I spoke with Peggy Webber on the phone a few years ago about her audio theater company, the California Artists Radio Theatre. She told me that she had been tired of playing the kindly mother roles on _Dragnet_ and asked Jack Webb to give her a role with more bite to it. This might've been the role he gave her.
Peggy Webber's best role in all the episodes she appeared. The conclusion cracks me up laughing. She turned 97 on 9/15/2022 and one of the last survivors of Jack Webb's stock actors. Herb Ellis died in 2019 age 98.
@@muffs55mercury61 James McEachin is also still alive, he was the 2nd officer. He did 4 other dragnets plus a dozen roles in Adam 12. He was also Tenafly in the series of the same name. It was a made for TV Super-fly. Long career as a character actor. He is 93.
For any and all Trekkies out there: I had this episode playing in the background earlier this morning. When I heard Mrs. Sawyers (Peggy Webber) voice, I thought, her voice sounds so familiar!” It took me about ten seconds for it to come to me- - she sounds just like Seska (Martha Kackett) from Star Trek: Voyager! And it’s not just her voice, it’s her pitch and her lilt- - even the way both actresses carry themselves- their eyes, head movements, gestures- - it’s uncanny. I even looked the two actresses up to see if they were related in any way, but, I had no luck. Maybe it’s just me- - but I don’t see how they could not be very close kin. Be well, stay kind and blessings to each of you~ 🙏
She played several roles on the show, like Harold Rustins mother, and several others, as did most of the other actors. like the fingerprint guy who played a security guard, a hotel cop, a handwriting expert in Bunco and more.
Yes, Peggy Webber does indeed resemble Martha Hackett. Can's say much about similarities in speech, since I've only viewed the German-synched version of "Voyager." But I think that the resemblance is only coincidental.
0:52 Heading south-east on E. 1st Street. The yellow truck you see right at the beginning is driving on Los Angeles Street. You can see the sign on the right informing drivers it's coming up right as the clip starts. The intersection they drive by, where the light blue van is, was Weller St., renamed in 1987 after an astronaut who died in the Challenger. The buildings to the north of Weller St. are all gone. The ones to the south-Anzen Hardware, S.K. Uyeda Department store, etc.-are all still there. Some are even the same colors. Interestingly, the S.K.Uyeda building is only one floor now. The offices (or apartment homes) above it were demolished. I didn't know upper floors of a building would ever be removed while leaving the building itself in place. Maybe the whole thing was demolished and a new one built in its place. 2:10 is just around the corner from the first clip. Heading north-east on Los Angeles Street. The intersection there is 2nd St. In a moment, they could turn right on E. 1st St. and be where they were in the first clip.
Interesting - I also like looking up places they showed on Dragnet lol. The first building, there at Weller St. (now Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka St) - the one with the billboard on top of it - is now a Doubletree hotel. Anzen Hardware - that's now a flower shop. And S.K Uyeda is still S.K Uyeda! Crazy that they were able to take the top floors off the Uyeda building. It's amazing that those are buildings still there at all!
No. Bennett is a very common name or was. Tony Bennett's real name was Antony Benedetto. Lots of actors and actresses with ethnic names changed their names in those days. Anne Bancroft is last name was Italiano.
But... the light's so much brighter there; you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares. So, go downtown. Things will be great when you're downtown; everything's waiting for you - downtown, downtown.
I spoke with Peggy Webber on the phone a few years ago about her audio theater company, the California Artists Radio Theatre. She told me that she had been tired of playing the kindly mother roles on _Dragnet_ and asked Jack Webb to give her a role with more bite to it. This might've been the role he gave her.
Peggy Webber's best role in all the episodes she appeared. The conclusion cracks me up laughing.
She turned 97 on 9/15/2022 and one of the last survivors of Jack Webb's stock actors. Herb Ellis died in 2019 age 98.
Peggy just turned 97.
@@charles-y2z6c yes I updated that, thank you !
@@muffs55mercury61 James McEachin is also still alive, he was the 2nd officer. He did 4 other dragnets plus a dozen roles in Adam 12. He was also Tenafly in the series of the same name. It was a made for TV Super-fly. Long career as a character actor. He is 93.
@@charles-y2z6c Great actor and I really enjoyed his work thru the years.
You know she played the old hag in a night gallery episode. " I will never leave you" couldn't believe that witch was her.
Damn good actress! She acts drunk perfectly!
Good actress...
The wife is just a brilliant actress...seen her in other episodes...what a fantastic show of a snapshot in time...
Peggy Weber is a very versatile actress.
The original Karen
For real
Nathaneddie:
Can't escape the fact that the Guy he was correctly packed off to jail where he belongs.
