My picks for the top 10 episodes of the classic series Dragnet 1967 starring Jack Webb & Harry Morgan Please subscribe and leave a comment below! Follow @Cinecrisis on X
I have always thought that Dragnet, and Adam-12 were phenomenal television programs. If I were to add any episodes to your list it would be the episode where the young couple becomes so stoned they forget about their baby, and she drowned. Another episode would be where an officer is burnt out, and takes off from the job / his family. Then Friday, and Gannon track him down attempting to persuade him to return to the job. Lastly, I would choose the episode where they enlist the help of a German Shepherd to catch an elusive drug dealer leading to the department utilizing K9’s from that point forward. Thanks for the trip down memory lane! 😊
Friday, Gannon, Malloy, and Reed always portrayed that professionalism that the LAPD wanted to project, but these characters weren't "robotic", they were VERY human. Friday, a dedicated professional, was a lonely man, even though he had quite a few female admirers, including a strikingly beautiful lady officer. Gannon, a dedicated family man, was given to quirks and goofy fads, and even, his health failing and taking what turned out to be a temporary disability leave ('it was the clams, Joe!") where he'd moved to Pismo Beach to be a clam digger. Malloy, like Friday, is a bachelor, and we don't get to see as much of his loneliness. Reed is a young married man, wanting to build his police career before the Reeds start their family. Through it all, these men pursue their jobs, but the work doesn't CONSUME them.
@@selfdo I wouldn;t call Joe lonely. He has his best friend Bill, and in some eps they say he does have a girlfriend. In several eps Bill and Eileen say that Joe is a member of their family. Plus he does have quite a few friends who he calls upon to help him. Also Bill went to Pismo Beach to be a Security Guard not a clam digger. And Jim and his wife Jean do start a family in season 2 ep 7 when their baby boy is born.
There are 3 that I would have put on the list.....THE BIG HIGH, where the highlight is Gannon's BBQ sauce recipe, as well as the gut-wrenching final scene that shows the effects of getting so stoned your baby drowns in the bathtub....THE BIG AD where our favorite actor Anthony Eisley tries to hire Joe to kill his wife, and the episode from Season 3 where Joe squares off vs the mother who is whipping her son with an extension cord....the final scene where he lays the law down that she's being watched is classic, and the final line, No ma'am thats a promise is proper justice for this kind of "person".........
The LSD Story was always my favorite episode, I had a feeling going in that it was gonna be ur number one choice! Blue Boy !!!!! When I was a teenager I made a poster for him Drew the face of him , wow that was back in like 1996 …
Love these old Dragnet shows. My own personal favorite is "Burglary: Mister" (season 4, episode 5), which featured "Mister" Daniel Lumis, who had to be probably the most reprehensible character in the series.
Glad you put the Blueboy episode as #1! I would have added "The Prophet" (Season2 Ep. 18) with the Timothy Learyesque LSD guru who spars with Friday on the legalization of hallucinogens.
The LSD Story had to be at the top just because it's so iconic. You know I nearly had The Big Prophet on the list but I thought maybe I had too many pure talkie episodes at that point and replaced it with The Big Explosion instead. But that is also a fantastic episode that is very relevant today. I used a few shots from that episode in the intro section btw.
LSD (1) The Prophet (2) The Big Squeeze (3). Webb wrote them all. Amazing dialogue and arguments that still are relevant today. Humans are still just as stupid if not more. I enjoyed your take. Thanks
There should be an honorable mention The episode where a beautiful Japanese woman was killed and Joe went to hell and back to find her killer and bring him to justice.
They show where the deceased woman's little girl tries to give Friday a doll as a gift. Of course, Joe refuses, per LAPD policy, but he compliments the child, telling he that she's as beautiful as her doll. I actually wept when I saw that for the first time.
