14:44 I love Ben Alexander, the actor who played Frank Smith. He was so natural and relaxed in how he moved on the stage in character, in contrast to the others who have a sort of 1950s stiffness we're used to seeing in anything from this era. The way he plops his hat on the couch, and then later when he sits in the chair facing away and then turns it, are just hilarious.
Have you noticed how everyone in this series smokes like a train? I saw one scene when Joe Friday unwrapped a pack of (ABC - Aways Buy Chesterfield 's) Chesterfield's. Most all the men of the 1950s smoked as they were WWII Veterans.
Thank you Film Detective. Thanks to people like you I don't have to watch the garbage that passes for TV programs today. I love these old shows. I wouldn't call them the good old days. We baby boomers were in the middle of the Viet Nam war. As I was growing up so many of the people would call the returning men baby killers and spit on them. It was a sad time for these men many of whom got drafted. Some left the country to Canada to avoid the draft. But, one of the great things were good TV shows. Thank you for sharing. Ms Michal 🙃☕
My Dad loved Dragnet we would always watch it together when I was a little girl. The hand with the hammer at the end always scared me and I would run out of the room when it came on......lol
LOL! I wasn't afraid of the hand with the hammer, and always had an impulse to want to wash the dirt and grease off of that hand so it would be clean!!!☺
I always wanted a press and mallet once I saw that. I used to think that the stone was soft, I knew that as I watched the Flintstones all the time and knew the difference between rocks and granite.
Years ago a friend got fired from a convenience store because the manager said she didn't try enough to stop a robbery. She got away from that kind of work and is now retired and living a good life. The manager later tried to stop another robbery. He's been dead for 38 years now. Losing your life over money isn't worth it. This episode has great dialogue among all the players.
During another episode, where they were reviewing potential recruits, the same question came up. An applicant ran and hid when his store was getting robbed. He was able to give a description and car license plate number. The non-police reviewer of the candidates thought it was bad that he ran. Friday commented that in doing so, he saved his own life and had information that helped solve the case. Perspective, I guess.
I remember the VII trademark from my childhood. Soon as i seen the hand and the hammer striking the chisel I said to myself VII LOL. Funny how memory works even after 63 years.
john a. Gee I guess you’ve forgotten the 1950’s, 1960’s and even later, early television, that cigarette brands were major TV show sponsors? How could you forget how society was just 10 years after WWII. How TV was coming into middle America and the family gathered around and watched TV together? And the public was not yet warned that smoking was hazardous to their health. Don’t you remember? The history, how society, media, family values evolved or dissolved or changed? I’m sure if you think back you’ll remember those times and the history.
@@j.kaymetcalf-benton6600 Yes, I remember how families were back then -a man, a woman and children. Then the Vietnam war began and we began to question authority....and values. American society has been disintegrating ever since.
Amazing how it was, when I was young in the seventies in my first job, a guy I shares an office with would smoke two cigars a day, one in the morning and another in the afternoon
I just had to comment on the opening speech, because I live in L.A. " This is the city, Los Angeles, CA. It was Monday, January 25th. , it was warm in Los Angeles ". LOL. Um , unless you call 50 degrees and lower around Jan. 25th. warm , your not from L.A. Major blooper, but it was the 1950's . Enjoying this , thanks for posting...
@@MeowingKittyCat thanks for that. I commented on this 6 months ago so thanks for the reminder. Its now March 2021 , and it was about 41 degrees today in L.A. Don't tell me that's not cold..
@@MeowingKittyCat Thanks for that and it's funny. When you say your way up north , I'm presuming Canada ? I spoke with someone in Minnesota where it can get 40 degrees below zero. I asked , " how do you folks stand living in such a cold climate in the winter" ? Their response was, " once you get a certain even 10 below zero, there is no difference between 10 below and 40 below, because cold is cold ". Anyway, stay safe..
