Beverly Washburn, Child Actress, beautiful then and beautiful today. She is one of the best actresses ever with such little credit. I do appreciate you Beverly.
Back in the 90s I had a doctor for a neighbor who traveled often, usually just over the weekend. He would ring my doorbell to let me know he’d be gone and when he’d be back and he’d tell me (in a humorous way) that if I saw a moving van hauling his thing’s away that he wasn’t moving. I didn’t realize how important that was until I watched this. I always knew my neighbor would be back, but one can’t be too careful.
I'm sorta retired now and in a 'home'. Occasionally will see a guy with a shirt and tie on. But, I do remember when they were worn regularly, like to the movies and such. More formal then. Like airports, it was formal. Today it looks like 6 Flags. But, thats cool. The things I wore...!?
Fedora OK even back then in all but the fanciest places. Even today I wear a fedora in all but those places. Baseball caps should be illegal outside of the ballpark.
What? Oh you mean the good old polite days when a little girl and her old widowed grandfather get robbed while they're out of town for his wife's funeral.
Unless you were a crime victim or a minority getting insulted or worse. (And everybody smoked…ugh). I love reading the comment from older folks reminiscing about the supposed “ good ole days”. Lol. Some things may have been better, but not everything is all I’m saying. We didn’t have mass murders ..that’s an example of something infrequently seen back then.
In many countries when you go on vacation(rarely) you have to leave a relative to take care of your house otherwise when you come back it will be empty! Lol
What really saddens me about this episode is how young Ruth is compared to her grandfather. I'm particularly afraid that if he dies, she'll end up in an orphanage.
Feel very sorry for character she plays (well!). Seeing the story is supposedly true, there are some 'cking callous shitbags in the world, making an industry out of stealing from a little girl who has no one but an impoverished old widower to look after her, quite depressing really...
Yeah man that can't get a pass. I am ACTUALLY not allowed to tell you, cause it's confidential and all that you know, but if you promise you'll keep it to yourself, just between your and me, they indeed, actually didn't give her a pass on that... and then, the weirdest thing happened, the strangest thing EVER happened to her, you know, as she erm, well... she's been stuck in time, she ACTUALLY got STUCK in time.. she got stuck and she had sat there sitting stuck there. Stuck in the nineteen fifties, ever since! So, there you have it.. now you know.. now please DO remember and don't tell the neighbours! Could very well cost me my job you know, as.. well, you know what they are like, they don't like it when one of their colleagues (even if it is one from in the day, actually, from way back when), when one of their colleagues talks about stuff that happened on the job you know!
The age difference kinda floored me as well. Where was ma or pa? Kinda like Heidi and grandfather. Well, they did seem to at least have their spirits up over the ordeal.
Joe Friday at the garage. Joe: "It's Monday, August 3rd. I was on my way to the station - working the day shift, bunco out of Orange County - when I felt a shaking in the car. The tire was low on air. As you can see, it's flat." Female Auto Mechanic: "I can fix that. Would you like me to check the oil and give 'er a wash?" Joe: "Just the flat, ma'am."
These Black and Whites are still good almost as good as the color version the biggest difference for me is Harry Morgan I can't believe how much he added to that show.
@@frankcabanski9409 for someone who came after the original shows aired I get the benefit of seeing them in their totality also I'm from a different generation. What seems normal to you in the Black and Whites in terms of style, pacing, acting and storyline comes across as old-fashioned perhaps it's the grainy quality of the black-and-white as well
"Ruth, I will go next store and call the police. No wait. I have a better idea. The police station is in City Hall. It's only about 4 miles away. Walk there, find the robbery department, find a police officer, and tell them we were robbed."
The canary woman is obviously such a gossip, like her charges, so why did they not ask who she might have talked to about people going on holiday? FFSake!
I find it difficult to believe that people in the 1950s would go on vacation and not notify their regular dairy to stop delivering bottled milk, which would go bad and get smelly left outdoors. Or that the milkman would just keep leaving milk that never was taken indoors without checking about the customers.
