wow! they had this episode on the radio series but never saw it on tv. Great surprise! 👍

This makes 3 I've never seen. I appreciate these. I pretty much lie in bed all the time, now. That makes me so much more appreciative of the internet. These are so crisp and clear, too. My eyes are not as good, as they used to be, and the videotaped ones make it difficult to see. Thank you so very much, and God bless you for putting these up. Really nice of you!

@MoviecraftInc

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for the nice comment.

@AB-kg6rk

Ай бұрын

i recommend the radio series, they reduce eye strain and are just as well written and acted. There are over 500 episodes.

@33whiskey69

Ай бұрын

I'm 82 and I know how you feel. These episodes sure help pass the time. Best of luck to you.

@mikeh.7499

22 күн бұрын

pretty much me too with the eyes and stretched out on bed or recliner,plenty of old time radio,hey I'm really into Tales of the Texas Rangers,it's set in 1940s etc,very similar to Dragnet,thanks.

How they used index cards to seemingly manage the entire world still amazes me!

@ernestgalvan9037

2 ай бұрын

And the phone system was totally connected and routed by human operators literally plugging in wires and cables.

@jonmeek3879

2 ай бұрын

That’s the way we used to do it !

@grahamholton8542

2 ай бұрын

the system works really well

@handsomeman-pm9vy

Ай бұрын

Paper files and metal file cabinets ruled before desk top computers appeared in the 1990s.

@JohnReitz-ps2ct

Ай бұрын

That's still how I manage my little world...

Amazing how it’s possible to tell a fairly complicated story in 26 minutes.

@kathypichey4306

Ай бұрын

They had talent back then

@bovnycccoperalover3579

Ай бұрын

They cut out the extraneous. It's the Dragnet model.

Amazing, they actually showed blood. Not done back then.

The days when televisions were sent out for repair. These old shows are great.

@GregoryGLake

Ай бұрын

'Stoopid Women' Quote

@Thomas-yr9ln

Ай бұрын

That a lot of people couldn't afford.

@beerdrinker6452

Ай бұрын

@@Thomas-yr9ln what is your point? Relative cost of living there are still a lot of things people cannot afford. At least then people had jobs repairing things instead of sending junk to landfills. Again, what is your point? My point: Times were different. People dressed well to eat dinner out. People dressed well to travel. Children had two parents. Do you get it?

@jamesschwartz3837

Ай бұрын

Could take your own tubes to a store, check them, buy new needed, take home and replace yourself.

@smcdonald9991

Ай бұрын

@@jamesschwartz3837 Yes, I remember that!

Jack Edwards was very good at playing those bitter characters with an axe to grind. I first saw him in "Highway Patrol", an episode called Motorcycle A where he plays the embittered owner of a café whose wife was seriously injured by motorcycle bums. This Highway Patrol episode also features a young actor by the name of Clint Eastwood.

@aliceinwonderland887

Ай бұрын

yeah he stay by the licka store. right cross from the barber shop.

@skibee421

Ай бұрын

sounds cool !

The boys in the supremely daring knife fight were members in good standing of the Jets and the Sharks.

@mrmarkthompson2361

Ай бұрын

One Of The Best Musical Movies."West Side Story". Filmed 1961.., Gang Warfare In The 1950's. Interesting To Have Musical With New York City's Bad Part Of Town. Great Movie, Actors, Actress. Natalie Wood, This And "Rebel Without A Cause" 1955 Her Best Movies. Watch These Movies.

Claudia Bryar ("Edith Tamber") was 46 years old here and appeared in almost every television series in the 50's - 80's era. She retired from acting when her husband of 45 years, Paul Bryar, died in 1985. Her late son Paul adopted the surname Barrere and was a member of the band "Little Feet." William Boyet ("Lt. Mort Geer") of course, was one of Webb's stable of actors who would appear in almost all of his productions. Hazel Franklyn ("Elva Higby") also played a role in the episode "The Big Beer" in the previous season of Dragnet. The opening announcer is none other than George Fenneman, who became a nationally-known figure as the on-screen announcer and side-kick for the entire 11-year run of the "You Bet Your Life" TV series with Groucho Marx. Fenneman was the opening announcer for Dragnet's entire first series, where this episode came from, as well as the 1967 series of Dragnet. Fenneman was the most sought-after voice talent in his day and was never out of work.