@@bra8623 Close to Canada... when I first moved up here, you wouldn't believe how much I bundled up in the winter, but you get used to the cold after a while. Now, I don't even bother buttoning up my coat if it's more than 30 degrees. I don't bother with a hat and gloves (assuming I'm not going to be outside for hours) unless it goes down to 20 or lower. I'll wear warmer clothing for 15 below. When it gets that cold, you have the added bonus of hearing the snow squeak when you walk on it. 😊
Nice. I don't remember this one. If you it in all these commercials then you can Afford VOLUME. I have had neighbor charged as accessory for warning bandits.
That was more like Vaudeville. Brilliant episode because the comedy actually WORKS. Good tongue and cheek episode but I'm glad he didn't do that every week.
Uhm, "Dragnet" was made with the cooperation of the LAPD and was based on real cases (but, the names were changed to protect the innocent). It WAS a weekly series that ran for something like ten years-actually 8 in the 50s, plus 4 more starting in '67. The dryness is what makes it a cult classic.
An unarmed man against a 12 Ga. shotgun? I would have given him the money, too! Money is insured. One blast in small space could kill 2 people. Jonathan Hole as the manager. LOL. That's the darts sign from the Big Hands episode. The Pickers would buy that sign. LOL!
Dragnet was sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes. Perhaps coincidentally, Chesterfield is also the name of a style of overstuffed couch, such as (I'm guessing) the couch the lady has the guys move around. Maybe a case of subliminal advertising?
@@dalehall7138 great observations. They did a lot of that back in the day. Though this was more obvious lol. But, film makers would put in a 1 or 2 second photo of popcorn or other snacks for movie houses. The idea was to trick the audience in to getting up and go to the snack bar. They don't do it now as it's illegal. I am really dating my age. Ms Michal 😅🙃☕
Yeah there was a young girl working at a convenience store that was robbed and she got fired because her boss felt she didn't do enough to stop it. At least she was alive to tell about it. He was only concerned about the $200 or so that was taken.
when they started doing the first season, they pulled the stories from the radio broadcast and adapted them for TV. As a true sin of concomitant, many of the extras also did the voices for the radio shows.
Joe: "You have steak here?" Waitress: "Why yes, we do." Joe: "You cook 'em well done?" Waitress: "Yes." Joe: "I want mine trimmed." Waitress: "Trim off the fat and trim the steak from the bone?" Joe:: "Just the fat, ma'am."
The bank manager 1) Stupid - the bank security must be allowed to carry a 44; 2) blind as a bat - is color blind; 3) Very effeministic; and 4) Does not have managerial ability. The mean and evil cuss does not have respect for anyone and must be terminated immediately.
At the beginning of the Video Sgt. Friday states the date as Monday January 25th. At 13:17 into the video Lt. Spooner is pointing at a calendar that clearly shows January 25th is a Sunday. Not the first time this happens! 😀
....it took 8 HOURS to go through the license plate numbers! Today, it would take 6 seconds on the computer!!!! My, how technology has changed to world!
One NYC police officer once stated that the most realistic cop show on TV was Barney Miller! I mention this because some people here have said that this episode was set up as comedy. I believe real cops have to deal with this stuff all the time. People are truly weird out there!
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Realistically portrayed citizens/criminals/law enforcement officials. Enjoy viewing those automobiles/police equipment/interior of building & the? likes of that era🤗. Convenient being able to watch reruns. Haven't decided if I prefer Frank or Bill as Friday's partner-???🤔.
I would like to be a very stealth detective and use the expertise wisely. Coming out alive and unharmed is no easy game to play. It may be essential to kill the guilty party to save my own life.
"I had just gotten back from lunch, and it looked like it was going to be another quiet afternoon..." OH NO, you didn't say the "Q" word, did you! What follows is on YOU, Sergeant Friday!