@@michaelcolfin8464 I went back and watched the end. Apparently, it's when he apprehended the woman. They don't show it, he just lifts his collar and says he's got lipstick on it now and that he will tell his fiancee the truth and she will believe him. Then says, "She'll believe me, won't she Joe?"
@@tinaarko6625 Come on, did she try and bite him? Did he smother her from the front? It doesn't make sense for her to get so close to him for her to get lipstick on his shirt. It's just a bad joke. Friday who isn't married, never got lipstick on his shirt in any episode.
@@michaelcolfin8464 Of course it was a bad joke, they didn't even struggle. It was just an uncredited cameo by Dick Powell. You blink and you can miss it. Joe Friday never had an interest in marrying.
This is the city. Calgary. There has been a rash of robberies, house emptied of their contents. I’m holding a photo radar gun to raise money for the mayor. I’m a cop.
I don't understand why burglars would bother with furniture its a bother to haul and store and unless its a rare antique most furniture isnt worth much, burgulas go for stuff they can stick in their pocket ,watches rings necklaces and so on.
At least the thieves was kind enough leave the telephone. If I was to strip bare a house, I would try to delay any way possible by stealing the phone. Perhaps that ever so slight detail was added in since otherwise, no phone to call fingerprint lab, no story, no episode.
Hey, I can't find the comment that said bad casting or that the one that said the Grandfather was so old that the commenter felt he would die and leave the girl an orphan. Well for both of you the little girl was 11 and the man was 62 which made him 51 at her birth. I guess people nowadays think people are old until they reach that age that's why the ma'am craze is so overwhelming. (You can actually tell the age of people by that you know because no one under 30 is calling people ma'am once let alone the other 29 unnecessary times to stress the fact that the ma'amer is supposed to be young LOL) Grandparents are supposed to be older. I guess you wanted a 35 year old to play the grandparent to reflect what you are more accustomed to LOL
Gee, do the perps have to list all of their aliases on their future paperwork? Geeze. But obviously they couldn't use the same place to sell/buy the stuff, yet the bird woman saw the same truck days later in the same neighborhood.
Why is the bird lady seeing the same truck a problem ? the used furniture store was a legitimate business the owner got suckered he would still be making pick ups and deliveries in the area
What corny dialogue. "What would ya like to know, little girl?" Why would you have to call her "little girl"? Makes sense if this was a radio presentation, but not a TV presentation where we can all see it's a girl and she's little. If it were a man he was talking to would he say "What would you like to know, large man?"
She looks up and down the street, yet they're sitting right there. lol
As a kid we were glued to the black and white TV when Dragnet was on! Thanks for sharing!
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Beverly Washburn, Child Actress, beautiful then and beautiful today. She is one of the best actresses ever with such little credit. I do appreciate you Beverly.
The script had her say she was 10. Later she said she had completed school year 5, which matches. But she looks a lot younger than 10.
Wheras Shirley Temple was two years older than credited.
Back in the 90s I had a doctor for a neighbor who traveled often, usually just over the weekend. He would ring my doorbell to let me know he’d be gone and when he’d be back and he’d tell me (in a humorous way) that if I saw a moving van hauling his thing’s away that he wasn’t moving. I didn’t realize how important that was until I watched this. I always knew my neighbor would be back, but one can’t be too careful.
I like how the retired folks chilling in their houses are wearing dresses, dress shirts and ties.
I'm sorta retired now and in a 'home'. Occasionally will see a guy with a shirt and tie on. But, I do remember when they were worn regularly, like to the movies and such. More formal then. Like airports, it was formal. Today it looks like 6 Flags. But, thats cool. The things I wore...!?
yea, that's a lost tradition in America.
@@McIntyreBible Lost tradition in the entire western world
In the 1950's and even into the 60's, people were contentious about their attire...
They certainly didn’t dress comfortably for the warm weather…ugh!
When I was brought up, it was considered impolite to wear your hat indoors
Exactly, which was why the Robot Butler was always removing Donald Duck's hat in "Modern Inventions."
Right🤭 and those were the "good old days"😆
It’s still impolite to wear a hat indoors. It’s just that the louts who do weren’t brought up properly.
Applies to gentlemen, ladies kept their hats on.
