To the old high school English teacher: I had an 8th grade English teacher. A lot of the kids didn’t like her but I loved 🥰 having her for an English teacher. I love knowing correct grammar and she taught me so much in that eighth grade English class and I’ve retained most of it. I know when it’s proper to use the words can and may, eager or anxious, may or might, when to say I saw instead of I seen. Hearing a person say that sets my teeth 🦷 on edge. I’ve learned how to always remember how to spell separate because there’s a rat 🐀 in it, and I’ve learned in a cave when the mites go up the tights come down!!! 😅😅😅😅
The idea of escape, or going back to a simpler time, seems to be recurring theme promoted by Jack Webb. In the color version of the show, he does an episode about a community college student who goes back to high school.
@@shirtless6934 yeah, but that girl, played by jill banner, was seeing a psychiatrist, and she returned to high school to escape reality. by the end, she went back to her grown up self.
Actually, I remember watching these old black and white episodes as a small boy in the fifties growing up in northern Iowa. It’s so interesting how life has changed.
@@muffs55mercury61 Wanted a dog for 29 years. Owned a business so couldn't take care of one. Now I have an almost 2 year old Lakeland Terrier. She keeps me getting up in the morning or I wouldn't.
People aged quicker back then. When I was growing up in the 1960s, a 60 year old often looked it. Now many that age still don't look any different than 45 or 50.
Hearing the theme and watching dragnet in the middle of the afternoon seems so weird to me. I can still see my grandma reading the evening paper ready to send me out of the room at any time 😮
@@stevek8829 It let his kids live they they were rich. A wife who did nothing but sit home and drink. A daughter who has a new boyfriend every other week. A son who is a tennis bum. This family is a poster child for why we need steeply progressive income tax and estate tax rates.
All things in someone else's name. Bank, car, phone, utilities. It may mean working under the table to avoid that paper trail, but it could be done. Back in the day, doing all that in another country (like Canada) was even better. It used to be that any court could grant a legal name change. Hitting several smaller court houses in different states was also something I had heared about. I think all that was needed was proof of no warrants. The big one is the car. Departments of licensing, the FBI and State Troopers are their first stops. I'm not sure of any of this. Never done it. But I did think about it at one time, looked into it, too...
@@will5107 Setting up a bank account nowadays is difficult enough for people using their real identities, let alone someone trying to fake it, especially in light of the Patriot Act know-your-customer rules imposed on banks.
To Roger McIntyre. Agree with you one hundred percent. The mother encourages and holds the family together and somewhere along the line she held the brandy bottle above everything else. The father only worked hard throughout the years to make the family's life very comfortable. Many people inheriting a successful business from his father would have lived it up with numerous outside women. Even in faking his death, he still cared and loved his family by providing all three with ample sufficient trust funds. All three never realized how negative they were.
A large part of the US was beautiful then. I visited Portland decades ago. It deserved the name, "The Rose City". Now, rural areas of Oregon want to secede and join Idaho. I wish them well.
This is one of the more introspective Dragnet episodes, especially for the '50s era run. The episode paints a picture of a man who neglected his wife and children, setting the stage for his family to break down--driving his wife to drink by ignoring her, failing to provide leadership and values to his children--but at the end of the episode we're given a sympathetic picture of a man who worked hard and finally wore out. There's undoubtedly truth in both angles. Some families just aren't meant to be, and they live cursed lives.
