Talking about attorneys not being favored by many as 'nice' people, most are involved as defenders, to counter the efforts if the DA's...' Mo Money ' is involved with protecting known rich criminals, than The DA's could ever expect to get paid... My question is this about known skilled defense attorneys- defending known criminals keeping them off the hook, the question is: How well do they sleep at night? If I remember right, two of the primary defense attorneys , for O J. Simpsons murder case in 1995 died not long afterwards... Johnny Cochrane in 2005 at 67 years of age, and Robert Kardashian in 2003 at 59 years of age... Both relatively young, Both from natural causes, and both within 10 years of that famous trial that the general public saw the courtroom turn into a media circuis at the cost of the deaths of 2 innocent people who were savagely murdered... And O.J. finally dieing 7 years after getting iut of prison that he stayed at for 9 years because of Robbery and kidnapping of a Heisman trophy (and it's rightful owner) that he once had... His life and final days were highly compromised after that 1995 trial he had, and many fans that he had during his glory days, lost interest in him because of his questionable integrity... He died in November 2024 at the age of 76... natural causes... Almost like GOD demanded all 3 of those men to pay a very high price to free a person who was very likely guilty, as charged... For the murders of 2 people... Don't try to cheat our creator, because it is impossible to win...
@@michaelmartinez1345 You extrapolated a remark that I made about a TV show into something much larger. There are a lot of bad people who live to a ripe old age and die peacefully in bed. Mao Tse Tung died peacefully in bed at the age of 82. Your God didn't arrive in time to save the victims of the Great Proletatian Cultural Revolution.
I love this show.Even in 2023 the sensibility of this show is still significant and episodes great to watch.Jack Webb is like the ultimate voice of reason.Could binge watch them all day or night
the professor is a hippie. those mod cloths and he smokes that hippie pot! but remember: "when flower children turn to pot, they become blooming idiots!"
I remember watching this episode as a young adolescent. Watching it now, 50 years later, it looks so different. It's amazing how different you comprehend from 11 years old to 61 years old.
100% spot on truth! As a teenager--I was on the Professor's side. As an older adult, I'm on Joe Friday's side. (Yes grasshoppers...with age comes wisdom LOL!!)
I love the glimpse into the past that these old shows give us. The views on drugs, war, authority and even liberal education. Fascinating how some things change, while other things remain the same. Things that we think are new today are actually old.
"Things that we think are new today are actually old." Very true. For example, "quiet quitting" has always been a "thing," but some dope attaches a name to a behavior and thinks they have done something nobody has done before. They don't know what they don't know....
the professor is a hippie. those mod cloths and he smokes that hippie pot! but remember: "when flower children turn to pot, they become blooming idiots!"
This episode was definitely based on a true story. I remember reading a short article in the newspaper that the officer later sued because he received a failing grade in the class. Never heard the outcome of his suit.
"It's oregano-I'm a gourmet cook!" I've loved that line since I first saw this on syndication re-runs on WPIX Channel 11 in NY, probably in 1971. Friday, in that orange sweater looks pretty gaudy, especially compared to the cheap gray suit he wears at work.
@X P you obviously didn't learn much or anything at all. That's alright. Keep following the radical leftist narrative and you'll remain comfortable with ideologies of lunacy.
@@xp7575 you think it's right that the prof doesn't want the class members to know each others' occupations, then wants to throw Joe out precisely because Joe followed that rule and 'didn't wear his badge and let people see what he is?' The prof is a liar and hypocrite.
Undercover attorney protecting undercover cop. This was an excellent episode but some fifty years later doesn't it confirm the futility and unfairness of the drug war? A man is sentenced to five years in prison for selling marijuana which today is now perfectly legal. Major kudos to Jack Webb and Dragnet for presenting both sides to arguments that existed at the time.
I'd picture word getting out to the hospital where she worked and the rest of her co-workers giving her the cold shoulder. After all, hospitals work very closely with police officers.
Yeah, but Professor Grant found the bullet in the wall of the laundry mat.... saving his job. (Jack Webb loved to recycle actors... same with the guy with the eye patch)
That was how the actors pool worked back in the day. According to the Hollywood Moguls back in the day Jack Webb threw some of the best parties beverly hills ever saw
Harry Bartell was the guy with the eyepatch. He also played the priest who finds himself short one statuette of the baby Jesus on Christmas Eve. That's an episode in which the future Greg Brady, Barry Williams, makes a brief appearance. It's also a TV version of an older Dragnet radio episode from the 1950's in which Jack Webb and Harry Bartell played the same roles.