I adhere to this and it’s meaning is largely unknown these days.
Fedora OK even back then in all but the fanciest places. Even today I wear a fedora in all but those places. Baseball caps should be illegal outside of the ballpark.
People were so polite back in those days and most behaved as solid citizens. Sure miss those days!
What? Oh you mean the good old polite days when a little girl and her old widowed grandfather get robbed while they're out of town for his wife's funeral.
Unless you were a crime victim or a minority getting insulted or worse. (And everybody smoked…ugh). I love reading the comment from older folks reminiscing about the supposed “ good ole days”. Lol. Some things may have been better, but not everything is all I’m saying. We didn’t have mass murders ..that’s an example of something infrequently seen back then.
@@teresas8173 Agree about the smoking part. Yuck indeed!!!
Oh ok boomer
@thomascollins4325 I was about to leave a 👍. Now that I know you are against cigarettes, you can have a 🖕.
I think that girl was a pretty good actor.
the little actress, Beverly Washburn, was a good actress. she was in many shows in the 1950s.
@@marycassidy1695 Yes, a very good actor.
5:54, "you'll find the crooks won't you sergeant?"
Praise the lord!!
In many countries when you go on vacation(rarely) you have to leave a relative to take care of your house otherwise when you come back it will be empty! Lol
22:45 I really appreciate the bits of humor they wrote into the stories.
"Mrs Butterworth!" 🤣
Close enough!!
Nothing suspicious about a car parked near a house with four men in suits sitting in it and watching everything going on.
she didn't do too well looking left and right did she?!
They needed the car and the front of the house in the same frame.
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The LAPD reimbursing homeowners for their newspapers and milk lol.
Originally telecast on September 16, 1954, and adapted from a September 21, 1950 radio episode.
thank you for this extra info!
I was 5 months old. :)
You're very welcome! :)
@Rose Treiger anything that disrupts a child from their sense of security and stability is devastating-even if well meaning.
At 25:25 it's dated 1953.
23:32 to 24:01 segments are hilarious. 😂
"The Big Pair" 👀 Oh my!
Beverly Washburn- still a babe even today.♡
BeachsideHank Yes sir!! Played in the original Star Trek... the pilot episode. She lost her part to Grace Lee Whitney, another hot babe.
It would be great if men started to wear fedora hats again, there is just something classy about them.
We agree!
Great episode
Best side kick
A cup of ☕ & a 🍔.
Looks like Mr. and Mrs. Butterworth are in quite a sticky situation.
There was a gang hitting houses while the families were at funerals. The read the obituaries in the paper, all rural houses.
Yes I was robbed durring my dad's funeral
What really saddens me about this episode is how young Ruth is compared to her grandfather. I'm particularly afraid that if he dies, she'll end up in an orphanage.
Yea true. Cause he wasnt pretty old and couldnt hardly walk very good
More like bad casting.....
@@markgarin6355 Yeah, they probably should have cast someone more in the teenage years.
It’s supposedly a true story so the grandfather was much older. Such is life.
@@michaelglickman1300 I was older than the grandfather when this first aired. I have grandchildren today who are younger than Ruth.
Beverly Washburn(Ruth) is still alive today and is semi active acting still.
She was great in Old Yeller
@@4ljc433 I randomly drop bits of trivia under these sorts of videos.
Feel very sorry for character she plays (well!). Seeing the story is supposedly true, there are some 'cking callous shitbags in the world, making an industry out of stealing from a little girl who has no one but an impoverished old widower to look after her, quite depressing really...
And she was in Star Trek TOS
@@Del-Canada Love the trivia you put on the videos about dragnet
Hey, 17:09 I guess the wife's syrup wasn't selling too well back then LOL
urgent to run the license and she gives the engine number and everything first!