When you mention funny, nothing beats the episode where Joe has a dinner party with the Gannons and all the neighbors keep interrupting......Mr. Kettle Drum Man.........
as a high school teacher i choose to show dragnet to my students during enrichment period. blue boy because of the dangers and the nazi because i wanted my students to know that there always have been dangers and there always have been smart adults to protect them. the plane crash show, where drugs and gangsters play big, to warn what could happen if.. it is teaching aid that is well received and hold teenage interest. i hope it helps. i hope all would approve.
"Blue Boy" was a fave episode, despite the tragic ending. I also liked the "speech" where some juvenile thieves, stealing to provision their "colony" somewhere in the hills above LA, where Friday and Gannon, telling them "what's what"..."In most of the world, 'poverty' isn't a 'problem', it's a WAY OF LIFE"..."we grew up with many things...a hundred men lined up for ONE job...desperate men selling apples on the street corners...kids crippled by polio, or house quarantined." If only it were even POSSIBLE to give kids that much-needed lecture these days.
Jack Webb did the voice of Joe Friday in the original radio series in the forties. It was decide Dragnet would be a TV show. Jack Webb did not want to play the part of Joe Friday but was talked into it. The show was very successful. Jack Webb was offered the part of the Dean of the College in the film "Animal House." He read the script and turned it down. He felt it would defame the Joe Friday Character. Lots of actors made repeat performances in the Dragnet show. They were friends of Jack Webb was helping them out. The actor who played Blue Boy was Michael Burns. He later become a history professor and taught at a university. I liked the Burglary Mystery, "The Bank Examiner Swindle," The Senior Citizen.
I still watch this show in the mornings before I go to work and I found out most of the classic shows I always liked as a kid were the classic cop shows of the 60's 70's I also wondered in the Public Affairs episode was that DR Johnny Fever from KRP in Cinn.?
Good choices. Frank and Joe always wore the same jackets, Harry switched jackets for one scene and no one noticed. I read that Kent Mccord was gonna be Joe's partner in the 3rd reincarnation of Dragnet. Harry had a job as Col Potter, but Jack passed and it turned into Adam-12.
I have also heard that about Kent McCord teaming up with Joe for an 80s Dragnet series which would have been incredible. Webb sadly passed away too young
@@Cinecrisis All that smoking he did on and off the set contributed to that. You notice how Bill nerer smoked on the show, and you can tell when he was Col Potter he never really smoked those cigars either...and he lived to the ripe age of 96!
Season 2, Episode 23: "The Squeeze" Similar to "The Interrogation", a one-room drama, highlighted by the masterful performance by John Sebastian as extortionist George Fox.
Indeed, also a very good episode. But not the John Sebastian from the Lovin Spoonful though haha. There are a lot of great Dragnet episodes that didn't make the cut. Might be worth doing a second list in the future.
Great video, makes me want to check out the show. The book on police that Jack Webb wrote and the original radio series and b&w TV series along with the Black Dahlia case and the unsolved murder of his mother were big influences on writer James Ellroy and his work.
Yes they did! It got lodged right under a shelf on the wall and was completely hidden until you pushed it up! Didn't want to give away all the endings! Hahaha
Really liked thank you. Please consider doing some more old classic shows. StarTrek, All in the Family, Rockford Files, Twilight Zone, Andy Griffith Show etc
Thank you so much! I am in the process of working on notes and compiling lists for Columbo & Night Gallery. I could pretty easily do the original Star Trek as well. But I will definitely look into these other shows too to familiarize myself more in-depth.
Go ahead, MOVE, you'll be chasing your head all the way down 5th Street. With Joe pointing the shotgun three inches away from the druggies nose. That's my favorite from 67.
Hey Cinecrisis! Well now I have a classic series to check out and and the perfect guide to start thanks to this vid. Dragnet is another one of those shows that has long been on my radar but unfortunately I've only seen a few episodes many years ago and the 80s movie. The 60's tv era is incredible so I cannot wait to get into this. I'll pop back over here after I have seen a few to let you know my thoughts. Excellent top 10, I really enjoyed this! Be well man and have a good one!
