Doing a little digging, the Westside Studio lot was the old RKO Encino lot. This Dragnet was the last thing filmed there, sooo, this was a ode to a day when Western towns were built 7/8 scale so actors looked bigger and Westerns were king. The land was sold to a developer and the sets were bulldozed. Thought it might have been Red Studios Hollywood, formerly Desilu Cahuenga Studio and Ren-Mar Studios or more, the south parking lot of Paramount, given the backdrop scenery. Always fun when its easy to trace the history of a place you see in an old television show.
The old RKO ranch was in the San Fernando Valley, just west of the Sepulveda Dam Basin. The site was sold for suburban development just prior to production of this Dragnet episode. The RKO Encino Ranch was home to the sets of _The Hunchback of Notre Dame,_ (with the vast cathedral sets), _It's A Wonderful Life, _High Noon,_ and other notable films.
That's how old he was for my entire life also, and I just turned 65. LOL. I feel so privileged and so blessed to live during a time when we can just go back and watch whichever episodes we want to, over and over. Unfortunately my mother died in the early 80s. We lived 15 minutes out of Hollywood and she would have loved it. Quite the movie buff, she was.
I wonder what "books , pamphlets, and photos of the worst kind" would consist of. Probably pretty tame to compared to what a 8 year old can get on the internet in 1 minute these days.
The 'joke books' were probably tijuana bibles. The pamphlets were usually "sex education" guides demonstrating explicit details disguised as informative health information. The photos were probably of the Irving Klaw/Bettie Page sort.
Martin Milner also played Jack Webbs partner Bill Lockwood in several Dragnet Radio episodes. Lockwood was billed as Ben Romero's (Friday's original partner) Nephew.
@@lilajagears8317 Yes, in fact I have my grandmother's _damned_ 1924 Glendale High School yearbook with several photos of Morrison over which he had autographed both 'John Wayne' and 'Jack Wayne' over the _damned_ 'Marion Morrison' printed names.
All star episode with Marty Milner, Caroline Jones, and what looks very much like the great Lord Buckley as the Producer. Milner did some episodes of the radio show as a juvenile as well.
"We stopped at the home of the Osbourne girl.." -- "SHARON!!! THERE'S A FUZZ AT THE DOOR!!!!"-Ozzy Osbourne Also, pretty sure young Carolyn Jones could've done better than score a date with old Ralph Moody and his press on mustache! This is one of those episodes I never get tired of.
And actually, George Spencer was indeed an actor in silent films, but Bud Spencer also was, although Italian (and twenty years later, or, respectively, 50 years later). Both of them dead now. Terence Hill, he's still alive, though barely.
the actor who played the director of the western silent. his soliloquy on directing the film was incredible - i could see the whole thing. not like the theatre - they had to come up with a completely different way of directing. amazing. he was very good. wonder who he was? -----IMDb - Ralph Moody, sounds somewhat familiar. born in 1886. started in on the stage, pre-radio even. he was in Gunsmoke - thus i know his name. . . very good actor.
To date in all of the filmed episodes this is the best one yet. And even if I find many others to really like, this one is in a category all of it's own. I was mesmerized by the description of the filming of the western. What an actor! And the whole idea for the episode is brilliant. I realize that it's supposed to have come from a real story but I wonder how much "artistic license " was used. I too will never tire of watching it. Well done all of you!
@@LeeStJohn-ym4df Ralph Moody, the actor, would know about westerns because he was in a bunch of them. He often played an Indian chief. I don't know if he actually was part Indian (Jack Webb was). He looked like he might be.
Martin Milner, who played Steve, played John Day inn"Life With Father " with William Powell and Irene Dunne in 1947. Soon after, he got polio. He recovered and did movies and television. He was in "Compulsion" starring Orson Welles and "Marjorie Morningstar" with Natalie Wood.
Playboy came out in 1953, about the same time as this. I wonder what the so called obscenity laws were then. This was shot only 30 years after silent films, compared to us watching this 65 years after it was released.
