One of the best, and most realistic, police shows ever. None of the overdone Hollywood gun battles and wild car chases that became the stock in trade of movies and TV shows later.
You can bet that anything Jack Webb was involved with demonstrates the good values of most Americans. I liked him best in the movie the D.I. That was the Marine Corps I served in.
@@ryanbarker5217 and people may have used the odd curse word, if they hit their finger while hanging a picture, but never in a public setting, around children, or in mixed company. It showed terrible breeding. I used the "F" word, in the 6th grade, showing off. I had no idea what it meant. The next day, a friend asked me to go with her, for her choir practice. While waiting for her Ma, a neighbor came to the door, and when I was introduced, she looked very surprised, and said, "you look like such a nice little girl, why did you use such a horrid, ugly word?" I thought I would die! Had there been a rock, nearby, I'd have tried to crawl under it.
The actor doing the erudite wino is totally amazing - he's funny and serious at the same time. but he does such a great job, that in itself is making me smile. . .
This police show was always so good, made even better by the stories being true. I swear, the wino could have been Capt. Jack Sparrow's father. Just like Johnny Depp's character.
Unfortunately Jack Webb had to get a hardship discharge from the USAAC due to his being the sole supporter of his mother and grandmother. His father left the family right after he was born. Interesting to think how his war record might have been if he had stayed in the service.
Watch Jack Webb in Sunset Boulevard where he plays his extrovert character as a continuously smiling, jovial and hospitable host and buddy to William Holden's character at his New Year's party.
I really liked Harry Morgan, the actor who played Friday's partner in the later episodes. But, I think the chemistry with Ben Alexander is stronger. Anyhow, thank you so much for taking the time to load these episodes. They've held up well.
I love these old shows because it takes me back to my child hood. I remember my dad had a Ford just like the police car. I was with him when he bought it. As I recall that was his first new car.
Jack Wolf obtained the rights to the series from Universal, which had bought the Dragnet property in the wake of Mr. Webb's death. While the initial season was moderately successful, the network, in a misguided attempt to boost the ratings, demanded and got changes in the series format which, in the eyes of many viewers (especially those who remembered the earlier versions), simply ruined the series, and it was unceremoniously cancelled--a classic example of killing the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg! Had the producers and the network adhered more closely to Mr. Webb's original formula, over time the ratings might well have improved on their own. This is a problem that has existed in the television industry since the early 1960's. It illustrates the truth of Walt Disney's statement during the 1930's that, "quality comes first; box office will follow quality!"
@@GlamRockCowboy You mean Dick Wolf. But I agree wholeheartedly. The first season was well put together and had some ideas that were interesting. By the second season, however, he had to mess up the formula and it was just like every other police procedural on the air; in fact, it was "Law & Order LA" before "Law & Order LA". Why, for example change the title to "LA Dragnet"? Was he planning to do "Dragnet" from other cities?
I read that had there been a third version, Friday’s partner would have been Jim Reed (Kent McCord) from “Adam-12”, since Harry Morgan was unavailable.
I have a lot of respect for Jack Webb. He created Dragnet as a radio show in 1949, adapting stylistic and narrative ideas from He Walked Alone, a film noir he had appeared in. He then brought it to TV in the fifties and was the driving force behind the series which revolutionised the cop show. He was a creative innovator - and a jazz aficionado, too, in spite of his stern demeanour as Joe Friday! Its a shame that these days, many people choose to sneer at him for his reactionary politics as expressed in the sixties Dragnet series, and forget the visionary genius he had been in the fifties. We remember Laurel and Hardy for Way Out West and Sons Of The Desert, and draw a discreet veil over Great Guns and Atoll K. People should extend the same courtesy to a man who deserves great respect - Jack Webb.
This is the kind of thing that makes me wish these cases were fiction . The wino was really classy, had quite a vocabulary. Makes me think maybe he really had been a wine taster, but he swallowed too many (he's supposed to spit it out after tasting it) . = )
Never seen this one before. Yes I know it's a show but it's based on real stories. I feel so bad for the guys wife. Just moved into the new apartment now her husband is dead 😞😫😭😭
MY DAD WAS A DRAGNET FAN I LOVE WATCHING DRAGNET ALL THE TIME.I HAVE ALL OF THE DVD,S OF DRAGNET.MY FATHER DQ MARTIN LOOKED JUST LIKE JACK WEBB.SGT. JOE FRIDAY.
