл бұрын

Maybe a bit "conservative," but he was "cool" with it.

@thomasglynn2282

Жыл бұрын

watch the clapper capper with Johnny Carson

@stubryant9145

Жыл бұрын

He was also a decent jazz musician.

@jameswirth3117

Жыл бұрын

He was a WWII vet, too.

@howardoller443

Жыл бұрын

@@RayPointerChannel What is wrong with being "conservative"?

I was born in 1955, I remember watching it as a kid, but didn't appreciate how good it was.

@marcchevalier3750

10 ай бұрын

Yes. You were born in 1955, a newborn with ZERO MEMORY OF THE 1950S. 0 YEARS OLD, doing nothing except in a crib and a house wearing BABY'S CLOTHING. YOU WERE NOT BORN IN THE GREATEST GENERATION 1900 TO 1924 AND DON'T REMEMBER A SINGLE THING ABOUT THE 1950S. You ONLY remember 1962 to 1980s because you WERE 7 years old NOT EVEN WEARING ADULT OR TEENAGE CLOTHING, ONLY A KIDDIE DOING CHILDISH THINGS NOT EVEN A FEDORA. HAHAHAHA.

@user-oq3cf3sf6h

24 күн бұрын

I was born in 55too

TAR BABY! Oh, are the PC crowed going to love that .

@benniebarrow348

Жыл бұрын

Screw'um.....lol

I just recently stepped on this series. Never heard of Dragnet before. I got addicted.

@harlankrissoff9966

2 жыл бұрын

Search here for Dragnet second series called Dragnet 1967. It ran from 1967=1970

@intermauro1789

2 жыл бұрын

👍 thx for the information.

@justiceforall6412

2 жыл бұрын

@@harlankrissoff9966 Actually it ran from the 40's onward. You can find the old radio shows here, or you can even find the TV shows from the 50's on youtube

@Cracktaculus

2 жыл бұрын

Are you a government employee? Just curious.

@impossibledrms

Жыл бұрын

Precursor to Emergency !, and Adam 12. Jack Webb produced the second two.

Interesting how back then a friend, who was a boy, was simply a boyfriend. Nothing else to think about. Also, when the detective said the kid would eat standing up for a few days, speaks to the times.

@PatrickStPaul-sw9op

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I mentioned that someone, a troublesome girl, needed her behind spanked and I was barred from Twitter and made to retract the comment!!

@MrMenefrego1

20 күн бұрын

@@PatrickStPaul-sw9op If more of these bratty kids got their behinds spanked like we did when we were kids they would have more respect for their elders and peers!

Fun facts about Jack Webb: 1. That was his hand with the hammer at the end. 2. His production company was called Mark VII Productions because seven was his lucky number. 3. His badge number was 714 for the same reason. 4. The LAPD retired badge number 714 in Webb's honor and memory shortly after his death.

@itsjohndell

Жыл бұрын

You can see it in the Los Angeles Police Museum.

@barrywainwright3391

Жыл бұрын

Also Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs

@Catquick1957

Жыл бұрын

The series was made to give the LAPD a humane image. They were bigger thugs than the crooks in the early part of the last century. In the 20's, the police commissioner told his men they'd be fired if they brought a felony suspect in alive. Not kidding. The movie with Angelina Jolie called "The Changeling" showed some of this. They forced a woman who's kid went missing to take a kid she never saw before, and when she griped, they had her thrown in a mental institution. Her real son was murdered by a serial killing homosexual pedophile. They changed the name of the town later when they started to build homes on the farm land where the killings occurred. I think it's called Loma Vista now, something like that.

@whoknowsidont.5147

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@raymondhopwood9393

Жыл бұрын

@@Catquick1957 In the 1920s and 30s, the LAPD was called "The Best Cops Money Can Buy", because it was said that at least half of the entire force were on the take.

This was filmed before I was born, and I was accustomed to seeing the more elaborate, color sets in the mid- to late-1960s Dragnet episodes. This B&W episode with minimal sets is really intriguing due to the intense acting and some pretty fast-moving dialogue. Really fine drama. Thanks for posting.

@cejannuzi

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, shows film noir and hardboiled detective influences in a TV series.

I grew up with this show. I lived the episodes in my dreams.