California, one of the few states with obscenity laws on the books for the era, modeled those laws similar to Boston and NYC, which delineated between "artistic and educational" obscenity and "prurient and offensive" obscenity. Playboy and men's magazines, as a whole, typically fell in the former category by most standards. Stuff like the Tijuana Bibles and bondage pics like this fellow was peddling would've no doubt fallen into the latter category.
Just using this old Dragnet episode as a back-story for Adam-12. A young Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) gets mixed up selling contraband smut, gets busted by Friday, serves time, goes straight, tours the country in a Chevrolet Corvette on Route 66 in 1960, then becomes a cop in 1968.
One can see how far Jack Webb had grown as a director in this episode. That entire third segment was very well staged and ended with a very nice crane shot. Much more sophisticated than the earlier episodes.
A very impressive episode. "A cold wind was coming from the North" is almost like Chinese poetry. Also interesting to think that the 20s were much closer to the date of the airing of this episode than that latter date is to today. Now we are twice the distance removed from this film than it was from the age of the silent film, which it already considered and portrayed as the stone age of filmmaking. So now, that period is antediluvian.
My, how times have changed. And not always for the better. The smut they worked so hard to get out of the schools back then is, in many cases, required reading in our public schools today.
Martin Milner played Jack Webbs partner Bill Lockwood in several Dragnet Radio episodes. Lockwood was billed as Ben Romero's (Friday's original partner) Nephew.
The script writer did get one thing right. He had one of the cops say that the biggest reason for delinquent teenagers is the parents. That was certainly the case in the 1950's and 1960's. Parents who didn't like change; fathers who served in the War and had funny attitudes, fathers who criticised teenage tastes in music and dancing while drinking beer and getting drunk all the time. The generation gap - which seemed to disappear when the next generation who had not served in the War became parents.
Yep. Martin Milner was 22 in this episode. He was also in 5 other of the earlier Dragnets, but I don’t think they are available to see. ☹️ Kent McCord did indeed appear in the later (color) episodes of Dragnet, I think 4 times.
New subscriber, but long time Dragnt/Webb fan. Off-the-norm episode. Young Milner distributing 'smut' around school. Good comments. I dig the older episodes, with a few exceptions. Thanks to Sabrina who researched the WestSide movie lot. Thought it might be Sphan movie ranch. The series, thankfully, leaned heavily on choice character actors. Fun picking them out, like Coroline (Carolyn) Jones, radio's Harry Bartel and more. Kudos to the Film Detective.
It wouldn't have been the Spahn Ranch, as Dragnet was a union production. The union no longer approved the Ranch beginning in 1953, due to its lack of upkeep and disrepair. The last major production that filmed there was the first Lone Ranger series from 1949-1952. After 1953, the only filming that the Guild unions would allow there was for location, stock and B-roll footage; no live actors could work there since it was an unsafe environment. Every few years, networks and studios would send a crew out to record library footage of various things, and some of this would wind up in legitimate productions like Bonanza and Gunsmoke. But most of what was filmed at Spahn in the 50s and 60s were low budget B-films made outside of the unions and Hollywood system.
It was the RKO Encino Ranch. The old RKO ranch was in the San Fernando Valley, just west of the Sepulveda Dam Basin. The site was sold for suburban development just prior to production of this Dragnet episode. The RKO Encino Ranch was home to the sets of _The Hunchback of Notre Dame, (with the vast cathedral sets), It's A Wonderful Life, High Noon,_ and other notable films.
Martin Milner also played Jack Webbs partner Bill Lockwood in several Dragnet Radio episodes. Lockwood was billed as Ben Romero's (Friday's original partner) Nephew. He went from cop to bad teenager and back to cop again.
Our society has certainly come a long way. Once, it was illegal to distribute obscene material juveniles. Now the public schools place it in their libraries.
8:50 - very well known actress in the '50's - early '60's. she worked a lot on shows on TV. she's very good. her name is on the tip of my mind. Shirley? Jones?