...meaning People expect to have things done for them, rather than taking charge of their own lives. Out of comfort zones is scary to most...but those comfort zones are intentionally being reduced...and to what end ? Too bad for your siblings/family...they resented, no doubt, but ones life depends on the conscious decisions, vs externally guided, out of control, (childish), reaction. Constant, internal daily analysis of moment to moment situations to remain in a mind space of ones own choosing. Most are stampeded into awful, then blind sided results...their only defense is it is someone else's doing it to them...we are all having rotten things done to us, i.e., money issues, gov't, scumbags, etc, but how one reasons the best reckoning, in the long term of keeping steady, determines the best chance of good days. Here's one for you. Since you've been educated in their college system. The root word of system is sewage by the way. Have you ever considered the Earth is flat, a disc ? Consideration is a reasoning capability. Ridicule is an obedience response to protect one's learned beliefs. Condemnation before investigation is the height of ignorance. Albert Einstein. I believe he certainly was one of them. The enemy of Truth. But you can gather great information from all sources. Kind of like a broken clock's right twice a day kind of thinking. Hahaha. To believe that the Earth is flat could cost you a lot more than just a change your mind. Because the powers-that-be want us to understand the world is a ball. That's the rub. Believe what we tell you and everything will be okay. To a point if lying to yourself is an okay decision. Go along to get along. These sayings indicate self compromise if one agrees to them. Accepting a lie I'm trying to live through it, I believe it's a poison within one's mind. Knowing you cannot be truthful outside of yourself reduces one's self to a follower instead of a leader. One only has to lead himself. Never lose your joy. Never lose your happiness redundant perhaps. Both are a choice.
Webb's direction got more inventive as the series went on. Like so many others, he learned how to work in this new medium - television - and how to direct, shoot and edit a 30 minute show in one week.
There are lots of comments on how the man should have spent more time with his family. These are half-hour shows, so you don't get details on why he worked those long hours. Is that how his father taught him to behave? His children were likely young during the Great Depression, so he may have had to work nonstop to keep the business from going under. All we know is he occasionally had dinner with his adult children, he set up trust funds for his family, and no one seemed to love each other. I just hope everyone in the family went on to find a way to be at peace with their decisions.
Doubtful. I didn't see much introspection, except for the father. It looks like that dinner was a last ditch effort to save his kids but it was much too late.
I saw 👀 this actress in another Dragnet movie and she had been beaten up and robbed by a man. In spite of having been beaten up and robbed she was in better shape in that movie than in this one. 😮😮😮
I don't get how he could have feigned suicide. Would he not be declared legally dead after seven years, even though he was alive operating under an assumed name. Isn't there something illegal about that? Maybe not in the 1940s when the actual situation occurred. If that were legal, people would be doing that on a regular basis just to start over without the mess of divorce.
People then had lived at least through the Depression and some maybe even WW1. It's no longer they look so old. The post WW2 period was a good time for most but LBJ shortened it with Vietnam and Great Society. Embezzled from social security to pay for them so now we have IOUs and constant talk about cutting it, as if it's such a large largesse. We may now be entering a difficult time like the bad old days due to government corruption and idiocy. Still, we do what we can o get by and family will play a larger role in all our lives..
The daughter was twice married and twice divorced by age 23. Now days that's very common and there's usually two or three kids in tow. The entire family is dysfunctional. If Jarrett died three years previously he may have been terminally ill and didn't want the family to know about it either. Love the DC-7 at 17:00 (never cared for jets)
One of the best episodes. He left them with trust funds. I wouldn't have done that much, for the children, and the wife, if she had to take care of herself, she might improve.
Knew a guy once that told a friend of mine "If I had a wife like your's I'd grab me a hand full of boxcar." I guess Mr. Jarrett just had better means. LOL
How this man showed love was by working hard and giving his family material things...that's probably how he was raised...well..some women need more attention...I know children need time with their father ..he should have taken a few vacations with his family...time is how you build families...not material things ..they help..but bonding is the key..having dinner together..talking about your day...so sad....
You know, I can’t help thinking that if the runaway had involved himself in his family’s lives, they wouldn’t have been such a mess that he felt justified in walking away. The wife took to drink because of loneliness. If he’d been home building a life with her, she wouldn’t have been lonely. By the testimony of kids and mother, he wasn’t interested in his kids. They reacted to that neglect. Yet he felt he was the injured party and the cops seemed to agree.
Yes. Putting it short, it's known as a dysfunctional family. I come from one but not the extremes of parents being suicidal or alcoholism. Simply put, my parents blew off too many small issues that became bigger.
He explained it! Wife a drunk, son a bum and a whore for a daughter and he worked hard for his family but they were a hopeless bunch! Can’t blame him he did what he could do!
It's not good to cut flowers with a pair of scissors. Little more brandy? Bottle was full to the top before she poured. He moved Thur, but saw his dad until after midnight?