@Delatta1961

10 ай бұрын

Me too. Dragnet and Adam-12

Jack Webb has the perfect delivery of dialog, quick, pertinent, & with a staccato delivery giving the effect of a semi automatic.

@ChrisMaxfieldActs

Жыл бұрын

Webb essentially invented the teleprompter with a mechanical dialogue cue system, and he insisted that everyone just read their dialogue with as little emotion or "acting" as possible. He also loved to reuse the same actors, the ones who understood the rhythms of his dialogue, for new characters, over and over. If you acted on DRAGNET, it was one take, and you read it right off the prompter!

@MrMenefrego1

20 күн бұрын

@@ChrisMaxfieldActs Thanks for the info. Webb was underrated, IMO.

The guy that the husband is pounding on, Howard Culver, appeared in a lot of 60s Dragnet episodes. He also was Mike Brady's boss, Mr. Phillips, in the Brady Bunch. He wore glasses later on. I barely recognized him.

Rest in ☮️ Jack Webb.

@danpayne8675

Жыл бұрын

Jack Webb would have hated being associated with a peace sign!

@lilajagears8317

Жыл бұрын

@@danpayne8675 The footprint of an American chicken.

This morning on my walk I listened to the radio version of this episode. Excellent radio and television!

@nancynancydrew8503

Жыл бұрын

did you return yet from the walk?

@MrMenefrego1

20 күн бұрын

@@nancynancydrew8503 Not yet, and it's been 3 years now! 😲 I'm starting to get worried! Can't you find him, Miss Drew? 🤔

@RobertTKlaus

17 күн бұрын

Makes you want to grab a Clipper Craft suit and bottle of Petri wine on the way home. Ha., ha... That's the ads I remember5 from the radio show recordings...

Brings whole new meaning to the term: "Talk to the hand."

Darn. Friday came this close to saying the famous line: Just the facts Ma’am.

At the beginning when they said the boy had been found, I thought " This is the shortest episode of Dragnet ever"

@nicholasgreenwalt7983

Жыл бұрын

Good one!

@cameronduff884

Жыл бұрын

...that way, they gave us a happy ending, from the beginning...now you can send the kids to bed and watch the real ending, more of a reality check.

Jack Webb is a real gentleman when he interviews anyone. This was such a great show. The way they provide the insight on how they work. Today's detective shows are pale in comparison.

Funny, tar babies are what we called the chunks of tar the roofers threw in the melting furnace behind their trucks in the 60s in old L.A.

@MrMenefrego1

20 күн бұрын

Not what I was thinking they were at all! I wasn't even close!

"Wife has been gone for 1/2 hour" : "We'll be right down". THAT's a laugh! The first case was a young boy at his "Boyfriend's house". Times have changed. Polie would have probably not have raced out now.

@GT-fi4sk

Жыл бұрын

Different times man.

@63bplumb

Жыл бұрын

@@GT-fi4sk You did get my point that she had been gone for "1/2 hour"? Now days if she'd been gone a week they wouldn't have "Come Down'.

@keithammleter3824

Жыл бұрын

Just another clue that Dragnet is not a "this story is true" - it's purely the result of the scriptwriter's tired imagination while working on a deadline of one episode a week. Along with the ham acting and the business with the matches to imply he's nervous. In reality if you go to a police station to tell them something, you don't get past the front desk until you have been thoroughly grilled by some pissed off uniform sergeant who has been given an easy job while he gets over a work injury, and thinks because you walked in you must be guilty of something. Bu the time you get past him, if you ever do, you are pretty pissed off too.

@MrMenefrego1

20 күн бұрын

@@keithammleter3824 Speaking from experience or imagination?

@keithammleter3824

20 күн бұрын

@@MrMenefrego1 Experience.

“No, I don’t pry into their personal lives.” 😂

Love how the first scene is a car going up the "EXIT ONLY" ramp.

well i have to say i liked this show back in the 1970s but they sure cant make them like this no more sad we live in a stupid world now

@Victor-vg4gw

8 ай бұрын

I 100% agree because everything has to be computer-generated with special instead of just simple facts as it was. You look at some of these other movies and they say the same thing with all these new technical words and you would know what the hell they was talking about. And they always tell you what penal code in California was broken 😮😂😅😊

The ending with the Hammer striking the roman numeral is I understand Jack Webb .

