Dragnet S03E17 The Big Little Jesus
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
These old shows some times bring tears to my old eyes... Thank you...
I remember seeing this on TV in "REAL TIME." I'm 72 and I still remember seeing this episode and I always enjoyed it. I love the old episodes. I'm a car nut and had a lot of the cars I see in these old series.
“When does price determine the case?” Oh, since California passed the law making anything under a thousand bucks a misdemeanor.
How great,,,,,, it brought tears.what a beautiful story and ending so different from today.
the mind of a little child, how their understanding is so precious.
I love the end when Fr. Rojas tells officer Frank Smith that Paco’s family are poor, and Sgt. Friday looks over at the nativity scene and back at the priest and says “are they father?”.
Job. D. D d e. Debt ebdede. S d had sggdegd egdedbugs Ed
Heartwarming, I miss seeing things like this nowadays. Loved the way the little boy picked up the statue like you would a real newborn baby. Sweet innocence!
One of the best episodes from a great TV show. Compare it to the garbage out today.
Yes I agree with you!
My husband and I don’t watch tv anymore. I have a friend who is in a cable show called Z Nation and both my husband and I refuse to watch it because of the language and other content. I have an older friend who unfortunately watches A LOT of tv, and one of his favorite shows is called Lucifer, which is beyond me why he likes this morally misleading show though it’s for entertainment purposes. I grew up listening to music and I didn’t watch television much, so I’m truly enjoying these old shows. Like you said Tommy Truth, the shows that are out today are garbage.
Tv shows are much better today than when this show was on. Sorry just facts
This is one of the best episodes. I cried in 1968 and I cried tonight. The love of God and the fellowship of the Son and the Holy Spirit be with us all ever more amen. merry christmas and a Happy new Year!
I found it very moving, specially when its a true story !
Man, this and .22 Rifle For Christmas are the BIGGEST tearjerkers.
I am 76 years old.
We had a Philco Television. Of course, it was black and white.
"Dragnet" was a show we never missed.
Back then, in those long ago days, ALL television shows had Christmas themed episodes. Most would be repeated every Christmas, if the show lasted.
Douglas Fairbanks showed the story of the writing of "Silent Night". "I Remember Mama" had an episode that recounted the Norwegian folk tale of the animals that speak at midnight on Christmas Eve. That show lasted many years and they showed that episode each year.
These episodes were something that we all looked forward to.
I must have seen this "Dragnet" episode five or ten times...most on TV when the show was still a weekly event. The story was still used when "Dragnet" came back in the late sixties and early seventies. It was in color then.
After all these years, this story still makes me cry.
Merry Christmas.
The best part of all dragnet is the casual banter between characters!!!
Yah the writing in those parts really show off Jack Webb's sense of humor and work with his writers.
Dragnet is and was a big favorite of mine, specially this episode.. Thank you for uploading many of the episodes. I do know for a fact that there are at least a half-dozen or more episodes that can be had that are on the public domain. I, and I'm sure many others, would be deeply grateful if they could be reloaded on TH-cam. Many thanks and blessings.
Shows how anti-Biblical the Catholics are ~
@@theothertroll Scary but true. Jesus is NOT a stature.
The comments on this are incorrect. We Catholics don’t worship statues, but those who don’t understand won’t listen to reason. Mary and Joseph had to go to a stable...or whatever it was because it was Mary’s time to deliver the baby Jesus, thus the only place was where animals were kept, and the only place to use as a crib was the crèche. I love nativity scenes because they remind me of the birth of Jesus, as others are reminded too.
Absolutely ...his badge number 714 is also retired! A GREAT HONOR!
Kevin MacNally I’m told the #714 came from the Babe Ruth home run total; JW was a fan of BR and took 714 as his badge#
WONDERFUL! A BEAUTIFUL STORY.................JOE FRIDAY AND HIS PARTNER WERE GREAT.........................A STORY OF LOVE; IS'N'T THAT JUST LIKE CHRISTMAS? I HOPE ALL OUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN LEARN THIS STORY.................... I LEARNED ABOUT IT IN SCHOOL, AT HOME, AND ON TV....................I'M 71 AND I STILL LOVE THE STORY. THANK YOU, OLD PETER U S A OH, AND MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES!
how could any one not like this
I don't like it... makes me cry when the Padre explains to Friday that the Mendoza family is poor... and Friday responds "Are they, Father?"Great writing and great acting and still one of my favorite episodes!
The tiny boy with the wagon is soooo adorable!!! I remember seeing this episode back in the 1950's!
One of the Best Stories Ever Told !