For any and all Trekkies out there:
I had this episode playing in the background earlier this morning. When I heard Mrs. Sawyers (Peggy Webber) voice, I thought, her voice sounds so familiar!” It took me about ten seconds for it to come to me- - she sounds just like Seska (Martha Kackett) from Star Trek: Voyager!
And it’s not just her voice, it’s her pitch and her lilt- - even the way both actresses carry themselves- their eyes, head movements, gestures- - it’s uncanny.
I even looked the two actresses up to see if they were related in any way, but, I had no luck.
Maybe it’s just me- - but I don’t see how they could not be very close kin.
Be well, stay kind and blessings to each of you~
🙏
She played several roles on the show, like Harold Rustins mother, and several others, as did most of the other actors. like the fingerprint guy who played a security guard, a hotel cop, a handwriting expert in Bunco and more.
Yes, Peggy Webber does indeed resemble Martha Hackett. Can's say much about similarities in speech, since I've only viewed the German-synched version of "Voyager." But I think that the resemblance is only coincidental.
This episode, I believe is the best dragnet episode😂lol
0:52 Heading south-east on E. 1st Street. The yellow truck you see right at the beginning is driving on Los Angeles Street. You can see the sign on the right informing drivers it's coming up right as the clip starts. The intersection they drive by, where the light blue van is, was Weller St., renamed in 1987 after an astronaut who died in the Challenger.
The buildings to the north of Weller St. are all gone. The ones to the south-Anzen Hardware, S.K. Uyeda Department store, etc.-are all still there. Some are even the same colors. Interestingly, the S.K.Uyeda building is only one floor now. The offices (or apartment homes) above it were demolished. I didn't know upper floors of a building would ever be removed while leaving the building itself in place. Maybe the whole thing was demolished and a new one built in its place.
2:10 is just around the corner from the first clip. Heading north-east on Los Angeles Street. The intersection there is 2nd St. In a moment, they could turn right on E. 1st St. and be where they were in the first clip.
Interesting - I also like looking up places they showed on Dragnet lol. The first building, there at Weller St. (now Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka St) - the one with the billboard on top of it - is now a Doubletree hotel. Anzen Hardware - that's now a flower shop. And S.K Uyeda is still S.K Uyeda! Crazy that they were able to take the top floors off the Uyeda building. It's amazing that those are buildings still there at all!
In 1968 to 1969, I worked at the McPherson leather Co. Right on the corner of 2nd and Los Angeles St.
Isn't that the same grocery store in the next episode the Victims?
Sweet dune buggy! I can't blame him for spending more time with it than his wife.
Kenttyler:
You can blame him for marrying her !!
Friday could have retired 5 years earlier for all the money he spent callling the office on pay phones.
Jean Sawyer: "He's a bum, he's no good." Yeah, look at his taste in women!
Lock up the drunk ex wife
Got a problem with honest citizens reporting crime ?
John is happier now. He doesn't have to deal with his ex-wife
Michaelconflin:
The guy was a nutter for marrying her in the first place !!
In 2022 these people would not even be arrested, even if they did it.
Armed robbery what else? Raise drink and then drinks perfect
If I hadn't known it was a true story, I never would have believed the ridiculous story.
No surveillance cameras yet?
Was Julie Bennett, (Susan Fowler), related to Tony Bennett, and if so, how?
No. Bennett is a very common name or was. Tony Bennett's real name was Antony Benedetto. Lots of actors and actresses with ethnic names changed their names in those days. Anne Bancroft is last name was Italiano.
he spent more time with that Dune Buggy than he spent with me... GEE I wonder why!!
No wonder Friday never married. Too many bad examples of marriage.
Aristotle Onassis: "If Women did not exist all the money in the world would have no meaning "
What about his own partner? He was pretty happy in HIS marriage!
@@josephfinnegan151 Not sure that's a reputable character.
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Dragnet: Episode 96.
Season 4. Episode 24. "Robbery: The Harassing Wife".
Monday, July 10 - 2023.
Hey, mister tally man, tally me 🍌.
Never cooperate with police. Answering questions, going down town can never help you.
You have that right.
But... the light's so much brighter there; you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares.
So, go downtown. Things will be great when you're downtown; everything's waiting for you - downtown, downtown.
@@ModMokkaMatti Ok Petula, rock on !
Loved that song, "Downtown" sung by Petula Clark.
How long have you been in jail?!
When you could describe the suspect in la
Five to life... he's probably thinking no way thats long enough to keep her away
Mroggie:
If he wanted to keep her away WHY MARRY HER ??
Boy was he ever dumb !!
This lady.
Odd that cops in Los Angeles didn't have mobile phones.
Walkie-talkies are the OG mobile phone.
@@ModMokkaMatti for real
This took place in the 70's! They weren;t invented yet.
@@colleen4ever By the mid 1960's, there were over a million mobile phones in use in America.
Peggy Webber was fine ass helll Shu !!!