15:12- Bill's a really good friend in this ep the way he was worried about Joe and urging him to see the Captain. Have a feeling he'd have done that himself if Joe let him.
@@gplunk Yeah, but how do you know if it's really your thing or someone else's thing even if they told you not to do that thing? It is if it's in your bag? Or what?
Not quite legal, but just about. Possession for personal use is like a traffic ticket. Possession for the purpose of sale is a misdemeanor. But that's just California law. If the feds get involved, dealing in pot is still pretty serious.
I would be turned on if the person sitting next to me was. Hell,. I'd pass him my number! (what? I LOVE cops...or firemen..or anyone who can rock a uniform!)
This was one of the most interesting episodes... The Challenge the Police face every day with individuals who sell illegal substances that negatively affect the health and welfare of their addicted users, especially with the current intensity of drugs that are highly addictive that can , and often DO cause permanent psychological and physical Damage to it's addicted users... It's a crime with MILLIONS of victoms... I salute the people in law enforcement who are risking their lives to get these poisonous drugs off the streets and arresting those involved with trafficing them...
@@westies1962 In one episode, he played a computer programmer who held weekly weed parties in his house. In that episode, his young child drowns in the bath because, he, his wife, and everybody else there, were too high to notice. In another episode, he was the Cromson Crusader.
You think Joe is just a cop, the fuzz, a pig, is that it? You run around putting down police officers until the day you're on the wrong end of a crime, then you call for help. Within 24 hours of the police helping you, you're right back to putting them down. The "cops" are people, hard working people who do their jobs sometimes 24/7 with pay that isn't all that great. Many detectives are highly educated, college degrees and even advanced degrees in mathematics, criminal justice, business, other sciences, lots of subjects. They work hard to try to do their jobs well. What does that get from people like you? Contempt. That's fine. They'll keep doing their jobs. Think about that next time you're walking down a dark street and you don't like the looks of the character who may be following you. Who are you going to call? A cop?
In other episodes it was said that Joe had gone to college and had attended night school. But it was never stated whether he had finished his undergraduate degree.
That goes along with one thing Friday said-- "if you don't like the laws about marijuana, then you and your friends get together and change them." I know the hippies didn't think that would take as long as it did. In fact, in that ep with Tim Donnelly, where the baby drowns in the bathtub, he said "When the young people today start wearing ties and earning paychecks [meaning the early 70's], marijuana is going to be packaged, taxed, and sold just like tobacco." Gannon said, "I doubt it." Which was right at the time?
Joe makes the point to Bill that the class is meant to react to the person, not his/her occupation. So why didn't Joe refer back to that when Prof. Grant made his accusations of Joe taking the class to spy on others admitting they use drugs? Especially if it was Grant's own rule. But it's also true that 'Barbara' reveals she works in a hospital, as if the class already knew it. While it may be an inconsistency, it still seems Joe should have referred to that point when trying to persuade the others.
What was her problem anyway? One minute she;s flirting with Joe, next she votes him out of class! If a guy I liked turned out to be a policeman, I would NOT vote him out, I'd be even MORE turned on! I'd try to pass him my number. LOL!
Well, to be fair she said she worked in the hospital. She never said if she was a nurse, receptionist, administration, etc. Either way, that was horrible what she did.
After reading about the life of Jack Webb I’m sooo sorry about all the comments that I’ve made saying that he was a jerk. From all the things I read about his life he was fine, upstanding man. 👱🏻♂️👱🏻♂️👱🏻♂️👌👌👌
Why did Jerry take the po po to his apartment to show them all the weed he had? To help ensure he gets charged as being a dealer so he can go to prison? How things have changed!
He was a damn fool for doing that. He and his attorney should have made the police get a warrant before doing a search of his apartment. The Miranda rights are there for a reason. Anybody who is under arrest should take full advantage of them. There is nothing to be gained by waiving them away.
@@desotofiresweep58 Are you sure about that? I don't recall him ever being described as being out on parole in the show? At the end of the episode, they said it was his second conviction. And are you sure about the state of the law at the time that this show was made? That was at the time of the Warren Court, when defendant rights were tightened up by the Supreme Court.
@@mikejones9961 That depended on what jurisdiction one lived in. Before the Miranda decision, the police had much wider latitude in terms of how they could interrogate suspects. In many places it was not uncommon for cops to beat confessions out of suspects and the courts would look the other way.
He should have arrested the guy in the brown with the glasses before he drowned his baby, Tim Donnelly! He's another frequent flyer on Dragnet. He was high on marijuana in that episode as well!
I imagine it was supposed to make the reveal that he was an attorney more of a twist ending, because eye patches are reserved for bad guys under normal conditions.