@philc8575

Ай бұрын

Nice background! Maybe you know why it was called "The Big Bed"? Had me scratching my head...

@larrywest42

Ай бұрын

​@@philc8575My guess is because of the Murphy bed ("wall bed"), which was rather large (early scene).

@larrywest42

Ай бұрын

Interesting! Little Feat was one of my all time favorite bands: "Willin'" and "Fat Man in the Bathtub" come to mind immediately. And Paul Barrere wrote several of their more popular songs. Thanks for the info.

@philc8575

Ай бұрын

@@larrywest42 Yes, you're right! I forgot about that!

Been a big dragnet fan for years and finally some episodes come along that never seen before. Thanks a bunch for these uploads!!!

@MoviecraftInc

Ай бұрын

You're welcome.

I think this is the first time they've ever shown bloody injuries on a victim on this show. Can't remember another episode of that actually.

Thank you for a clear version of this episode and others.

14:29 - A decade after, William Boyett would play Sgt. MacDonald, a.k.a. Mac, in another fine Jack Webb production, "Adam-12".

@muffs55mercury61

2 ай бұрын

Yep and at the time he was by then a semi regular on "Highway Patrol" during their last season (1958-59) He had appeared sporadically on the show from the very first season.

@bovnycccoperalover3579

2 ай бұрын

The voice is more recognizable than the face. Great radio voice.

@silverhammer7779

2 ай бұрын

Jack Webb was fiercely loyal to the actors he worked with and used them in his productions whenever and wherever he could. Familiar faces like Olan Soule, Virginia Gregg, Don Dubbins, Ralph Moody, Vic Perrin, Stacy Harris, and a host of others would show up regularly in Webb's shows.

@ernestgalvan9037

2 ай бұрын

@@silverhammer7779… Leonard Nimoy was a ‘teenage delinquent’ in one Dragnet episode.

@silverhammer7779

2 ай бұрын

@@ernestgalvan9037 I remember that one. Nimoy was in a lot of interesting stuff when he was just starting out, such as 1952's "Zombies Of The Stratosphere" which he played a space alien. Arguably, this foreshadowed the role that would eventually make him a household name.

An EXCELLENT show.

@MoviecraftInc

Ай бұрын

It sure is!

I have never seen this episode. I thought I had seen all the 60 something epidodes known to exist. This gives me hope for more episodes.

@aliceinwonderland887

Ай бұрын

im 60 and i watched the Dragnet reruns in the real early 70s that sure was a long while past 1958. I did not know the show was that old. dm, dm, dm, dm, dmm...

Awesome! A B&W Dragnet I haven’t seen until now. Thanks so much for this one. I keep hoping that someday they will release the entire 1950’s Dragnet on DVD or streaming.

Wow. That ending. In the 60's. Wow.

@user-gu1jk4qn6b

Ай бұрын

June, 1958, was the air date.

Thank you for the original Dragnet TV series on NBC Television from June 5, 1958 (Season 7). BTW, I recognize Claudia Bryar as the woman in the Perry Mason episode, The Case of the Nervous Accomplice, aired on October 4, 1957, on CBS-TV. I have seen the reruns. And yet this episode aired during that same season.

This is a great, quality print. Well done! Thank you for this find!

@MoviecraftInc

Ай бұрын

My pleasure!

William Boyett one of my favorites, he's everywhere, Highway Patrol, Adam 12,Dragnet 50's & 60's ,I wonder how many more shows that's he's been in that I don't know about, I loved how he (to me) played Sgt. MACDONALD but in every series an alternate version of his COP character, like stepping thru a multiverse, I just discovered the 50's Dragnet and was super pleased to see him in it. New Old Treasures. Thanks BILL,✌️to you from SPACE RANGER JYM 🚀

What a Great Tv Show !

Moviecraft Inc., I really enjoyed this video, so I hit the like button!

@kathleenking47

2 ай бұрын

Joes partner Is Martin Milners uncle

@MoviecraftInc

2 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

Friday had the coolest voice!!

I used to watch this with my Dad in the 1950s, we used say This story is true only the story has been changed, to protect the guilty and think we were very funny!

❤ love dragnet ❤

An understated gay theme .

