Dragnet S07E28 The Big War
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
This episode of Dragnet should be a compulsory part of every high school students curriculum!!!
Lol why, so all the kids can laugh at the old slang and totally unbelievable police officers? Sure that would be fun!!🤭🤣
I agree, and it's no laughing matter at all.
Highway patrol another favorite of mine. Terrific story lines, great action and storytelling.
I love these old police stories. Dragnet is my favorite, but Broderick Crawford of Highway Patrol is a great show too.
I prefer Highway patrol. But the best cop show of the 50's was M-Squad.
Same here but missed seeing them most of the time because my dad made me do my high school homework after dinner time.
Naked City had a quality that couldn't be duplicated. Never been to New York but know the city from watching all the Naked City episodes. Like Dragnet it was done on location in real places.
I heard Webb and Crawford were a couple.......
Broderick Crawford is the reason I don't watch that show. To me, he's just not very convincing in any part I've seen him played. If he's in a movie or show, I won't watch it.
Every actor in Dragnet and the old "The Untouchables" and so many other old shows were very good actors.
Thanks for posting these programs they are great 👍
LOVE the old Dragnet episodes.
I grew up with 50s t v-------Boy really squares-ville-----but trippy now-----seeing this footage of L A--in the 50s is like looking through a time machine----Thanks a lot---mucho apreciato
This has to be a top 10 episode.!
I love the weapon show and tell. Can you imagine the same scene done today? Everything up to a flame thrower and then the captain would send out a councillor to talk about their feelings
Watching from North Carolina 2024
Watching from Waterford township, Michigan.
My FAVORITE part of these shows, when the announcer says..." Lady and gentlementhe show you're about to see is true".
or something like that lol
I especially like this around 10:42 to mom: "... What do you want?? Hey, don't you have anything [for me] to eat??" MY mother's response is clear: "Yes, Dear, Sweetheart, son. I WANT you to bend over this chair. I already have YOUR sandwich right here in the POINTED tip of these shoes!!"
I once had to deal with a kid just like this one, wealthy parents every advantage, his own car etc but in the area where he lived if we had a problem, wild party, drugs, illegal street racing, teens in possession of alcohol, you name it this kid was at the bottom of it, one night we responded to the scene of a one car accident, the vehicle had left the road at a high rate of speed, and struck a huge old oak tree, the single occupant had been ejected and was laying some distance from the car, one look and we all recognized this kids jeep, after the investigation was complete and the remains sent to the morgue, my Lt decided that since I had met the kids parents before, I should make the notification, I went to the kids house, and got there at 3 am, the kids father went ballistic, saying his kid was not at home and was probably at a friend's house, and why was I persecuting his kid, when I told him that his son was deceased, he really went off demanding to know which one of us shot him, when I explained that he had not been shot, he demanded to know why we were chasing him, when I explained that there had been no pursuit and that no skid marks at the scene, and no evidence that his son had tried to avoid the collision, he still refused to believe me, as I had to take him to the morgue to make the identification of his son's remains, he talked non-stop about how lousy the police were to his kid and how he would have all of our badges, it was the longest drive of my life
spoiled brat. TOO KIDS don't get love and attention. Then they go bad. Some parents feel school is free day care. Some think giving them a tablet or cell phone so they leave em alone. Which they d have compenacy test be a parent.
Typical A hole of a parent
And folks wonder why kids go rotten. Like father like son
The sad thing is there really are people like Bob's mom.
Especially after their gang-banger kid gets offed.
A lot of them,he never did a wrong thing I his beautiful life,my baby
Yep, karen's and libtards everywhere.
They just didn't understand bobby, that was the problem. LOL
I have a neighbor who grew up with parents like these. The oldest and the youngest ones threw their lives away. The middle one was a four time loser.
I saw this one ! Good Job.👏🏾🙋🏽
That Bob's mom is so naive. She must be from Mars.
Women are from VENUS. MEN are from Mars.
@@richardclay
And Bob's mom is from planet Claire.
@@johna.4334Rock Lobster!!
If I complained about my mom's soup like he did, I would have been wearing it then she would have gone on a rage filled tirade for 15 minutes.
Mrs. Barson: "Bob isn't spoiled." Oh really? The way she dutifully took away his soup after he said it was too cold said that she catered to his every whim every minute of the day. Sounds like Bob was a bored, spoiled brat back in Nebraska who thought he could get away with anything.