I think because seeing with one eye takes away depth perception. Since he was silent until the final scene, it was to be assumed he had no perception of the depth of what was happening. Then the twist-- he was the one who REALLY had the depth of it.
The hippies in the classroom might reflexively regard Norm's POV as something that "pigs" or "fascists" would say but it seems to be a restatement of the writings of distinguished 18th-19th century British economist Thomas Malthus. As Barbara says, Norm has a rather brutal way of putting it. I think that it's more brutal than the way that Malthus himself communicated it. But Barbara's own response to Norm is somewhat incoherent. 8:30 - 8:38
Of course Chet didn't vote to keep him in the class: Friday arrested him four times already - once in season 2, once in season 3 and twice already in season 4!
I don't think the professor could have him expelled without approval from his superiors and as the attorney said, it wouldn't be legal. As for Jerry, well he was a pusher and got what was coming. What did upset me about this one was Barbara the nurse initially voting to have Friday expelled.
Kind of surprising a Policeman wouldn't already know the same thing the lawyer knew. Friday could have shut the Professor up right from the start. Of course, the episode would have ended after ten minutes. Never mind.
It's called doing your JOB!!! Police officers have to be obligated to do something like that! And judging by how flighty she is, he;s better off without her.
Whether or not the professor had the right to expel Friday from his class would probably have depended on whether the institution that Friday was attending was a private or a public university and what that institution's policies were in that regards. Where the professor would have been most vulnerable was with his threat to flunk Friday which would have ended Friday's quest for a master's degree, rather allowing Friday to take an incomplete for the class. And in any case, we should keep in mind that this was back in 1970. Things have evolved quite a bit since that time.
Not really we haven't. Gun killing is up, drug abuse is up, accidents, domestic violence and suicidal bullying are way up... and we need more than Sgt Friday to tackle all this
Do your own thing.! That’s what they drove into us in high school 1971 it didn’t take a year of being out to realize that won’t work. If everyone is doing there own thing toes will be stepped on . It’s a undoable idea
I can tack an ending onto this in which the Dean is seen yelling at the Professor, "THAT'S THE STUPIDEST THING I EVER HEARD! I DON;T CARE IF HE'S DICK TRACY IN DISGUISE, YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO DO IT! NOW YOU EITHER DROP THIS PREJUDICE RIGHT NOW, OR YOU'RE GONNA FIND YOURSELF LOOKING FOR WORK BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!" And when the Professor asks where he got the info the Dean would say, "Let's just say someone who knows Mr Friday very well"....and in a quick flashback we see it was Bill on the phone with the Dean reporting him!
@@gplunk I think after it was all over over 5 million were dead from all nationalities. My brother survived the war but like he said not everyone who came back was normal after that.
This episode is 52 years old. In California today, he would be given a citation and allowed to plead out to a misdemeanor -- an infraction if the amount is small enough, though Jerry is carrying a pretty good load here. It's very unlikely that he would do any custody time at all if all he had in his possession was marijuana.
What was his sentence? 5 to 15 years? That was a very big joke back then. Today the big joke is California using the red light camera system that rakes in millions of $$$$$$. Not only that, they will hold your driver's license hostage until you pay the fines, as well as a penalty fee if you skip the hearing. It makes perfect sense on why California does not want ID for voters at the polls. Too many citizens owe traffic fines to the state, and they simply freeze them out from obtaining a license to drive. This way nobody can complain about voting suppression. You have to hand it to the politicians, they will throw you in jail for the unpaid fines, but still kiss your a## for that one day when their job is on the line.
I can tack an ending onto this in which the Dean is seen yelling at the Professor, "THAT'S THE STUPIDEST THING I EVER HEARD! I DON;T CARE IF HE'S DICK TRACY IN DISGUISE, YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO DO IT! NOW YOU EITHER DROP THIS PREJUDICE RIGHT NOW, OR YOU'RE GONNA FIND YOURSELF LOOKING FOR WORK BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!" And when the Professor asks how he found out the Dean would say, "Let's just say someone who knows Mr Friday very well"....and in a quick flashback we see it was Bill on the phone with the Dean telling him what he did and threatening to tell the Chief!
Spoiler alert: Constitutional rights are terrific, but they have little effect on the human heart. Friday still ends up in a setting where eight of his fellow classmates and the professor would prefer to expel him. Professor Grant is forced to preside over a class that includes a student that he wanted to expel and another student who threatened to sue him and eight students who voted against him.
a man gets a minimum of five years for selling weed, 2nd offense. okay, fine. compare that to another episode where a woman gets a *maximum* of five years for being an accessory in first degree murder. seems to me that if you look at the sentencing in these shows that the men get the raw end of the deal.
