Original Air Date - November 10th, 1955 This is #135 of 276 Episodes that aired in the 50's. "Just the facts, Ma'am." This video is for educational purposes.
We got our first TV in 1949, just in time for the Lone Ranger serial. When Dragnet came on in 1951, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. It was a thrill every minute, and I don't believe there has been another series since that was as believable as Dragnet. Some of the episodes I remember best were The Big Break, The Big Frank (when Frank was shot), and The Big Hit-Run Killer. Thanks so much for helping to keep shows like this available to future generations.
We didn't have TV in my growing up years. Neighbors in my area did not invite us in their house to watch TV So for me Dragnet is all brand new Thank you very much for uploading them 😊
@@86-08 Know what you mean. All I had until I was a senior in high school was a radio. Then finally got a record player. Also, had to walk five miles to school in the snow.
What cracks me up still after all these years is what a pain the witnesses are, not trying to be trouble but all over the place and not very helpful. You say believable and that's very realistic.
I always wonder what they mean when they say it’s cold in Los Angeles. I guess that would be the 50s at night? My trips to California in and near La were always warm, comfortable at night, (never went mid- summer, been there April and October ) always sunny and never humid. It often rains in these episodes it seems, which in reality it does not not. They must swelter in the suits they are always wearing 🥵
Dragnet was among the first shows I ever watched when we got our first TV set. Never missed it. At the time, it was magic. To tell you the truth, it's still pretty good. "Just the facts ma'am, just the facts!"
I'll be honest, I find these old black and white episodes better than almost anything on television today. We are currently watching elsbeth and enjoying that but before that you have to go back to Ted Lasso and The Good Place. Masters of the Air just wasn't as good. I love how they caught the bad guy in this episode. Classic.
I think Dragnet is the first true life crime story put on TV. It is on the cutting edge for those days! The real officers depicted in this show would be overwhelmed if they could see how crime in LA is now.
There was also Highway Patrol starring Broderick Crawford, which came out about the same time. The episode that I watched recently had Clint Eastwood in it as a biker.
@macmcleod1188 so sad. I wish I could afford to buy every Sheboygan officer coffee and donuts at least to say "thank you." I back the blue all the way, and the 2nd Ammendment- the right to carry guns.
The lady who answered the door is Barbara Eiler, who was Ozzie Nelson's sister-in-law. She was married to Ozzie's younger brother, Don Nelson. They had two daughters.
Lived in Encino Calif. and had a friend who lived a few doors down from Jack Webb. Very nice but nothing fancy, tree covered and serene, a California Ranchero as it was called. Never saw him, a very quiet man. The scenes of greater LA bring back fond memories, except for the smog.
He sure was a perfectionist. He had a screening room in that same house in Encino with 9 televisions in 3x3 square, each tuned to a different network. That way he could see what the other networks were airing during Dragnet and Adam-12. When his house went up for sale a few years back, the tvs were still there. I think u can still google “Jack Webbs house” and should be able to find it.
Born in 1954, I have dim memories of watching Dragnet repeats in the very early 1960s on British TV. I remember very well, though, the dramatic intro - the music and 'the names have been changed to protect the innocent'. Marvellous!
7:31 Olan Soule also appeared regularly in the late 1960s Dragnet as a graphologist, bank examiner, fingerprint expert, any sort of studious character the story needed.
Many of the 1955 to 1959 episodes haven't been seen in years and some may be lost. It's good to see these later episodes. I bet they didn't count on Ms Hurley having such as affectionate kitty!
@@MIKECNWthe ones that I've seen on TH-cam seem very similar. Friday has a different partner but the actor playing that partner died at the age of 49 and 1952
"She couldn't have seen me, the lights were out" is one of the best feel-good lines in the entire series. The Dragnet shows can best be described as good, gooder, and goodest (pardon my usage).