This is my favorite dragnet episode and one of my ultimate fantasies....to just disappear, let my dysfunctional family fend for themselves and tell all the lawyers to leave me the Brandon alone...I have more than enough money that I could never spend in my lifetime. My inlaws could spend it all in a nanosecond. I guess I just don't have the kahoonas to do it quite yet.
I was lucky in that I didn't have a family (meaning wife, kids, etc) so one year I just packed up and moved everything from the big city to the country 1200 miles away. Yes my family was dysfunctional during my growing up years. I have no regrets and was the best decision of my life. I did reunite with mom and brothers three years later but never did I live there again and visits were limited to about 4 days or so and I was ready to get out of there.
I loved this show but with Ben. When they showed it in color with Harry Morgan,it was stupid. Not because of Jack Webb but because of Morgan. They made him an annoying simp. 😂😂😂😂😂
The biggest crime committed here is how much Sgt. Friday smokes those unfiltered cigarettes. Ah, the 1950's when everything smelled like Vaseline Juicy Fruit and cigarettes. You could walk into any Rexall drugstore and there was a certain scent that greeted you at the door.
Regrettable that the traveling he wants to do, he could have done with his family. Maybe with his involvement, they would have turned out different. Sad either way.
These old shows are like visual comfort food, the good old "meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy" of Hollywood ;)
Well said 🙂
That's what it's like for me with silent film or reading a good book. 🙂
What’s for dessert?
They sure are compared to the filth of today. I hate it
They're brainwashing and propaganda.
A great portal of depression by the wife. Great acting...
She drinks every day, a lot!
I've read that the opposite of love isn't hate, but apathy...
When one just simply doesn't care, it can cut far deeper than any hate.
Apathy doesn't target people like hate does though.
"It's no crime to get lost." --- Sums it up perfectly!😐
One of the best if not best episode ever.
Just to correct your grammar, "One of the best episodes ever, if not the best". Courtesy of my old high school English teacher.
An enjooyable episode indeed that can or may happen in real life!!! The Best Things in a Life are Free!!!
To the old high school English teacher: I had an 8th grade English teacher. A lot of the kids didn’t like her but I loved 🥰 having her for an English teacher. I love knowing correct grammar and she taught me so much in that eighth grade English class and I’ve retained most of it. I know when it’s proper to use the words can and may, eager or anxious, may or might, when to say I saw instead of I seen. Hearing a person say that sets my teeth 🦷 on edge. I’ve learned how to always remember how to spell separate because there’s a rat 🐀 in it, and I’ve learned in a cave when the mites go up the tights come down!!! 😅😅😅😅
I saw this episode about 25 years ago and have always remembered it. I hope the man enjoyed his travels.
I hope so too.
The idea of escape, or going back to a simpler time, seems to be recurring theme promoted by Jack Webb. In the color version of the show, he does an episode about a community college student who goes back to high school.
@@shirtless6934 yeah, but that girl, played by jill banner, was seeing a psychiatrist, and she returned to high school to escape reality. by the end, she went back to her grown up self.
The cigarette machine in the locker room is perfect 1950's.
A cigarette company sponsored the show...
I noticed that too.
One needed to have constant access to tobacco at all times.
How couldn't it be? The show was made then.
@@stevek8829 My thought exactly, ummm ......that was when this was filmed
Actually, I remember watching these old black and white episodes as a small boy in the fifties growing up in northern Iowa. It’s so interesting how life has changed.
Looks like paradise where he's living at the end to me. Quiet, lake with fish, cold beer, decent little home...
I guess that man must be living the life. Money, guns, fishing, beer, a lake on your front porch, and living alone in nature. Sounds like paradise
Accept that he died three years before the show was made.
@@holmanrw You mean he died in 1946?
@@random-jj7ix I am sorry but I do not remember exactly but would guess 1952 as this episode is from 1955.
Missing 1 thing...sheep
@@mountainman5025 mutton?
He just needs a good dog . Then he wouldn’t be so lonely 😊
Pets work miracles in people's lives. They have for me.
@@muffs55mercury61 Wanted a dog for 29 years. Owned a business so couldn't take care of one. Now I have an almost 2 year old Lakeland Terrier. She keeps me getting up in the morning or I wouldn't.
