WOW, Dennis Weaver (McCloud) is the forensic bullet technician !! Love seeing these actors when they just started out and so young.... This is like a time machine.
I followed the chase, using Google Earth, based on the descriptions given by the "pursuing" cars. This was an actual, logical path using the streets as given, for the most part. Considering that the time difference is almost 65 years and changes must have occurred in the topography, it nearly adds up perfectly; in other words, no phony street names and directions to make it anonymous. Even using the correct FCC call letters to identify LAPD. Excellent work, great show! Thanks for posting.
Eugene Iglesias who played Juan Padilla was born in Puerto Rico and had many acting roles throughout his career including a role in a Cheyenne episode. He is 93.
Jack Webb used to have a radio show before Dragnet. In one episode Webb's partner was shot. They were private detectives. His boss was mad that the hospital was charging him $20 a day for Webb's partner to stay in the Intensive Care Unit at a Los Angeles hospital.
I just saw a PCWHITEGUILTED college waymn professor quit teaching Spanish because she hates herself for being white SO MUCH she hates the very thought of daring to teach it to other whites. That's how sick in the head the leftists are now.
Some interesting camera angles were used in shooting this episode: the top-down perspective shot at the first murder scene, the shot through the juke box case with the record disk machinery in the foreground and to the right of Friday, the low angle shots, the closeups on the characters and the radio speakers and the quick scene-cutting during the police chase sequence to create tension. Unusually artistic direction and editing for a Dragnet which didn't happen too often on the show. Makes this one a standout episode.
Everybody wore hats back then just like today everybody wears baseball caps Jack Webb Was a big fan Of big band music and jazz music he always has latest stereo Equipment in his house and he did a senior named Julie London who is a really really good singer and she was really really pretty
Dennis Weaver played the lab technician in this episode. I believe this was filmed just before Gunsmoke started filming. Weaver of course played Chester Goode in Gunsmoke, US Marshall Matt Dillon's friend and sometimes deputy.
I remember as a kid I’d go the local hang out for high school kids and drink cherry cokes and listen to the jukebox. Those were care free days. It’s been 60 years.
"these early episodes of the 50's contrasted with the latter Dragnet with Harry Morgan the episodes became more of the 60's,his earlier partners Ben Alexander,Barney Phillips,his original partner that didn't last very long Morgan added humor to most of the episodes."
"shooting at a bar on the corner of Bellevue and Allison". Today, Bellevue and Allison Avenue are close, several blocks apart, and both end at Sunset Blvd near Dodger Stadium. The don't, however, intersect.
most things are better than the remakes idk of one single remake that was ever as good as the original! and i wish they'd stop trying and come up with some original ideas!
Funny...always wearing the same clothes whether he opens saying "it's warm" or "it's cold" in Los Angeles. I guess in LA, "warm" and "cold" are just a few degrees different :)
My Dad started working in California back in the 50's. He wore a suit, white shirt and tie until the 70's when he was able to wear beige or blue shirts. He retired in the 80's still wearing suits. Didn't matter if there was a heat wave. It's what all the "white collar" dad's did
When this episode aired my Mom was 12, her Sister was 10 and their younger Brother was 7,and 8 years later I came along. My Mom passed in 2011 and if anyone plays numbers, the date was 9/10/11. She was 69.I remember you could play 3-4 songs (depending on the jukebox) for 25~cents. Man we could get a coke,(16oz) full Hershey bar (today is less than half of that bar) and a bag of potato chips (also larger than today),pay with 25~cents and get change back. (sigh) I miss those days although I do feel alot better paying for gas today than I did last year at this time. Let's Pray it stays this way.
John Clark Thank you. You know, watching these shows it proves that crime has been around forever. Even with it all, the Nation was still alot better back then that it is today. I wonder what all those who fought and died in the wars would have to say about the way things are here today and how the communists found a way to fool everyone a progressive, they get things done. haha I wonder what Jack Webb would say about all the things the police have today to help them. He would be amazed.