What a squared-away show. Tough cops, but also with judgment and kindness and humanity where appropriate. That's just what is needed in 2019 in most jurisdictions
You got to keep in mind that police officers haven't changed that much.. Friday and his partners are aspirational. we hope police officers will be like them. The reality is in 1952 there was a huge Scandal about officers beating seven Mexican kids severely and many of them were fired. The reality is there were scandals about police officers stealing money from suspects, from crime scenes, etcetera. That's one of the reasons that Jack Webb is so careful around wallets in the show. The fact is that power corrupts. Being around criminals gives many officers a dark view of humanity. Police officers have always served the wealthy at the expense of the lower income members of society. Phone cameras and body cameras have only revealed the reality that was there all along. Really, police officers need to be subject to Greater Financial scrutiny then they are. And they need to be required to take breaks off of Patrol and to get regular counseling (at least an hour a week). We ask too much of police officers and then our disappointed when they inevitably failed to live up to expectations that are too high and working conditions that are two corrosive and demanding.
Doctors was played by Richard Garland, ex-husband of Beverly Garland. He started in some B movies like "Attack of the Crab Monsters". I used to watch them on the weekends when I was a kid.
Heavy duty episode. The gas house for both the bad guys. If that didn't scare you to go straight, nothing would. Ah for the good old days of capitol punishment.
welshpete12 There will always be an aberrant and deviant segment of society. However, the majority of people that are considering committing such a heinous act will think twice before murdering someone if they know they are going to lose their life as well. Things today are much different sadly as the death penalty does not mete out swift and fair justice as it once did. The average death row inmate spends 15 plus years on death row before they are finally executed or given a life sentence instead. I believe there should be a right of appeal for anyone convicted of any type of crime. Putting an innocent man to death can never achieve justice. However, the number of appeals should be greatly reduced. If no evidence can be found to exonerate a convicted murderer after an appeal, then the verdict should stand and justice should be carried out.
Joe: Can you describe him, "mam"? Yes! He had bright green skin, one eye in the middle of his forehead and tentacles instead of arms. Joe: Could you be a bit more specific, please.
Darren Conrad I feel exactly the same way as you stated in your comment. He also showed a lot more physical prowess too. I saw o e the other day where Frank Smith got clobbered by a bottle and he knocked the heck out of the guy 1ho did it!! I was in shock!! . I also liked Frank Smith much more than his partner we later on, Harry Morgan. Harry Morgan never was a believable character as a peace officer to me. He also was just an irritating character for me. I'm sure others liked him. But I didn't. I've known and Intereacted with a lot of officers as a person from both sides of the law😖. Ive watched a lot of crime shows from those years. I've yet to see anyone who was like his character. Still, I guess there could be ONE and HE was it😂! 🙏
You've got it backwards. The cat started licking his asshole AFTER he licked her face in an attempt to get the bitter taste of that bitch out of his mouth!
Both executed. Today they’d be rock stars with movie deals getting laid on death row for 40 years of bullshit appeals until they died of natural causes or got paroled.
When I first watched tv the local station was only on 3or4 hours a day. My father said he would buy a tv when they got it perfected. WE DID’NT GET A TV ONTIL 1957.
Miranda didn't come to play until years after this was made. Joe's partner also owned a car dealership in Hermosa Beach on Pacific Coast Hwy. he completely quit Hollywood when his daughter was kidnapped for ransom. he felt fame came at too high a price.
Hell, this show was practically a half-hour Chesterfield commercial the way everybody was lighting up in nearly every scene, so EVERY episode was "The Big Smoke".
It might be an inside joke. There was a famous (sort of) Soviet film called “Cement.” It was part of a movement in the arts called “Socialist Realism.”
"He raised prize roses - won some contests all around the United States. Some old lady - lived somewhere near N. Carolina - wanted to know his growing secrets. He wouldn't tell her - heard him call her Rhea, Mrs. C, maybe B or something like that. She had a couple of goons come around one time - two real Goobers. Maybe it was them. Anyway, that night I heard some yelling. One of 'em, the Goobers, kept saying "Go ooo ly, where is them roses?" The other ones kept saying something about Judy,"
"Because Miss Rarick got a good look atc'ha!" "She couldn't have! The lights were out!" *Morgan Freeman* "It was at this moment, he knew, he f--ked up."