@garyrowe5579

2 ай бұрын

after watching this I thought the same thing

@dobeus8957

2 ай бұрын

@@garyrowe5579definitely a crime of passion!

@decentamerican7156

2 ай бұрын

@@dobeus8957 Definite FRUIT KILLING

@ivanhooley8004

2 ай бұрын

Not gay they didn’t allow gays in the military back then. They were just friends

@ABCA773

2 ай бұрын

Scientology, anarchy, and boogaloo is more like a threesome.

On radio, Dragnet was the first program to deal with sex crimes.

@Joeblow-ms3cv

Ай бұрын

Indubidubly 🙂

To the account manager: I want to commend you for cleaning up the picture quality; you've done an excellent job!

@MoviecraftInc

3 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

our miss brooks, dragnet, and gunsmoke were on tv and radio both at the same time. if you watch carefully you can see and hear the tv shows were almost word for word and action for action duplicates of the radio script. producers didn't have time or money to make changes.

Love those cars but, oh, the sister's hat!😂

But no one ever solved the mystery of women's hats.

@aliceinwonderland887

Ай бұрын

i like watching touched up footage from the early 1900's. Those hats were wild.

@77thTrombone

Ай бұрын

I would say women's fashion in general.

Good stuff.

@MoviecraftInc

2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

"Met them once and don't know much about them"... a LOT of murder victims could say that exact thing about the person the met in some bar or from a dating app. Damn scary.

Since she's older he would have addressed her as ma'am just the facts ma'am a little humor here every one have a bright sunny day filled with love and happiness 😊💞

He pulled the Impossible, he pulled “The Switch”.

14:10 four hours to drive - on the freeway - the ~110 miles from downtown LA to northern San Diego. ~30 mph average speed. That's before the 405 (1964) and before the 5 was completed, though the 101 was there. Now that's a 2.5 hour drive, staying at the speed limit. Unless you hit traffic, in which case 4 hours might be good.

Harry Morgan (a very capable actor who played Colonel Potter on MASH) was on this show for years as Friday's partner. He called it his 'stick figure' period.

I hope you find more episodes of Dragnet soon.

@MoviecraftInc

Ай бұрын

Hate to say that's all the "lost" Dragnets we have in the archive right now. Always looking.

I miss dragnet, that was a good good show

Great episode

I like just about all of your videos!

@MoviecraftInc

2 ай бұрын

Thank You...

Ben Alexander owned a Ford dealership here in Los Angeles for several years. I seem to recall that it was still open in the earl Sixties.

@mikeh.7499

Ай бұрын

San Francisco as well.I remember being a little scared ,we went to one of his promotions,he served me a hot dog,grilling in lot etc thanks.😂

@DerGlaetze

10 күн бұрын

Yes. It was in Highland Park.

great bro

@MoviecraftInc

8 күн бұрын

Thanks

So let's see... - He was a Navy lad. - His friend was a Navy chap. - He kept a neat apartment. - He was inseparable from his friend. - His friend was inseparable from him! - He kept being denied access to him. Clearly! This was a case of theft gone wrong!!!

@aliceinwonderland887

Ай бұрын

In love and had a lover's quarrel.

@marcot3333

Ай бұрын

In the year this was made, the cops would have called it homo-cide

@skibee421

Ай бұрын

@@marcot3333 lol

Jack Webb was the MAN in "The D.I."

The trauma they had to endure.

I was kind of hoping that this episode would have a really odd twist and it would turn out that his sister killed him.

@sandy-pf9bb

Ай бұрын

I thought that too!!!,

Hilarious how they create a story about gay violence but never say it’s about gay violence!

An adaptation of "The Big Almost No Show", episode #138 of the radio series.

How did actor Jack Webb keep a straight face when he was talking to Edith Tambor? That goofy ribbon perched on her head was a funny distraction. Did the director have to do several takes while Webb laughed his ass off?

@MoviecraftInc

Ай бұрын

That was a funny scene...but back the 50's maybe a hat like that was mainstream.

@jeffbybee5207

Ай бұрын

I like the soward holding it on like a super hat pin also defensive weapon

@aliceinwonderland887

Ай бұрын

I thought it was a dead bird for a minute.

@randyandtheretreads3144

Ай бұрын

No humor there, that is how women dressed then, nothing to see here.