The black and white epiaodes were so kuch better than the comedic paradoes in the late 60s with harry morgan. Also most ppl dont know jack webb a tuakky worked for loc angel3s county police. He did the voice over for their training vidoes. He is the only civilian buried with full police honors in California
I would love to see a fashion change towards hats. Not burkas, just a nice hat male or female. I am tired of seeing peoples heads, hair, tattoos etc ; just put on a nice hat. I have several.
@@jdsalinger3731 Are you running for office in 2020? Why not if you think you can do better? Too chicken to run for President, then shut up. Things ARE much better and you have to be a child born after 1982 not to see this. So unless you can do better,and provide so much work the employers cannot find enough help,and you can get people working like President Trump then shut the hell up and deal with it. Want communism, there are still several countries in it, move there. Look at those on google and use google to "Drive" around some countries that are no longer commie and those who are and tell me if you like what you see. I don't mean look at the tourist spots, go deeper and see how the citizens are doing. Ask someone who fled from that and tell me how you like it. Educate yourself instead of watching tv shows and porno.
@Big Bill O'Reilly Yeah, his name was Barrack Obama, and Bill Clinton. BOTH committed treason and nothing was done. Benedict Arnold did far less and was hanged for treason.Think you can have so much work going on that employers can't hire enough help, and you think you can do better, tell me, are you running in 2020? Read my reply to your buddy here, JD Salinger and what I said to him, I say to you too.Read it.
The Big Thanksgiving was the title of it on the radio show. That aired in 1954 I believe. Some of the radio scripts were "resurrected" for television because of writer John Robinson's story lines. Robinson didn't write for the television version. He was credited for the initial radio script someone else wrote the screen play. You will note one other name besides Robinson's that was responsible for the television script.
Roman Fox -- plenty more. Even before the b&w tv series, there was a radio show with the same players. Beginning in 1949, it ran for over 300 original episodes. A lot of the radio scripts were reused on tv with very few changes.
It's sad to think this story is true - at some point the same thing happened to an actual police officer. There are too many stories making the news about cops who make huge mistakes, or shouldn't even be cops in the first place. The better part of my family was in law enforcement, and my uncle and his son had their careers cut short (retirement, thank goodness, not death) by idiots who thought they didn't have to play by the rules. I can't begin to imagine what it's like to go to work every day wondering what might happen to you.
I can't believe no one was keeping pressure on the wounded officer's wounds to try and control the bleeding. Even back then, people knew basic first aid. Love the old Dragnet. No Miranda in those days either- just sit em down and start sweating em. Ah, the good old days......
Yes who knew any first aid except maybe what they learned in the army almost every guy was in the Army and Navy in those days and Miranda that didn't show up until 1960 or thereabouts
@@richardperlman1036 Miranda v. Arizona was in 1964 i believe. It is not law, contrary to popular belief and misleading TV portrayal. It is just a court decision outlining what is required for a statement/confession to be admissible, and confirming an arrested person's rights
We ate a lot of fried Rabbit when I was with the US Navy. I liked it. It reminded me of November back when I was a kid when my cousin and I would go rabbit hunting and Grandma would clean and fry up the fresh rabbit. Gooood Eatin'
Back then everyone was Smoking those Butts, this was the time brfore we had a Surgeon General Appointed telling them the harm of Tobacco and Nicotine are causing Cancer etc.
@@robwasmomsrob "assault rifle" you say. You don't know how hard I cringed. Nobody, who knows about firearms, uses that silly term. Imagine if we described objects by one thing they could potentially do. We'd have things like the Running-Over Car, The Electrocution Toaster, and The Finger-Cutting fan. Those rifles which you call assault rifles are used for things other than assault. They are more often used for target shooting, home protection, and hunting. Why don't you just call it what you probably think of it as. A scary black rifle.
This show showed what no other show after it ever did it showed the cost that many policemen suffered unlike many of the other cop shows of the time. What it doesn't show is how the effect of this man's passing would be on his wife and other family members.
Saint Mars well, it's been the anti-Trump people committing violence/crime. The people who kidnapped the white kid were anti-Trump. Also, in one of the Dragnet episodes, an elderly man got beat to death with a hammer for his money... so I'd have to disagree with you about the violence thing.