Even though I said "Miranda", the police still could've built the same case had Miranda been there in 1954 (which I guess from Tuesday, 10 August would've been), I also said "death penalty" before the results of the trial. As too many Americans don't know, Miranda is only for confessions, all other evidence is admissible in court.
People always say, "Just the facts, ma'am." And then Dragnet fans point out Friday never actually said that. But, from 2:25 to 2:42, it's pretty much what he's saying!
5:55 Twice skirts around giving a description of the thugs...so Friday simply gives up. WTF. And funny how they always seem to run into these strange birds (14:37). But we like it.
Two things this episode illustrates: 1) always take the 5th and wait for a lawyer, and 2) cops will lie to you, in hopes they can trip you up, which is exactly what happened to Smokey, the dirty, rotten no-good S.O.B.
@@413x398 Some years ago there was a gents' toilet in Suez, Egypt overflowing, streaming urine 100 yds down the street and generating enough ammonia to make your eyes water.
Why and where did people get the idea that law enforcement is supposed to be our personal protectors? They protect the public, by working to put criminals away, after crime, in order they can't do it again.
I LOVE Dragnet, but the problem with almost every episode is that the criminal always confesses instead of lawyering up. Also, the crime scenes are always tainted by handling and moving evidence around without proper forensic teams thus ruining fingerprints and other clues. With inadmissible evidence and no confession, most of those crooks would walk away free.
Gustave Frankfurter I think they had them confess so as to make for a satisfying ending. At the time the public wanted to believe in the police. Tough but fair. Determined to catch the criminal and a half hour show does not lead to a lot of intracacies. Nowadays having been exposed to all the forensic programs we can recognize the procedural errors that really weren’t important to carry the narrative. Always seemed less about the crimes, more about the characters. Also if you watch any of the A&E cop shows, like the First 48, there are a surprising number of confessions. Maybe they’re picked that way? Going back to Jack Webb, he had a lot of respect for the police and the people that were them. Therefor he showed them in a good light. Even today the majority of cops are hard working dedicated people. Certain political ideologies would have us believe otherwise. Our jaded world has created cynicism and distrust with a jaundiced eye on all. Poorly paid, dangerous and disliked by nearly everybody. Makes you wonder why anyone would do the job.
We got our first TV in 1949, just in time for the Lone Ranger serial. When Dragnet came on in 1951, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. It was a thrill every minute, and I don't believe there has been another series since that was as believable as Dragnet. Some of the episodes I remember best were The Big Break, The Big Frank (when Frank was shot), and The Big Hit-Run Killer. Thanks so much for helping to keep shows like this available to future generations.
Yeah we didn't have a TV we went to our neighbors and I remember that Merita Bread sponsored the Lone Ranger
We didn't have TV in my growing up years.
Neighbors in my area did not invite us in their house to watch TV
So for me Dragnet is all brand new
Thank you very much for uploading them 😊
@@86-08 Know what you mean. All I had until I was a senior in high school was a radio. Then finally got a record player. Also, had to walk five miles to school in the snow.
What cracks me up still after all these years is what a pain the witnesses are, not trying to be trouble but all over the place and not very helpful. You say believable and that's very realistic.
Your family must have been fairly well off!😊. My family didn’t get a tv until about 1954!!
I don't know why but I always love the brief weather report when every episode starts lol!
Me too!
music reminds me of the early NFL films
I always wonder what they mean when they say it’s cold in Los Angeles. I guess that would be the 50s at night? My trips to California in and near La were always warm, comfortable at night, (never went mid- summer, been there April and October ) always sunny and never humid. It often rains in these episodes it seems, which in reality it does not not. They must swelter in the suits they are always wearing 🥵
Gives you a feel of what they were feeling on that day.