Thank you!!! I definitely think you would enjoy this series. We have to keep fulfilling the promise of the original Nick at Nite to "preserve our classic TV heritage!" Looking forward to your next Twilight Zone video!
Ditto on most of these as Dragnet faves, especially the Christmas episode, also w/ Jack Webb stock player Bobby Troup who'd go on to "Emergency" with real life wife Julie London (Dixie McCall). - if you're a fan and inclined, would love to see a similar rundown of the late 60's/early 70's "Night Gallery" anthology show. Love your team-ups w/GD's Film Journal. Subbed.
Thank you!! Emergency is another great show, although like Adam 12 most of them tend to run together. I love Night Gallery and have been toying with doing a top 10 list. I plan to rewatch the series soon and will work on it!
Season 4 Episode 6 The Little Pusher Makes my list,mainly for the accurate depiction of a dope house and actor Rudy Hoyos who was on Dodgers Spanish broadcats on radio in the 1970s
Good list and thank you for sharing. One episode i would have included is the Season 2 opener "The Grenade" where a bullied high school student holds a teen party hostage by threatening to pull the pin on a hand grenade. Fabulous episode.
I got a suggestion for your next Dragnet video. The Top Ten Friendship Moments between Joe and Bill. Showing that they were not only perfect partners but the best of pals as well.
Anyone remember that Robbery episode where posters and pictures of the fictional Captain Lightning were stolen by a super fan calling himself the Crimson Crusader as played by the late Tim Donnelly?
Season 2, episode 25... The Big Departure... my all-time favorite exchange, coming when trying to track down some burglars (really, hippie teens) who were described as needing a bath: "Pretty good list, they got just about everything." "No, not quite, and they've had two shots at it, too. The drug store and the market.' "What's that?" "Soap."
In your review of The Shooting Board you should also mention how it shows the closeness of Joe and Bill by mentioning how Bill tells Joe he believes him and he stays by his side, giving his best friend moral support.
What a lot of people don''t realize is that Gannon and Friday were a composite of LAPD detectives. They don't move around in different bureaus every day or week. There were 3 eps that had them at home twice at Gannon's and once at Friday's. The formula was the same. The evenings are ruined by the neighbors. I didn't like any of them. I liked how Webb would 'recycle' certain actors not only on Dragnet but on Adam-12 and to a lesser degree, Emergency!
Now that sounds like an interesting challenge. It might take me a little time to get that one done since there's 276 episodes and I'm nowhere near as familiar with them as I am the 1967 series, but it's worth looking into.
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I have always thought that Dragnet, and Adam-12 were phenomenal television programs. If I were to add any episodes to your list it would be the episode where the young couple becomes so stoned they forget about their baby, and she drowned. Another episode would be where an officer is burnt out, and takes off from the job / his family. Then Friday, and Gannon track him down attempting to persuade him to return to the job. Lastly, I would choose the episode where they enlist the help of a German Shepherd to catch an elusive drug dealer leading to the department utilizing K9’s from that point forward.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! 😊
Friday, Gannon, Malloy, and Reed always portrayed that professionalism that the LAPD wanted to project, but these characters weren't "robotic", they were VERY human. Friday, a dedicated professional, was a lonely man, even though he had quite a few female admirers, including a strikingly beautiful lady officer. Gannon, a dedicated family man, was given to quirks and goofy fads, and even, his health failing and taking what turned out to be a temporary disability leave ('it was the clams, Joe!") where he'd moved to Pismo Beach to be a clam digger. Malloy, like Friday, is a bachelor, and we don't get to see as much of his loneliness. Reed is a young married man, wanting to build his police career before the Reeds start their family. Through it all, these men pursue their jobs, but the work doesn't CONSUME them.