9/10/82 is my birthday. I remember as a kid in the 80s how cheap stuff was compared to today. 29 cent tacos at the bell made 5x better than today. candy bars 4 for $1 (made better with real ingredients) 29 cent hamburgers at McDonalds 39 cent small fries and 69 cent large fries. $1.25 for a movie and 79 cent gas and 89 cent smokes....man how far things have gone down the shutter since then but at the same time how magnificent technology has gotten thought...just marvelous.
Christopher Cassidy You are 2 years older than my daughter. Imagine how those of us older than you and those older than me feel. Oh, I need one more plutonium cog for my Time Machine and it will be finished. Room for 6, do you want a ride? We are going back to 1932 buy groceries,etc, maybe a house and we'll be back in no time. haha I hope you know I am goofing around. It would be nice if we could do that,yeah? Think of the people who would destroy us by changing History. Not good, but fun to think about that Time Machine. Hope you have a great weekend.
I'll one-up you. When I graduated high school in 1962, Hershey chocolate bars came in two sizes, 5 cent and 10 cent, McDonalds hamburgers were 15 cents, and the only soft drinks were Coke and McDonald (non-carbonated) orange for 10 and 15 cents. We'd get our food at McDonald's (I was too cheap to pay the extra 4 cents for a Cheeseburger). We then drove down to the A&W where they brought Root Beer in a cold glass mug out to the car on a tray in 5 and 10 cent sizes. Hamburgers at the local greasy spoon were 25 cents.
18:30--If it hasn't been mentioned already, I think it sounded like "Dragnet" epilog announcer Hal Gibney (who was also on staff at NBC-Los Angeles) playing the voice of the police dispatcher.
Anyone have a link to the song? Funny Man by the Art Hamilton Orchestra. Cannot find it anywhere online. "A lot of people like that tune...Only one man commits murder to it..."
Glad I'm not the only one looking for it! Been looking for years. I'm guessing he recorded it just for the show. The only other recording I know of is Maggie Jackson on Capital Records. It's a great record but I really wanna hear the rest of the one played in this episode.
I want an explanation....Cap'n Worman pulled Joe away from Frank in the hall to tell him something when Frank could easily hear him....WTF was that about?
Classy that the character, Frank, spoke spanish in this TV era.... no or very few "Negroes".... until later when the show was in color (no pun intended). Small steps, long strides.
The copyright date posted on the screen was probably for the series or season and not the individual episode. Next season, they would update it for the current year.
It sure was. The actor behind Benjamin Alexander (Frank Smith) portrayed Hispanic characters on the radio program and a few times as an interpreter. It was interesting they didn't use him like that for this episode.
@@GreenGlo1991 His mother was a mix of Irish and Native American, so that made him one-quarter Native American, but he was raised Catholic, not Jewish.
Omg. Whatever. You act like there were rarely any other races that acted in Hollywood. ACTORS ARE ACTORS. AND TODAY'S HOLLYWOOD LIES ABOUT OLD HOLLYWOOD. DOES ANYONE QUESTION BOLLYWOOD? NO.
T S wouldn’t make a difference... a lot of people use a jukebox and hang out at their favorite watering hole. Doesn’t prove he committed a crime just that he likes to listen to music. Like if a guy murders his girlfriend, his finger prints of course will be in her apt due to him spending time there so they will have to find other evidence he killed her. Judge can throw that kind of evidence out...
Talk about an exciting police chase, tracked up one side of the map and down the other! If only they'd subbed it out to Broderick Crawford and the Highway Patrol! The Actor playing the killer didn't have much to do. Came in for one day, they took a front and side head shot and sent him home!,
Nope. Back THEN people legally immigrated & became assimilated. And people married & stayed married to build lives for security for the future. The 60s COMMUNISTS wrecked that.
They said they gave the killer his 1st big break BECAUSE all the glasses had been washed~BUT the guy had been playing the jukebox ALL NIGHT! Friday went rught up to it and pushed the same button to play the song! The SAME button the killer had been pushing on that PROBABLY would've given them a perfect print of his index finger! YIKES! WHAT are you thinking? WHY didn't you dust that whole machine? Odds are is he leaned over it like ppl normally do with onr hsbx to brace themselves while they look down at the selections without even really thinking about it and you'd have a full PALM PRINT too! 😦
Yes, that was worth a try. Other customers wouldn't have played that tune. They would have been sick of it. Well done. We're pretty clever spotting that one.