Dragnet was among the first shows I ever watched when we got our first TV set. Never missed it. At the time, it was magic. To tell you the truth, it's still pretty good. "Just the facts ma'am, just the facts!"
"Beam me up, Scotty!"
I'll be honest, I find these old black and white episodes better than almost anything on television today.
We are currently watching elsbeth and enjoying that but before that you have to go back to Ted Lasso and The Good Place.
Masters of the Air just wasn't as good.
I love how they caught the bad guy in this episode. Classic.
Loved the desk clerk actor. Made the whole show for me.
Much better and grittier than the '60s version.
I was also thinking that. The woman in bed crying telling about the murder and beatings was heart rending.
I certainly have a notion to second THAT emotion !
I think Dragnet is the first true life crime story put on TV. It is on the cutting edge for those days! The real officers depicted in this show would be overwhelmed if they could see how crime in LA is now.
Even worse,how officers are treated by pols and courts, the news and public.
There was also Highway Patrol starring Broderick Crawford, which came out about the same time. The episode that I watched recently had Clint Eastwood in it as a biker.
I did some research and the police department is under 2/3 the size it was relative to the population back then.
@macmcleod1188 so sad. I wish I could afford to buy every Sheboygan officer coffee and donuts at least to say "thank you." I back the blue all the way, and the 2nd Ammendment- the right to carry guns.
What a treat! Watching Dragnet as a kid, Friday always seemed so serious. Now I appreciate Jack Webb's subtle humor.
The lady who answered the door is Barbara Eiler, who was Ozzie Nelson's sister-in-law. She was married to Ozzie's younger brother, Don Nelson. They had two daughters.
Somehow the minimalism of Dragnet makes this kind of story more unnerving than the hoked up material on today's cop shows.
It was scary when I was a kid.
Minimalism is right. Often, the interviews were filmed in pieces. The actors were filmed separately from the cops.
Yes, today's shows have gotten disconnected and fake.
Lived in Encino Calif. and had a friend who lived a few doors down from Jack Webb. Very nice but nothing fancy, tree covered and serene, a California Ranchero as it was called. Never saw him, a very quiet man.
The scenes of greater LA bring back fond memories, except for the smog.
G Marantz I heard he was nice and shy. He was a perfectionist.
Sorry episode
He sure was a perfectionist. He had a screening room in that same house in Encino with 9 televisions in 3x3 square, each tuned to a different network. That way he could see what the other networks were airing during Dragnet and Adam-12. When his house went up for sale a few years back, the tvs were still there. I think u can still google “Jack Webbs house” and should be able to find it.
Born in 1954, I have dim memories of watching Dragnet repeats in the very early 1960s on British TV. I remember very well, though, the dramatic intro - the music and 'the names have been changed to protect the innocent'. Marvellous!
7:31 Olan Soule also appeared regularly in the late 1960s Dragnet as a graphologist, bank examiner, fingerprint expert, any sort of studious character the story needed.
He was on Perry Mason all the time too!
its batman
Many of the 1955 to 1959 episodes haven't been seen in years and some may be lost. It's good to see these later episodes.
I bet they didn't count on Ms Hurley having such as affectionate kitty!
Are the 1951 to 1954 episodes any different?
@@MIKECNWthe ones that I've seen on TH-cam seem very similar. Friday has a different partner but the actor playing that partner died at the age of 49 and 1952
@@macmcleod1188 Barton Y. I can't remember his whole name but Smith was there more most of the 50's series.
Either she used salmon make-up, or the cat thought it was a golden retriever.
They packed a lot of dialog into a half hour show. This episode could have been a radio show and you wouldn't haved missed anything.
Actually it was a remake of Dragnet Radio Episode from the two years prior 02/23/53.
"she couldn't have seen me because it was dark!." BUSTED!!!!🚓
Miss Hurley about the deceased's son..."Oh, he and I used to get in some arguments ". No shit... she could get into an argument with Mother Theresa!