Oh, man, this is too much! The LAPD going after the "Tijuana Bible" trade. Meanwhile, at this time, the LAPD was going through one of the worst years of corruption in its long, corrupt history. So much for the First Amendment. Still, it's amusing to see a young Marvin Miller.
I'm sure it's on the books yet. They might use it for any number of things if they want to stick you with something and they don't really have much of anything else.
Yes, he did. Martin Milner also played Jack Webbs partner Bill Lockwood in several Dragnet Radio episodes. Lockwood was billed as Ben Romero's (Friday's original partner) Nephew.
The times have changed. Now the kids go to school dressed like the people in the books. The kid selling the books are the one making the laws of today?
Assuming this is based on a true story (Joe Friday wouldn't LIE, would he?), I would be very interested to know what silent-era director this was based on.
Gee, the USA in must have been very puritan back then for this episode to make any sense. Here in Australia, in 1974 a new government was elected, headed by a Gough Whitlam. He was a guy who meant well but stuffed everything up. About the only thing he managed to do successfully was stop virtually all censorship of printed material and films. You then could buy just about anything in normal shops - only pictures or movies of sex with children or animals was forbidden. But even before Whitlam, you could get anything from "under the counter". When I was at high-school in the early 1960's, we all passed around "dirty books" - ranging from the Karma Sutra to very badly printed picture magazines of girls in "gutted rabbit" poses. It was all illegal, but the cops had more important things to worry about. And all boys over the age of about 10 had a few copies of "Man" - Australia's version of Playboy - beautifully printed in full colour but with between the girl's legs airbrushed over. And a few copies of The Kings Cross Whisper - a spoof newspaper full of sex stories.
Not so bogus considering when this was filmed , even in the late 60s the cops could come into the school and bust you without your parents or a warrant and take you in for questioning . Way different from today .
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Very delicately handled, but still a surprisingly frank subject for network TV in 1953.
Doing a little digging, the Westside Studio lot was the old RKO Encino lot. This Dragnet was the last thing filmed there, sooo, this was a ode to a day when Western towns were built 7/8 scale so actors looked bigger and Westerns were king. The land was sold to a developer and the sets were bulldozed. Thought it might have been Red Studios Hollywood, formerly Desilu Cahuenga Studio and Ren-Mar Studios or more, the south parking lot of Paramount, given the backdrop scenery. Always fun when its easy to trace the history of a place you see in an old television show.
Thanks. I wondered about what became of it. I wonder if the old man finally gave up on it after his brush with the law.
The old RKO ranch was in the San Fernando Valley, just west of the Sepulveda Dam Basin.
The site was sold for suburban development just prior to production of this Dragnet episode.
The RKO Encino Ranch was home to the sets of _The Hunchback of Notre Dame,_ (with the vast cathedral sets), _It's A Wonderful Life, _High Noon,_ and other notable films.
We were thinking how much that land was worth when it was developed. Those Hollywood people who bought real estate in the 30s made fortunes.
Great digging.. thank you. 😊
From what i can tell, Jack Webb was 50 years old for his entire life
That's how old he was for my entire life also, and I just turned 65. LOL. I feel so privileged and so blessed to live during a time when we can just go back and watch whichever episodes we want to, over and over. Unfortunately my mother died in the early 80s. We lived 15 minutes out of Hollywood and she would have loved it. Quite the movie buff, she was.
Carolyn Jones, Morticia Adams. Also known as Marcia, Queen of Diamonds in 60's Batman series.
She's in a lot of the Dragnet TV episodes.
I wonder what "books , pamphlets, and photos of the worst kind" would consist of. Probably pretty tame to compared to what a 8 year old can get on the internet in 1 minute these days.
The 'joke books' were probably tijuana bibles. The pamphlets were usually "sex education" guides demonstrating explicit details disguised as informative health information. The photos were probably of the Irving Klaw/Bettie Page sort.
Some of the stuff back then would shock you.
Oh how right you are. What a world we live in today.
Spot on…..
@@harriettedaisy2233 the occult stuff mostly and worse combined with porn
This is one of my favorite Dragnet episodes. Very young Martin Milner in it. Jack went on to use Milner to star in Adam-12.