How true ! Sad fact is that tobacco companies were some of TV 's biggest sponsors in the 50s & 60s and they insisted that the actors do a lot of smoking. :-(
@@jubalcalif9100 yes they did . I remember a Adam 12 show and Malloy was in the coffee room at the station. Sitting there with I cigarette just rolling it around in the ashtray. Never took one hit .. yep peer pressure all right 🚬
@@heyoldman2003 Wow ! I don't recall that scene but there were many episodes of Adam-12 that I never saw. Even Andy Griffith could be seen smoking in at least two episodes of classic 60s sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show" ! Thanks for your follow up comment !! :-)
You know, Id like to laugh at that neighbor, as if she were simply a character. Problem is- she's spot on. She could have been pulled from a police bodycam video. Dragnet is the best.
This is still one of the best police dramas ever made and some of the best TV ever.
....and radio.
Yes. Great radio show!
The bank manager wasn’t example of a horrible boss and the lady who is giving orders to the cops to move her furniture what is a jack ass
Mabel was a real treat.....Jack had such a great sense of humor....thanks for these memories
Manager was a prick bastard
And cops have to treasure those moments of humor.
After all these yrs I still love Dragnet
Me too it's brilliant
Thanks......I listen to Dragnet RADIO shows daily. I know these episodes word for word. Nice to "see" the cast.
I have also saw every episode looking for a unviewed episode
When I listen to Dragnet Radio, I feel like I stepped back in time.
14:44 I love Ben Alexander, the actor who played Frank Smith. He was so natural and relaxed in how he moved on the stage in character, in contrast to the others who have a sort of 1950s stiffness we're used to seeing in anything from this era. The way he plops his hat on the couch, and then later when he sits in the chair facing away and then turns it, are just hilarious.
This is the funniest one I've come across so far. I like that security guard was right and the obnoxious manager wasn't.
Loved the humor... especially the security guard... and the old lady..lets smoke!
😂😂😂😂😂
Have you noticed how everyone in this series smokes like a train? I saw one scene when Joe Friday unwrapped a pack of (ABC - Aways Buy Chesterfield 's) Chesterfield's.
Most all the men of the 1950s smoked as they were WWII Veterans.
@@LesterMoore yep…and they’re all dead from lung cancer
@@raysmusic49or old age or whatever else causes death.
13:14 - Nice plug for Pierce Brothers.
I worked for them at the Van Nuys Boulevard location in the late 70s.
I like the quick eye glance Friday gives his partner(s) when in confusion or doubt
Thank you Film Detective. Thanks to people like you I don't have to watch the garbage that passes for TV programs today. I love these old shows. I wouldn't call them the good old days. We baby boomers were in the middle of the Viet Nam war. As I was growing up so many of the people would call the returning men baby killers and spit on them. It was a sad time for these men many of whom got drafted. Some left the country to Canada to avoid the draft. But, one of the great things were good TV shows. Thank you for sharing. Ms Michal 🙃☕
Great TV shows and good popular music. The crap they produce today is embarrassing.
@@sg-yq8pm Why don't you make yourself coherent next time, idiot! Your entire post makes no sense whatsoever. 😠😠😠😠😠
@@dariowiter3078 ..the "intellectual view".
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This is from the 1950s. America's full combat involvement in Vietnam was in the 60s.
Jonathan Hole, the bank manager, very prolific tv actor. Including 7 Dragnet Episodes.
The way Gibson, the bank detective grimaced when the bank manager told him to stay outside his office, was pure sketch comedy.
Gibson was hilarious.
Jack Webb grew up on Bunker Hill raised by a single mother in a rooming house, he knows The City.
My Dad loved Dragnet we would always watch it together when I was a little girl. The hand with the hammer at the end always scared me and I would run out of the room when it came on......lol
That hammer was so intense to me as a little kid.
Yes , there was something about that that spooked me too.. . I heard it was Joe himself that did that .. ?
LOL! I wasn't afraid of the hand with the hammer, and always had an impulse to want to wash the dirt and grease off of that hand so it would be clean!!!☺
I always wanted a press and mallet once I saw that. I used to think that the stone was soft, I knew that as I watched the Flintstones all the time and knew the difference between rocks and granite.