"She couldn't have seen me, the lights were out" is one of the best feel-good lines in the entire series. The Dragnet shows can best be described as good, gooder, and goodest (pardon my usage).
I burst out laughing. Not just because the guy got caught but because that's an Encyclopedia Brown level of getting caught.
Good old stuff. Dripping with nostalgia.
Smooth interrogation near the end - "she couldn't have - the lights were out"
That line in the radio version was a little more off the hook, really sounding like he’d slipped up mid sentence. I love Dragnet!
Darwin Award, right there.
What are the things that gets me is how smooth the criminals are at lying in this show until the moment that they slip up.
Wow I've never seen these early episodes as I was 4 years old at the time. Thanks for the uploads, I'm really enjoying them.
What a squared-away show. Tough cops, but also with judgment and kindness and humanity where appropriate. That's just what is needed in 2019 in most jurisdictions
What also is needed in every state is 30 day maximum appeals and death sentence. In every state.
@@Mikael5732 Exactly.
@@Mikael5732i doubt friday would feel the same way
You got to keep in mind that police officers haven't changed that much..
Friday and his partners are aspirational. we hope police officers will be like them.
The reality is in 1952 there was a huge Scandal about officers beating seven Mexican kids severely and many of them were fired. The reality is there were scandals about police officers stealing money from suspects, from crime scenes, etcetera. That's one of the reasons that Jack Webb is so careful around wallets in the show.
The fact is that power corrupts. Being around criminals gives many officers a dark view of humanity. Police officers have always served the wealthy at the expense of the lower income members of society.
Phone cameras and body cameras have only revealed the reality that was there all along.
Really, police officers need to be subject to Greater Financial scrutiny then they are. And they need to be required to take breaks off of Patrol and to get regular counseling (at least an hour a week).
We ask too much of police officers and then our disappointed when they inevitably failed to live up to expectations that are too high and working conditions that are two corrosive and demanding.
Doctors was played by Richard Garland, ex-husband of Beverly Garland. He started in some B movies like "Attack of the Crab Monsters". I used to watch them on the weekends when I was a kid.
Heavy duty episode. The gas house for both the bad guys. If that didn't scare you to go straight, nothing would. Ah for the good old days of capitol punishment.
@@welshpete12 Who cares whether it's a deterrent? It is the appropriate punishment in every respect.
welshpete12 It will always be a deterrent for those put to death, they will never kill again.
welshpete12 There will always be an aberrant and deviant segment of society. However, the majority of people that are considering committing such a heinous act will think twice before murdering someone if they know they are going to lose their life as well. Things today are much different sadly as the death penalty does not mete out swift and fair justice as it once did. The average death row inmate spends 15 plus years on death row before they are finally executed or given a life sentence instead. I believe there should be a right of appeal for anyone convicted of any type of crime. Putting an innocent man to death can never achieve justice. However, the number of appeals should be greatly reduced. If no evidence can be found to exonerate a convicted murderer after an appeal, then the verdict should stand and justice should be carried out.
Exactly!
N.B.: That's capiTAL punishment. Listening to California senators shoot their mouths off is capiTOL punishment XD.
The quirky characters are half the fun of watching "Dragnet"!
Joe: Can you describe him, "mam"?
Yes! He had bright green skin, one eye in the middle of his forehead and tentacles instead of arms.
Joe: Could you be a bit more specific, please.
And of being in L.A.
quarky?? FOR ROBOTS i guess that fits 🤷🏼♂️🤔 everyone seems ROBOTIC to me like they are ALL reading from pages
@@kellyford8832 It says “quirky “. Can’t you read?
@@henryhorner3182”yeah, the little guy was kinda funny.”
“yeah? ‘Funny’ how?”
“well, he wasn’t circumcised.”
😂😂😂
Brilliant and cat loved Miss Hurley
Brilliant series
I actually think Joe showed more of a sensitive side in these 50's Episodes VS. the 1968-70 Shows!!!