Joe sure looks like PeeWee Herman at times , or is it Peewee that looks like Joe 😎 wouldn’t be funny to hear Joe laugh like Peewee .. sorry it’s late 😆
Many of the people who watch this show today will have something to say about my comment in 2024 based on a show that takes place in the 60's. I don't have the right or privilege of smoking or eating marijuana, hell I don't even know if I spelled it correctly but, you see I live Kansas where we don't have medical or recreational cannabis and we are also not allowed to vote on the legality of cannabis. My state representatives still use these outdated 1960's examples as reasons for not legalizing it. In fact some of them have even gone as far as wanting to use the outdoor theater, which is projected on the wall of the capital building to showcase the movie "Refer Madness" ... enough said! I will add that this episode made me sick because everything that Jerry said about Joe was true. Many of you are using cannabis responsibly and for many legitimate purposes and by law you are well within your rights but if I want to say, help my PTSD or my severe pain and choose cannabis then I am a criminal.
I do love the idea of an attorney being portrayed as a good guy for once.
Pretending to be good, more likely.
Talking about attorneys not being favored by many as 'nice' people, most are involved as defenders, to counter the efforts if the DA's...' Mo Money ' is involved with protecting known rich criminals, than The DA's could ever expect to get paid... My question is this about known skilled defense attorneys- defending known criminals keeping them off the hook, the question is: How well do they sleep at night? If I remember right, two of the primary defense attorneys , for O J. Simpsons murder case in 1995 died not long afterwards... Johnny Cochrane in 2005 at 67 years of age, and Robert Kardashian in 2003 at 59 years of age... Both relatively young, Both from natural causes, and both within 10 years of that famous trial that the general public saw the courtroom turn into a media circuis at the cost of the deaths of 2 innocent people who were savagely murdered... And O.J. finally dieing 7 years after getting iut of prison that he stayed at for 9 years because of Robbery and kidnapping of a Heisman trophy (and it's rightful owner) that he once had... His life and final days were highly compromised after that 1995 trial he had, and many fans that he had during his glory days, lost interest in him because of his questionable integrity... He died in November 2024 at the age of 76... natural causes... Almost like GOD demanded all 3 of those men to pay a very high price to free a person who was very likely guilty, as charged... For the murders of 2 people... Don't try to cheat our creator, because it is impossible to win...
@@michaelmartinez1345 You extrapolated a remark that I made about a TV show into something much larger. There are a lot of bad people who live to a ripe old age and die peacefully in bed. Mao Tse Tung died peacefully in bed at the age of 82. Your God didn't arrive in time to save the victims of the Great Proletatian Cultural Revolution.
I love this show.Even in 2023 the sensibility of this show is still significant and episodes great to watch.Jack Webb is like the ultimate voice of reason.Could binge watch them all day or night
You can find them on DVD.
the professor is a hippie. those mod cloths and he smokes that hippie pot! but remember: "when flower children turn to pot, they become blooming idiots!"
I remember watching this episode as a young adolescent. Watching it now, 50 years later, it looks so different. It's amazing how different you comprehend from 11 years old to 61 years old.
100% spot on truth! As a teenager--I was on the Professor's side. As an older adult, I'm on Joe Friday's side. (Yes grasshoppers...with age comes wisdom LOL!!)
I love the glimpse into the past that these old shows give us. The views on drugs, war, authority and even liberal education. Fascinating how some things change, while other things remain the same. Things that we think are new today are actually old.
"Things that we think are new today are actually old." Very true. For example, "quiet quitting" has always been a "thing," but some dope attaches a name to a behavior and thinks they have done something nobody has done before.
They don't know what they don't know....
the professor is a hippie. those mod cloths and he smokes that hippie pot! but remember: "when flower children turn to pot, they become blooming idiots!"
This episode was definitely based on a true story. I remember reading a short article in the newspaper that the officer later sued because he received a failing grade in the class. Never heard the outcome of his suit.
If the judge was smart, he won the suit and the professor lost his job.
"It's oregano-I'm a gourmet cook!" I've loved that line since I first saw this on syndication re-runs on WPIX Channel 11 in NY, probably in 1971. Friday, in that orange sweater looks pretty gaudy, especially compared to the cheap gray suit he wears at work.
That would look gaudy in any era.
It's red.
My brother and I watched this every Thursday Night at 9:30 I liked the way they identified themselves
So nice to see that professor get put in his place!.
Why? The professor was 100% correct
Keep licking the Gestapo's boots though
@X P you obviously didn't learn much or anything at all. That's alright. Keep following the radical leftist narrative and you'll remain comfortable with ideologies of lunacy.