Actor Douglas Kennedy appeared in many movies. He was an adventurer star in one. Saw him in a Ma & Pa Kettle show. This show was a hoot.
Kennedy had a large body of work but sadly died of cancer at age 57 after filming three Hawaii Five-O episodes in 1972-73.
Years ago a friend got fired from a convenience store because the manager said she didn't try enough to stop a robbery. She got away from that kind of work and is now retired and living a good life. The manager later tried to stop another robbery. He's been dead for 38 years now. Losing your life over money isn't worth it.
This episode has great dialogue among all the players.
During another episode, where they were reviewing potential recruits, the same question came up. An applicant ran and hid when his store was getting robbed. He was able to give a description and car license plate number. The non-police reviewer of the candidates thought it was bad that he ran. Friday commented that in doing so, he saved his own life and had information that helped solve the case. Perspective, I guess.
did the manager die in the robbery>
I agree totally with you, Muffs, I'm glad that friend of yours didn't attempt to stop the robbery!
@@nancynancydrew8503 Well, Miss Nancy, Nancy, Drew, if he didn't die in the robbery, then the story didn't have much of a point, now did it?
16:30 Let's smoke it up !!!!! LMAO
" let's smoke it up! " 😅 Boy you sure don't hear that anymore.
loved this show as a kid. Its amazing how quickly they get the perps to confess..
Not enough time to beat the rap with only a half-hour show
He didn't confess .... You got nothing. he said.
My goodness, that lady and her furniture! 🤣🤣
I remember the VII trademark from my childhood. Soon as i seen the hand and the hammer striking the chisel I said to myself VII LOL. Funny how memory works even after 63 years.
I love Dragnet!!!!!!!
I love the eccentrics in this show.
The housewives in these are always wonderful.
Virginia Greg comes to mind
The housewives in those days were suppressed, in every episode it's always the female with a pent-up anger 🤪 26:02
Love the old footage of old time LA
It’s wonderful isn’t it?
THANK YOU FOR OLD TV SHOW
"Let's smoke it up" Lol !
john a. Gee I guess you’ve forgotten the 1950’s, 1960’s and even later, early television, that cigarette brands were major TV show sponsors? How could you forget how society was just 10 years after WWII. How TV was coming into middle America and the family gathered around and watched TV together? And the public was not yet warned that smoking was hazardous to their health. Don’t you remember? The history, how society, media, family values evolved or dissolved or changed? I’m sure if you think back you’ll remember those times and the history.
@@j.kaymetcalf-benton6600
Yes, I remember how families were back then -a man, a woman and children. Then the Vietnam war began and we began to question authority....and values. American society has been disintegrating ever since.
Amazing how it was, when I was young in the seventies in my first job, a guy I shares an office with would smoke two cigars a day, one in the morning and another in the afternoon
@@robertsullivan4773
I'd ask him politely to extinguish the ember.
good music and smoke. yesssssss
I just had to comment on the opening speech, because I live in L.A. " This is the city, Los Angeles, CA. It was Monday, January 25th. , it was warm in Los Angeles ". LOL. Um , unless you call 50 degrees and lower around Jan. 25th. warm , your not from L.A. Major blooper, but it was the 1950's . Enjoying this , thanks for posting...
I'm from the far north; 50 degrees in January is a heat wave!
@@MeowingKittyCat thanks for that. I commented on this 6 months ago so thanks for the reminder. Its now March 2021 , and it was about 41 degrees today in L.A. Don't tell me that's not cold..
@@bra8623 For March in California, yes, I would say that's cold! I'm in the northeast (way up north) and it's warmer than that here -- 53 degrees!
@@MeowingKittyCat Thanks for that and it's funny. When you say your way up north , I'm presuming Canada ? I spoke with someone in Minnesota where it can get 40 degrees below zero. I asked , " how do you folks stand living in such a cold climate in the winter" ? Their response was, " once you get a certain even 10 below zero, there is no difference between 10 below and 40 below, because cold is cold ". Anyway, stay safe..