@@patriciahayes7315 ; If I was Joe Friday, I would have said,
"Jumpy has a mother too, and he's also a good boy, just ask his mother, she'll tell ya'".
Ur lucky, if it was my mom I would be wearing it and she would rage for about 3 days
Treating my mother like that in any way would have never been tolerated. Not for a second.
And you’d be alive unlike bob lol
love this show
Don't be too harsh to Jack Webb's character. He may have been matter-of-fact about everything and seemingly unsympathetic, but he was working 10-hour days and under tremendous pressure; additionally, he was a largely HONEST COP. That is rare in many shows. DRAGNET was a pioneer; first on radio, then on TV.
Who's being harsh on him?
Every day Sgt Friday sees the worst in human nature. The most cynical people are old cops and old lawyers.
Why would anyone have problems with the Joe Friday character?
hourlynewscaster ....working ten hour days and under pressure???...lol
Huh? He's an actor
Even Friday was disgusted with it at the end; watch him closely
I love this show
If that blonde girlfriend was 16, the casting director must have been Ray Charles.My best guess------25.
16 going on 26. No wonder I was almost in trouble when I was 18 !
People used to look older. There weren't really clothes designed for young people, or hairstyles or anything to distinguish them. Vsauce did a youtube on i.
Girls looks and voice put her about 30, 😂
Unfortunately, my youngest brother is treated the same way by my mother he is 50 years old still lives with my parents has spent several years in prison although my mother says it wasn't his fault, he broke in someone's house took everything he could and tried to kill a woman she says his friends got him involved he is now drunken drug addict waiting at home for are father's (who recently passed away ) life insurance to pay-off to my mother knowing she will give it to him I just hope he doesn't OD because like that boys' mother and like she always has she'll blame everyone but him
Parents like this woman are the same today.
Bad parents not my son he's a good boy LOL
The actor who played the captain in this episode played the commanding officer on Adam -12.
As well as appearances as one of the captains in the '60's Dragnet - Art Ballinger was the actor's name. (Great example of his work, S2 Ep2 of Dragnet from 1967, "The Shooting Board", which put Joe Friday on the hot seat - a great episode!)
Unfortunately, this reminds me of my manipulative brother and my mother's enabling him. I referred him to three jobs decades ago. He stole from all of them. My mother wanted me to find him another job. I said, "Fat chance." My brother was involved with associates in narcotics. He died going over an overpass into rush hour traffic. I was told it was suicide. He had been arrested for burglary and had another charge where he was released both times. I asked why he wasn't still in jail. He said he had a deal with the DA. You do the math. The crazy part about it - My mother was a cop.
That was prob why he was not in jail.... your mother a cop.
@@johnstudd4245 You are right on his trouble early on in life. She got him out of a theft situation I know of and I said he should have answered for what he did and she came back on me like how could I say such a thing. But in the latter case I mentioned, she had no clout being retired and sick. You got something against cops?
@@michaelmorrow7131 No I don't, I hate all this nonsense going on right now. But I know that the law enforcement and justice department community sometimes "lookout for each other"(including family members) in some ways that they should not be doing. That is just human nature, people you know and work with on a daily basis can get occasional preferential treatment.
@@johnstudd4245 Thanks for your reply. Yes, I know first hand that they do. But there are also those who report when it's done inside the Departments. That's why I believe it's not a good idea to do so. Even in my job, which is investigations in private business, no one should be compromising their position as it can lead to problems.
"If a mother can't believe her son, who can she believe?".... I told my mother some stuff when I was 17 y/o. She believed it --- for a nanosecond. Then said: "You lying little bastard. you better be in this house like I told you!"
The actress is Natalie Parks, who played Candy Matson in the radio series about a woman private detective.
It would be great if the parents could be prosecuted as accessories
Why?
In some parts of the US they are… look at the little psycho-bastard in Michigan who shot up a school with a rifle his parents bought for him. His parents found out they were going to be prosecuted along with him for supplying the gun, so they went on the run. They were caught and all 3 are going to end up in prison for a very long time, unless they get a sharp attorney to get their charges reduced on a technicality, or as part of a plea deal.
If the police went to my mom and told her I was part of a gang...the cops would be the least of my worries! I miss you mom!
@iamMWH - I'll bring flowers... you would do the same for me. Even at 5' 2", 120 lbs, my Mom, that little woman, would PLANT me!! (smiles)
That’s one major reason why the youth of today is so entitled, clueless and gullible parents. Everyone of them needs one of those old time butt woopins that we all learned valuable lessons from
My dad would have beaten me senseless for any sign of gang activity.