@@63bplumb i will always have one 😎
@@muffs55mercury61 Amen 👍🏼 i have a lab, a cat and a 24 years old goose , Lady .. love em all ❤️
@@heyoldman2003 You have a nice family !
That dude is my new hero.
🤣
Wow sipping straight Brandy in the morning!!!!!
Not so much sipping as guzzling 😳
@@gerardkohne207 🤣
I think Winston Churchill also had brandy at breakfast.
I'm a whiskey drinker myself.
The good old days of freedom
Children aged 23 and 26 would not be considered “grown children” today! They’d probably both still be at home!
Lol right....well my 23 year old has her own place but my 26 year old still at home.....
The son looked like 35. There's something in the water these days.
You’ve got that right!!
"Mind if I smoke?" I was surprised he wasn't already!
That's the oldest 52 and 26 year olds I've ever seen, 23 too.
By 23 she had two marriages under her belt...she was ridden hard and put away wet, so of course she no longer looks dewy fresh.
People aged quicker back then. When I was growing up in the 1960s, a 60 year old often looked it. Now many that age still don't look any different than 45 or 50.
To Steve Thomas.
You know it too.
😆 Lololololol
Living through the Great Depression, WWi, and WWII took a terrible toll on folks.
yeah, i thought he looked a helluva older than 52. i'm 54 and don't plan on looking that old until i'm 60.
Jack Webb loves to point at things...
Hearing the theme and watching dragnet in the middle of the afternoon seems so weird to me. I can still see my grandma reading the evening paper ready to send me out of the room at any time 😮
My favorite of the old bw dragnet.We all have family members like that.
If this story says anything, it's that sometimes families are not what they're cracked up to be, and rich families in particular.
I'd rather be a regular Middle Class Father, with a wife and kids, where I'm just saving what I can and working until old age.
Right on!
@@20thCenturyManTrad that's exactly what he was. A small business and some success doesn't make him upper class.
@@stevek8829 If you can afford the way his kids were living, you have a lot of money. Plain and simple.
@@stevek8829 It let his kids live they they were rich. A wife who did nothing but sit home and drink. A daughter who has a new boyfriend every other week. A son who is a tennis bum. This family is a poster child for why we need steeply progressive income tax and estate tax rates.
With relatives like that i would run away from home too.
I remember those Old phone numbers- they seem So strange now 😂
12:10
Love how they put chalk marks on a charcoal grey door to simulate figured wood. Just like the courtroom scenes in Perry Mason.
MAN OH MAN I MISS THE GOOD OLD DAY'S..
We all do.
Even then they could track people. Today, with credit cards, cell phones, and the like, it is nearly impossible to just disappear.
All things in someone else's name. Bank, car, phone, utilities. It may mean working under the table to avoid that paper trail, but it could be done.
Back in the day, doing all that in another country (like Canada) was even better.
It used to be that any court could grant a legal name change. Hitting several smaller court houses in different states was also something I had heared about. I think all that was needed was proof of no warrants.
The big one is the car. Departments of licensing, the FBI and State Troopers are their first stops.
I'm not sure of any of this. Never done it. But I did think about it at one time, looked into it, too...
@@will5107 Setting up a bank account nowadays is difficult enough for people using their real identities, let alone someone trying to fake it, especially in light of the Patriot Act know-your-customer rules imposed on banks.
20:58, from what he says about his family, you really can't blame him!
To Roger McIntyre.
Agree with you one hundred percent.
The mother encourages and holds the family together and somewhere along the line she held the brandy bottle above everything else.
The father only worked hard throughout the years to make the family's life very comfortable.
Many people inheriting a successful business from his father would have lived it up with numerous outside women.
Even in faking his death, he still cared and loved his family by providing all three with ample sufficient trust funds. All three never realized how negative they were.
@@lindalawon9151 I like your comment, Linda!
Originally telecast on January 13, 1955, and adapted from a December 28, 1950 radio episode.
Friday: "Can you think of any reason your father would want to take his own life?"
Keith: "Have you met my mother?"