@@bra8623 Close to Canada... when I first moved up here, you wouldn't believe how much I bundled up in the winter, but you get used to the cold after a while. Now, I don't even bother buttoning up my coat if it's more than 30 degrees. I don't bother with a hat and gloves (assuming I'm not going to be outside for hours) unless it goes down to 20 or lower. I'll wear warmer clothing for 15 below. When it gets that cold, you have the added bonus of hearing the snow squeak when you walk on it. 😊
Nice. I don't remember this one. If you it in all these commercials then you can Afford VOLUME. I have had neighbor charged as accessory for warning bandits.
" Let's smoke it up." Made me laugh.
They had a cigarette sponsor- Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield.
Smoking one now, but not a Chesterfield, a menthol.
can you imagine having to do all that work with the license? computers may be a hassle, but holy cow, i can't imagine life without them!
People made do with what they have at the time. Computers are overrated at times.
It's the "Amazing Transparent Man" working w/Friday!
It's good but once you hear the radio version it just seems more intriguing.
Tarts available at the kid's house. We're gonna score, Beavis!!!
Back when men still wore hats.
Amazing hours & hours of car checking can be done in seconds now!
That was more like Vaudeville. Brilliant episode because the comedy actually WORKS. Good tongue and cheek episode but I'm glad he didn't do that every week.
Uhm, "Dragnet" was made with the cooperation of the LAPD and was based on real cases (but, the names were changed to protect the innocent). It WAS a weekly series that ran for something like ten years-actually 8 in the 50s, plus 4 more starting in '67. The dryness is what makes it a cult classic.
I didn't care for this episode. The attempt at comedy just didn't work for this show.
@@shadowwolf7622 It was a change though. There were as you know some horrible tragic stories. A lot of crime back then.
11:00 The Boot licker's tearing up cuz he got Fridays card LoL 🤣
An unarmed man against a 12 Ga. shotgun? I would have given him the money, too! Money is insured. One blast in small space could kill 2 people. Jonathan Hole as the manager. LOL. That's the darts sign from the Big Hands episode. The Pickers would buy that sign. LOL!
Roger that !
And let’s smoke it up 👍🏼👍🏼oh yea . Based on true stories.you can’t make this stuff up 😎👍🏼👍🏼
Dragnet was sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes. Perhaps coincidentally, Chesterfield is also the name of a style of overstuffed couch, such as (I'm guessing) the couch the lady has the guys move around. Maybe a case of subliminal advertising?
@@dalehall7138 great observations. They did a lot of that back in the day. Though this was more obvious lol. But, film makers would put in a 1 or 2 second photo of popcorn or other snacks for movie houses. The idea was to trick the audience in to getting up and go to the snack bar. They don't do it now as it's illegal. I am really dating my age.
Ms Michal 😅🙃☕
@@oldgamerchick
"I am really dating my age"
You're going to be okay.
@@johna.4334 Thanks for the kind word 🙃☕💖🇺🇸
That poor abused Gibson I’ve had a boss or too like that 😬
Ain't that the truth!
Me too. Very briefly!
That "Boss" would never survive now HR would can him.
Yeah there was a young girl working at a convenience store that was robbed and she got fired because her boss felt she didn't do enough to stop it. At least she was alive to tell about it. He was only concerned about the $200 or so that was taken.
Muffs 55mercury Some people worry way to much over cash.. there are far more important things in life ...💉. Just kidding hahahaha
The Cat Lady just as bad as those Meddling Kids,I would gotten away with it LOL
Thought I’ve seen all the episodes, this was excellent❣️🎊🎉🥰🤗💝❤️Thank you for uploading🔥😘🎉
This in one of my favorite ones .. definitely not Silly 👍🏼
If stupidity was illegal, the prisons would be full to overflowing !! :-)
The bank manager played a part in a Highway Patrol episode.
