Dana Gould on DRAGNET
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- Already enormously popular on radio and television, Jack Webb's seminal cop show got the big screen treatment in 1954 with a solid cast and WarnerColor to sweeten the deal. Webb directed but his famously stone-faced delivery remained anything but sweet. His co-stars, including Richard Boone and Dennis Weaver, followed their director's lead with their own no-nonsense performances. The film was a hit but there wasn't a follow-up till 1966's blandly produced TV movie.
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Thank you Dr. Za...thank you Dana!😎
“missing link between a man and a bullet”
That’s awesome, seriously. Gould’s wife must be a riot.
Although there are weird humorous moments in the B&W 50s TV series, when he was partnered with Ben Alexander as Frank Smith, it has a much darker tone overall. As opposed to it's 60s revival series in color with Harry Morgan as Bill Gannon (which is what most people remember due to syndicated reruns). The Big Break, The Big Hate, The Big Cast, and The Big Show are all good examples of grittier darker early episodes. - Miss Emmy Martian, Dumb Industries.
I believe there were many writers doing subversive/experimental things in some of these 50s tv shows (cartoons, too) if they could get away with it. I've been shocked a few times revisiting some old shows on TH-cam!
@@juniorjames7076 There's a good deal more of that in DECOY with Beverly Garland (which I consider to be the sister show to 50s Dragnet) about an undercover policewoman. Check it out when you get the chance.
Man, I remember watching Dana Gould do stand-up back in the 80s.
Crazy.
the best thing about the radio show was the commitment of the sound effects team. Footsteps down hallways sound like the cast is on horseback. And god help the listener if somebody's dialing a phone, cos we're gonna hear every number dialed. Amazing.
The early years of the radio show - particularly the years with Barton Yarborough as Ben Romero - are really top notch. The episode where Friday makes a long distance call to Idaho is an extraordinary piece of captured history.
Webb was so committed to the SFX, he made an episode early on where it was recorded “on set”. It wasn’t recorded in a studio, but in real locations. It turned out to be a major hassle to produce, and the audio quality was no better than if they had done it in a studio, so it was done as a one-off. An interesting experiment, even if it wasn’t successful.
i stalked dana after a simpsons thing in portland once, he was lovely
They should've spent the money on a movie version of Have Gun Will Travel
Just the facts, ma'am.
Always found it befuddling how some movies back in the '50s and '60s (Dragnet, Batman, Gidget, to name a few) were literally extended length episodes that might as well have aired on tv.
Many low budget movie series from the 40s and 50s had the look as well (Blondie, Francis the Talking Mule, Ma and Pa Kettle, etc) and were naturals to become TV series as that medium was developed. Shows like McHales Navy, The Munsters, Batman, etc..made feature length versions to be shown in Europe to introduce that audience to the TV series that was about to be syndicated. They were originally shown in the US as Drive-In and matinee features similar to Beach Party films like Gidget, Frankie & Annette, etc.
@RegenerativeHomes Very true. I'm 50. In the 80s I remember i had cousins who lived in France and they swore they saw a film version of The Incredible Hulk when they visited. I told them that was impossible! Later found out in the early 1980s cinemas in Europe screened a 2 hour Hulk tv special as a feature length film!?!
@@juniorjames7076 That's not surprising. There's a film version of the Stephen King vampire TV mini-series, "Salem's Lot" (1979) that has gore in it.
Yes, often a two-parter would be released in theaters as a single film.
Look at those beautiful colors. Not like today's wretched orange and teal nonsense.
😊 great