Always alone. Always scotch and water. Always the same song on the jukebox. Had his mug shot. No sense tipping bar owners off about watching for this guy.
There’s a thought-commit an infraction in the prison and go to the stink booth where you can be stunk the Hell out of until you can’t keep food down for a week.
WOW, Dennis Weaver (McCloud) is the forensic bullet technician !! Love seeing these actors when they just started out and so young.... This is like a time machine.
"Walter Sande was a veteran supporting player in many films and later television
he was underrated actor but was great in every role he appeared on."
I followed the chase, using Google Earth, based on the descriptions given by the "pursuing" cars. This was an actual, logical path using the streets as given, for the most part. Considering that the time difference is almost 65 years and changes must have occurred in the topography, it nearly adds up perfectly; in other words, no phony street names and directions to make it anonymous. Even using the correct FCC call letters to identify LAPD. Excellent work, great show! Thanks for posting.
Really?
That must have been one amazing high school Spanish class!! :-)
I took 7 years of Spanish and I'd be hard pressed to duplicate that conversation.
I love the old stuff like this
Eugene Iglesias who played Juan Padilla was born in Puerto Rico and had many acting roles throughout his career including a role in a Cheyenne episode. He is 93.
Superb high quality upload. THANKS
Remember...this series was based on true stories! Loved it!
Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
FRANK SURE KNOWS A LOT OF SPANISH FOR JUST HIGH SCHOOL!!! I TOOK 3 YEARS OF SPANISH IN HS ALL I COULD SAY IS COMO SE LLAMA! SI ET NO!
Jack Webb used to have a radio show before Dragnet. In one episode Webb's partner was shot. They were private detectives. His boss was mad that the hospital was charging him $20 a day for Webb's partner to stay in the Intensive Care Unit at a Los Angeles hospital.
well according to one of the dragnet episodes $25 was a weeks pay so yeah that was a lot!
I Did Not Know Frank Smith Could Speak Spanish. He Spoke It Very Well..
771
I just saw a PCWHITEGUILTED college waymn professor quit teaching Spanish because she hates herself for being white SO MUCH she hates the very thought of daring to teach it to other whites. That's how sick in the head the leftists are now.
What a way to enjoy the times of my youth!
Frank says he only knows highschool Spanish and goes on to speak it perfectly
*high school
Some interesting camera angles were used in shooting this episode: the top-down perspective shot at the first murder scene, the shot through the juke box case with the record disk machinery in the foreground and to the right of Friday, the low angle shots, the closeups on the characters and the radio speakers and the quick scene-cutting during the police chase sequence to create tension. Unusually artistic direction and editing for a Dragnet which didn't happen too often on the show. Makes this one a standout episode.
that was a great shot!
The overhead shot might have been an inspiration for Taxi Driver.
I wonder if there was product placement money from Wurlitzer.
Omg really wish cool shows like this were on tv now.....
I agree. Very to the point without silly and useless car chases and shootouts.
And if you did murder one, it was always a one way trip to the gas house. Now that's finality.
That is why we watch youtube
What have you got about the INSIPID TRASH shown today on network TV or cable.
This episode features very fine acting by Jack, Ben, and the guests(particularly the actor who plays Juan).
George Fenniman....the greatest voice ever
Frank Smith and his timing. The best partner Joe had .
Frank finds his next paycheck amount smaller as he has been docked for a new wall map.
They were usually laminated and they used a grease pencil.
Haha, if that was how it works, Dan Matthews would go broke on Highway Patrol
One of the better episodes
Everybody wore hats back then just like today everybody wears baseball caps Jack Webb Was a big fan Of big band music and jazz music he always has latest stereo Equipment in his house and he did a senior named Julie London who is a really really good singer and she was really really pretty
Jack Webb is wearing his hat backwards
Sounds like more then high school Spanish he's speaking an understanding...alot more
Back when the jukebox was a dime. Wow could have a grand time for $5.
Frank was really good in this one with the spanish, the map and the watch bit.