@@selfdo I wouldn;t call Joe lonely. He has his best friend Bill, and in some eps they say he does have a girlfriend. In several eps Bill and Eileen say that Joe is a member of their family. Plus he does have quite a few friends who he calls upon to help him.
Also Bill went to Pismo Beach to be a Security Guard not a clam digger.
And Jim and his wife Jean do start a family in season 2 ep 7 when their baby boy is born.
There are 3 that I would have put on the list.....THE BIG HIGH, where the highlight is Gannon's BBQ sauce recipe, as well as the gut-wrenching final scene that shows the effects of getting so stoned your baby drowns in the bathtub....THE BIG AD where our favorite actor Anthony Eisley tries to hire Joe to kill his wife, and the episode from Season 3 where Joe squares off vs the mother who is whipping her son with an extension cord....the final scene where he lays the law down that she's being watched is classic, and the final line, No ma'am thats a promise is proper justice for this kind of "person".........
Yes the big high. I remember watching that years ago. The ending was so sad.
The fake park ranger scam guy, great acting.
The LSD Story was always my favorite episode, I had a feeling going in that it was gonna be ur number one choice!
Blue Boy !!!!!
When I was a teenager I made a poster for him
Drew the face of him , wow that was back in like
1996 …
It had to be #1. It's just such a classic TV episode that stands the test of time. Thanks for watching!
Love these old Dragnet shows. My own personal favorite is "Burglary: Mister" (season 4, episode 5), which featured "Mister" Daniel Lumis, who had to be probably the most reprehensible character in the series.
Glad you put the Blueboy episode as #1! I would have added "The Prophet" (Season2 Ep. 18) with the Timothy Learyesque LSD guru who spars with Friday on the legalization of hallucinogens.
The LSD Story had to be at the top just because it's so iconic. You know I nearly had The Big Prophet on the list but I thought maybe I had too many pure talkie episodes at that point and replaced it with The Big Explosion instead. But that is also a fantastic episode that is very relevant today. I used a few shots from that episode in the intro section btw.
LSD (1) The Prophet (2) The Big Squeeze (3). Webb wrote them all. Amazing dialogue and arguments that still are relevant today. Humans are still just as stupid if not more. I enjoyed your take. Thanks
There should be an honorable mention The episode where a beautiful Japanese woman was killed and Joe went to hell and back to find her killer and bring him to justice.
They show where the deceased woman's little girl tries to give Friday a doll as a gift. Of course, Joe refuses, per LAPD policy, but he compliments the child, telling he that she's as beautiful as her doll. I actually wept when I saw that for the first time.
I watch both Christmas episodes every Christmas.
I'm surprised that the dog snatching purses wasn't in the top 10. That was the funniest episode.
When you mention funny, nothing beats the episode where Joe has a dinner party with the Gannons and all the neighbors keep interrupting......Mr. Kettle Drum Man.........
as a high school teacher i choose to show dragnet to my students during enrichment period. blue boy because of the dangers and the nazi because i wanted my students to know that there always have been dangers and there always have been smart adults to protect them. the plane crash show, where drugs and gangsters play big, to warn what could happen if.. it is teaching aid that is well received and hold teenage interest. i hope it helps. i hope all would approve.
"Blue Boy" was a fave episode, despite the tragic ending. I also liked the "speech" where some juvenile thieves, stealing to provision their "colony" somewhere in the hills above LA, where Friday and Gannon, telling them "what's what"..."In most of the world, 'poverty' isn't a 'problem', it's a WAY OF LIFE"..."we grew up with many things...a hundred men lined up for ONE job...desperate men selling apples on the street corners...kids crippled by polio, or house quarantined." If only it were even POSSIBLE to give kids that much-needed lecture these days.