@@xp7575 you think it's right that the prof doesn't want the class members to know each others' occupations, then wants to throw Joe out precisely because Joe followed that rule and 'didn't wear his badge and let people see what he is?' The prof is a liar and hypocrite.
Undercover attorney protecting undercover cop.
This was an excellent episode but some fifty years later doesn't it confirm the futility and unfairness of the drug war? A man is sentenced to five years in prison for selling marijuana which today is now perfectly legal.
Major kudos to Jack Webb and Dragnet for presenting both sides to arguments that existed at the time.
@@xp7575 NO HE WASN;'T!!! A PROFESSOR CANNOT EXPELL A STUDENT OUT OF CLASS BECAUSE OF HIS JOB!! THAT IS DISCRIMINATION!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!
Barbara, " So sorry I voted you out of the class the first time around, Joe. How about getting some coffee?"
"Eat my dust, Babs."
LOL 😆! Thanks for the laugh 😃
I'd picture word getting out to the hospital where she worked and the rest of her co-workers giving her the cold shoulder. After all, hospitals work very closely with police officers.
He probably should, but it's clear from the glances that they exchange with each other that all is forgiven.
Friday shouldn't be kicked out of class for doing his job. He did everything by the book and the law.
Great episode! Love this show.👍
One of my favorite episodes. Thank you.
I guess Jerry didn't get to change his clothes until he was sent to Chino 🤣
One of my favorite episodes
J. C. Curtiss, who played Jerry Morgan, was well past his thirties when he played this character. He was born in 1918 and was a WW II vet.
Where did you find that out?
@@westies1962 classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2011/09/interview-with-jackie-curtiss-part-one.html
Jerry loves smokin da sh!t
@@westies1962 imdb has all that informaton.
He is my grandpa and still alive and kicking.
Yeah, but Professor Grant found the bullet in the wall of the laundry mat.... saving his job. (Jack Webb loved to recycle actors... same with the guy with the eye patch)
I'll say the guy who complains about the joke was in 5 episodes then became a regular in Emergancy
That was how the actors pool worked back in the day.
According to the Hollywood Moguls back in the day Jack Webb threw some of the best parties beverly hills ever saw
And in just a few years he'll have "A blueberry for a daughter!"
@@DakariKingMykan Only one year or so between this episode and the Gene Wilder version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
Harry Bartell was the guy with the eyepatch. He also played the priest who finds himself short one statuette of the baby Jesus on Christmas Eve. That's an episode in which the future Greg Brady, Barry Williams, makes a brief appearance. It's also a TV version of an older Dragnet radio episode from the 1950's in which Jack Webb and Harry Bartell played the same roles.
15:12- Bill's a really good friend in this ep the way he was worried about Joe and urging him to see the Captain. Have a feeling he'd have done that himself if Joe let him.
A class like that would BORE ME TO TEARS, if not worse!! THAT'S what I'd confess!!
Why did they all have notebooks if all you do was talk?
"It's your thing. Do what cha wanna do. I'm not gonna tell you who to sock it to."
'Ish yo' thang....'
@@gplunk Yeah, but how do you know if it's really your thing or someone else's thing even if they told you not to do that thing? It is if it's in your bag? Or what?
I cain't tell ya, who ta sock it to....
@@DerBingle1 Papa's got a brand new bag... of Percocet.
And now pot's legal in California. This is the city........
Not quite legal, but just about. Possession for personal use is like a traffic ticket. Possession for the purpose of sale is a misdemeanor. But that's just California law. If the feds get involved, dealing in pot is still pretty serious.
Professor Grant reminds me of a teacher I had at San Leandro high school back in the 70s
Joe's speech's are compelling. the t.v. shows had messages then, now not so much
PROVES ONE POINT WE NEVER KNOW THAT THE PERSON SITTING NEXT TO YOU MAY BE A POLICE OFFICER 🚔
Or a attorney
Would be lucky if that person is a cop I don't tell anybody I'm a cop but I don't hide it.
I would be turned on if the person sitting next to me was. Hell,. I'd pass him my number!
(what? I LOVE cops...or firemen..or anyone who can rock a uniform!)
Wow, great episode!
Joe got his free "B"
Keeping the faith baby.
Good lesson for all of us! 😊
This was one of the most interesting episodes... The Challenge the Police face every day with individuals who sell illegal substances that negatively affect the health and welfare of their addicted users, especially with the current intensity of drugs that are highly addictive that can , and often DO cause permanent psychological and physical Damage to it's addicted users... It's a crime with MILLIONS of victoms... I salute the people in law enforcement who are risking their lives to get these poisonous drugs off the streets and arresting those involved with trafficing them...