Sadly, Dragnet never got popular in continental Europe (probably because we got drowned in police and crime shows in the 1960s and 1970s). I'm pretty sure though that the makers of our local shows watched Dragnet. The style is very similar: czcams.com/video/cCPXpHlDMKE/video.html (you probably won't understand a word... just compare the soundtrack and how things are filmed).
"Two Police Officers will be assigned to each Police Woman." I guess California wasn't so PC back in 1955. That sure wouldn't fly in today's California.
More amazing than that is that there is a cop shot and the other cops find out and get there before the ambulance. As soon as the guy started talking, you knew he wouldn't make it. Jack Webb had a flare for the dramatic. A lot of these episodes were also on radio and the ones that he wanted to make a point were shown more than once. The once about a 22 rifle for Christmas was shown a lot and the one where the kid steals the statue of Jesus was shown again word for word but with different actors again in the 1960's version of the show with Jack and Harry Morgan.
The purse snatcher "emptied his gun" into the cop. That likely means he took six rounds. Which are you going to try to stop bleeding. The cops likely knew he was history and did not want to let him know it. A bunch of clothes ripping and six wounds having pressure applied would have panicked the cop. And for no purpose. If an artery was hit, back in the mid fifties there wasn't much anyone besides a surgeon could do.
I thought casting Harry Morgan as Fridays partner was big mistake starting in the 1967 debut. He seemed so out of character after playing the foil of a husband in Decembers Bride & Pete & Gladys. The new series could have selected someone more believable than him.
I remember when Jack Webb died the LAPD gave him a policeman's funeral as if he had been in the the head of the police department and that was because he in his portrayal of Sergeant Friday gave people something that they didn't have when it came to the police, his show and he especially did their research he literally portrayed a police officer the way you're supposed to be. It's funny it's one of the few memories that I can still see as if it happened only yesterday while things that happen within the last 20 plus years I don't remember pretty much in some cases at all and that has to do with the blow to the head that I took. I can still see the police chips unit on either side of the hearse the motorcade I mean he might as well have been the president with the kind of motorcade they gave him, and yet dragnet had been finished a long long time before... I guess the police have a very long memory.
The dates are 1956. Thanksgiving would be Thursday, 24 November 1955. Even more so, they checked on another suspect on Tuesday, 4 December, yet the end has an inquiry the day before, Monday 3 December, after the shootout. How could an inquiry on a shootout conclude something that happened the end of the next day?
I always remember 'I work here. I carry a badge,' but so far I haven't heard it on this first series from the 1950s. I also remember Henry Morgan as Friday's partner - so I guess I only remember the 1960s version?
@@FigaroHey Right on. In the 50s version, instead of that, he says "I work here, I'm a cop". I once saw someone say he changed that in the 60s version to "I carry a badge" because "cop" may have had a negative connotation, but who knows🤷♂️
Sixty seven years old and better than most of the shows on today!
Totally agree with you.
That's a retarded statement
Most? LOL
yep, they don't make quality TV programs like this anymore!
Zap😊
“Only one man died tonight”. People were made of stronger stuff back then.
One of the best, and most realistic, police shows ever. None of the overdone Hollywood gun battles and wild car chases that became the stock in trade of movies and TV shows later.
That’s because they were detectives, rather than the beat cops like Adam-12.
You can bet that anything Jack Webb was involved with demonstrates the good values of most Americans. I liked him best in the movie the D.I. That was the Marine Corps I served in.
Why no African American people in the show?
I’m 65 and this is 3years older. This was when LA still had trolleys.
From an era when ppl still held doors and pulled chairs....class and basic manners seem to be a long lost memory
Manners have to be taught.
Dressed correctly, and weren't marked up
also when cops could apparently just roll up on you and just frisk the shit out of you.
@@ryanbarker5217 and people may have used the odd curse word, if they hit their finger while hanging a picture, but never in a public setting, around children, or in mixed company. It showed terrible breeding. I used the "F" word, in the 6th grade, showing off. I had no idea what it meant. The next day, a friend asked me to go with her, for her choir practice. While waiting for her Ma, a neighbor came to the door, and when I was introduced, she looked very surprised, and said, "you look like such a nice little girl, why did you use such a horrid, ugly word?" I thought I would die! Had there been a rock, nearby, I'd have tried to crawl under it.
@@user-gu1jk4qn6b you ought to hear the language kids use today when they think no one is paying attention.
One of the best shows ever on TV.
71st and Vermont, that’s a bad area man!