A warm hearted Christmas classic...
Funny I remember when ALL of the radio and TV shows treated us that way.
Excellent episode, not too corny or sob story like most Christmas programs/episodes are on TV.
This episode was re-done in color a decade later called, "The Christmas Story" with the same priest and Harry Morgan as officer Bill Gannon. Both are great episodes.
+Bonnie Kinch hi bonnie, nice warm weather we are having.
You're so right. They are both great episodes, even though the older one is my favorite. In the latter one it is delightful to see Harry Bartell again as the Priest and Ralph Moody as the Catholic store keeper, and Herb Vigran as the hotel keeper.
This episode from the 1950s was also in color, originally. It was the only Dragnet episode of the '50's shot in color. It only can be seen in B&W now.
Originally telecast in color on December 24, 1953.
Did they have color TV in 1953?
This is actually a B&W copy of a color print...It was the first color episode of a regularly-scheduled TV show ever broadcast, by NBC-TV right after the FCC approved compatible RCA/NBC color TV (Dec. 23, 1953). Note that the end credits mention "Pathe Color," a color film photographic process and trademark.
The young altar boy,Joseph Heffernan,is played by Billy Chapin. His sister,Lauren Chapin,played Kathy Anderson on the classic TV show Father Knows Best.
The Hollywood that was. Hard to believe how much we've changed in one lifetime.
And for the worse.
Today Obama would invite the Kid to the White House as a Hero who exposed the Stupidity of White Christians...who are all Racists of course....and never give anyone a Chance...and want a functioning International Border....
These were good days. Even though Jack was not the most religious man, he very certainly respected the part religion played in America. Like marriage.
😢
@Liberty Tree yes that is right. The left has a strangle hold on America .. they are winning and changing our culture. Not being allowed to say Merry Christmas when this nation is still over 95 percent a Christian nation is a disgrace. True many people come here from another country and don't believe in Christmas.. and complain about our Christmas......if so, then GO BACK to where you came from. I will ALWAYS HONOR Christmas. THANK GOD Jesus was born and gave us his tortured body and life for OUR sins. Thank you Jesus!
I watch this every Christmas morning. ❤
brought me a tear or two ,great video
My favorite scene in any given TV Show
I remember this Dragnet from when I was a kid. 👍 A show like this would never be made in todays culture.
Hard to imagine this program today!
That was LA when I was a kid, just like TV shows, everything changes.---Bummer, can't warp time.
Yes you are right. We were NEVER this innocent. I cry EVERY time when the boy brings the Baby Jesus back.
$200 SUIT? Oh my goodness!
Always a nice relationship between Friday and Smith.
This seems to be a much loved story. I've seen both versions, the old and the new.
The little boy (who saw the man with the bundle) played the older brother in "Night of The Hunter" -- Cute/smart kid and good actor. 4/2019
Amazing! I listened to this episode on my car radio!
I loved to watch Dragnet. This episode was remade in the 1967 version with Barry Williams playing Joe Heffernan. I liked the part when Paco asks the policemen will the Devil come and take him to Hell
"That's your department Father."
Every year i love this show , more than one viewing of course
and back this year
One of the best ever.......
Celebrating Christmas through the actions of a child is something I should learn from today.
Now that was the best ! 🤗 🙋🏽
To my knowledge the only movie actor to have a LAPD Honor Guard at Mr. Webb's funeral in 1981.
FYI...the Webb funeral was December, 1982...he died right before Christmas of heart failure (all that smoking).
I believe that Martin Milner of Adam 12 was also honored. Another Webb production. Both great shows ever since the old radio days.
I remember this show because it was a Christmas regular. hard to believe so long ago.
I am not sure why people always blame smoking. According to Wikipedia he died of heart failure. My own father also died of heart failure at age 64 in 1990 but was not a smoker. Many men died of heart disease at a younger age in those days. I am not a smoker and agree it isn’t good for anyone, but because someone died of heart disease and happened to be a smoker, the two are not necessarily connected. Right now my wife, 53, has heart failure and has never had a cigarette in her life.
@@246spyder I just watched it here in February. I wish I had seen it at Christmas..but still it gave me a good feeling to see it now. As long as I'm alive, every Christmas from now on I will watch this. God bless
@TheBrabon1 oh fuck off. Take your racist excuse bullshit somewhere else. Shows what you dont fucken know of the man or this show.
Jack Webb's dry, pedantic narration does not detract from, but only adds to, the piquant charm of this story; as does the dialogue between the various characters, and the original music weaving throughout. For DRAGNET to represent Christmas so nicely against its usual hard-boiled backdrop makes great pause for reflection...