The first time Chet from Emergency was found on screen in Drag Net. Anyone notice him???
Tim Donnelly was in a few other episodes of Dragnet besides this one.
@@westies1962 In one episode, he played a computer programmer who held weekly weed parties in his house. In that episode, his young child drowns in the bath because, he, his wife, and everybody else there, were too high to notice. In another episode, he was the Cromson Crusader.
Until this episode, I didn’t realize Joe had a college degree.
You think Joe is just a cop, the fuzz, a pig, is that it? You run around putting down police officers until the day you're on the wrong end of a crime, then you call for help. Within 24 hours of the police helping you, you're right back to putting them down.
The "cops" are people, hard working people who do their jobs sometimes 24/7 with pay that isn't all that great. Many detectives are highly educated, college degrees and even advanced degrees in mathematics, criminal justice, business, other sciences, lots of subjects. They work hard to try to do their jobs well. What does that get from people like you? Contempt.
That's fine. They'll keep doing their jobs.
Think about that next time you're walking down a dark street and you don't like the looks of the character who may be following you. Who are you going to call? A cop?
In other episodes it was said that Joe had gone to college and had attended night school. But it was never stated whether he had finished his undergraduate degree.
He majored in sweaters.
@@DerBingle1 His sweater could stop an army.
@@JimFarm King Coral Cardigan.
50 years later Marijuana is not only legal in Los Angeles, but also in California.
look at it now, a shithole
It's legal in many other states as well.
@@JimFarm all blue
In Washington state they have Decriminalized heroin, meth and cocaine …..progress ? I don’t think so
That goes along with one thing Friday said-- "if you don't like the laws about marijuana, then you and your friends get together and change them." I know the hippies didn't think that would take as long as it did. In fact, in that ep with Tim Donnelly, where the baby drowns in the bathtub, he said "When the young people today start wearing ties and earning paychecks [meaning the early 70's], marijuana is going to be packaged, taxed, and sold just like tobacco." Gannon said, "I doubt it." Which was right at the time?
Joe makes the point to Bill that the class is meant to react to the person, not his/her occupation. So why didn't Joe refer back to that when Prof. Grant made his accusations of Joe taking the class to spy on others admitting they use drugs? Especially if it was Grant's own rule. But it's also true that 'Barbara' reveals she works in a hospital, as if the class already knew it. While it may be an inconsistency, it still seems Joe should have referred to that point when trying to persuade the others.
What was her problem anyway? One minute she;s flirting with Joe, next she votes him out of class! If a guy I liked turned out to be a policeman, I would NOT vote him out, I'd be even MORE turned on! I'd try to pass him my number. LOL!
Well, to be fair she said she worked in the hospital. She never said if she was a nurse, receptionist, administration, etc. Either way, that was horrible what she did.
Fascinating program
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He was a hopeless cigarette addict junkie who would sell his mother for a 'hit' of tobacco
@@junkboxxxxxx so.. he was a smoker like more than half the country was at the time?????
Good ole Jerry 😎
Bad ole Jerry.
@@TG-ix9id lol agree
The Professor agreed to appear in court on Jerry's behalf. I wonder what his reaction would have been to the guilty verdict.
Quickly resigning his post before word got out to the Dean?
That probably really was oregano in real life.
Why did Jerry take the po po to his apartment to show them all the weed he had? To help ensure he gets charged as being a dealer so he can go to prison? How things have changed!
He was a damn fool for doing that. He and his attorney should have made the police get a warrant before doing a search of his apartment. The Miranda rights are there for a reason. Anybody who is under arrest should take full advantage of them. There is nothing to be gained by waiving them away.
@@JimFarm
He was on parole, so they didnt need a warrant to search his place.....
And he was going back to prison again anyway
@@desotofiresweep58 Are you sure about that? I don't recall him ever being described as being out on parole in the show? At the end of the episode, they said it was his second conviction. And are you sure about the state of the law at the time that this show was made? That was at the time of the Warren Court, when defendant rights were tightened up by the Supreme Court.
@@JimFarm Miranda created no new rights, people always had those rights but were ignorant of them
@@mikejones9961 That depended on what jurisdiction one lived in. Before the Miranda decision, the police had much wider latitude in terms of how they could interrogate suspects. In many places it was not uncommon for cops to beat confessions out of suspects and the courts would look the other way.
He should have arrested the guy in the brown with the glasses before he drowned his baby, Tim Donnelly! He's another frequent flyer on Dragnet. He was high on marijuana in that episode as well!
He died recently.