The actor doing the erudite wino is totally amazing - he's funny and serious at the same time. but he does such a great job, that in itself is making me smile. . .
Wonderfully scripted
His name is Peter Broccoli,Dr Ort in the Superman episode the Secret of Superman(1951)..
I was thinking the same thing, better acting than usual for the show, I will make a smart alec comment, THIS TEMPLER was no SAINT...
He's brilliant.
"Only one man died tonight"... Wow. That says it all, what the police fight for and against.
Great older shows ! Thank you. When TV has some redeeming moral qualities.
Oh brother! Your idea of the past is based on Dragnet?
@@653j521 Are you an idiot or did you just forget your medication?
Compared to today it's like white and black.
Like talking to progress the story line instead of applying direct pressure on the wound. Very astute DoctorArtPhd(umbass).
@@skipgrumblis U'r still a idiot troll.
I WAS Born In 1977 & Grew Up On Shows Like Dragnet! GOD Bless Mr. Jack Webb!!!
The waitress seemed like a doll.
I agree if I was a young man in 1956 and lived in LA I would have asked out for a date
@@richardperlman1036 oh hell yeow !
@@richardperlman1036she would've declined your invitation.
This police show was always so good, made even better by the stories being true. I swear, the wino could have been Capt. Jack Sparrow's father. Just like Johnny Depp's character.
Jack Webb was in the Army Air Corps. He played Dragnet like a military General my opinion. This was probably his best TV role.
Jack Webb played a Marine drill instructor in a movie called the DI some say he was the original Sgt Hartman with out the profanity of course
@@insulman100 Thank you for reply.
@@tyroneprice6642 you're welcome
Unfortunately Jack Webb had to get a hardship discharge from the USAAC due to his being the sole supporter of his mother and grandmother. His father left the family right after he was born. Interesting to think how his war record might have been if he had stayed in the service.
I remember a short film where Jack is a drill Sargent?
This is one of the better episodes. Seeing that the acting isn't so wooden & Jack Webb actually laughs & smiles once in a blue moon.
Watch Jack Webb in Sunset Boulevard where he plays his extrovert character as a continuously smiling, jovial and hospitable host and buddy to William Holden's character at his New Year's party.
The stills of Jack from that movie make him look creepy !!!...
Jack Webb was and is AWESOME
Crime never takes a holiday. The only Turkeys in California must have been in Sacramento, even then.
"...Only one man died tonight..."
Classic!
Quality show.
BOY WE NEED MORE COPS LIKE JOE FRIDAY
Between this series and Adam 12 shows the LAPD at it's finest.
@@rabbitramen you are correct sir I have both series on dvd
He did give us the best Police officers of the LAPD....Reed and Malloy ! "ADAM 12" and the best FIRE DEPT. " SQUAD 51"!
Webb died in the early 80s, from L&MS🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬
@@kathleenking47friday smoked chesterfields which were made by philip morris
Thanks for posting these programs they are great 👍
I really liked Harry Morgan, the actor who played Friday's partner in the later episodes. But, I think the chemistry with Ben Alexander is stronger. Anyhow, thank you so much for taking the time to load these episodes. They've held up well.
I've always thought that had Ben Alexander not been committed to The Felony Squad series then he might have reprised his role as Frank Smith in 1967.
Harry Morgan was best!
Harry Morgan was way better. This other guy looks like and acts like a typical pig
@@muffs55mercury61 Webb asked him to do it, but he couldn't get out of his Felony Squad contract.
With Harry Morgan, Dragnet got less NOIR
This is the type of show that actually really appeals to me
Ditto!
It's better than most all the shows on now. That's why I am here.
@@PeterRabbit70
I like Highway Patrol too
This is a late season episode as they are driving a 1956 Ford.
I like the dialogue when they are interrogating the drunk.
Herb Ellis died in December he helped created Dragnet with Jack Webb. He play Frank Smith first. They created Dragnet at his house
They did good
@@donbenny5206 1q1qqqqw
Why was he replaced as Frank Smith? He continued to appear is guest roles even on the color Dragnet.
The Good old days !
...back when crime was punished and police were allowed to do their jobs...
Why don’t you build a time machine and go back and we don’t have to read your ridiculous comments.
@@teresas8173better yet you go away
I love these old shows because it takes me back to my child hood. I remember my dad had a Ford just like the police car. I was with him when he bought it. As I recall that was his first new car.