I love frank 💗
Jack Webb would actually smile in the 50s show and they are great maybe I'm not a binger but eventually I will watch all Thank You rsdno
1K80 that was always their call sign even in the later color episodes.
I have High School Spanish for 2 years.... Barely understood a word....
One thing about old shows is the guest stars and small time players who later became well known. Saw Dennis Weaver in the credits. Love Dragnet
He was the bullet lab guy?
Dennis Weaver played the lab technician in this episode. I believe this was filmed just before Gunsmoke started filming. Weaver of course played Chester Goode in Gunsmoke, US Marshall Matt Dillon's friend and sometimes deputy.
what fun to see this series again! thank you for posting this!
Thx I love these shows!!! Dennis Weaver I loved him in Gunsmoke
I remember as a kid I’d go the local hang out for high school kids and drink cherry cokes and listen to the jukebox. Those were care free days. It’s been 60 years.
damn good high school Spanish.
ZEZERBING ...same thing i said...lol
Actually Hard to believe! I took University Italian and French. Couldn't come anywhere Near that conversational! lol
My Spanish used to be pretty good. I lived in Colombia and Mexico at different times, but damn he was Mas Bueno!
"these early episodes of the 50's contrasted with the latter Dragnet with
Harry Morgan the episodes became more of the 60's,his earlier partners
Ben Alexander,Barney Phillips,his original partner that didn't last very long
Morgan added humor to most of the episodes."
Ben Romano, played by Barton Yarborough was his original partner. He is my personal favorite.
"shooting at a bar on the corner of Bellevue and Allison". Today, Bellevue and Allison Avenue are close, several blocks apart, and both end at Sunset Blvd near Dodger Stadium. The don't, however, intersect.
That car chase was intense
The music is PERFECT for this kind of show
Playing the ballistics expert is a young Dennis Weaver. This was a year before he began playing Chester Goode on Gunsmoke and 16 years before McCloud.
Much better than the remake
most things are better than the remakes idk of one single remake that was ever as good as the original!
and i wish they'd stop trying and come up with some original ideas!
Funny...always wearing the same clothes whether he opens saying "it's warm" or "it's cold" in Los Angeles. I guess in LA, "warm" and "cold" are just a few degrees different :)
My Dad started working in California back in the 50's. He wore a suit, white shirt and tie until the 70's when he was able to wear beige or blue shirts. He retired in the 80's still wearing suits. Didn't matter if there was a heat wave. It's what all the "white collar" dad's did
When this episode aired my Mom was 12, her Sister was 10 and their younger Brother was 7,and 8 years later I came along. My Mom passed in 2011 and if anyone plays numbers, the date was 9/10/11. She was 69.I remember you could play 3-4 songs (depending on the jukebox) for 25~cents. Man we could get a coke,(16oz) full Hershey bar (today is less than half of that bar) and a bag of potato chips (also larger than today),pay with 25~cents and get change back. (sigh) I miss those days although I do feel alot better paying for gas today than I did last year at this time. Let's Pray it stays this way.
+Helen Kruse ..Nice story. I was 2 when it aired. Sorry about your Mom.
X4
John Clark Thank you. You know, watching these shows it proves that crime has been around forever. Even with it all, the Nation was still alot better back then that it is today. I wonder what all those who fought and died in the wars would have to say about the way things are here today and how the communists found a way to fool everyone a progressive, they get things done. haha I wonder what Jack Webb would say about all the things the police have today to help them. He would be amazed.
9/10/82 is my birthday. I remember as a kid in the 80s how cheap stuff was compared to today. 29 cent tacos at the bell made 5x better than today. candy bars 4 for $1 (made better with real ingredients) 29 cent hamburgers at McDonalds 39 cent small fries and 69 cent large fries. $1.25 for a movie and 79 cent gas and 89 cent smokes....man how far things have gone down the shutter since then but at the same time how magnificent technology has gotten thought...just marvelous.
Christopher Cassidy You are 2 years older than my daughter. Imagine how those of us older than you and those older than me feel. Oh, I need one more plutonium cog for my Time Machine and it will be finished. Room for 6, do you want a ride? We are going back to 1932 buy groceries,etc, maybe a house and we'll be back in no time. haha I hope you know I am goofing around. It would be nice if we could do that,yeah? Think of the people who would destroy us by changing History. Not good, but fun to think about that Time Machine. Hope you have a great weekend.