6:23. This sounds crazy but Jerry looks like my uncle
Why did that guy have an eyepatch how did that add to his roll
Maybe related to Moshe Dayan?
I imagine it was supposed to make the reveal that he was an attorney more of a twist ending, because eye patches are reserved for bad guys under normal conditions.
I think because seeing with one eye takes away depth perception. Since he was silent until the final scene, it was to be assumed he had no perception of the depth of what was happening. Then the twist-- he was the one who REALLY had the depth of it.
The hippies in the classroom might reflexively regard Norm's POV as something that "pigs" or "fascists" would say but it seems to be a restatement of the writings of distinguished 18th-19th century British economist Thomas Malthus. As Barbara says, Norm has a rather brutal way of putting it. I think that it's more brutal than the way that Malthus himself communicated it. But Barbara's own response to Norm is somewhat incoherent. 8:30 - 8:38
Mister Daniel Loomis is in this class. So is Chet from Emergency
Of course Chet didn't vote to keep him in the class: Friday arrested him four times already - once in season 2, once in season 3 and twice already in season 4!
Funny that "Jerry" got 5-15 years in prison, for something that today, here in Maine, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a pot shop.
I don't think the professor could have him expelled without approval from his superiors and as the attorney said, it wouldn't be legal. As for Jerry, well he was a pusher and got what was coming. What did upset me about this one was Barbara the nurse initially voting to have Friday expelled.
Yeah especially given her occupation!
Turncoat! I can just imagine word getting out to the hospital what Barbara did and her co-workers giving her the cold shoulder.
A cast of thousands.
People with eye patches either lost an eye or have lazy-eye. I think they look neat-o!
Notice how the women always gravitate towards Joe Friday
RIP Tim Donnelly
Now this is what college should be like today.
Kind of surprising a Policeman wouldn't already know the same thing the lawyer knew. Friday could have shut the Professor up right from the start. Of course, the episode would have ended after ten minutes. Never mind.
Joe would rather make a lame weed collar than nail the nurse. Boo!
I like to think Norm is a mercenary who fights bush wars for profit.
It's called doing your JOB!!! Police officers have to be obligated to do something like that!
And judging by how flighty she is, he;s better off without her.
Today... this would not be an issue in California. Jerry won.
Thanks to the decay of society.
I would rather have had that coffee with Barbara.
I guess Joe finally had that coffee with Barbara
@@TesterBoy Or not, after what she did.
Looks like Joe and Barbara may have gotten that coffee after all. They should have brought her back as his long suffering girlfriend
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Dragnet: Episode 94.
Season 4. Episode 22. "D H Q: Night School".
Thursday, July 6 - 2023.
Harry acting the dope as usual
How? He was on Joe's side the whole time and wanted to report that Professor to the Chief like a true friend would!
Whether or not the professor had the right to expel Friday from his class would probably have depended on whether the institution that Friday was attending was a private or a public university and what that institution's policies were in that regards. Where the professor would have been most vulnerable was with his threat to flunk Friday which would have ended Friday's quest for a master's degree, rather allowing Friday to take an incomplete for the class.
And in any case, we should keep in mind that this was back in 1970. Things have evolved quite a bit since that time.
Not really we haven't. Gun killing is up, drug abuse is up, accidents, domestic violence and suicidal bullying are way up... and we need more than Sgt Friday to tackle all this
@@DakariKingMykan None of which has anything to do with whether that professor had the right to kick Friday out of his class.
@@JimFarm He didn;'t! He wasn;t the Dean, he had no authority to.
They called Joe a narc. He wasnt as they specialize while Joe did all kinds of things in lots of areas
I don't think that he ever played a narc in the 1967 series.
Let me correct my answer. Friday and Gannon were narcs in the "Narco: Missing Hypo" episode.
For stoned hippies, the 60s version of "Dragnet" was a comedy show.
Do your own thing.! That’s what they drove into us in high school 1971 it didn’t take a year of being out to realize that won’t work. If everyone is doing there own thing toes will be stepped on . It’s a undoable idea
Apparently the professor joined WitSec and became a car salesman In Montana. His daughter was always chewing gum.
"With Sam B., it's a garentee!"
The guy with the tan shirt on did he later appear in Emergency????
Yes he was fireman chet kelley
I can tack an ending onto this in which the Dean is seen yelling at the Professor, "THAT'S THE STUPIDEST THING I EVER HEARD! I DON;T CARE IF HE'S DICK TRACY IN DISGUISE, YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO DO IT! NOW YOU EITHER DROP THIS PREJUDICE RIGHT NOW, OR YOU'RE GONNA FIND YOURSELF LOOKING FOR WORK BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!" And when the Professor asks where he got the info the Dean would say, "Let's just say someone who knows Mr Friday very well"....and in a quick flashback we see it was Bill on the phone with the Dean reporting him!