This is a good one
I like Jack Webb in this one. He had a good ending scene with the other officer.
Jack Webb is so awesome. When he died in 1982, he was working on a THIRD incarnation of Dragnet...
Jack Wolf obtained the rights to the series from Universal, which had bought the Dragnet property in the wake of Mr. Webb's death. While the initial season was moderately successful, the network, in a misguided attempt to boost the ratings, demanded and got changes in the series format which, in the eyes of many viewers (especially those who remembered the earlier versions), simply ruined the series, and it was unceremoniously cancelled--a classic example of killing the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg! Had the producers and the network adhered more closely to Mr. Webb's original formula, over time the ratings might well have improved on their own. This is a problem that has existed in the television industry since the early 1960's. It illustrates the truth of Walt Disney's statement during the 1930's that, "quality comes first; box office will follow quality!"
@@GlamRockCowboy You mean Dick Wolf. But I agree wholeheartedly. The first season was well put together and had some ideas that were interesting. By the second season, however, he had to mess up the formula and it was just like every other police procedural on the air; in fact, it was "Law & Order LA" before "Law & Order LA". Why, for example change the title to "LA Dragnet"? Was he planning to do "Dragnet" from other cities?
I read that had there been a third version, Friday’s partner would have been Jim Reed (Kent McCord) from “Adam-12”, since Harry Morgan was unavailable.
I have a lot of respect for Jack Webb. He created Dragnet as a radio show in 1949, adapting stylistic and narrative ideas from He Walked Alone, a film noir he had appeared in. He then brought it to TV in the fifties and was the driving force behind the series which revolutionised the cop show. He was a creative innovator - and a jazz aficionado, too, in spite of his stern demeanour as Joe Friday! Its a shame that these days, many people choose to sneer at him for his reactionary politics as expressed in the sixties Dragnet series, and forget the visionary genius he had been in the fifties. We remember Laurel and Hardy for Way Out West and Sons Of The Desert, and draw a discreet veil over Great Guns and Atoll K. People should extend the same courtesy to a man who deserves great respect - Jack Webb.
Actually fourth: radio, black and white, color, and the revival he was working on when he died.
I sure miss these shows. Wish Ben had stayed on the show
Great show & episode
It was so horribly cold in Los Angeles. Must have been 61 degrees with a slight breeze blowing to the west.
February 24, 2018. 11:22 p.m. 54 degrees... Gardena, CA
Haaahahah. We are having a head wave right now. It is 38°F and next week it will be in the teens.
They smoke so much in these old dragnets and I stopped cigarette smoking two years ago and can easily be tempted
When Jack Webb died The LAPD gave him badge 714 Friday’s
714 LEMMON
This is the kind of thing that makes me wish these cases were fiction . The wino was really classy, had quite a vocabulary. Makes me think maybe he really had been a wine taster, but he swallowed too many (he's supposed to spit it out after tasting it) . = )
Never seen this one before. Yes I know it's a show but it's based on real stories. I feel so bad for the guys wife. Just moved into the new apartment now her husband is dead 😞😫😭😭
Just tell her I cut my finger 😥😭
MY DAD WAS A DRAGNET FAN I LOVE WATCHING DRAGNET ALL THE TIME.I HAVE ALL OF THE DVD,S OF DRAGNET.MY FATHER DQ MARTIN LOOKED JUST LIKE JACK WEBB.SGT. JOE FRIDAY.
Good for you.
I see they've moved into Parker Center. City of Los Angeles tore it down a year or so ago. They have a new HQ now.
The black and white epiaodes were so kuch better than the comedic paradoes in the late 60s with harry morgan. Also most ppl dont know jack webb a tuakky worked for loc angel3s county police. He did the voice over for their training vidoes. He is the only civilian buried with full police honors in California
Sister Veronica is absolutely correct about the true title and orig. air date. Further more there is no episode entitled The Big Thanksgiving.
True, it is "The Big Net."
Jack Webb is A Savage!!!
The dying officer looked like a friend of mine. Kind of hits close to home when you see something like that.
That was a great scene.
Always watched the show, great learning as young lad.
Married Julie London
Later on he cast London and new husband Bobby Troup in a number of his shows.
This episode, "The Big Net", was originally telecast on October 25, 1956.
That is the name. There is no "Big Thanksgiving" episode.
