Friday enlists the help of a bank security guard to catch a robber. Director: Jack Webb Writer: Jack Webb Starring: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Olan Soule, Vic Perrin
If you like Dragnet, watch the movie "He Walks By Night." From that movie, Dragnet germinated in Jack Webb's brilliant brain. He plays a forensics lab guy in the movie but you can see the beginning of the police procedural technique that he would later incorporate into the Dragnet Series. Long live Badge 714.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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 😅🙃☕
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.
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.
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.
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
....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!
That scene in the neighbour lady's house with the furniture, cigarettes, and telephone.... simply hilarious. I've never laughed so much during a Dragnet show before. LOL
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!
The bank manager, Jonathan Hole, played a nihilist thug in the episode "Black Gospel" of the radio show "I Was A Communist for the FBI". He was 100x more of a jerk in that.
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.
The worst case Friday ever had when 397 came in, followed closely buy a 299...then it happened....a 456 fell on his desk, followed by two 615's. No sooner had he dealt with those, when a 300, O28, 4-12. 9/60, 444, 91/38 all came in simultaneously...this was too much and Friday had to take sick leave....when he returned, they were all still on his desk'......nobody could remember what they were...until a 34/99-32/412 solved the case!
We are so done as america... FRB. FBI. Hhhmmn, That just spelled it right out. Even this show was a "Conditioning/ Acclimation Device". That is exactly what TV was designed to do...now the hand held computers have taken the youth completely over... Ease it in, slowly, that way your cooking without even realizing it.
Amen. I remember when the 6 o clock news was the end of the TV shows for the day. They signed of with the flag and the Star Spangled Banner. Then they slowly started having programming lasting longer and did away with the the flag and song. After that is was all down hill. I don't watch much TV that is modern. Especially so called reality programs. Ms Michal 🙃☕
@@oldgamerchick That would be referred to as "Grooming". Acclimating the future generations to a false trust in the medium of Television (...or "Tell a Vision"). "Propaganduh". "The Lethal weapon of Mass Stupidity." Now you children are holding that weapon in a condensed size, within their little hands, targetted directly into the naive unlearned minds. And "YOU Parents", are presenting it to them. And what chance do your little ones have ?
@@bignoseharry6561 my little ones are grown thanks be to God. I am going to be 66 this summer I have watched all this going on from when I was growing up. I think I was 12 when I saw our first TV set. I don't watch TV because it's all garbage now days. Thankfully my daughter doesn't allow my grandchildren watch TV all the time either. She is always attending various festivals as she is living in Germany. They go hiking and other outings. My son isn't married and has no children. He's a good hardworking man. I am proud of my children they both served in the Army and have Honourable Discharges and good conduct medals as well as other medals. My daughter was a Veterinarian Tech and my son was a tank driver. So please point your finger else where as I and my late husband did well raising our children. 🙃☕
@@heyoldman2003 I think I may have played Pac-Man once or twice in my life that would be about the extent of my gaming experience. Oh wait I did play Mario Brothers something to do with ice and carts Mario Kart...very brief time frame though. Research: Commonwealth of Nations. Read that shit Bro. And hang your head in a moment of disbelief. Everything You thought You knew as Truth ? Nope ! One Big Fkn Lie ! America ? The Free ? Ha ha ha ha ! We are all, still British Owned. The Guns we possess, are th he last line of our implied Freedom. But that is being slow but certain, dismantled. One day at a time. Incre-"mental"-ly. A HUGE "mind" fk is occurring in america. Ok, I am finished here.
MEANIES DON'T GET VERY FAR WITH THEIR ATTITUDE THERE ARE SOME BANK MANAGERS WHO HATE SEEING MOTHERS COMING INTO THE BANK WITH THEIR WELL MANNERED KIDS WHEN MOM SAYS TAKE A SEAT THEY TAKE THEIR SEAT
Actually they had computers then. They even showed the old punch cards running through the machines, but they were nowhere close to being as efficient as what we have now
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. 😊
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 !! :-)
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.
Poor ole Mr Gilbert, so missused. Then go over and rearrange a ladys house and get your SMIKE ON. wonder if she was smoking weed before the po po showed up.? However she did get them to give her a cigerette.
I wish I would go to someone’s house and they ask me to rearrange their furniture…. Ain’t happening. Unless you can give me a good reason but her craziness… no!
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
16:30 Let's smoke it up !!!!! LMAO
If you like Dragnet, watch the movie "He Walks By Night." From that movie, Dragnet germinated in Jack Webb's brilliant brain. He plays a forensics lab guy in the movie but you can see the beginning of the police procedural technique that he would later incorporate into the Dragnet Series. Long live Badge 714.
good movie that
You mean "He Walked By Night?"