1955? I was ten and living in Long Beach, Ca. Loved these types of shows.

@dfirth224

Жыл бұрын

I was 5.

@raymondhopwood9393

Жыл бұрын

I was born three years later.

@Yowzoe

Жыл бұрын

I was -4.

I used to love watch these reruns of this show.

One of the best programs ever, wish people still had the same values today.

@keithhyttinen8275

Жыл бұрын

"values". Uh huh.

@lilajagears8317

Жыл бұрын

@@keithhyttinen8275 That's right values!

@howardoller443

Жыл бұрын

@@keithhyttinen8275 That's right; values.

@incorrba

Жыл бұрын

@Keith Hyttinen That's right values.

@tomboston9669

Жыл бұрын

Which values are you talking about ? The kidnapping and pouring hot tar over an innocent person kind ? Or the shooting at the police kind ? The good old days weren't always good.

For the few people who don’t know, the picture is from the later, colorized version with Harry Morgan. This episode is from the earlier version, B&W, with Ben Alexander.

@dfirth224

Жыл бұрын

Harry Morgan before he was on M*A*S*H in the 1970s. The first version was in 1950s. Those are 1956 Fords they are driving.

@michellehull7720

Жыл бұрын

Àreyoukintojohnyhullofarizona,,,,,,wearekinsome,,howawesome

@davidhull1481

Жыл бұрын

@@michellehull7720 Sorry to disappoint you but no, no family in Arizona.

@Tommy-76

Жыл бұрын

The revival was not colorized. It was shot in color!

@davidhull1481

Жыл бұрын

@@Tommy-76 Semantics. Colorized can just mean in color without referring to a process.

Originally telecast on March 17, 1955; adapted from an October 12, 1954 radio episode.

These were before my time but I always liked the 70s ones. All the goofy side characters were so funny.

Jack Webb was so square he was cool!!

The black and white film is true art.

This was shown on Scottish TV when I was a kid in the 60's...True Crime magazine was popular too.

Another great show I watched like clockwork around supper time every night back when I was a kid. I'll be watching them again.

12:08: OMG That's my desk and filing system!

@MrMenefrego1

20 күн бұрын

Seriously?

Someone is a half-hour late, call the cops

@misskim2058

3 жыл бұрын

Someone who is normally consistently punctual to the minute for an extended period of time… Yes, call the cops.

@Cracktaculus

2 жыл бұрын

10 minutes later, blame some random nigga.

I liked seeing neon lights illuminating the tower atop the Richfield Building in the opening scene. That beautiful art deco high rise was scrapped in 1969, and the Arco Towers stands in its place.

@MrMenefrego1

20 күн бұрын

THAT IS A CRIME!

Try to say "Tar Baby" today, and you be in a heap of trouble, boy.

loved the series. watched it with the family years ago. good entertainment

@12:00 most people don't know how common it was to throw things on the floor, when you were looking for a photo in the 1950s. Also, @20:30 when you spoke to the police, it was common to pull matches from a matchbook and throw the on the cop's desk. It was such a normal thing that the cops didn't even react.

@Yowzoe

Жыл бұрын

historical truth, dat

Sharp writing, great "Noir" directing plus oddball characters. You sure got a lot for your 1/2 hour back then

@Catquick1957

Жыл бұрын

That's because there was no formula in the new medium of television. Now everything is cookie cutter. Movies too. No chances taken.It's why indy films are so much better. The directors have license to do as they please without a studio bigwig looking over their shoulder.

@peacenow42

Жыл бұрын

@@Catquick1957 this was pretty standard format for back then.

@MrMenefrego1

20 күн бұрын

@@peacenow42 And Indie movies are horrible!

@peacenow42

20 күн бұрын

@@MrMenefrego1 I haven't seen them all.

Webb was great at rattling off his lines like a Tommy gun, but he had nothing on Broderick Crawford. How that guy could talk so fast and so clearly is incredible. Great shows, something TV today knows nothing about.

That's wild. I didn't even know there was a Dragnet series in the 1950s. I thought it was just the 1967-70 show. Funny how it only played during wartime...