He laughed, smiled, engaged, and fought like a ninja...
Go, Jack!
How right you are ! As I do when I take off my hat, you make a GOOD POINT !!
67-70
Darren Conrad I feel exactly the same way as you stated in your comment. He also showed a lot more physical prowess too. I saw o e the other day where Frank Smith got clobbered by a bottle and he knocked the heck out of the guy 1ho did it!! I was in shock!! . I also liked Frank Smith much more than his partner we later on, Harry Morgan. Harry Morgan never was a believable character as a peace officer to me. He also was just an irritating character for me. I'm sure others liked him. But I didn't. I've known and Intereacted with a lot of officers as a person from both sides of the law😖. Ive watched a lot of crime shows from those years. I've yet to see anyone who was like his character. Still, I guess there could be ONE and HE was it😂! 🙏
He seemed less wooden then in the later shows. He was like a robot in the later episodes I see in reruns.
When Jack Webb revived "Dragnet" in 1967, Ben Alexander was unavailable since he was starring in "The Felony Squad" for 20th Century Studios and ABC.
Comforting to know the last breath those guys had was poisoned. Need to bring that back, with no appeals.
That cat, just minutes before licking her face, was licking it's bum hole.
That's why he was licking her face; he thought it was another asshole.
You've got it backwards. The cat started licking his asshole AFTER he licked her face in an attempt to get the bitter taste of that bitch out of his mouth!
Very good picture quality in this print. Most of the prints of the b&w Dragnet look very beaten up but this one looks good.
You can also be thankful we can watch it in full screen.
There are uploads of the 60's series which are not, same with Adam-12 and Emergency!
The woman in bed...Man! Terrific acting for 1950's TV.
J.P. O'Donnell (1925-1994).
Thank you for putting up these old dragnet episodes I appreciate it.
Who in heck is this Ms. Hurley giving Joe and Frank such attitude right off the bat? Weird...
She's a 50's tight ass frigid nosey b*tch! :-P
King Bee
King Bee I know right. what a bitch.
I’d love to slap this bitch Ms Hurley around...for about six hours! What a piece of work...great acting though! 👌
Peter Rothfuss Yep.... "Just the script......" Always love these method actors.
Desk clerk=bank security guard-plays roll perfectly
Both executed. Today they’d be rock stars with movie deals getting laid on death row for 40 years of bullshit appeals until they died of natural causes or got paroled.
I Love These old shows and Love seeing the old cars !❤
When I first watched tv the local station was only on 3or4 hours a day. My father said he would buy a tv when they got it perfected. WE DID’NT GET A TV ONTIL 1957.
The dialogue was a reflection of their roots in radio!!
2:20 that’s a lovely cat
2:30 - That cats name is Lickity Split. 😀
That's what happens when you use 9 Lives Super Supper for skin treatment.
Given all the smoking on the show, it's a wonder the cat's name wasn't Lucky Strike.
That cat has a sodium deficiency.
The woman with the cat sure had the cork in tight :-)
No way she saw me. The lights were out... DOH!
Miranda didn't come to play until years after this was made. Joe's partner also owned a car dealership in Hermosa Beach on Pacific Coast Hwy. he completely quit Hollywood when his daughter was kidnapped for ransom. he felt fame came at too high a price.
Wow, that's a shame
He did NOT quit Hollywood. In 1966 he signed on to play Sgt. Dan Briggs in Felony Squad. He died just three years later.
Check out the "Charles Dickens Christmas Carol" door knocker in the opening at the door....
To get that cat to lick her face like that, she must have fell face first into a tuna.
Hate to criticize, but MOST CATS are very affectionate to their human friends. Just treat them right and they'll show their love.
Or, she rubbed catnip all over her face first. 😄
@@rebekahhesketh1220 Or sardine oil.
The original cat lady.