John Wayne helped him to get his foot in the door.
Martin Milner also played Jack Webbs partner Bill Lockwood in several Dragnet Radio episodes. Lockwood was billed as Ben Romero's (Friday's original partner) Nephew.
@@billhuber2964 Marion Morrison?
@@-oiiio-3993 You know damned well that it is.
@@lilajagears8317 Yes, in fact I have my grandmother's _damned_ 1924 Glendale High School yearbook with several photos of Morrison over which he had autographed both 'John Wayne' and 'Jack Wayne' over the _damned_ 'Marion Morrison' printed names.
All star episode with Marty Milner, Caroline Jones, and what looks very much like the great Lord Buckley as the Producer. Milner did some episodes of the radio show as a juvenile as well.
Very poetically done, the imaginary film
scenes... And no violence.
Loved Dragnet back in the day both TV and radio shows. Great acting drama and production. Jack Webb so cool
"We stopped at the home of the Osbourne girl.." --
"SHARON!!! THERE'S A FUZZ AT THE DOOR!!!!"-Ozzy Osbourne
Also, pretty sure young Carolyn Jones could've done better than score a date with old Ralph Moody and his press on mustache!
This is one of those episodes I never get tired of.
And actually, George Spencer was indeed an actor in silent films, but Bud Spencer also was, although Italian (and twenty years later, or, respectively, 50 years later). Both of them dead now. Terence Hill, he's still alive, though barely.
the actor who played the director of the western silent. his soliloquy on directing the film was incredible - i could see the whole thing. not like the theatre - they had to come up with a completely different way of directing. amazing. he was very good. wonder who he was?
-----IMDb - Ralph Moody, sounds somewhat familiar. born in 1886. started in on the stage, pre-radio even. he was in Gunsmoke - thus i know his name. . . very good actor.
To date in all of the filmed episodes this is the best one yet. And even if I find many others to really like, this one is in a category all of it's own. I was mesmerized by the description of the filming of the western. What an actor! And the whole idea for the episode is brilliant. I realize that it's supposed to have come from a real story but I wonder how much "artistic license " was used. I too will never tire of watching it. Well done all of you!
I found the description of the old Western production to be fabulous. I love to see greatness.
@@LeeStJohn-ym4df Ralph Moody, the actor, would know about westerns because he was in a bunch of them. He often played an Indian chief. I don't know if he actually was part Indian (Jack Webb was). He looked like he might be.
The actor who played the producer was a damn good actor.
He played a judge in one of the early 1951 season 1 episodes, and a really pathetic old man victim in a late 60's Dragnet episode.
Much more substantial role than he was typically afforded on most series.
@@LetsGoChaseThatTrain Exactly.
Ralph Moody. He was one of the great character actors on radio. Was in a lot of eps of Gunsmoke with William Conrad for example.
Anyone else prefer these older 1950s episodes vs the late 60s & 70s episodes with Harry Morgan as his partner Bill Gannon ?
I do! I've been watching a lot of these 50's episodes on youtube lately and I like them better than the 60's and 70's episodes.
Yes, and I grew up with the "late 60s & 70s episodes with Harry Morgan...", having been born under the 49 star flag.
No I prefer the 1960s version although the 50s series are ok as well
Sure would be fun to see the opening shots of the city comparing then to now.
Martin Milner, who played Steve, played John Day inn"Life With Father " with William Powell and Irene Dunne in 1947. Soon after, he got polio. He recovered and did movies and television. He was in "Compulsion" starring Orson Welles and "Marjorie Morningstar" with Natalie Wood.
I love how they use the same company of actors
John Ford used the routine.
Who’d have thought Officer Malloy started out peddling smut ;)
Playboy came out in 1953, about the same time as this. I wonder what the so called obscenity laws were then. This was shot only 30 years after silent films, compared to us watching this 65 years after it was released.