Sounds good, thanks!
Nitpicking Mordechi, nitpicking!!! 🙄🙄🙄🤫🤫🤫🤭🤭🤭😑😑😑😲😲
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.
Jack Webb grew up on Bunker Hill raised by a single mother in a rooming house, he knows The City.
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.
This is the funniest one I've come across so far. I like that security guard was right and the obnoxious manager wasn't.
Jonathan Hole, the bank manager, very prolific tv actor. Including 7 Dragnet Episodes.
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?
Back when men still wore hats.
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.
13:14 - Nice plug for Pierce Brothers.
I worked for them at the Van Nuys Boulevard location in the late 70s.
I love Dragnet!!!!!!!
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.
I like the quick eye glance Friday gives his partner(s) when in confusion or doubt
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!
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.
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.
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
It's good but once you hear the radio version it just seems more intriguing.
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.
" let's smoke it up! " 😅 Boy you sure don't hear that anymore.
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 !
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!
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 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.
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.
I dont think cops now would be moving couches around at the whim of someone they are questioning
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.
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.
Very funny laughed alot
"smokem up?
...Matt NY
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.
My goodness, that lady and her furniture! 🤣🤣
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
Ha that dart sign I can see the American Pickers guys paying bid $$ now for it !
"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
The robber wore loafers. Speaking of loafers, how's your cousin?
....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
After all these yrs I still love Dragnet
Me too it's brilliant
That scene in the neighbour lady's house with the furniture, cigarettes, and telephone.... simply hilarious. I've never laughed so much during a Dragnet show before. LOL
It was funny when the lady said lets smoke it up.
Ms Michal 😅🙃☕
Thought I was watching reefer madness 2
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Comedy gold.
Yeah and I wish I could go back to this time!
Why did they bring that third guy to interview the nutty woman with a furniture fixation?
FBI
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.
11:00 The Boot licker's tearing up cuz he got Fridays card LoL 🤣
The head of the LAPD Robbery Division is Lt. Stoner? Friday should begin with him.🤔
JOE FRIDAY meets hyacinth bucket
Isn't it pronounced "bouquet" ?? :-)
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?
Don't touch the sign. Folk art sells big!
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."}.
The Cat Lady just as bad as those Meddling Kids,I would gotten away with it LOL
Tarts available at the kid's house. We're gonna score, Beavis!!!
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?
Go watch season 2 episode 28 for the first appearance of the "Darts" sign, lol
I knew I saw it before 👍🏼
The bank manager, Jonathan Hole, played a nihilist thug in the episode "Black Gospel" of the radio show "I Was A Communist for the FBI". He was 100x more of a jerk in that.
Wasn't he Milburn Drysdale's competition?
Love em smoking it up. Haha
This in one of my favorite ones .. definitely not Silly 👍🏼
If stupidity was illegal, the prisons would be full to overflowing !! :-)
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.
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…
This is the Goofiest Dragnet i.e. security manager, episode I've ever seen.
The worst case Friday ever had when 397 came in, followed closely buy a 299...then it happened....a 456 fell on his desk, followed by two 615's. No sooner had he dealt with those, when a 300, O28, 4-12. 9/60, 444, 91/38 all came in simultaneously...this was too much and Friday had to take sick leave....when he returned, they were all still on his desk'......nobody could remember what they were...until a 34/99-32/412 solved the case!
" 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.
I felt so sorry for Mr. Gibson and wanted to strangle Mr. Allen🤨☹
We are so done as america...
FRB.
FBI.
Hhhmmn,
That just spelled it right out.
Even this show was a "Conditioning/
Acclimation Device".
That is exactly what TV was designed to do...now the hand held computers have taken the youth completely over...
Ease it in, slowly, that way your cooking without even realizing it.
Amen. I remember when the 6 o clock news was the end of the TV shows for the day. They signed of with the flag and the Star Spangled Banner. Then they slowly started having programming lasting longer and did away with the the flag and song. After that is was all down hill. I don't watch much TV that is modern. Especially so called reality programs. Ms Michal 🙃☕
@@oldgamerchick
That would be referred to as "Grooming".
Acclimating the future generations to a false trust in the medium of
Television (...or
"Tell a Vision").
"Propaganduh".
"The Lethal weapon of Mass Stupidity."
Now you children are holding that weapon in a condensed size, within their little hands, targetted directly into the naive unlearned minds.
And "YOU Parents", are presenting it to them.
And what chance do your little ones have ?