My favorite comeback to parents that say "My Kid is a Good Kid / or my kid wouldn't do that / etc". Ask them is there anything "You / The Parent" would not share with their kid or their parent that they / the Parent did as a Kid?" I have yet hear a Reply of "NO". So if you the Parent know they wern't the perfect kid then rethink the Mini Me attitude.
Don't you just love the my child can't do any wrong bit?
I remember there was a kid on my street kind of like that and one time the punk got into a fight with me, now in the 50's if the kids acted out any adult could yell at them, heck they could smack them, well I was a well built kid, not too tall, or necessarily big, but I was lean and pretty strong, and I put the kid to the ground, my dad came by as I did, asked for my story, I told him that the kid tried to steal the money I earned working at his garage. Any way a few of the local kids, who saw what happened, and they backed me a few were my friends but the others really weren't really pals, but all of them backed me, my dad gave the kid a good smacking, the kids parents came over later after hearing that 8 other boys backed me up, they said, "Our son would never do that, hes too good, your son must be lying." Now I wasn't always the perfect son, I got a few times the belt from my dad, but I wasn't gonna let other kids lie for me, if I did something I always was taught you own up to it. My dad knew that, but he made sure I was telling the truth by giving me a good questioning and checking with the nearby kids, and I was telling the truth. The kid ended up learning his lesson when I broke his jaw after he tried to steal from me again.
Fenton Hardy Damn right sir! Thanks for sharing your story.
Yeah then they get mad at the cops for not stopping it🙄🙄🙄 ridiculous unreasonable people
And the cops are to “blame” 🙄 I’m the parents eyes
They just didn't understand her son that was the whole trouble. LOL.
Had she only learned the correct procedure for warming soup…..this could have all been avoided.
Classic answer. I know my child is telling me the truth.
Can you imagine a kid wanting to get married as soon as they graduate from high school? Really a different world back then
Here in the heart land kids still marry that young
Back in those days, girls were encouraged to marry right out of highschool because they needed to be "provided for" by a man. The boys were expected to go to college or get a job right out of highschool. Those were different times
That Robert's mom is a nerve wracking woman
She is,and it's everybody else's problem not her s
School teachers gotta put up w/parents like this constantly. I know more ex teachers who quit from frustration, spending more time trying to control class behaviors/distractions than teaching the kids who wanted to learn.
When you help start a fight with weapons and it escalates self defense doesn't apply.
My Mom would have kicked my ass and poured the soup on my head, if I had of caused the Cops to be coming to the house, growing up during the "60s and '70s, so I had to be slick and craftier than ol' Bob!
I love dragnet 😊😊❤❤❤❤😊😊
Do you still hear them Clarice?
If only Sgt. Friday and his colleagues had been around to stop that horrible gang fight in "Anchorman" we might still be living in a world free of 24 hour news programs!
I actually met a mom like that!! My 9 yr. old son and 2 of his wanna be hoodlum friends got popped for shoplifting at the local baseball card shop. The one kids mom said she'd kill 'em..Good answer. The other mom was just like this book. Me? Called my cousin who was a Detective in the next community. He had my son and his one friend " arrested", jailed and put in a holding cell. Fast forward to today: My son is a linesman for a major sports team, his friend has a pretty solid job . The 3rd kid? Who the mother refused to contemplate HER son being a thief..he such a bum. Seriously.
"Jumpy" was 27 when this was shot, "Robert Barson" 21. Looks like Jack didn't want to mess around with real teenagers on the show.
Of course not. They have to spend a half a day in school, which cuts into your shooting time. They can't work late either.
Then as now, most teenage roles in television are played by adults in their twenties.
I'm a lifelong member of the over the hill gang.we get together every Tuesday nite to do quilting!
You should listen to some of the older Dragnet radio episodes, where Joe spends some time with his mother - fresh home baked goods and coffee or tea as well while you quilt and play cribbage :)
"That won't do youngster!"
The mother blaming the cops? No wonder the kid wound up like he did
Or blame back masking on records?
Today, it's "stray bullets" and "random gunfire".
Good grief. Haven't seen a old crank handle pencil sharpener in 45 years.....
The gang leader's mom has gotta be a liberal. Friday warns her that her boy's in a gang, and they're getting ready to have a rumble - she poo poos him and says she believes her boy that they're wrong - her boy is killed, and it's Friday's fault, LOL
Sounds like a conservative.