Yeah man that can't get a pass. I am ACTUALLY not allowed to tell you, cause it's confidential and all that you know, but if you promise you'll keep it to yourself, just between your and me, they indeed, actually didn't give her a pass on that... and then, the weirdest thing happened, the strangest thing EVER happened to her, you know, as she erm, well... she's been stuck in time, she ACTUALLY got STUCK in time.. she got stuck and she had sat there sitting stuck there. Stuck in the nineteen fifties, ever since! So, there you have it.. now you know.. now please DO remember and don't tell the neighbours! Could very well cost me my job you know, as.. well, you know what they are like, they don't like it when one of their colleagues (even if it is one from in the day, actually, from way back when), when one of their colleagues talks about stuff that happened on the job you know!
Looks like Mr.Daniel Lumis made a dry run before he got busted on Dragnet 1970.
Thank you 😊
The age difference kinda floored me as well. Where was ma or pa? Kinda like Heidi and grandfather. Well, they did seem to at least have their spirits up over the ordeal.
😆😆😆😆 Mrs Butterworth
1:47, Jack Webb was wise in how he used child actors!
After Mrs Butterworth got out of prison she embarked on a successful career of spokeswoman for maple flavored syrup
Hey, your joke was better than mine LOL.
Well, there were no love birds in the pet store, and how many different used furniture shops were there so they didn't duplicate?
Today a report is made and that just about does it.
COP-ERRRRR ☺️
I didn’t know that grandma Walton had such a checkered past
That is not Ellen Corby.
They never did explain the story about how Ruth got to be living with her grandparents.
Good, gooder, and goodest describe every episode (pardon the usage).
In furtherance of marital harmony, Id just buy a new shirt! worth every Penney!
Joe Friday at the garage.
Joe: "It's Monday, August 3rd. I was on my way to the station - working the day shift, bunco out of Orange County - when I felt a shaking in the car. The tire was low on air. As you can see, it's flat."
Female Auto Mechanic: "I can fix that. Would you like me to check the oil and give 'er a wash?"
Joe: "Just the flat, ma'am."
Love it! “Just the flat, ma’am.” Thanks for the laugh.
These Black and Whites are still good almost as good as the color version the biggest difference for me is Harry Morgan I can't believe how much he added to that show.
These are just as good.
I like the b&w episodes more. Later episodes in color often felt like Friday was lecturing far too much.
@@frankcabanski9409 for someone who came after the original shows aired I get the benefit of seeing them in their totality also I'm from a different generation. What seems normal to you in the Black and Whites in terms of style, pacing, acting and storyline comes across as old-fashioned perhaps it's the grainy quality of the black-and-white as well
Frank Smith much better than Bill Gannon.
When he wasn't pounding on his wife!! LOL Great actor though.
When I saw grandpa sitting on the box in the house I thought of MR DANIEL LOOMIS ;ooks just the same but he is not blind
"Ruth, I will go next store and call the police. No wait. I have a better idea. The police station is in City Hall. It's only about 4 miles away. Walk there, find the robbery department, find a police officer, and tell them we were robbed."
at 20 minutes per mile that is quite a walk.
The canary woman is obviously such a gossip, like her charges, so why did they not ask who she might have talked to about people going on holiday? FFSake!
Every Dragnet episode in the comments: Oh my God it's a CIGARETTE!!!!
Joe had a nice right
20:43, you mean to tell me the woman and the man wouldn't see the car sitting across the street observing them? come on!!!
I find it difficult to believe that people in the 1950s would go on vacation and not notify their regular dairy to stop delivering bottled milk, which would go bad and get smelly left outdoors. Or that the milkman would just keep leaving milk that never was taken indoors without checking about the customers.
20:40 either the cops are invisible to others or the crooks are blind
Offer you a chair 🪑🙂
In the 50's $550.00 was a lot of money. Maybe equal to about $5500.00 today.
Holy shit! that kid invented the Mullet!!!
California today: Same issue. Let off on their own recognizes. Paperwork lost. Never brought to trial.
That is Dick Powell playing the cop getting married and has the lipstick on his collar at the end.
How did he lipstick on his shirt?
@@michaelcolfin8464 I went back and watched the end. Apparently, it's when he apprehended the woman. They don't show it, he just lifts his collar and says he's got lipstick on it now and that he will tell his fiancee the truth and she will believe him. Then says, "She'll believe me, won't she Joe?"
