[ARCHIVED THREAD] - DRAGNET, 1967 (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 2/22/2013 9:49:32 PM EDT
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Have this on DVD, and was watching a few episodes of it.
I should say "re-watching" I guess, as I've watched them all before. This was in color, as opposed to the older black and white DRAGNET episodes from the 1950s. It aired in 1967 (is there a clue in the title?). I don't know if they were planning on having a new season each year named for that year or not, but apparently they never got around to it. Regardless, Webb got involved with ADAM-12 shortly thereafter. I love Jack Webb. He was so deadpan and serious, and came across as such a ham, but he was awesome. Jack Webb, as Sergeant Joe Friday, was a bad mother... <Female voice in "Shaft" song> "Shut your mouth!" </Female voice in "Shaft" song> ...but I'm talking 'bout Joe Friday!... <Female voice in "Shaft" song> "...then we can dig it!" </Female voice in "Shaft" song>. Discuss Jack Webb/Sergeant Joe Friday bad-assery. Cite specific examples. |
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I remember sometime around the mid to late 70's Jack Webb was doing a show about investigating UFO reports. Can't remember the name of it but it was typical Jack Webb. Project UFO. Credits |
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Favorite episode; A rookie cop gets shot by a stick up man. Joe and Frank track down the badguy to a flop house. The snitch says he sleeps with a shotgun. Frank and Joe boot the door, and the camera is looking up the sight line of the Ithaca model 37 as Joe says "Flinch and you'll be chasing your head down 5th street". |
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Favorite episode; A rookie cop gets shot by a stick up man. Joe and Frank track down the badguy to a flop house. The snitch says he sleeps with a shotgun. Frank and Joe boot the door, and the camera is looking up the sight line of the Ithaca model 37 as Joe says "Flinch and you'll be chasing your head down 5th street". Dragnet "The Shooting" it's on YouTube |
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One of my favorite episodes is Intelligence:DR34. Joe Friday vs the Fielder Militia. It's interesting to notice that not much has changed since they were made. The social commentary is the same today. My favorite episode of DRAGNET '67 is "The Big Bank Examiners." A pair of con artists posing as "bank examiners" are swindling the elderly and gullible out of their life savings. Apparently this used to be a real and common scam in those days. It went like this: - Well dressed con artist approaches victim after learning who they bank with. - Con artist tells victim they are a "bank examiner" and produce phony I.D. to "prove" it. Con artist tells victim there is a "dishonest teller" at the bank and they need the victim's cooperation in catching them. The teller is skimming funds from member's deposits before depositing them (so the made up story goes). In order to catch the "dishonest teller," the "bank examiner" needs the victim to withdraw a sizeable amount of cash and give it to him, so he can "mark the bills" and redeposit them. This will allow them to apprehend the "dishonest teller" with marked, stolen bills in their possession. - Victim is a patriotic and gullible citizen who wants to help the "authorities" in any way, so he or she withdraws their life savings and gives it to the "bank examiner."  (Hard to believe anyone would have ever been stupid
enough to fall for this, but then again, look at the Nigerian e-mail scams today). - "Bank examiner" then assures victim the funds will be "redeposited" soon, and thanks them for their civic minded patriotism. So the "bank examiners" are ripping people off of their life savings, but Friday and Gannon are getting close on their heels. As they are ripping off their last victim, her "son" (actually an undercover Bill Gannon posing as him) asks for their I.D. The "bank examiner" shows his phony badge, and says "We always carry our badges." And that's when Joe Friday busts them, with his badge in one hand and his .38 in the other, saying "So do we!" 