Jonathan Hole repeats his role as "Mr. Allen" from the October 1952 radio episode.
I remember Hole from the "TWLIGHT ZONE" episode "The Mighty Casey", as a baseball team physician {"He had *me* fooled even without one."}.
I love Dragnet. Thanks :)
when they started doing the first season, they pulled the stories from the radio broadcast and adapted them for TV. As a true sin of concomitant, many of the extras also did the voices for the radio shows.
Joe: "You have steak here?"
Waitress: "Why yes, we do."
Joe: "You cook 'em well done?"
Waitress: "Yes."
Joe: "I want mine trimmed."
Waitress: "Trim off the fat and trim the steak from the bone?"
Joe:: "Just the fat, ma'am."
Clever!
this was a great episode. thank you.
They shoulda had Lt. Stoner in on that "smoke it up" session, dude.😂
The bank manager was a stuck up meanie!
Great character actor though he was on The Andy Griffith show many times I don't know his name but he plays the part really good.
Miss Harford belongs in an insane asylum not living in that neighborhood I would be more fearful of her than the bank robber.
The bank manager
1) Stupid - the bank security must be allowed to carry a 44;
2) blind as a bat - is color blind;
3) Very effeministic; and
4) Does not have managerial ability.
The mean and evil cuss does not have respect for anyone and must be terminated immediately.
Another episode with oddball witnesses - the bank manager & 'guard', then the lady who wanted the detectives to re-arrange her lounge
Baskerville22 Based on true story’s .. I bet those folks were in the case files . People are funny 😎
Reminds me of my Mother in law, God rest her soul. Even wears the same apron. She blabbed like this to anyone who would listen.
heh heh heh heh heh
These clowns are normal compared to what lives in California today.
About min 15. I lived through a similar scenario one time. Love Dragnet.
I dont think cops now would be moving couches around at the whim of someone they are questioning
Don't touch the sign. Folk art sells big!
Originally broadcast on March 24, 1955, and adapted from an October 26, 1952 radio script.
Oct 26 1955 the day I was born yes my birthday i enjoy these old shows
@@oldjake912 Happy Birthday in 18 days woohoo ☺😁👏👏💃🎂
I just saw that sign a few shows back .. they were checking a suspected muderer working on the board walk . He was clean 😎
Title of the episode is "Big Toys"
The head of the LAPD Robbery Division is Lt. Stoner? Friday should begin with him.🤔
“Uh-Huh!..Right...Uh-Huh...Yes Sir...What was that?...You don’t say....Right!”
Ben Alexander (Officer Smith) passed away on July 5, 1969 (age 58) in Hollywood, California, USA.
@49jubilee your sister probably died from alcohol
@@dwightpowell6673
Lol !
58 ? That's not all that old. I looked him online but can't find a cause of death. Though I did see that he's buried in Hawaii. Poor fellow.... :-(
I like Smith😞😔
He was my fav partner for Smokin Joe ..RIP Brother
At the beginning of the Video Sgt. Friday states the date as Monday January 25th. At 13:17 into the video Lt. Spooner is pointing at a calendar that clearly shows January 25th is a Sunday. Not the first time this happens! 😀
....it took 8 HOURS to go through the license plate numbers! Today, it would take 6 seconds on the computer!!!! My, how technology has changed to world!
And the DMV is STILL a nightmare of inefficiency & incompetence.
There's a Dragnet episode where a computer is used to check license numbers. Stacks of punch cards are used.
That's y they invented the computer
This is better than the crap on TV these days
The robber wore loafers. Speaking of loafers, how's your cousin?
One NYC police officer once stated that the most realistic cop show on TV was Barney Miller! I mention this because some people here have said that this episode was set up as comedy.
I believe real cops have to deal with this stuff all the time. People are truly weird out there!
You an ant?
Enjoy this show so much .