My brother and watched this every Thursday Night at 9:30
Jack Webb did the voice of Joe Friday in the original radio series in the forties. It was decide Dragnet would be a TV show. Jack Webb did not want to play the part of Joe Friday but was talked into it. The show was very successful. Jack Webb was offered the part of the Dean of the College in the film "Animal House." He read the script and turned it down. He felt it would defame the Joe Friday Character. Lots of actors made repeat performances in the Dragnet show. They were friends of Jack Webb was helping them out. The actor who played Blue Boy was Michael Burns. He later become a history professor and taught at a university.
I liked the Burglary Mystery, "The Bank Examiner Swindle," The Senior Citizen.
I still watch this show in the mornings before I go to work and I found out most of the classic shows I always liked as a kid were the classic cop shows of the 60's 70's I also wondered in the Public Affairs episode was that DR Johnny Fever from KRP in Cinn.?
Good choices. Frank and Joe always wore the same jackets, Harry switched jackets for one scene and no one noticed. I read that Kent Mccord was gonna be Joe's partner in the 3rd reincarnation of Dragnet. Harry had a job as Col Potter, but Jack passed and it turned into Adam-12.
I have also heard that about Kent McCord teaming up with Joe for an 80s Dragnet series which would have been incredible. Webb sadly passed away too young
@@Cinecrisis All that smoking he did on and off the set contributed to that. You notice how Bill nerer smoked on the show, and you can tell when he was Col Potter he never really smoked those cigars either...and he lived to the ripe age of 96!
I bet it was so hard for you to pick a top 10. In my mind they were ALL great!!
Season 2, Episode 23: "The Squeeze"
Similar to "The Interrogation", a one-room drama, highlighted by the masterful performance by John Sebastian as extortionist George Fox.
Indeed, also a very good episode. But not the John Sebastian from the Lovin Spoonful though haha. There are a lot of great Dragnet episodes that didn't make the cut. Might be worth doing a second list in the future.
@@Cinecrisis Concur.
Great video, makes me want to check out the show. The book on police that Jack Webb wrote and the original radio series and b&w TV series along with the Black Dahlia case and the unsolved murder of his mother were big influences on writer James Ellroy and his work.
Thank you! That's an interesting piece of trivia I was not aware of. Very cool.
Hey! Did they find the bullet! What happened to Friday!?
Yes they did! It got lodged right under a shelf on the wall and was completely hidden until you pushed it up! Didn't want to give away all the endings! Hahaha
Friday also mentions in the episode that was only the second time he shot a man in the line of duty...the first time was shown in the 1950's series.
I think the story about the gun for Christmas should be #1.
Really liked thank you. Please consider doing some more old classic shows. StarTrek, All in the Family, Rockford Files, Twilight Zone, Andy
Griffith Show etc
Thank you so much! I am in the process of working on notes and compiling lists for Columbo & Night Gallery. I could pretty easily do the original Star Trek as well. But I will definitely look into these other shows too to familiarize myself more in-depth.
Go ahead, MOVE, you'll be chasing your head all the way down 5th Street. With Joe pointing the shotgun three inches away from the druggies nose. That's my favorite from 67.
Love these episodes! ❤
Hey Cinecrisis! Well now I have a classic series to check out and and the perfect guide to start thanks to this vid. Dragnet is another one of those shows that has long been on my radar but unfortunately I've only seen a few episodes many years ago and the 80s movie. The 60's tv era is incredible so I cannot wait to get into this. I'll pop back over here after I have seen a few to let you know my thoughts. Excellent top 10, I really enjoyed this! Be well man and have a good one!
Thank you!!! I definitely think you would enjoy this series. We have to keep fulfilling the promise of the original Nick at Nite to "preserve our classic TV heritage!" Looking forward to your next Twilight Zone video!
Ditto on most of these as Dragnet faves, especially the Christmas episode, also w/ Jack Webb stock player Bobby Troup who'd go on to "Emergency" with real life wife Julie London (Dixie McCall).
- if you're a fan and inclined, would love to see a similar rundown of the late 60's/early 70's "Night Gallery" anthology show. Love your team-ups w/GD's Film Journal. Subbed.