I'll one-up you. When I graduated high school in 1962, Hershey chocolate bars came in two sizes, 5 cent and 10 cent, McDonalds hamburgers were 15 cents, and the only soft drinks were Coke and McDonald (non-carbonated) orange for 10 and 15 cents. We'd get our food at McDonald's (I was too cheap to pay the extra 4 cents for a Cheeseburger). We then drove down to the A&W where they brought Root Beer in a cold glass mug out to the car on a tray in 5 and 10 cent sizes. Hamburgers at the local greasy spoon were 25 cents.
Dennis weaver was captain Korean in the 1954 movie dragnet
Saw Dennis Weaver in another episode working the juvenile detail. No mistaking his voice though!
1954 Traffic jam in California some things never change
Goodnight Frank.....lol
18:30--If it hasn't been mentioned already, I think it sounded like "Dragnet" epilog announcer Hal Gibney (who was also on staff at NBC-Los Angeles) playing the voice of the police dispatcher.
Grew up watching reruns of this show. I use to want to be cop because of it. I wanted to be Joe Friday.
That was a Great tune!
Dennis Weaver aka Chester/McCloud
Agreed.
I noticed that too. I wondered if anyone else did. He also did Gentle Ben, with Clint Howard, Ron Howard's little brother.
I believe he is also on gunsmoke I think he played a blacksmith
Philip Howard he played the deputy on Gun Smoke before Festiss did and he had a limp on the show.
I know right
Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver as ballistic officer!! Before he played Chester on Gunsmoke!!
Awesome!
2018: Queen - Elizabeth II
1954: Queen - Elizabeth II
reptilians never die
She knows Charles isn't king material. She loves her country too much to let a disaster like that happen
Actually, Queen Elizabeth II was coronated 1952; the RMS Queen Elizabeth II was put into service 1969.
@@mike6932 She loves being Queen. Period.
both the radio Chester and the TV Chester have been in DRAGNET.
Too bad Wesley didn't wait until today he probably would have got probation in California and the AG would have sued the Bars for serving him.
I thought that I was watching a Phillies postgame show as a lot of the players are not conversant with English.
Anyone have a link to the song? Funny Man by the Art Hamilton Orchestra. Cannot find it anywhere online. "A lot of people like that tune...Only one man commits murder to it..."
Glad I'm not the only one looking for it! Been looking for years. I'm guessing he recorded it just for the show. The only other recording I know of is Maggie Jackson on Capital Records. It's a great record but I really wanna hear the rest of the one played in this episode.
I want an explanation....Cap'n Worman pulled Joe away from Frank in the hall to tell him something when Frank could easily hear him....WTF was that about?
Classy that the character, Frank, spoke spanish in this TV era.... no or very few "Negroes".... until later when the show was in color (no pun intended). Small steps, long strides.
Rule #1: Continually change your MO.
This show brings back memories of the days when America had Law Enforcement that was allowed to arrest and punish criminals. The good old days.
every one wanted to be Joe Friday ---
Fred Penman Sr. - Not me. I wanted to be lost in space with Penny! 8^)
Great, thanks for these.
This episode was from 1953 (see the copyright date at the end) and not from 1954. A small detail, but I present it in the interest of accuracy.
The copyright date posted on the screen was probably for the series or season and not the individual episode. Next season, they would update it for the current year.
Look at the sweat build up from watching the map action.
All units! All units! Converge on Manchester blvd and 405 Freeway! Randy’s Doughnuts is having a 2 for 1 Special!!!!
Love it
Using an actual Hispanic actor was a big deal in this era. Pretty cool.
It sure was. The actor behind Benjamin Alexander (Frank Smith) portrayed Hispanic characters on the radio program and a few times as an interpreter. It was interesting they didn't use him like that for this episode.
Don't forget that Jack Webb is Native American! That is pretty big in itself.
@@GreenGlo1991 His mother was a mix of Irish and Native American, so that made him one-quarter Native American, but he was raised Catholic, not Jewish.