California, one of the few states with obscenity laws on the books for the era, modeled those laws similar to Boston and NYC, which delineated between "artistic and educational" obscenity and "prurient and offensive" obscenity. Playboy and men's magazines, as a whole, typically fell in the former category by most standards. Stuff like the Tijuana Bibles and bondage pics like this fellow was peddling would've no doubt fallen into the latter category.
December,1953.
@@RockandrollNegro _'Art'_ books.
Just using this old Dragnet episode as a back-story for Adam-12. A young Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) gets mixed up selling contraband smut, gets busted by Friday, serves time, goes straight, tours the country in a Chevrolet Corvette on Route 66 in 1960, then becomes a cop in 1968.
Three totally different characters in each show.
@@sadams12345678 Yeah, I know, but I'm having fun putting them all together for a single coherent storyline.
Kind of like ‘Mod Squad’
They arrested Salvador Dali
LMAO!
In Dragnet, whenever a turning point in an episode occurs, dramatic music (11:50) is sounded!
One can see how far Jack Webb had grown as a director in this episode. That entire third segment was very well staged and ended with a very nice crane shot. Much more sophisticated than the earlier episodes.
A very impressive episode. "A cold wind was coming from the North" is almost like Chinese poetry. Also interesting to think that the 20s were much closer to the date of the airing of this episode than that latter date is to today. Now we are twice the distance removed from this film than it was from the age of the silent film, which it already considered and portrayed as the stone age of filmmaking. So now, that period is antediluvian.
My, how times have changed. And not always for the better. The smut they worked so hard to get out of the schools back then is, in many cases, required reading in our public schools today.
Examples?
Exactly what I was thinking.
Such as which books?
you boomers sure like talking out of your asses.
This was the last production to be shot at the old RKO Encino Ranch.
Steven Banner learned his lesson. He changed his name to Pete Malloy and became a Los Angeles policeman.
I saw Jack slip some of those joke books in his coat!
Jack always enjoyed a good joke.
Steve reformed and became a cop on Adam 12.
Martin Milner played Jack Webbs partner Bill Lockwood in several Dragnet Radio episodes. Lockwood was billed as Ben Romero's (Friday's original partner) Nephew.
Messing with minors like that now gets you a lot more than a six month stint in the county jail.
Today, they get an award. And today teachers spread the filth and paid for it.
Whachumean? You mean that if a teenager buys a Playboy Magazine in a store that the clerk will go to prison for it?
Wow. look at the DMV. People actually working..doing their jobs....I'm blown away. Those days are long gone.
Not where I live. They do a good job there.
@@D45VR Likewise. I've always had good service at Visalia.
Quite a change of pace episode for classic Dragnet. Then again, it was a season premiere.
The script writer did get one thing right. He had one of the cops say that the biggest reason for delinquent teenagers is the parents. That was certainly the case in the 1950's and 1960's. Parents who didn't like change; fathers who served in the War and had funny attitudes, fathers who criticised teenage tastes in music and dancing while drinking beer and getting drunk all the time. The generation gap - which seemed to disappear when the next generation who had not served in the War became parents.
A young Adam 12 appearance. His partner was in at least one of the color episodes of Dragnet.
before that Rte 66, if i remember correctly. i'll look at IMDb.
Yep. Martin Milner was 22 in this episode. He was also in 5 other of the earlier Dragnets, but I don’t think they are available to see. ☹️
Kent McCord did indeed appear in the later (color) episodes of Dragnet, I think 4 times.
Martin Milner, was killed in the John Wayne 1949 SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Went on to have a great career in tv.
They called him " marty".
Martin Milner
It’s good to see that that guy eventually became the guard at that explosives factory
Martin Milner was also in a Twilight Zone episode a few years later.
New subscriber, but long time Dragnt/Webb fan. Off-the-norm episode. Young Milner distributing 'smut' around school. Good comments. I dig the older episodes, with a few exceptions. Thanks to Sabrina who researched the WestSide movie lot. Thought it might be Sphan movie ranch. The series, thankfully, leaned heavily on choice character actors. Fun picking them out, like Coroline (Carolyn) Jones, radio's Harry Bartel and more. Kudos to the Film Detective.