Thank you!! Emergency is another great show, although like Adam 12 most of them tend to run together. I love Night Gallery and have been toying with doing a top 10 list. I plan to rewatch the series soon and will work on it!
I like the 1969 episode, "Burglary: Mister".
"I'm MISTER Officer Gannon,. this is MISTER Sargent Friday"
Season 4 Episode 6
The Little Pusher
Makes my list,mainly for the accurate depiction of a dope house and actor Rudy Hoyos who was on Dodgers Spanish broadcats on radio in the 1970s
Good list and thank you for sharing. One episode i would have included is the Season 2 opener "The Grenade" where a bullied high school student holds a teen party hostage by threatening to pull the pin on a hand grenade. Fabulous episode.
It was on the shortlist but didn't make the cut
Thank you. A great top 10
One of many reasons many of us became cops !
I got a suggestion for your next Dragnet video. The Top Ten Friendship Moments between Joe and Bill. Showing that they were not only perfect partners but the best of pals as well.
Good choices. My #1 favorite is The Christmas Story. To this day, I can't get through it with a dry eye.
I love the old Dragnets. They depicted marijuana as being worse than LSD. A real time capsule.
This show looks pretty based
it is
@@ryanbarker5217 NO IT'S NOT!!! YOU HATE THE COPS TOO?
@@colleen4ever you obviously don't know what 'based' means.
Anyone remember that Robbery episode where posters and pictures of the fictional Captain Lightning were stolen by a super fan calling himself the Crimson Crusader as played by the late Tim Donnelly?
Season 2, episode 25... The Big Departure... my all-time favorite exchange, coming when trying to track down some burglars (really, hippie teens) who were described as needing a bath: "Pretty good list, they got just about everything." "No, not quite, and they've had two shots at it, too. The drug store and the market.' "What's that?" "Soap."
That's Jim reed of Adam 12
Bobby Troupe,who played in "The Big Explosion " and "The Christmas Story" was married to Julie London who was Jack Webb's ex-wife
And she played Dixie McCall on "Emergency!"
@@Cinecrisis and Bobby Troupe played Dr. Joe Early, EMERGENCY was also produced by Jack Webb
Oh, Bill's NOT a fuddy-duddy! He's fun!
Big fan of Bill Gannon, just having a little fun!
In your review of The Shooting Board you should also mention how it shows the closeness of Joe and Bill by mentioning how Bill tells Joe he believes him and he stays by his side, giving his best friend moral support.
Good point that I overlooked, thanks
The big shooting istops
😊
Just watched your Yogi's Great Escape Video, you gonna tear Invasion of the Space Bears a new one, and thoughts on Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats?
They are on my list. Working on a special animation review right now. Then will probably return to the Superstars 10
What a lot of people don''t realize is that Gannon and Friday were a composite of LAPD detectives. They don't move around in different bureaus every day or week.
There were 3 eps that had them at home twice at Gannon's and once at Friday's. The formula was the same. The evenings are ruined by the neighbors. I didn't like any of them.
I liked how Webb would 'recycle' certain actors not only on Dragnet but on Adam-12 and to a lesser degree, Emergency!
How about the one where the HS kid reads "The Flowers of Evil" then kills a man to see what it feels like.
Mind doing this with the original 50s TV show?
Now that sounds like an interesting challenge. It might take me a little time to get that one done since there's 276 episodes and I'm nowhere near as familiar with them as I am the 1967 series, but it's worth looking into.
Might as well give up on that before you begin. Only a handful of those episodes have survived.@@Cinecrisis
He's so deep under cover we pay him in cash.
i love how they kick doors in, wildly over-value the price of drugs and their effects, and gannon's gut-churning recipes.
Not over value! They're right!
Season 3 episode 20
Burglary DR 31 aka The Crimson Crusader
Deserves an honorable mention I think