YEA for Jesus!
I just love all the liturgical jargon that altar server's able to spit out like he's talking about the weather. I wonder how many Protestants thought, "I have no idea what he just said there."
This was essentially the replacement for the .22 Rifle for Christmas in terms of Dragnet's "Christmas" episode
cottagechskitty Just as well, as that one was just sad. Good message, but this one...
What a wonderful story. Didn't see little paquito coming,
Oh my GOODNESS!
The beginning banter between Frank and Joe, was particularly good in this episode!
I laughed out loud when Frank told Joe, that Faye said WEAR THE SAMPLE, when he told her the suit was $200 lol 😜
~AND~
when Joe told Frank WHY DON'T YOU GET Faye A CATCHER'S MITT lol
bahhaaa!
I actually choked on my drink!
ENJOY!!
(Thanks for uploading!)
Happy little story. Of course today, in the UK this could never be screened as it would be deemed " offensive " to those of the " religion of peace". Weird but unfortunately true!
In the USA too. They wouldn't even broadcast it today for fear of offending somebody. And that offends me.
you have a big ptoblem
NO he doesn't, we all have a BIG problem.
Did you notice how cute Webb was when he was licking those stamps for his Christmas cards......he could be a professional............
Awesome episode!
Am I the only one who noticed that most of these Dragnet shows told the story on the radio shows, then told the same exact shows that were on the radio on the TV shows in the 1950's then they did the same exact stories that were once on the radio and done in the 1950's then did the same ones in the 1960 Dragnet episodes? This exact episode was done in the1960's too. Word for word, the same story.
Did you ever notice that the same problems still plague us?
these shows should have been an hour.
LOVE IT
“A hit and run is not important. We’re here for a $20 plastic Jesus”
Actor who is the priest also played jewel thief in "I Love Lucy".
The actor's name is Harry Bartell, who I met and socialized with at one time. He had a very long career in radio and television dramas.
Harry was a regular member of Jack Webb's "stock company" on radio and TV.....right through the second "DRAGNET" series. You name it- he played it. Good guys, bad guys, inbetween guys.............
Jack Webb would have made an awesome deadpan comic.
He was good in the self-parody he did with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show. It is here on TH-cam.
Yes.....He would have been great in the movie "Airplane"
Seems like the Naked Gun character Leslie Nielsen played was a takeoff/spoof of Sgt Joe Friday
By all accounts of those who knew him in person he was said to have a wicked sense of humor.
I have seen this episode many times, but today is the first time I noticed that the disclamer, "The names have been changed...." was not there. t starts, "The following story is true." Pacco must really have been named Pacco!!!
That disclaimer was in every Dragnet show, It was at the end.
+ 264spyder - "The names have been changed...." was in every episode BUT not in this one.
Nope, it is there at the end. It's just a tad different, no 'to protect the innocent'.
Well, no one was guilty in this one.
Very sweet,and I'm not even a Christian although I had one Catholic grandmother so I know what the Church used to be like. Today they would arrest him and probably charge him as an adult.
you mean put him in prison and expose him to homosexual assault ?
with catholics thats about the same as sending him to the priests for confession ....and homosexual assault
NO way !!!
3 flaws:
-as the value was very low, it not cross any state or district mandated prosecution for felony theft
-the church was open, and the lad was not trespassing, so he wouldn't picked up on burglary charges.
-because of the above 2, if the church did not press charges, nobody would bother do anything about it, and even if the church did press charges there is a good chance it would be declined by the DA and anyone with a brain.
If you hate the police, suit yourself, but better to look at things through the lense of law and reason rather than the lense of drivel. I didn't even get into why only Deputy Dum-Dum out of Kleetus Kounty would think it be a good idea to charge him as a fkng adult. Marry Christmas
I Just love myself some Friday...LOL
By the year 2019, missing statues of Jesus are the least of the Catholic Church's problems.
They did this same episode in the 60's with Harry Morgan aka Bill Gannon, same actors as in this one, for the priest, religious store owner and hotel clerk
Yes they redid what they felt were the best episodes. This, of course was one of them.
I wasn't born when this episode was made, but I remember an Adam-12 episode set on Christmas Eve. A car with the family's Christmas presents in the trunk had been stolen. The thief was apprehended but at first it appeared that the car and the presents would have to be impounded as evidence and consequently the children would not get their presents in time for Christmas. At that point, the thief himself admitted that he did not know about the presents in the trunk. Since the presents were not evidence, the children had them in time.
Back when it wasn’t a “crime” to be Christian and to express your faith.