@kathyflorcruz552

Ай бұрын

It was on radio before TV too.

Thanks for posting these programs they are great 👍

Pretty intense for the 50's Great crime program

I wonder if the neighbor ever made those frosted gingerbread cookies for Christmas 1955?

".......just the facts, Ma'am....." ".......yes Ma'am..." I can't help thinking of Daffy Duck.....

Great show..."Just the facts...". Awesome Possum Puddin' and Pie!!! YAAAR...

Jack Webb is A Savage !!!

Wifey missing after 30 minutes lmao

17:05, this is the way TV and movies were: they had the decency not to show severely beaten/damaged people!

@misskim2058

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. After decades with crime lab, it didn’t get easier, it actually got more difficult over time... it gets old, and the public doesn’t need to see that.

@robertdesantis6205

2 жыл бұрын

That's what imagination is for

@jamesstuart3346

Жыл бұрын

It's MUCH more dramatic when you only see her hand

@653j521

Жыл бұрын

Censorship not to show it.

Got the radio drama on dvd. for it's time it was super hard hitting. Jack Webb always the same hard hitting detective.

It was a big deal in 1956-7. My dad was a cop and we waited to see if he would be able to be in the show.

watched newer episodes as kid and older episodes recently.shocked at the brutality of the old one's especially being from the 1950s.

@dfirth224

Жыл бұрын

Newer series they had to read the suspects their "Miranda Rights".

@gorymarty56

Жыл бұрын

Most crime shows of the 30s to the 50s were gritty and a noirish style. No PC back then.

@randquadrozzi1280

Жыл бұрын

@@gorymarty56 yes and I like the hard edged attitude were there isn't always a happy ending.

My favorite episode was the high school kid had a grenade at a party and pulled the pin. Then he turned up the music real loud and gave everybody steely glares. You don't want a steely glare from a guy with a grenade I tell you what.

@TheTheo58

Жыл бұрын

"The Grenade" stared off with Gerald Paulson pouring acid on another kid at the movies, getting into a fight with his step father running away with a live grenade showing up at the record party. Friday slowly inched towards the extension cord, kicking the plug out with his shoe stopping the record player. Then he and Gannon rush Gerald.

@dankjankings7339

Жыл бұрын

I remember that one.

@genefogarty5395

Жыл бұрын

@@TheTheo58 And the kid he poured the acid on was a teenaged Jan Michael Vincent!

Fun to see a young Henry Corden aka the second voice of Fred Flintstone.

“What about Mr Cabot?” “George?” “No, one of the several hundred other Mr Cabot’s she’s married to…”

Great show Jack Webb was great. May He be in Heaven.

@Yowzoe

Жыл бұрын

He'd hate it there. No cases to solve.

15:04 I want that sound played behind me every time I say something smart.

This whole episode is over the top! Right down to the match sticks!

I remember this show but never remember watching it It was before my time but my grandpa used to like it when I was young

Unbelievable. Only charged with kidnapping. If they proved kidnapping, they can prove the assault.

@randallloomis4756

Ай бұрын

Exactly, but they figure most people aren't smart enough to realize the quality of content.

They are driving a ‘54 Ford just like my first car.

Webb used to read his lines from an "idiot board" (before they invented the teleprompter).The trombone music is a hang up from previous radio days where musicians were part of the studio casts

Surprising no one ever has a cigarette lighter!

@oklahomahank2378

Жыл бұрын

Lots of people had them. But a police officer or anyone dealing with the public knew better than to carry one. You loaned it and never got it back. Matches = no problem.

Great memories!

Thanks for uploading. I'm a bit surprised that in this case (which is based on a real case), the 2 perpetrators only got one to 25 years for kidnapping. What about assault? Even assault with intent to commit great bodily harm? They beat the woman, shaved her head and dragged her in hot tar. That's a second or third degree burn. And if it was over a large percentage of her body, she could have developed infection or even died.

@thelionsshare6668

Жыл бұрын

California. Of course, recently, Texas prosecutors decided to NOT seek the death penalty in the case of the Wal-Mart killer. And he murdered 25 people in a rampage.

Very good. Thank you.