I agree with you that it is amazing, in some ways, how much things have NOT changed since those days. |
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One of my favorite episodes is Intelligence:DR34. Joe Friday vs the Fielder Militia. It's interesting to notice that not much has changed since they were made. The social commentary is the same today. My favorite episode of DRAGNET '67 is "The Big Bank Examiners." A pair of con artists posing as "bank examiners" are swindling the elderly and gullible out of their life savings. Apparently this used to be a real and common scam in those days. It went like this: - Well dressed con artist approaches victim after learning who they bank with. - Con artist tells victim they are a "bank examiner" and produce phony I.D. to "prove" it. Con artist tells victim there is a "dishonest teller" at the bank and they need the victim's cooperation in catching them. The teller is skimming funds from member's deposits before depositing them (so the made up story goes). In order to catch the "dishonest teller," the "bank examiner" needs the victim to withdraw a sizeable amount of cash and give it to him, so he can "mark the bills" and redeposit them. This will allow them to apprehend the "dishonest teller" with marked, stolen bills in their possession. - Victim is a patriotic and gullible citizen who wants to help the "authorities" in any way, so he or she withdraws their life savings and gives it to the "bank examiner." (Hard to believe anyone would have ever been stupid
enough to fall for this, but then again, look at the Nigerian e-mail scams today). - "Bank examiner" then assures victim the funds will be "redeposited" soon, and thanks them for their civic minded patriotism. So the "bank examiners" are ripping people off of their life savings, but Friday and Gannon are getting close on their heels. As they are ripping off their last victim, her "son" (actually an undercover Bill Gannon posing as him) asks for their I.D. The "bank examiner" shows his phony badge, and says "We always carry our badges." And that's when Joe Friday busts them, with his badge in one hand and his .38 in the other, saying "So do we!"
I agree with you that it is amazing, in some ways, how much things have NOT changed since those days. People still fall for the bank examiner scam. And many others depicted in the show. Now we just call it Exploitation of the Elderly or Scheme to Defraud. The Nigerian email and letter scams are another example. People are very gullible. |
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We are the 99%! I just watch that episode last night on the DVR. |
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One of the Dragnet episodes really torqued me over when I saw it, no idea of the year but the theme was the 'The State Knows Better'. The scene I remember was shot in an auditorium where some stereo typical Hispanic fellow (made derogatory by the show, think "Sgt. Garcia") was asking about having a firearm to defend himself and his family. The reply by Sgt. Friday was,"Your police department will protect you."  Generally I liked the show but the Statist crap was flaunted a bit too much. Anybody remember that episode?
Best, Rob |
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Damn that was good.  |
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One of the Dragnet episodes really torqued me over when I saw it, no idea of the year but the theme was the 'The State Knows Better'. The scene I remember was shot in an auditorium where some stereo typical Hispanic fellow (made derogatory by the show, think "Sgt. Garcia") was asking about having a firearm to defend himself and his family. The reply by Sgt. Friday was,"Your police department will protect you." Generally I liked the show but the Statist crap was flaunted a bit too much. Anybody remember that episode?
Best, Rob No, but maybe I just don't remember. The closest thing to an "anti-gun" episode of DRAGNET was one from the original 1950s run (black and white) about a kid who got a .22 rifle for Christmas and accidentally killed either himself or his friend with it (don't remember exactly but something like that). As I recall, the episode was more of a sermon about gun safety than anything else. I have never come across any overt anti-gun editorial message in old DRAGNET episodes, but again, maybe I just don't remember. I have seen every episode of DRAGNET 1967, and "some" of the older 1950s episodes, but by no means all of them. ETA: Speaking of anti-gun "editorializiing" in Golden Age television shows, the old BONANZA show had a lot of them - usually falling from the mouth of actor Lorne Green. I recall one episode which was pretty much written around the notion that handguns were evil and needed to be banned. 
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If you want to see Jack Webb really tear it up check out the movie D.I. Its black and white Webb plays a marine drill sargent. Also check out the pilot episode of Dragnet. My dad had a work associate and now friend who lives in Florida. Played "Hillbilly" as a part in the 1957 movie. His name is Chuck Love. The ex Marine still runs a gun & pawn shop in central Florida. He even shot and killed a "Yute" several years ago who attempted to rob his shop. BTW: Jack Webb was anti handgun. There's even a Dragnet episode where he excoriates handguns. Methinks Jack was a bit of a authoritarian fascist in real life. |
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No, the one I'm thinking of was set in the Hippie's house. He's all smug and Friday destroys his argument about why LSD is good.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Twre6ItGEIThat's the one! Gotta love it when Joe makes a speech. LOL. |
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What brilliance. That's back from when popular entertainment meant something. Makes me proud to have grown up in the early-70s. |