@@redradiodog
You sound like a far-left progressive. How's the Bern doin'?
@@johna.4334 Better a left winger with an education than an illiterate Trumper that lives on Facebook conspiracy theories.
Your fucked up!
❤ love dragnet ❤
Bob. Son of the year.
Hey Friday was a sergeant. The badge 714 in the opening credits which was his badge number had Lieutenant on it
I understand in the later part of the series in the 50s, Joe was promoted. When the show came back on the 60s, I don't know why Joe was again a sergeant.
PlasmaCoolantLeak It was Jack Webb’s idea. Lieutenants are almost entirely supervisory in the LAPD. In order for him to remain main character and be out investigating crimes he chose to make his character a Sergeant again
John Siebelink what about “Lieutenant” (Peter Falk) Colombo LAPD? He is a homicide detective and is alway out in da hood doing investigations....
While the series was being developed, Joe Friday was, for a short time, made a lieutenant. But since the elevation in rank necessitated a step back from being on the street, he was made a sergeant once again. Joe Friday remained a sergeant for the remainder of the series, both radio and television. (I have all of the more than 300+ episodes of radio DRAGNET).
Pre-law suit days when cops were allowed to get the last word.
Rest in ☮️ Jack Webb.
Did you know that Jack Webb was given a cops funeral when he died? And LA retired his number- 714. Thats something!!!
Where's Car 54 when you need them, anyway?
Missus Barson's probly been using sedatives for decades!
Sounds like self defense, anyway!
Only way he couldn't plead self defense is they were all somewhere they shouldn't have been for a unlawful purpose. That's why he only got manslaughter.
James Dean, "Rebel Without a Cause !"
Jack Webb is the same guy in real life. I saw him in a movie with Janet Lee and he had no time for her, only serious stuff. He's great.
Stan Freeberg did some good spoofs about this show.
Good One!
of course when we were going to "rumble", we did come with more than our fist ,,,
This subject of this episode is common. The 1960s Dragnet dealt with it and little changed. Parents who are uninvolved, uninterested and unbelievably clueless.
I listened to this episode as a radio show, I didn’t even know it was a film!
I am surprised how similar these issues are today, in 2023, the only difference is todays kids have guns.
Mrs. Barton's disease started in the 50s. It runs rampant today. There doesn't seem to be a cure for it.
No, permissive parents are not a new thing. It's been a problem since ancient times.
@@dimasgirl2749 Yes, but the size of the problem is what impacts society. Like, crime has always been around but the size of the crime in Mexico, for example, versus the minuscule amount in, say, Norway is a deciding factor in judgment. You can't neglect proportion.
GEE WIZ!!! THEM COPPER'S ARE PRETTY SHARP AYE??🤔🤔😂😂
These juveniles are now 80 years old LoL
I'd love to know who writes these prologues...interesting fuur sur.
Should have tried them all as adults.
What was a J car, that was mentioned picking up people after the gang fight?
Youth always put too much into issues, that they would laugh at as an adult. Sad and painful.
An all white gang called the Black Tigers, lol.
Well, if they were black, someone would scream “racist”...and panthers and jaguars are black, but tigers by description cannot be all one color. It’s just their way of changing the real gang names.
The stories are true, but the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 👮♂️
Miss Kim what the hell are you talking about about...besides nothing...racist??...lol
@@jamesvickers9476
Shut your pie hole; Miss Kim speaks the truth.
How'd she get the soup that hot that fast ..damn
And after the fight.....what a woosey. How did it happen? You didn't try to stop it.
Yeah no microwaves then
More remarkable how it got cold so fast.
The hysterical woman was prescribed the appropriate sedatives....💤
16 y/o, 10th grade in high school, cliques/gangs/bullies. It spills into worksites. It's the cultural norm now.
back in the days when us boys fought with our fist, like men ,,, different role models, maybe ?? we need more john wayne ,, and less tom cruise ??
You are referring to the Jack Reacher movie?
That woman was first class stupid, her husband even worse. When police officers repeatedly tell you they know your kid is in trouble, or causing trouble, or about to, LISTEN and DO something positive about it. Denial gets people killed. If kids were as sweet and nice as these kinds of parents like to think, the whole world would be super nice to live in, but it's just not so, so wake up stupid parents and get your offspring in hand. Liars don't make the world a better place.
But Liars make Great Politicians😮
Looks like Warren Stohl will get to whiff the gas at San Quentin!?