It wouldn't have been the Spahn Ranch, as Dragnet was a union production. The union no longer approved the Ranch beginning in 1953, due to its lack of upkeep and disrepair. The last major production that filmed there was the first Lone Ranger series from 1949-1952. After 1953, the only filming that the Guild unions would allow there was for location, stock and B-roll footage; no live actors could work there since it was an unsafe environment. Every few years, networks and studios would send a crew out to record library footage of various things, and some of this would wind up in legitimate productions like Bonanza and Gunsmoke. But most of what was filmed at Spahn in the 50s and 60s were low budget B-films made outside of the unions and Hollywood system.
It was the RKO Encino Ranch.
The old RKO ranch was in the San Fernando Valley, just west of the Sepulveda Dam Basin.
The site was sold for suburban development just prior to production of this Dragnet episode.
The RKO Encino Ranch was home to the sets of _The Hunchback of Notre Dame, (with the vast cathedral sets), It's A Wonderful Life, High Noon,_ and other notable films.
The biggest reason for sinful children is their sin natures with which they were conceived: In sin did my mother conceiver me. - Bible.
Thanks for posting these programs they are great 👍
1:26: I guess that was Martin Milner before his Adam 12 series! Bad Malloy, bad boy!
Because it was Carolyn Jones. Except she was listed in the credits as Caroline Jones
Martin ("Marty") Milner & Carolyn Jones (as a blonde!) playing teenagers!
Both in their early 20’s at the time…
“Sunset Boulevard “ in thirty minutes!
Officer Pete Malloy during his misspent youth.
2:35 Oh good lord is that Officer Pete Malloy as a juvenile delinquent? Golly.
Great episode! Thanks!
Yes, The producer was fabulous.
We've been watching Martin Milner in "Route 66." A very intelligent show and highly recommend.
My my Officer Pete Malloy started out as a naughty boy.
Martin Milner also played Jack Webbs partner Bill Lockwood in several Dragnet Radio episodes. Lockwood was billed as Ben Romero's (Friday's original partner) Nephew. He went from cop to bad teenager and back to cop again.
Feel sorry for the old man. It's got to be hard when your world you know no longer exists
And you out live your friends and life
Matthew.....yes it is thank you
This character actor (22:42) also appeared in the episode "The Big Frank."
I've never seen a bad episode of Dragnet.
Our society has certainly come a long way. Once, it was illegal to distribute obscene material juveniles. Now the public schools place it in their libraries.
Now, parents take their kids to drag shows at schools or libraries.
8:50 - very well known actress in the '50's - early '60's. she worked a lot on shows on TV. she's very good. her name is on the tip of my mind. Shirley? Jones?
Carolyn Jones
Oh, man, this is too much! The LAPD going after the "Tijuana Bible" trade. Meanwhile, at this time, the LAPD was going through one of the worst years of corruption in its long, corrupt history. So much for the First Amendment.
Still, it's amusing to see a young Marvin Miller.
Steve looks like he must have been left back a couple of times in school.
If he is a teenager he must be twentyteen or twentyoneteen years old.
Martin Milner was 23 when he was in this episode.
Martin Milner
A baby Martin Milner!😮😊 And a measly bit part for "Caroline" (later known as "Carolyn") Jones!😮😊
The producer reminds me of Norma Dexmond, the silent film star in the 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard. Jack Webb had a small role in the film.
Sorry, I meant Norma Desmond.
Pre- Adam 12/Pete Malloy
That old producer had the longest acting part of any guest star in the entire Dragnet series.
Jack Webb...mr cool, miss him
And now the movies contain the filthy pictures...how times have changed!
Lots of familiar faces in this episode.
Were he living today, Hopkins would be a respected member of The Academy.
Hopkins wasn't as bad as Roman Polanski who did much more than selling "joke books."
9:49, Do police today in 2020 even bother with "Contributing To The Delinquency Of A Minor"? I doubt it!