😆🤣😂
Oh this is just too sad! If I had met him at the runaway stage, I wouldn't mind rolling down the highway with him, easing our heartaches mile by mile.
Like he did, you created your own heartache.
Sarah Selby(Mrs. Alva Jarret) passed away on January 7, 1980 (age 74) in Los Angeles, California, USA.
A large part of the US was beautiful then. I visited Portland decades ago. It deserved the name, "The Rose City". Now, rural areas of Oregon want to secede and join Idaho. I wish them well.
My parents lived in Miami FL around the time this episode was aired. They said Miami was a beautiful and sleepy little town then.....It is not now.
The sad thing is that he caused this situation. Then he ran away. It shows what his moral compass really is.
Right down to the loafers he wears!
This is one of the more introspective Dragnet episodes, especially for the '50s era run. The episode paints a picture of a man who neglected his wife and children, setting the stage for his family to break down--driving his wife to drink by ignoring her, failing to provide leadership and values to his children--but at the end of the episode we're given a sympathetic picture of a man who worked hard and finally wore out. There's undoubtedly truth in both angles. Some families just aren't meant to be, and they live cursed lives.
very well said
@Chang Noi
If a man has a pebble in his shoe, should he not fix that problem ?
Or rather, expect another to do that for him ?
...meaning People expect to have things done for them, rather than taking charge of their own lives. Out of comfort zones is scary to most...but those comfort zones are intentionally being reduced...and to what end ?
Too bad for your siblings/family...they resented, no doubt, but ones life depends on the conscious decisions, vs
externally guided, out of control, (childish), reaction. Constant, internal daily analysis of moment to moment situations to remain in a mind space of ones own choosing. Most are stampeded into awful, then blind sided results...their only defense is it is someone else's doing it to them...we are all having rotten things done to us, i.e., money issues, gov't, scumbags, etc,
but how one reasons the best reckoning, in the long term of keeping steady, determines the best chance of good days.
Here's one for you. Since you've been educated in their college system. The root word of system is sewage by the way. Have you ever considered the Earth is flat, a disc ?
Consideration is a reasoning capability. Ridicule is an obedience response to protect one's learned beliefs. Condemnation before investigation is the height of ignorance. Albert Einstein. I believe he certainly was one of them. The enemy of Truth. But you can gather great information from all sources. Kind of like a broken clock's right twice a day kind of thinking. Hahaha. To believe that the Earth is flat could cost you a lot more than just a change your mind. Because the powers-that-be want us to understand the world is a ball. That's the rub. Believe what we tell you and everything will be okay. To a point if lying to yourself is an okay decision. Go along to get along. These sayings indicate self compromise if one agrees to them. Accepting a lie I'm trying to live through it, I believe it's a poison within one's mind. Knowing you cannot be truthful outside of yourself reduces one's self to a follower instead of a leader. One only has to lead himself. Never lose your joy. Never lose your happiness redundant perhaps. Both are a choice.
Chang Noi horrible!
@Chang Noi I sympathize with you. I'm in a similar situation.
Loved the point-of-view shot (at 10:59). Jack Webb could do wild things with the camera sometimes.
Good observation; I didn’t notice that!
Webb's direction got more inventive as the series went on. Like so many others, he learned how to work in this new medium - television - and how to direct, shoot and edit a 30 minute show in one week.
1:02 This was filmed in 1955, and the calendar behind him is from 1951. See Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays marked!
I always love the outside location shots.
Very interesting POV, from the telephone mouthpiece (at 10:58). I've never seen that used before.
They created the strangest characters in these programs. I realize those people would be amazed by the characters today, but strange is still strange.
No crime to get lost. However, he's the reason for the rot - covering up for them, giving them trust funds. Make them take care of themselves.
At least she's honest about her drinking problem (7:12).
16:05 The lawyer may have known but had a duty to keep it confidential.
Great episode!
It never rains in Los Angeles that much nowadays.
"Ekk! Its global rain, quick send Al Gore more money"
Tragic, but a good show.
There are lots of comments on how the man should have spent more time with his family. These are half-hour shows, so you don't get details on why he worked those long hours. Is that how his father taught him to behave? His children were likely young during the Great Depression, so he may have had to work nonstop to keep the business from going under. All we know is he occasionally had dinner with his adult children, he set up trust funds for his family, and no one seemed to love each other. I just hope everyone in the family went on to find a way to be at peace with their decisions.