Harry Morgan,my grandfather went to school with him.He was a Muskegon,MI native

Good show !

Friday For President 😊

The informant at 22:00 appeared in numerous episodes of the later Dragnet 67 series, including the ‘stagey’ furrier, and the violinist apartment dweller.

@itsjohndell

Жыл бұрын

Jack Webb had a running cast of the "Dragnet Mafia". Many of them appeared in Dragnet from the beginning, sometimes in Highway Patrol which Webb was not involved in, and again Dragnet 1967-1970. Most went on to appear regularly in Adam-12 and even Emergency!. Virginia Gregg was the winner appearing in more Mk7 Productions than anyone else. Webb was a genius as a Producer.

@kevinwachs5905

Жыл бұрын

That's Henry Corden. He replaced Alan Reed as the voice of Fred Flintstone upon Reed's death.

This is how it was. Today when we look at crime not only are we amazed at how much and the kinds of crime it has become two cultures; the ciminal culture that goes in and out of the jails like a revolving door and the regular population that works hard and abides by the law.

"Just the facts, ma'am."

10:10, "...there's more to life than being a good provider"

Search youtube for "jack webb johnny carson copper clackers". You be glad you did!

I would like to sit and drink at George's bar!

@thomashenebry8269

Жыл бұрын

It's not gonna be for free.

Not many Ethyl's nowadays. LOL!!

Good OLD DAYS, "NO MIRANDA" ACT. !

My favorite episodes involved robbery division of dragnet

Thanks

very intense for 1955-1956 !!

@STho205

Жыл бұрын

The 50s Dragnets were much more about violence. When it returned in the late 60s after the movie with Harry Morgan, they were typically assigned to non violent divisions, and they rotated divisions every week to fit the story. There was a big push in 1968 to reduce violent content on TV. The westerns started to chill out and detective stories limited their serious assaults and horrific homicides to a few a season. Most gut wrenching episodes of the 60s/70s Dragnet was the old man killed with a claw hammer, the pot heads that accidentally drowned their baby/toddler daughter, the sweet Japanese woman that was murdered. All of that was spoken of...but not shown at all. The woman kidnapped and her employee forced to obtain ransom money, then kidnapped herself is one of the more violent arrests as Friday yanks him out of the car and knees him to the pavement to save the two women. It was always a clinical show for the most part. Last of the radio dramas turned TV.

Oh the days of gritty tv.

Back when the U.S. was a lot more normal

@teresas8173

6 ай бұрын

Yeah beating and covering a woman in tar … that’s normal? Men were as brutal and violent then as they are now.

It seems that Friday and Smith should have arrested Cabot, too.

The show is Great Jack Webb and Dragnet was one of the best shows I still catch the reruns ('67-'70) But the title for this episode sounds all wrong just saying

Modern police forces need detectives like Friday and Williams to keep the citizens safe and to get the fiendish crooks off the streets.

@gplunk

Жыл бұрын

They also need laws that allow them to do the job they're trained for; and not impede their efforts to apprehend the guilty suspects....

5:15 that's tellin' her.........

2:18 wife is late 1/2 hour. There sure she's been kidnapped.😂😂😂😂😂

They ALL smoked.

Kidnapping, Aggravated Assault, Heinous Battery, Extortion all of that should have gotten them a lot more than 25!

You marked it TriCoast, looks better without marks, THUMBS DOWN!!!, but, thank you for posting the video!

Today , police will not even take a missing person report until missing for a week or so , , , ,

No one walked like Joe.

I don’t think neighbor Carol has anything to worry about, she would have to pay a man to take her. 😅😅😅

@c.s.mcleod7383

Жыл бұрын

She's in her bathrobe....alone....with 2 men in the house.....nosey neighbors.....

@YouTube.Algorithmic.Nonsense

Жыл бұрын

She also appeared in an Adam 12 episode where Pete Malloy is on light duty with a broken wrist. She's brought into the police station after found sitting in the bus station for 10 hrs with no ID and refusing to provide any info. Turns out she just hated living with her daughter and wanted to go back home to Detroit. She barely looked like she aged any in the 2 episodes.

“How’s your Mom Ed?”

Colombo worked down there too. Just one more thing.

Just the facts ma'am