I heard the radio version of this first, almost line for line, just changed a little. Characters and their relationships, almost the same!
Housekeeper has tuna oil based makeup.
'Everything is gonna be alright'...'No it isn't'...
Hell, this show was practically a half-hour Chesterfield commercial the way everybody was lighting up in nearly every scene, so EVERY episode was "The Big Smoke".
imagine acting your lines like that with a cat licking at your mouth!
She did it. And I enjoyed the cat licking her face while Joe was questioning her. :)
"Reading to him about cement and he fell asleep." Who could believe it?
It might be an inside joke. There was a famous (sort of) Soviet film called “Cement.” It was part of a movement in the arts called “Socialist Realism.”
Why are many of the witnesses so rude? Seems a common theme with Dragnet.
How many years has it been since I last saw a 1953 FORD on the road?
54
Thanks.... good video quality. Appreciate this series. Happy New Year.
"He raised prize roses - won some contests all around the United States. Some old lady - lived somewhere near N. Carolina - wanted to know his growing secrets. He wouldn't tell her - heard him call her Rhea, Mrs. C, maybe B or something like that. She had a couple of goons come around one time - two real Goobers. Maybe it was them. Anyway, that night I heard some yelling. One of 'em, the Goobers, kept saying "Go ooo ly, where is them roses?" The other ones kept saying something about Judy,"
Snippy, nosey twit who was a legend in her own mind. Feel sorry for the cat.
Can you imagine this show in today's world? The Big Transient.
"Because Miss Rarick got a good look atc'ha!"
"She couldn't have! The lights were out!"
*Morgan Freeman* "It was at this moment, he knew, he f--ked up."
9:35, the woman is a smart mouth with Friday!
The desk clerk didn't know that the quiz shows were fixed.
Very strange acting when they were first talking to him. I thought he only had one arm at first.
He reminds me of a young Herman Munster.
That Hurley woman should be arrested for obstruction. That would shut her up
.. and charged with a count of felony bitch!
the bird with the glasses played a crooked waiter in one step beyond
Don Jordan I found that whole series at a bargain basement store for a buck.
Hotel clerk seems to have fallen. Used to be bank security from a different episode......😅
Pretty obvious why Ms. Hurley lives alone with her cats. Poor cats.....
Oh, I don't know about that. She seems to love her cats, perhaps more than she likes some people. :)
The cat probably pukes on her bedspread in retaliation.
Never talk to cops without a lawyer. Jeeez.
Even though I said "Miranda", the police still could've built the same case had Miranda been there in 1954 (which I guess from Tuesday, 10 August would've been), I also said "death penalty" before the results of the trial. As too many Americans don't know, Miranda is only for confessions, all other evidence is admissible in court.
The Mrs. Hurley character has an attitude lol. Calling Frank "young man'. He looks older than she does. Lol
Cardinal sin,Joe-never say everything is going to be alright
So we had to endure Mrs Hurley and the desk clerk for ABSOLUTELY nothing??? I want my five minutes back. :)
Leananshae - not for nothing. The desk clerk cleared the son.
That’s why I couldn’t be a cop. I’d beat the piss out of everybody.
Leananshae Take Joe to the People's Court if you want those five minutes back! 😉 😁
Stop making comments, save yourself a load of time.
💖Dragnet
They changed the storyline a bit from the radio version. In the radio version it was a husband and wife who are beating.
I would love to give Miss Hurley a REAL pearl necklace.
ewwww gross
If there was ever a reason for police brutality, she was it.
She wasn’t an ugly woman.
give Hurlie credit she calls Smith "young man"
I perked up at that line too.
Emily Hurley must need glasses. Frank Smith looks much older than her. :)
That Barbara Euler was a beautiful woman for sure. Been in radio and TV.
VERY GOOD SHOW
People always say, "Just the facts, ma'am." And then Dragnet fans point out Friday never actually said that. But, from 2:25 to 2:42, it's pretty much what he's saying!