Doubtful. I didn't see much introspection, except for the father.
It looks like that dinner was a last ditch effort to save his kids but it was much too late.
This is my favorite episode!
I saw 👀 this actress in another Dragnet movie and she had been beaten up and robbed by a man. In spite of having been beaten up and robbed she was in better shape in that movie than in this one. 😮😮😮
"52 years old"? He looks more like 72
Yea thats what I figured. Sure could pass for it
People looked a lot older back then. Hell, take a look at the senior pictures in a 1950s high school yearbook. They look like they're 40 already.
@@tacoheadmakenzie9311 maybe it was genetics or habits they had back then
I'm 70 and he looks about 5 years older than me.
IKR
My mom used to say that Friday was a cool drink of water
It's that age old story... "I'd rather be alone than wish I was".
The thumbnail of this video shows a cute dog!
Looks like a toy poodle. I prefer the puppy cut. Very intelligent.
I wish the dog had a more prominent role in this
Herb Butterfield plays Crime Lab Lt. Lee Jones in several episodes. He also did some of the radio episodes in various roles…
Only my girlfriends sit that close to me on a dark, rainy night 🌙 🤣 driving! If I were Joe, I would have asked, "Why are you sitting so close to me?"
I never knew there was an old Dragnet
I don't get how he could have feigned suicide. Would he not be declared legally dead after seven years, even though he was alive operating under an assumed name. Isn't there something illegal about that? Maybe not in the 1940s when the actual situation occurred. If that were legal, people would be doing that on a regular basis just to start over without the mess of divorce.
That pouring rain ☔️ looks so real that I’m able to feel that I’m actually there and getting wet. 😅😅😅
Well, if he died 3 years ago, he lived a very long life.
Petty loud jacket, Friday.
BEAUTIFUL ENDING
Weed Me
19:31 "Mind if I smoke"? Reminds me of old Steve Martin comedy from the late 70's.... Mind if I smoke? No, mind if I FART"? LOL
“...It’s one of my habits.” Haha. Takes me back a few years.
I'll go one step back further, around 1966, Mad Magazine's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions: "Why, are you on fire?"
I might have missed it: What was the explanation for two bullets missing from the gun?
I was wondering the exact same thing. I don't remember Friday even asking him.
Mrs.Jered is a lush (4:57).
People then had lived at least through the Depression and some maybe even WW1. It's no longer they look so old.
The post WW2 period was a good time for most but LBJ shortened it with Vietnam and Great Society. Embezzled from social security to pay for them so now we have IOUs and constant talk about cutting it, as if it's such a large largesse.
We may now be entering a difficult time like the bad old days due to government corruption and idiocy. Still, we do what we can o get by and family will play a larger role in all our lives..
The daughter was twice married and twice divorced by age 23. Now days that's very common and there's usually two or three kids in tow. The entire family is dysfunctional.
If Jarrett died three years previously he may have been terminally ill and didn't want the family to know about it either.
Love the DC-7 at 17:00 (never cared for jets)
One of the best episodes. He left them with trust funds. I wouldn't have done that much, for the children, and the wife, if she had to take care of herself, she might improve.
Double fisted brandy drinker are you ma'am? 😂😂😂
Could you get the show Adam 12 it was a police show. I love Dragnet
FIFTY TWO YEARS OLD?! Dude looks a few months away from 70!
Had the same thought but I was ten in those days and that's how 50's looked.
Knew a guy once that told a friend of mine "If I had a wife like your's I'd grab me a hand full of boxcar." I guess Mr. Jarrett just had better means. LOL
Got to watch all of these I can before they are removed by hypocrites
probably won't be if they are in public domain...
How this man showed love was by working hard and giving his family material things...that's probably how he was raised...well..some women need more attention...I know children need time with their father ..he should have taken a few vacations with his family...time is how you build families...not material things ..they help..but bonding is the key..having dinner together..talking about your day...so sad....
Add up everything you wrote and it still might just all fall apart.