Another great show from the 60's was The Fugitive with David Jansen. Oh this one was from '55, wow.
That Waitress was cute as they get !
Smith was a meany.
When it said Place commercial here, I started saying "Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes"
According to Wikipedia, Jack really plugged that long-defunct cigarette on his show, both radio and TV.
Nic Feliccia LOL😤
Why do the guys wear suits instead of police uniforms?
Because they are detectives, under the Chief of Detectives.
Eliezer Pennywhistler ooooooooooohhhhh...
When plainclothes/detectives wore coats, ties, were clean shaven and even wore hats.
How times have changed.
I would love to see a fashion change towards hats. Not burkas, just a nice hat male or female. I am tired of seeing peoples heads, hair, tattoos etc ; just put on a nice hat. I have several.
Buz>> Some things have changed for the better,but the majourity have changed for the worse.
Big Bill O'Reilly: That orange idiot is definitely making it the worse
@@jdsalinger3731 Are you running for office in 2020? Why not if you think you can do better? Too chicken to run for President, then shut up. Things ARE much better and you have to be a child born after 1982 not to see this. So unless you can do better,and provide so much work the employers cannot find enough help,and you can get people working like President Trump then shut the hell up and deal with it. Want communism, there are still several countries in it, move there. Look at those on google and use google to "Drive" around some countries that are no longer commie and those who are and tell me if you like what you see. I don't mean look at the tourist spots, go deeper and see how the citizens are doing. Ask someone who fled from that and tell me how you like it. Educate yourself instead of watching tv shows and porno.
@Big Bill O'Reilly Yeah, his name was Barrack Obama, and Bill Clinton. BOTH committed treason and nothing was done. Benedict Arnold did far less and was hanged for treason.Think you can have so much work going on that employers can't hire enough help, and you think you can do better, tell me, are you running in 2020? Read my reply to your buddy here, JD Salinger and what I said to him, I say to you too.Read it.
Those damn cigarettes!!! Killed a lot of great people....I smoked for 45 years, stopped but paying for it now....lungs shot...
It could cause breast and pancreal cancer too
Are you still alive?
Thanks for uploading this. The title is actually "The Big Net". It aired on 25 October 1956 (Season 6, Episode 4)
Originally written for the radio show [April 20, 1954].
The Big Thanksgiving was the title of it on the radio show. That aired in 1954 I believe. Some of the radio scripts were "resurrected" for television because of writer John Robinson's story lines. Robinson didn't write for the television version. He was credited for the initial radio script someone else wrote the screen play. You will note one other name besides Robinson's that was responsible for the television script.
Season 6?
So there's more before this?
Roman Fox -- plenty more. Even before the b&w tv series, there was a radio show with the same players. Beginning in 1949, it ran for over 300 original episodes. A lot of the radio scripts were reused on tv with very few changes.
SchmeckelGruben, that's awesome.
Makes it even better that they base this in real life.
Most tv shows today are watered down copies of copies.
I couldn't believe the way they dismissed that rabbit at the dinner. Rabbit is great!
Not when it's turkey day though!
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Tastes just like chicken!
Not if you've read "Peter Rabbit" or "Watership Down"
Neah, what's up, doc?
Love, love this show. I have it on DVD. One of the best shows I watched growing up. 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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GREAT CHANNEL,, NO COMMERCIALS MAKES IT THE BEST,,, THANKS
Thanks Stewie, just what I needed with my insomnia.
PLACE COMMERCIAL HERE; I'M OLD ENOUGH TOO REMEMBER TOO SEE THIS ONCE IN A WHILE!
It's sad to think this story is true - at some point the same thing happened to an actual police officer. There are too many stories making the news about cops who make huge mistakes, or shouldn't even be cops in the first place. The better part of my family was in law enforcement, and my uncle and his son had their careers cut short (retirement, thank goodness, not death) by idiots who thought they didn't have to play by the rules. I can't begin to imagine what it's like to go to work every day wondering what might happen to you.
“Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.” -- cop turned Jedi ace Corran Horn narrating I, Jedi
NEVER initially believe the T.V. when it comes to telling the truth about what has happened.
I hope to GOD you've learned THAT by now.
@@kathyflorcruz552 But it says at the beginning of Dragnet, "the story you are about to see is true."
A really good series a shame about the officer R I P ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I give my thanks for this.