Vietnam was about protecting innocent people, not killing them.
Tell that to all the innocent war victims....
@@gplunk Yes, innocent people died. More died after the U.S. departed.
@@fjccommish So did a lot of U.S. vets....
@@gplunk I think after it was all over over 5 million were dead from all nationalities. My brother survived the war but like he said not everyone who came back was normal after that.
friday lets his hair down!
Its so sad to see a guy go to prison over a lil weed what a joke the system has become
This episode is 52 years old. In California today, he would be given a citation and allowed to plead out to a misdemeanor -- an infraction if the amount is small enough, though Jerry is carrying a pretty good load here. It's very unlikely that he would do any custody time at all if all he had in his possession was marijuana.
The charge against him was possession FOR SALE of the stuff. And they found a lot of it in his apartment.
@@cynic2all In California today, even possession of marijuana for sale is not a big deal.
What the system has become? Doesn't this show take place like 50 years in the past?
What was his sentence? 5 to 15 years? That was a very big joke back then.
Today the big joke is California using the red light camera system that rakes
in millions of $$$$$$. Not only that, they will hold your driver's license hostage
until you pay the fines, as well as a penalty fee if you skip the hearing. It makes
perfect sense on why California does not want ID for voters at the polls. Too many
citizens owe traffic fines to the state, and they simply freeze them out from obtaining
a license to drive. This way nobody can complain about voting suppression. You have
to hand it to the politicians, they will throw you in jail for the unpaid fines, but still kiss
your a## for that one day when their job is on the line.
12:08 Alcohol is a drug. Marijuana is now legal all over America. It's about the government being able to make money from it.
you cant kick him out of class over his job, thats discrimination
I can tack an ending onto this in which the Dean is seen yelling at the Professor, "THAT'S THE STUPIDEST THING I EVER HEARD! I DON;T CARE IF HE'S DICK TRACY IN DISGUISE, YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO DO IT! NOW YOU EITHER DROP THIS PREJUDICE RIGHT NOW, OR YOU'RE GONNA FIND YOURSELF LOOKING FOR WORK BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!" And when the Professor asks how he found out the Dean would say, "Let's just say someone who knows Mr Friday very well"....and in a quick flashback we see it was Bill on the phone with the Dean telling him what he did and threatening to tell the Chief!
Spoiler alert:
Constitutional rights are terrific, but they have little effect on the human heart. Friday still ends up in a setting where eight of his fellow classmates and the professor would prefer to expel him. Professor Grant is forced to preside over a class that includes a student that he wanted to expel and another student who threatened to sue him and eight students who voted against him.
But he knows he can;t just flunk Joe or he would be sued and probably reported to the Dean. I have a feeling Bill wanted to do that if Joe let him.
Friday sat right between 2 babes
Yes he did
Especially that one on his left
Yes! Shannon Farnon was hot! And so was that blonde -- who didn't have a speaking role -- but she sat across from him, not right beside him.
Kyrie Irving?
3:00 That class is a waste of time.
I find it difficult to believe that a class like that would have counted as credit towards a graduate degree. Bu then again, it was 1970.
Bill thought so too.
a man gets a minimum of five years for selling weed, 2nd offense. okay, fine. compare that to another episode where a woman gets a *maximum* of five years for being an accessory in first degree murder. seems to me that if you look at the sentencing in these shows that the men get the raw end of the deal.
The professor was a joke
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Joe sure looks like PeeWee Herman at times , or is it Peewee that looks like Joe 😎 wouldn’t be funny to hear Joe laugh like Peewee .. sorry it’s late 😆
Many of the people who watch this show today will have something to say about my comment in 2024 based on a show that takes place in the 60's. I don't have the right or privilege of smoking or eating marijuana, hell I don't even know if I spelled it correctly but, you see I live Kansas where we don't have medical or recreational cannabis and we are also not allowed to vote on the legality of cannabis. My state representatives still use these outdated 1960's examples as reasons for not legalizing it. In fact some of them have even gone as far as wanting to use the outdoor theater, which is projected on the wall of the capital building to showcase the movie "Refer Madness" ... enough said! I will add that this episode made me sick because everything that Jerry said about Joe was true. Many of you are using cannabis responsibly and for many legitimate purposes and by law you are well within your rights but if I want to say, help my PTSD or my severe pain and choose cannabis then I am a criminal.
Kick out Joe Friday
JERKASS!!!!