Very similar to my story and my situation now... But I'm not as financially set as him.
You know, I can’t help thinking that if the runaway had involved himself in his family’s lives, they wouldn’t have been such a mess that he felt justified in walking away. The wife took to drink because of loneliness. If he’d been home building a life with her, she wouldn’t have been lonely. By the testimony of kids and mother, he wasn’t interested in his kids. They reacted to that neglect. Yet he felt he was the injured party and the cops seemed to agree.
Yes. Putting it short, it's known as a dysfunctional family. I come from one but not the extremes of parents being suicidal or alcoholism. Simply put, my parents blew off too many small issues that became bigger.
He explained it! Wife a drunk, son a bum and a whore for a daughter and he worked hard for his family but they were a hopeless bunch! Can’t blame him he did what he could do!
Then she would have complained he didn’t earn enough.
It's not good to cut flowers with a pair of scissors.
Little more brandy? Bottle was full to the top before she poured.
He moved Thur, but saw his dad until after midnight?
I wonder if Sgt. Friday ever met Lt. Colombo ? And why didn’t Sgt. Friday ever make Lt. ?
Friday did get promoted to lieutenant in 1957 and remained such until the show ended in 1959. Then in 1967 he was a sergeant again.
Actually Jack Webb passed away in the early 70’s. Died of lung cancer I believe. I wonder why!
Actually he died in 1982.
A good one!
I am assuming since all the people are dead, the dog is dead too.
If a cat has nine lives, then a doggy should get to have twelve at least.
Alone and lonely at home.or in the woods.
He has to be older than 52
This is my favorite dragnet episode and one of my ultimate fantasies....to just disappear, let my dysfunctional family fend for themselves and tell all the lawyers to leave me the Brandon alone...I have more than enough money that I could never spend in my lifetime. My inlaws could spend it all in a nanosecond. I guess I just don't have the kahoonas to do it quite yet.
I was lucky in that I didn't have a family (meaning wife, kids, etc) so one year I just packed up and moved everything from the big city to the country 1200 miles away. Yes my family was dysfunctional during my growing up years. I have no regrets and was the best decision of my life. I did reunite with mom and brothers three years later but never did I live there again and visits were limited to about 4 days or so and I was ready to get out of there.
It is a temptation...
Tahiti 👉
I loved this show but with Ben. When they showed it in color with Harry Morgan,it was stupid. Not because of Jack Webb but because of Morgan. They made him an annoying simp. 😂😂😂😂😂
11:12. Early POV 🤣
Wait wait wait!... Jarrett said he's FIFTY TWO?!?!?... I guess his home life was stressful because that guy looks like crap for 52!!
Interesting how people try to judge what happened then by todays standards and thoughts.
The old man was actually 59 when the episode aired, probably 57 or 58 when it was filmed.
If I was married to her I would not jump off a Pier but I would definitely get a divorce !
Back then divorce was not easy to get.
Wasnt this also in the 60s Dragnet?
There was an episode in which a woman dropped out of college and went back to high school.
We all need to ‘get away from it all’ but when you involve the law, things get… awkward
18:07, Friday & Smith locate Mr.Jered in Medford.
he was living 'heading down the highway' by judas priest.
" it would have been an invasion of privacy " POPPYCOCK
The point being there was no crime involved...he didn't do it to cover an embezzlement or commit insurance fraud.
The biggest crime committed here is how much Sgt. Friday smokes those unfiltered cigarettes. Ah, the 1950's when everything smelled like Vaseline Juicy Fruit and cigarettes.
You could walk into any Rexall drugstore and there was a certain scent that greeted you at the door.
Vic's Vapor Rub you mean, right?
There’s a radio version with some different actors (Yarbrough as Romero, etc) and isn’t as good as the TV version
Used to be everywhere
Haven’t I seen this exact same plot in another show?
52! Lmao looks 75. 👌
12:14, Friday & Smith locate Keith.
Better order these shows on dvds they will soon be banned
Regrettable that the traveling he wants to do, he could have done with his family. Maybe with his involvement, they would have turned out different. Sad either way.
Why would he want to vacation with them?
Yes. No time for them. Wife would have loved the attention and time together.