Great job you guys and realy do mean that you guys .!'
Trying to talk with someone who has renounced all reason is like giving medicine to a dead person. Stupidity is its own punishment.
Well, at least they got LA's gang problem squared away for good
Interesting; in the show opener, they show a lieutenant's badge 714. In the close, it's a sergeant's badge, same number.
Later on joe makes LT just before show went to off the air
and then reverted to Sgt. for the 60s version
That's right about the badge, Did Joe get a demotion in that episode?
A lieutenant in the LAPD is a commander of a team of detectives and stays back in the office doing adman and coordinating with other units. Friday was made a sergeant in the 60's version so he could hit the streets and work cases.
Just noticed that Friday was now a Lieutenant. But in the sixties he was busted back to Sergeant.
Reason: In the LAPD, lieutenants usually were far more in administration, and didn't go out into the field that much unless something really big happened, and doing Dragnet realistically, Webb would have been constrained somewhat in what he could present on the program if Friday stayed a lieutenant.
Also, in the LAPD organization, detective sergeants have a lot more authority than one would expect, with authority to direct the deployment of patrol officers in many situations, and request additional assistance from the reserves (Metropolitan Division) through their lieutenant or captain.
This was in the 40's or early50-60's. High school gangs..
She’s 16? Lol
Do Beus - 16 the second time around.
"Get me some PIE, bitch!"
I have to agree. The actress playing Clarice Porter looked like she was 26 instead of 16.
@@patriciahayes7315 I researched her name(Gretchen Kane) and found other tv and movie work she did(not much). She was in another episode of Dragnet one year later. But I could not find a birth date. If she was in her early to mid 20's at the time, she would be in her mid to late 80's now. She very well might still be alive.
Good afternoon/ good evening 🌇 everybody 😊
Mother says people just don't understand the boy.
LOL out loud - reporters accurate.
Which gang does “corn pop” run ?…..he was a bad dude man!
YOU just didn’t understand Bobby!! It was Joe Friday’s fault her lil’ angel is dead! Gee..., she be a time-traveling liberal from the 21st century....
A moron denying everything. She was clearly a Trump turd.
I think even most liberals would hate her guts.
I knew the mom was going to blame Friday and Smith.
The Crips and the Bloods would never have survived Sgt. Joe Friday on their case.
Ah, the 1950s, when youth gangs fought with knives and brass knuckles instead of guns. This is one area where times have definitely changed for the worse.
Anyone dissing the mom is part of the big problem. You obviously can't feel empathy for situations, just a superiority for having the correct opinion. What nobody knows is if the mom, after time, looked at her son's history before California and that situation and finally realized her son was at fault for his own decisions. The stages of death aren't always the nice way... but it does separate commenters... ..
18:41, Clarisse looks more like 25 instead of 16!!
Yet, another mother, blind to what her almost adult child's activities. My mother was married at 17, and a mother at 19. Once we dip our toes into adult activities, we aren't children anymore, and we feel it in our souls, just as seeing a beautiful sunset, feel the presence of God.
I've known so many mothers like this one, "you're persecuting my child. He's a good boy/girl", Then, when something bad happens, it's everybody else's fault. I never had time for these women.
I last used a Mimeograph machine was in the mid 90s
I mimic
Anyone take notice that in the few years this was on the air at this season, Jack Webb doesn't look like a lanky kid, but more like the man he was in the 1960 episodes? I noticed that and I also know this was about 1958-1959,just a few years earlier.
Helen Kruse 1952 was the episode
A little earlier than I thought. I try not to look at the date sometimes so I can use the women's dresses to tell the year. Sometimes I miss the show years so thank you. If you're in the States, I hope you have a great Weekend. I'm in South Carolina. Trying to sell my house so I can go back to Florida. Take care.
This was at the end of the 1950s episodes. In the early series run, Jack had just turned 30. By the end, he was almost 40. This probably accounts for him "filling out."
So Friday made Lieutenant? But in '67 when he came back on tv he was a Sergeant again. Hmmmm.
That's not the Beaver's mom.
No, but her boy could pass as Wally Cleaver.
@@johna.4334 - More like Eddie Haskell
Joe Friday. Kicking ass and taking names.
Where are the Sharks and the Jets?
They were on the west side of New York city.
When your a jet-your a jet all the way🎶
From your 1st cigarettes to your last dying day 🎶
John sullivan - In the makeup trailers, prepping for the Big Rumble scene!
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