@@bignoseharry6561 my little ones are grown thanks be to God. I am going to be 66 this summer I have watched all this going on from when I was growing up. I think I was 12 when I saw our first TV set. I don't watch TV because it's all garbage now days. Thankfully my daughter doesn't allow my grandchildren watch TV all the time either. She is always attending various festivals as she is living in Germany. They go hiking and other outings. My son isn't married and has no children. He's a good hardworking man. I am proud of my children they both served in the Army and have Honourable Discharges and good conduct medals as well as other medals. My daughter was a Veterinarian Tech and my son was a tank driver. So please point your finger else where as I and my late husband did well raising our children. 🙃☕
Right with you old gamer 👍🏼
@@heyoldman2003
I think I may have played Pac-Man once or twice in my life that would be about the extent of my gaming experience. Oh wait I did play Mario Brothers something to do with ice and carts Mario Kart...very brief time frame though.
Research:
Commonwealth of Nations.
Read that shit Bro.
And hang your head in a moment of disbelief.
Everything You thought You knew as Truth ?
Nope !
One Big Fkn Lie !
America ? The Free ?
Ha ha ha ha !
We are all, still British Owned.
The Guns we possess, are th he last line of our implied Freedom.
But that is being slow but certain, dismantled. One day at a time.
Incre-"mental"-ly.
A HUGE "mind" fk is occurring in america.
Ok, I am finished here.
Poor Gibson, he's what we called a Buff. Couldn't make the cut as a P.O., but tries so hard
MEANIES DON'T GET VERY FAR WITH THEIR ATTITUDE THERE ARE SOME BANK MANAGERS WHO HATE SEEING MOTHERS COMING INTO THE BANK WITH THEIR WELL MANNERED KIDS WHEN MOM SAYS TAKE A SEAT THEY TAKE THEIR SEAT
This was BC/Before Computers. Feed the 3 #s into a computer today and you'd find the car easier--maybe.
Actually they had computers then. They even showed the old punch cards running through the machines, but they were nowhere close to being as efficient as what we have now
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.
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 !!
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 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. 😊
Too many commercials, couldn't follow the storyline
Yes, I concur 😎. Just plane greedy I think . One , Mabey two , but to fill it up like that ? M ...Later ...much later ....
Joe had a comedy streak going here.
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. 😁
i'm surprised that they didn't make the cigarette scene a full blown commercial, which happened in programs from the 50's
I know Gibson is kind of a goof but here is a bank manager who really "cares" about his employees. Lol
But Gibson was right. The car was a green Ford like he said, and the numbers he reported from the license plate was what lead them to the suspect.
Dwane Anderson Amen !
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 !! :-)
Should have arrested the neighbor for obstruction of justice.
One guy to pick up all that cash?
Wow lady neighbour was one crazy lady,( great acting but OTT).
LIGHT EM IF YOU GOT THEM 😁🙂
I like Frank better than the guy who replaced him later. Anyone else?
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"
It's the "Amazing Transparent Man" working w/Friday!
POOR Leon!!!!
Wow "bandits" when was the last time we heard that description?
Johnny Quest,
sort of...
was he driving a black trans am
😂 there is actually a crip neighborhood on the East side of Long Beach called "blacc bandits crips "
Or heard the word ´hoodlum´.
@@bignoseharry6561 no burt Reynolds late 1970s
And the crazy next door neighbor lady was found guilty of obstruction and sentenced to 6 months probation.
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.
Push him! Push him! 13:47
Lmao 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😭🤣🤣✌
Not gonna lie that pool looked very refreshing😁
The security is too stupid to be security.
No grown man behaves like that.
Aren’t anyone they interview normal people?
they were the new normal...
if you work with the public for any length of time you find these people ARE normal, more or less
Craig Laughlin I never realized until today how bad TV was in the Old Days!:)
16:44 This scene caught me by surprise!
They shoulda had Lt. Stoner in on that "smoke it up" session, dude.😂
Poor ole Mr Gilbert, so missused. Then go over and rearrange a ladys house and get your SMIKE ON. wonder if she was smoking weed before the po po showed up.? However she did get them to give her a cigerette.
A free cigarette at that.
I love the eccentrics in this show.
“Uh-Huh!..Right...Uh-Huh...Yes Sir...What was that?...You don’t say....Right!”
I like these shows but they sure do earn their reputation for being corny.
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.
I wish I would go to someone’s house and they ask me to rearrange their furniture….
Ain’t happening. Unless you can give me a good reason but her craziness… no!
When they put it back, the settee is facing a piano, not a television.
I love Dragnet. Thanks :)
And they say jack webb didnt have a sence of humor.