Omg. Whatever. You act like there were rarely any other races that acted in Hollywood. ACTORS ARE ACTORS. AND TODAY'S HOLLYWOOD LIES ABOUT OLD HOLLYWOOD.
DOES ANYONE QUESTION BOLLYWOOD? NO.
Nice mustache, Wesley.
How the fuck did I get here and why am I actually enjoying this
Fecal Eruptions You were meant to discover all that is Jack Webb and because this was and still is pure unadulterated television.
lov it!!!! tks 4 posting!!!!!
ok why didn't they get fingerprints off the jutebox buttons!
Because there were so many prints on each button...how do you separate them?
T S wouldn’t make a difference... a lot of people use a jukebox and hang out at their favorite watering hole. Doesn’t prove he committed a crime just that he likes to listen to music. Like if a guy murders his girlfriend, his finger prints of course will be in her apt due to him spending time there so they will have to find other evidence he killed her. Judge can throw that kind of evidence out...
Wow they even spoke Californian in this one!
What's Californian? Oh, you mean S P A N I S H. The Foreign language being spoken in this episode of Dragnet is called SPANISH NOT "CALIFORNIAN"
We always mark up the wall map! LOL.
Maybe there was a plastic overlay over the actual map that they could wipe clean...
That's okay, they just hung a centerfold over that part.
Is Russ in the ballistics lab Dennis Weaver?
Yes.
Talk about an exciting police chase, tracked up one side of the map and down the other! If only they'd subbed it out to Broderick Crawford and the Highway Patrol! The Actor playing the killer didn't have much to do. Came in for one day, they took a front and side head shot and sent him home!,
just the facts M'am...
+CentinelThe lol
:56 I guess they knew the way.
💖Dragnet
Nice ads for the Wurlizter jukebox in this episode
🎶( in spite of a psycho playing them)
More please 🙏
thanks
These were the good old days, Juan was deported to Mexico the next day.
They later changed the name of the bar from Doris and Jim to just Doris.
Juan helped them. He probably wasnt illegal he legally worked as a bar tender. No reason to deport
Nope. Back THEN people legally immigrated & became assimilated. And people married & stayed married to build lives for security for the future.
The 60s COMMUNISTS wrecked that.
Wait a minute! Chester?
Dennis Weaver at 8:40
"...it was feb 5th , it was cold in the city ..."
sure , like it ever gets cold in LA , HAW HAW !
I was just thinking that myself..i think he said feb 3 but my bday is the 5th 🤗
They said they gave the killer his 1st big break BECAUSE all the glasses had been washed~BUT the guy had been playing the jukebox ALL NIGHT! Friday went rught up to it and pushed the same button to play the song! The SAME button the killer had been pushing on that PROBABLY would've given them a perfect print of his index finger! YIKES! WHAT are you thinking? WHY didn't you dust that whole machine? Odds are is he leaned over it like ppl normally do with onr hsbx to brace themselves while they look down at the selections without even really thinking about it and you'd have a full PALM PRINT too! 😦
He used a pencil on the corner of the button.
Yes, that was worth a try. Other customers wouldn't have played that tune. They would have been sick of it. Well done. We're pretty clever spotting that one.
Always alone. Always scotch and water. Always the same song on the jukebox. Had his mug shot. No sense tipping bar owners off about watching for this guy.
They'll need a new map that's for sure.
Ballistics Russ Camp is Dennis Weaver
No prints on the juke box? Come on fellas!
Need to get the air conditioner fixed.
Neat what time is it scene at the end
Why no prints taken on scotch & water glass & jukebox?
Just out of curiosity, is there a non-lethal gas chamber? lol
There’s a thought-commit an infraction in the prison and go to the stink booth where you can be stunk the Hell out of until you can’t keep food down for a week.
Dennis Weaver Tv and Parley Baer Radio Chesters .
Video stopped cold by commercials. Lame.
What About finger prints on the jute box ? It seems to me they could have smudged it by play the record !
They need a new map every case
Why are they sweating so much while listening to the radio
Whats the tune?
They say “Funny Man,” but I have yet to find it. I wonder if Jack Webb, being a musician, had a hand in its creation or knew who did.