DRAGNET

[funneman]

Just watched the Movie from 1954 again.

This is one great period film!

It's on Comcast "On Demand" for free this month, along with "Double Indemnity" and "The Apartment". Fred McMurray at his sleaziest!

 

[cookie]

You're Right

What it was, was the first meticulously accurate police-procedural program, on both radio and TV, the first program to treat police officers not as either heroes or stooges but as ordinary working people doing a difficult job. Jack Webb had a very meticulous approach to his material, and it isn't to everyone's taste -- but in his own quiet way he was a revolutionary.

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Yeah ..right...just give me the facts..Ma'am ...sorry I just could not resist that!lol lol lol

 

[Gideon Ashe]

Well, all I have seen is the first episode ever. A married, middle-class woman has been stealing from department stores. She keeps being described by witnesses as beautiful and in her mid to late 20s. When we finally meet her, she is NOT beautiful by any stretch and at least 42.

I'll read Lizzie Maine's essay. Maybe I'll change my mind.

I have not seen that particular show in a looooong while. It most likely was Virginia Grey(Gray) one of Webb's cast of regular players. Also a fine radio actress. Same for Olin Soule.
I loved/love Dragnet. My first outfit when I became a Detective was an exact copy of Sgt.Joe Friday's. Grey sportcoat. Black trousers, black laceup, white button down and skinny knit tie. The fact that I was eight inches taller and forty pounds heavier did not make any difference to me. I was a Detective and I was going to dress like one.
Wait!! I am still wearing that crap after forty years, But, it has been to the cleaners.
Webb's stilted form of speach was the thing and I knew a dozen of more dicks talking like they worked the LA precincts of the Valley or Metro or Fillmore, instead of their actual bits of geography. No one knew what the hell we were trying to say, including us.lol lol lol

I even tried that ridiculous cross draw holster thing for my S&W Chief's Airweight .38spl. :eusa_doh:
Got rid of THAT pretty soon though. Movies/TV aint real life, are they???

Spinoffs were excellent. Adam-12, Police Story(Wambaugh cum Webb)and another show that I cannot recall for the life of me.