I can't believe no one was keeping pressure on the wounded officer's wounds to try and control the bleeding. Even back then, people knew basic first aid. Love the old Dragnet. No Miranda in those days either- just sit em down and start sweating em. Ah, the good old days......
Stomach wounds...
Yes who knew any first aid except maybe what they learned in the army almost every guy was in the Army and Navy in those days and Miranda that didn't show up until 1960 or thereabouts
@@richardperlman1036 Miranda v. Arizona was in 1964 i believe. It is not law, contrary to popular belief and misleading TV portrayal. It is just a court decision outlining what is required for a statement/confession to be admissible, and confirming an arrested person's rights
The actual title of this episode is "The Big Net" (S06E04).
He's my uncle Friday. We're into soft tacos and battered shrimp.
He was so right. Only one man died. The criminal was a lowlife.
The officer is just unconscious, you can clearly see the medics working on him in the background.
These days in California "partner" has a whole new meaning.
Try to find a place serving sliced rabbit today.
We ate a lot of fried Rabbit when I was with the US Navy. I liked it. It reminded me of November back when I was a kid when my cousin and I would go rabbit hunting and Grandma would clean and fry up the fresh rabbit. Gooood Eatin'
Duck season!
Hasenpfeffer.
All depends on whether the cooks knew how to cook.
This was the most daolog ever for a TV series counting narration
Only one MAN died.
'i happen to be in a state of financial embarrassment.' lol. me, too, brother, me, too.
💖💖💖Dragnet
The drunk was hilarious.
I cracked laughing on the drunk guy!
A bit of a theatrical histrion.
Fantastic actor, whoever he was.
Financial embarrassment. Lol
"Is this your address?"
"Used to be; he just moved."
😳
I'm not crying, you are...
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Great thanks!
One of the best shows on TV
Back then everyone was Smoking those Butts, this was the time brfore we had a Surgeon General Appointed telling them the harm of Tobacco and Nicotine are causing Cancer etc.
Jack Webb 1920-1982 was only 62 years old when he died of a heart attack.
The surgeon general,I think his name was Coop, I forget his first name.
I forgot to add that Surgeon General Coop's report on smoking and the link with lung cancer in 1963.
Back then the Cops did not have access to wearing any Bullet Proof Vests Sad etc.
Yes but every nutsac did not own an assault rifle like today
@@robwasmomsrob What about a tommy gun?
@@robwasmomsrob "assault rifle" you say. You don't know how hard I cringed. Nobody, who knows about firearms, uses that silly term. Imagine if we described objects by one thing they could potentially do. We'd have things like the Running-Over Car, The Electrocution Toaster, and The Finger-Cutting fan. Those rifles which you call assault rifles are used for things other than assault. They are more often used for target shooting, home protection, and hunting. Why don't you just call it what you probably think of it as. A scary black rifle.
When they show the car between 13:06 and 13:23 it looks like the driver's door is not shut all the way.
it wasn't
`54 Ford?
This show showed what no other show after it ever did it showed the cost that many policemen suffered unlike many of the other cop shows of the time. What it doesn't show is how the effect of this man's passing would be on his wife and other family members.
It looks like police had manners in those time.
You ain't whistlin' Dixie.
Saint Mars well, it's been the anti-Trump people committing violence/crime.
The people who kidnapped the white kid were anti-Trump.
Also, in one of the Dragnet episodes, an elderly man got beat to death with a hammer for his money... so I'd have to disagree with you about the violence thing.
55dbau maybe it's cause citizens had manners
And so did the general public.
That's true, they weren't so quick to shoot a 12 year old boy back then.
The black and white episodes were far superior to the color series of the 1960's. Better writing and better acting....
As mentioned earlier, Harry Morgan soured this series. Maybe not the Mash episodes, but I hated him playing Fridays partner during the 1967-70 series.
@@Drummed I'm the opposite. He's great as the sidekick; couldn't stand him in MASH.
@@Bigbadwhitecracker He was bad in both shows.
Hell I liked Harry Morgan in both so that's a pretty even split on the thread... least polarized topic I've seen in a while lmao
After MASH was awful.
Sadly, Dragnet never got popular in continental Europe (probably because we got drowned in police and crime shows in the 1960s and 1970s). I'm pretty sure though that the makers of our local shows watched Dragnet. The style is very similar:
czcams.com/video/cCPXpHlDMKE/video.html
(you probably won't understand a word... just compare the soundtrack and how things are filmed).