That old lady is crazy
Joe had a comedy streak going here.
Love em smoking it up. Haha
In the 70's my dad would go for his physical his doctor and my dad would be smoking cigarettes in the doctors office. A very different era
Ha that dart sign I can see the American Pickers guys paying bid $$ now for it !
16:44 This scene caught me by surprise!
Very funny laughed alot
"smokem up?
...Matt NY
Gibson: I wonder if I could have a card too.
Allen: You don't need one.
😂😂😂
LIGHT EM IF YOU GOT THEM 😁🙂
Sergeant Friday do you ever get a chance to eat when you have a little bit of time off?!'
He. Sure took the time to smoke!
Thanks for posting this video. I can't believe how lame these old TV episodes are.
I felt so sorry for Mr. Gibson and wanted to strangle Mr. Allen🤨☹
A quiet afternoon. Think again Joe.
Oh the days when everyone lit up !.
This character actress (14:08) is the best part of the episode!
Poor Gibson, at least he got a card.
Poor Gibson, he's what we called a Buff. Couldn't make the cut as a P.O., but tries so hard
Hope he has a permit for that lemonade stand lol
JOE FRIDAY meets hyacinth bucket
Isn't it pronounced "bouquet" ?? :-)
Man Floyd the barber was a hardass bank manager!
thats not Floyd
Jonathan Hole a character actor from the 50’s to 1990. Lots and lots of westerns.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Realistically portrayed citizens/criminals/law enforcement officials. Enjoy viewing those automobiles/police equipment/interior of building & the? likes of that era🤗. Convenient being able to watch reruns. Haven't decided if I prefer Frank or Bill as Friday's partner-???🤔.
I would like to be a very stealth detective and use the expertise wisely. Coming out alive and unharmed is no easy game to play. It may be essential to kill the guilty party to save my own life.
i'm surprised that they didn't make the cigarette scene a full blown commercial, which happened in programs from the 50's
He was caught counting du monet!
Ya let's smoke it out... 😂
"I had just gotten back from lunch, and it looked like it was going to be another quiet afternoon..."
OH NO, you didn't say the "Q" word, did you!
What follows is on YOU, Sergeant Friday!
They REALLY Pushed Cigarettes on Folks back in the old days
Remember in those days cigarette makers sponsored many programs. They could afford it, after all…
It's like an ad for smoking cigarettes
How true ! Sad fact is that tobacco companies were some of TV 's biggest sponsors in the 50s & 60s and they insisted that the actors do a lot of smoking. :-(
@@jubalcalif9100 yes they did . I remember a Adam 12 show and Malloy was in the coffee room at the station. Sitting there with I cigarette just rolling it around in the ashtray. Never took one hit .. yep peer pressure all right 🚬
@@heyoldman2003 Wow ! I don't recall that scene but there were many episodes of Adam-12 that I never saw. Even Andy Griffith could be seen smoking in at least two episodes of classic 60s sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show" ! Thanks for your follow up comment !! :-)
Let’s smoke it out!
🚬😂
6:26 - I was disappointed he didn't say "Don't call me 'Shirley'"
Oh but I wanted to see Mrs. Fields in her disgraceful sun suit.
I wanted to see the police make Mr. Fields raise his trouser leg to show the scar above his knee. 😁
One guy to pick up all that cash?
I do love these old ones ..But way too many commercials this isn’t prime time ABC
I do not watch the Commercialized Shows.
I haven’t watch tv in 20 years 👍🏼 just used it as a example 😎
@@heyoldman2003 me too. To much low budget garbage.
I get nasty notes from my phone company about watching so many shows on UA-cam 😅.
Ms Michal 🙃☕
I’m sick if 2020 I prefer the old days ... and these shows bring it all back 👍🏼👍🏼
I too was surprised at how many commercials there were !!
You know, Id like to laugh at that neighbor, as if she were simply a character. Problem is- she's spot on. She could have been pulled from a police bodycam video. Dragnet is the best.