William Boyett 14:23 Highway Patrol - Adam-12

I wonder why Frank Smith wasn't a sergeant, like Friday was. Friday's original partner, Ben Romero, was also a sergeant.

When did this one show up! Thought I’d seen every BW! Nice surprise!

Yay

@kathleenking47

2 ай бұрын

714 is also an area code in CA..below Los Angeles of that time

Ms. Edith Tamber is a fine figure of a woman. 🙂

Love how in these Dragnet episodes dead people are found days after their murder, with no odor or signs of decomp.

Hey man, that dead guy would've been smelled bad.

@saran3214

Ай бұрын

How did he stand up, too?

@mikeh.7499

22 күн бұрын

smelled it 6 times,retired building maintenance.you are right on about that smell,unforgettable, thanks.

@saran3214

22 күн бұрын

@@mikeh.7499 How awful for you!

But I like your videos

Jack and Bart and Ben ❤❤❤

I became Violent _ my Boyfriend's Dead 🤕

Obviously, Andrew Howard confessed before Miranda warnings were required.

Never heard of little feet will look them up

There will always be someone wanting favors forever for just one they did for you. Pathetic. Today, murdering his 'lover' brutally with theft, dude be given life, no parole, even death penalty. He prob got out in 7yrs and did it again. They are true stories afterall.

Everyone of them are dead. Time is the biggest murderer.

The Big Sur.

Ralph and Andy had a thing going on.

Excellent story, perfect video quality (for its age) , and BEST of all the audio level of ads is kept at least 10db BELOW the program level! Thank you "Moviecraft Inc."! You have just added another subscriber!!!!

@MoviecraftInc

2 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks!

0:32 This was made in 1957 (MCMLVII) not 1958

Another mini-weathor report!

Killer was a gay Robert Oppenheimer 😮

RALPHY RALPHY COULD'VE BEEN A CONTENDER 🥊 ©

They were tormented lovers.

Pro tip trivia: The real name of this episode was The Big Homos but sensibilities of the times precluded that as the official name for broadcast purposes.

@michaelgilbert3713

7 күн бұрын

AUSGEZEICHNET 👍🏼 ABSOLUTELY VERY GOOD WITH THAT THE BIG HOMO © 😊 excellent 😮 Alfred Hitchcock very scary very connected to Aliester Crowley 🔝 😕 🔫 💣 😂 THE BIG HOMO you commented did you get a 23 hour RED YELLOW FLAG from KZread community guidelines?

'Andy' was gay. That's what the sailor suit mess was all about. He and "Ralph' were lovers.

@michaelgilbert3713

7 күн бұрын

ANDY WAS GAY BOBBY ORR NO BRAINER disagree 👎🏼 that his roommate was gay 🔝

With friends like Claire Peterson who needs enemies?

PRISON CRUEL INSIDE OUTSIDE PRISON

But, Edith's hat

You have a slight error in your title it's 1957 not 1958.

@MoviecraftInc

Ай бұрын

The copyright says 1957, but the first TV airing was in 1958. We are both right!

😅

Andy the killer was an Insane man who was killing women he met as lonely heart pen pals on an episode of Highway Patrol with Mathew Broderick. Even the TV criminals have priors for violent felonies and are still back on the streets... yeesh!

Highway patrol...ha

A show about Gay lovers in the early sixties was daring.

@jeffbybee5207

Ай бұрын

How did you decide they were gay?

@rickfry6031

Ай бұрын

@@jeffbybee5207 stereotypes how else?

Its Moe did it

Wow I have been watching Dragnet TV and Radio episodes for DECADES, but this Channel has recently posted several Black & White TV episodes that I have never seen! WHAT A TREAT!!!! THANK YOU! ❤‍🔥 🖤 🍿🤍🍿🖤🎬🖤🍿🤍🍿🖤

@MoviecraftInc

Ай бұрын

Thanks for visiting!

Isn’t the waitress “date”, Annette Funichello???

1:09 Gay Bicycle seat placement, unrideable

@ernestgalvan9037

2 ай бұрын

Lots of bicycles had loose parts on them, nothing odd about that seat, there were ALWAYS bikes with tilted seats, drooping handlebars, wobbly fenders, even wibble-wobble tires. I lived through that era.

Gay

10 yrs. should be 45 yrs. imo

Yeh, ain’t it wonderful