One bugs bunny cartoon does a spoof of Dragnet saying ‘Just the facts maam’
The cops always tell the truth. Exhibit 1: Friday "everything's going to be alright" LOL
I know - that's the best he could do? I'd rather he lied and said he didn't know how her father was.
I tell you what. I’m a nurse and have been in this situation. Until you have I would keep my mouth shut.
@@schmim1 I would keep your mouth shut to.
Perhaps they didn't want to add more trauma to her and kill her.
@@qwerty13380 Typical internet snotnose.
5:55 Twice skirts around giving a description of the thugs...so Friday simply gives up. WTF. And funny how they always seem to run into these strange birds (14:37). But we like it.
14:10 that desk clerk is not under acting 😂
Bring back the Gee chamber. Ray (Olan Soule) is a CSI.
You know, after all these years I still don't know what this world's coming to.
Some great lines, and no awakward plotlines
Two things this episode illustrates: 1) always take the 5th and wait for a lawyer, and 2) cops will lie to you, in hopes they can trip you up, which is exactly what happened to Smokey, the dirty, rotten no-good S.O.B.
of course this was pre-Miranda rights
great episode. o think i like the b\w best
Can one actually have a "lethal gas chamber" unless one also has a nonlethal gas chamber? How else can you know the difference?
I think the restroom at any Mexican restaurant would qualify as non-lethal gas chamber. Some might be pretty close.
@@413x398 Some years ago there was a gents' toilet in Suez, Egypt overflowing, streaming urine 100 yds down the street and generating enough ammonia to make your eyes water.
@@RobertSeviour1 After being in Turkey six times I believe this.
The difference is with one you can walk away, the other you cannot.
Are her tears made of glue?
Olive oil maybe?
11:33, I'm glad I dont have a neighbor like her!!
Really!!!!! But I have some that call code enforcement on people.
@@Mikael5732 I feel sorry for you!
Why and where did people get the idea that law enforcement is supposed to be our personal protectors? They protect the public, by working to put criminals away, after crime, in order they can't do it again.
5:15 Those are some thick tears...they barely roll down her face.
That was 1950s Hollywood make-up on a tight budget.
@Nunya Biznis I once read that they were made of stearin back then. Seems to be plausible.
Thanks for the video! Did the first lady have "fish smell face"? That was a very lickinky cat.
23 to 25 greed and avarice have not changed.
WISH I HAD SOMETHING TO SMOKE WATCHING THIS.
The Hurley woman must have had a thing going with the son earlier. She certainly sounds like a woman scorned.
Crazy cat lady! I bet she has a filthy litterbox!
Some of the witnesses they talk to are so strange. Very quirky and often annoying.
Native Americans and Canadian tribes call Toronto Canada, "The Big Smoke".
20:22 Hands cuffed behind his back and smoking a damned cigarette!....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
I LOVE Dragnet, but the problem with almost every episode is that the criminal always confesses instead of lawyering up. Also, the crime scenes are always tainted by handling and moving evidence around without proper forensic teams thus ruining fingerprints and other clues. With inadmissible evidence and no confession, most of those crooks would walk away free.
Gustave Frankfurter I think they had them confess so as to make for a satisfying ending. At the time the public wanted to believe in the police. Tough but fair. Determined to catch the criminal and a half hour show does not lead to a lot of intracacies. Nowadays having been exposed to all the forensic programs we can recognize the procedural errors that really weren’t important to carry the narrative. Always seemed less about the crimes, more about the characters. Also if you watch any of the A&E cop shows, like the First 48, there are a surprising number of confessions. Maybe they’re picked that way? Going back to Jack Webb, he had a lot of respect for the police and the people that were them. Therefor he showed them in a good light. Even today the majority of cops are hard working dedicated people. Certain political ideologies would have us believe otherwise. Our jaded world has created cynicism and distrust with a jaundiced eye on all. Poorly paid, dangerous and disliked by nearly everybody. Makes you wonder why anyone would do the job.