I'm sure it's on the books yet. They might use it for any number of things if they want to stick you with something and they don't really have much of anything else.
Half of LA would be locked up…
Wow just wow .!'
Dispatch: One Adam Twelve, see the teenager at Central High School selling
Joke Books to the other kids.
The “Westside Studios” remind me of the “Mammoth Studios” Mr. Drysdale bought for Jed Clampett (and destroyed by Hedda Hopper!!
The director sounds like Ralph Moody, an excellent character actor.
He was.
The "Spencer Boy" was about 30-something 😂
A young Martin Miller , and Carolyn Jones..... Adam 12, and Addams Family stars .....
Is that kid the same actor as on Adam-12? Looks like him.
Yes. Martin Milner. He also starred in. "Route 66" in the '60s.
Geez, if only today's crimes were as petty as back then...
There have been vile humans committing vile crimes in all eras.
A very young Marty milner.
Pete Malloy
Jack Webb is A Savage!!!
So is your sense of humor.
Is that Carolyn Jones? She's been in a few of these episodes
2:40, the attitude in the 50's was that they called obscene literature "junk." That's exactly what it is!
6:30. Banner has been held back 9 times , he's now a 27 year old junior.
That land is worth millions today.
9:00, Carolyn Jones is shocked by the perverted picture!
Notice that, did you?
Let me look at that, Miss Jones…
@@DevoShire That reveals what sort of heart you have, man: no sense of decency!
@@McIntyreBible
This is the city…
I was working the night watch out of Sarcasm Division…
This episode hasn't aged well
The unknown kid's name? Al Goldstein.
Didn't he grow up to be Pete Malloy on Adam-12
Yes, he did. Martin Milner also played Jack Webbs partner Bill Lockwood in several Dragnet Radio episodes. Lockwood was billed as Ben Romero's (Friday's original partner) Nephew.
The kid was on Adam-12 !
Martin Milner ?
The times have changed. Now the kids go to school dressed like the people in the books. The kid selling the books are the one making the laws of today?
Why would you cover the actors' credits?😮
Liked Frank Smith more than Bill Gannon. Webb wanted Alexander for the '60s remake but he was committed to another TV show.
Man, that producer is quite the is quite the storyteller.
The world before the internet
Now schools force kids to watch drag queen shows. Vote Democrat, get what you asked for.
Fox News rots minds.
STOP LYING!!!
@@thegreatselkie6009
💙 🤪 💙
Assuming this is based on a true story (Joe Friday wouldn't LIE, would he?), I would be very interested to know what silent-era director this was based on.
He printed them off the internet for free.
8:33, Carolyn Jones.
Gee, the USA in must have been very puritan back then for this episode to make any sense.
Here in Australia, in 1974 a new government was elected, headed by a Gough Whitlam. He was a guy who meant well but stuffed everything up. About the only thing he managed to do successfully was stop virtually all censorship of printed material and films. You then could buy just about anything in normal shops - only pictures or movies of sex with children or animals was forbidden.
But even before Whitlam, you could get anything from "under the counter". When I was at high-school in the early 1960's, we all passed around "dirty books" - ranging from the Karma Sutra to very badly printed picture magazines of girls in "gutted rabbit" poses. It was all illegal, but the cops had more important things to worry about.
And all boys over the age of about 10 had a few copies of "Man" - Australia's version of Playboy - beautifully printed in full colour but with between the girl's legs airbrushed over. And a few copies of The Kings Cross Whisper - a spoof newspaper full of sex stories.
That’s the dude from Adam 12.
Steve turned his life around and became a cop.
Bogus from the get-go. School principal would never allow cops to roust a minor student without notifying parents. And where's the warrant?
Not so bogus considering when this was filmed , even in the late 60s the cops could come into the school and bust you without your parents or a warrant and take you in for questioning . Way different from today .
“ kid same actor from Adam 12. Malloy.
That second high school kid is 35 if he’s a day.
IS THAT MORTICIA ADDAMS????
YES! It is - only they SPELLED HER NAME WRONG!~ Good grief!