I’m sure Jack Webb enjoyed this episode since he was Catholic as am I.
The NIFB Jesus May God Bless You. He Loves You Because He Created You. You Either Believe or Not. The Choice is Yours.
As For Me, I Believe That God, The Father, Sent His Only Son to Die On The Cross to Forgive Our Suns, and Rose Again On The Third on The Third Day In Fulfillment of The Scriptures.
I will pray for you during Mass in the morning.
They stole the creche. "It's the only Jesus they know." That's incredibly sad. Alarming, really. "I don't care if it Rains or Freezes, as long as I have my Plastic Jesus. On the Dashboard of my car."
I love this episode.
You won't find it for as long as you live or in a million years.
"That should cover it".
Same actors accept Henry Morgan in the 60s. Great episode.
Don't get me wrong. While I found this episode touching, try calling the cops in this day and age and tell them somebody stole the Baby Jesus. NO one will give a shit.
we know that , didya havta remind us ?
Jack Trim i'm in the Los Angeles area, I don't know where you are, but absolutely the LAPD would never get involved on something like this now! Of course I'll never know, but I wonder if even in real life they would have back then.
It just depends. I was a Denver Cop and there are a lot of great stories, like an old lady called because her cat had died. Two officers responded. They took the cat and buried it in her back yard for her. I'm also a Vietnam Vet. "Please," don't paint all the cops with such a wide brush. Some of us actually joined the force to just help people. All this kneeling stuff at football games to protest is truly offensive. Multi-millionaires, "Get off your high horse." Most of this black lives matters won't cut it! Tell me how many people were in Rodney Kings car the night hey got a beating? YOU look it up. You'll guess wrong, guaranteed.
Nice one sir !
I hate religion this corny
It's a bloody miracle!
"It's the only Jesus they've known." Sad. They don't even know him.
such a sweet story. They don't make them like this anymore.
Thank heavens for that! I always hated this maudlin episode.
Jack Webb's deadpan delivery is what "sells" Dragnet.
Jack Webb's deadpan delivery is what "sold" a lotta Chesterfields. 🚬💰🚬💰 😁
The kid got five years hard labor. The wagon is in impound.
But he didn't go to Hell, or face the Devil. ;)
OK, I'm gonna get whacked for this........but I can't help seeing Rod Serling each time I see Jack.
A really good one. A good one indeed.
Thank You Jesus.....Amen
I'm not crying, You're crying!
It was a nice story. The Spanish was badly pronounced and very unnatural. The child, Paquito, kept referring himself in the third person. He must have met Bob Dole somewhere along the line.
Sweetest story ever. The red wagon.
The used the same lines for an almost identical episode from the 1960s series.
This was one of the few episodes from the 50's that was repeated in the 60's show.
Greg Brady (Barry Williams) played the altar boy and Dr. Early from Emergency played Claude Stroup in the 1960s version
this was originally broadcast on the radio show with exactly the same script
Bobby Troup appeared several times on the 1960's "DRAGNET" before Jack decided he'd be perfect as "Dr. Early" on "EMERGENCY!".
Would you believe the TV soundtrack was used on radio, with additional narration by Webb? It was.
Lots of goodness from this lowly drama
Like this episode
old...about 40....ouch
LOL, all the shows are called "the big ....".
...i never heard them say they needed a warrant before...or was that another show.....
Better than half the christmas miracle shit on today
Great episode, it must have been one of Jack Webb's favorites too. Before the two TV versions, he did it on the radio. From Radio Episode 227 of Dragnet, here's "The Big Little Jesus": th-cam.com/video/s4pSBIqOPRE/w-d-xo.html
Darn allergies! My eyes are watery!
I’ll bet they’re not going broke on a bunch of spoiled rotten brats. Those were the days.
those three guys sing like me...
Joe Friday seems extra testy in some of his exchanges with the public. He normally only acts like that when he’s dealing with the perps
Still cry. And I'm 70
That shop owner is convinced the LAPD won't find a crazy person.
Is he aware that he lives in Los Angeles?
The Jesus statue looks like a Shirley Temple doll.
The boy got five years in juvenile.
And eternity in Heaven.
the baby Jesus wasn't placed in the creche in my Roman Catholic church until Christmas Eve midnight mass.
So they haul Stroop downtown, and when they let him go it's up to him to get back home? Merry Christmas, penniless man.
I thought the same thing. Merry Christmas.
These days, they would have deported the kid.
Pre-Miranda. They hold him until he talks.
I seem to recall an episode of Adam 12, where the little boy was outside the church with the statue in his wagon still. False memory?
❤