@@tinaarko6625 Come on, did she try and bite him? Did he smother her from the front? It doesn't make sense for her to get so close to him for her to get lipstick on his shirt. It's just a bad joke. Friday who isn't married, never got lipstick on his shirt in any episode.
@@michaelcolfin8464 Of course it was a bad joke, they didn't even struggle. It was just an uncredited cameo by Dick Powell. You blink and you can miss it. Joe Friday never had an interest in marrying.
@@tinaarko6625 Joe Friday and Pete Malloy were gay..
Mr. and Mrs. Butterworth......they should be in the pancake syrup business.
To hear old people tell it, there was no crime in the 50s. Yeah, right! Whole house full of furniture, that’s awful.
Wasn’t it bad manners to wear your fedora indoors?
Yes. Especially with a young lady present.
9:30. Threatening the birds? Based on that other episode they need to keep an eye on her. 😊
You can get up to 15 years for burglary, but for vehicular manslaughter you get 5 years max. Who wrote those idiotic laws ???
Actress Beverly Washburn (10 year old) 79 years old as of June 21, 2023.
This is the city. Calgary. There has been a rash of robberies, house emptied of their contents. I’m holding a photo radar gun to raise money for the mayor. I’m a cop.
Audio issues on this one.
Dolly Parton was in this episode.
Why commercials????
Detective cole Phelps and sgt Friday
What’s with the big gangster hats
Cooooool!
SAD TO NOW EVEN SEE THE WORD...
CORONA....
WELCOME TO 2020
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Huh?
Ghoulish reporting.
I don't understand why burglars would bother with furniture its a bother to haul and store and unless its a rare antique most furniture isnt worth much, burgulas go for stuff they can stick in their pocket ,watches rings necklaces and so on.
I grew up on the sixties. There were times when thieves would take furniture!
At least the thieves was kind enough leave the telephone. If I was to strip bare a house, I would try to delay any way possible by stealing the phone. Perhaps that ever so slight detail was added in since otherwise, no phone to call fingerprint lab, no story, no episode.
@@jetstream6389 Well that answers that. Thanks for the information.
Hey, I can't find the comment that said bad casting or that the one that said the Grandfather was so old that the commenter felt he would die and leave the girl an orphan. Well for both of you the little girl was 11 and the man was 62 which made him 51 at her birth. I guess people nowadays think people are old until they reach that age that's why the ma'am craze is so overwhelming. (You can actually tell the age of people by that you know because no one under 30 is calling people ma'am once let alone the other 29 unnecessary times to stress the fact that the ma'amer is supposed to be young LOL) Grandparents are supposed to be older. I guess you wanted a 35 year old to play the grandparent to reflect what you are more accustomed to LOL
It's hard to tell if this is drama or comedy. I don't know if the police investigated and solved crimes back then but they certainly don't now.
Its basically a pro police propaganda show.
Gee, do the perps have to list all of their aliases on their future paperwork? Geeze.
But obviously they couldn't use the same place to sell/buy the stuff, yet the bird woman saw the same truck days later in the same neighborhood.
Why is the bird lady seeing the same truck a problem ? the used furniture store was a legitimate business the owner got suckered he would still be making pick ups and deliveries in the area
I have to pay to get forty year old furniture removed. He gets it done for free!
was your 40 year old furniture solid oak and walnut?
Of course I know everybody wore hats until the early 60s
They look terrible now and especially indoors! Why would you not take it off indoors??
"The Big Pair" is a particularly inappropriate title to juxtapose with a thumbnail of a young girl.
All the good stay in they country and all the bad people go to america im so happy im not american so that mean im a good guy i dont go to america
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Why do you have to ruin a good show with a bunch of adds?
Gregory Hebebrand watch something else.
"Ads"
Hey! In another episode, Mrs. Dunbar was the divorced wife of a Mr. Stokes who was beaten to death by a longshoreman.
Guess she liked her men tough
What corny dialogue. "What would ya like to know, little girl?" Why would you have to call her "little girl"? Makes sense if this was a radio presentation, but not a TV presentation where we can all see it's a girl and she's little. If it were a man he was talking to would he say "What would you like to know, large man?"
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