The Waitress was pretty.
I agree. She needed more onscreen time. I would have stayed for the pie.
Me 2
Smoke show....YOW
According to IMDB, her name was Hillary Hall. And this episode of Dragnet appears to be her only acting role.
Friday pulled a Columbo at the end of the briefing......"Oh, one more thing"
At about 17:15 the restaurant has “spaghetti “. Nobody uses that word anymore. Also French dip was popular for a while in Los Angeles.
Still is. Phillipes cafeteria is still downtown, since 1911 I think. Famous for French dip sandwiches
What do you mean nobody uses the word "spaghetti" anymore?
@@random-jj7ix just like “Chow mein “. You will only see it on a menu in St.Louis. In NYC, spaghetti became pasta 40 years ago.
@@juanmonge8 That's odd. As far as I know pasta is the umbrella term for things like spaghetti, fettuccine, penne, etc.
One of the best i've seen
"Two Police Officers will be assigned to each Police Woman." I guess California wasn't so PC back in 1955. That sure wouldn't fly in today's California.
In Surf City -it's two policegirls for every policeboy.
They would have to assign one of the other 26 sexes these days.
@Big Bill O'Reilly
Huh?
@@Catquick1957 good one
mark fahey 😆😆😆
The guy's laying there,shot multiple times, and bleeding out.....and no one thinks to press something down on the wounds to try and stop the bleeding
More amazing than that is that there is a cop shot and the other cops find out and get there before the ambulance. As soon as the guy started talking, you knew he wouldn't make it. Jack Webb had a flare for the dramatic. A lot of these episodes were also on radio and the ones that he wanted to make a point were shown more than once. The once about a 22 rifle for Christmas was shown a lot and the one where the kid steals the statue of Jesus was shown again word for word but with different actors again in the 1960's version of the show with Jack and Harry Morgan.
uncletaylorify I know .
Emergency! would go on air about 20 or so years later.
The purse snatcher "emptied his gun" into the cop. That likely means he took six rounds. Which are you going to try to stop bleeding. The cops likely knew he was history and did not want to let him know it. A bunch of clothes ripping and six wounds having pressure applied would have panicked the cop. And for no purpose. If an artery was hit, back in the mid fifties there wasn't much anyone besides a surgeon could do.
I thought casting Harry Morgan as Fridays partner was big mistake starting in the 1967 debut. He seemed so out of character after playing the foil of a husband in Decembers Bride & Pete & Gladys. The new series could have selected someone more believable than him.
That guy Templar was also on the radio show Pat Novak with Webb.
Back then it was fedora hats and topcoats now it is baseball caps and whatever else.
I remember when Jack Webb died the LAPD gave him a policeman's funeral as if he had been in the the head of the police department and that was because he in his portrayal of Sergeant Friday gave people something that they didn't have when it came to the police, his show and he especially did their research he literally portrayed a police officer the way you're supposed to be. It's funny it's one of the few memories that I can still see as if it happened only yesterday while things that happen within the last 20 plus years I don't remember pretty much in some cases at all and that has to do with the blow to the head that I took. I can still see the police chips unit on either side of the hearse the motorcade I mean he might as well have been the president with the kind of motorcade they gave him, and yet dragnet had been finished a long long time before... I guess the police have a very long memory.
I love all iterations of Dragnet, but the 50’s version is far superior to the series from the 60’s. Webb and Alexander made a great team.
Wow! What a mug on that jamoke. He could scare paint off a fence.
"jamoke"?
The dates are 1956. Thanksgiving would be Thursday, 24 November 1955. Even more so, they checked on another suspect on Tuesday, 4 December, yet the end has an inquiry the day before, Monday 3 December, after the shootout. How could an inquiry on a shootout conclude something that happened the end of the next day?
I work here, I Carry a badge!
I always remember 'I work here. I carry a badge,' but so far I haven't heard it on this first series from the 1950s. I also remember Henry Morgan as Friday's partner - so I guess I only remember the 1960s version?
@@FigaroHey Right on. In the 50s version, instead of that, he says "I work here, I'm a cop".
I once saw someone say he changed that in the 60s version to "I carry a badge" because "cop" may have had a negative connotation, but who knows🤷♂️
The drunk is a nice mashup of John Barrymore and Erroll Flynn.
I work in Camarillo!!!! The state mental hospital there is now a state university. Ha!!! Ha!!!
Same thing.