Dragnet - The Big September Man, S01E11 * Classic TV show

Dragnet - The Big September Man
Season 1, Episode 11
Original Airdate: May 18, 1952
A drunk is found behaving erratically near the scene of a murdered secretary. Could he be the culprit? Joe Friday investigates. Watch classic TV shows free online at www.manicmovies...

[@RevMikeBlack]

Dragnet was a great program. These early black & white episodes were the best.

[@michaelmorgan7893]

I started out watching the color episodes with Harry Morgan (Col Potter from MASH) as Det.Sgt. Bill Gannon. Then in 1996, I saw a box set of these B&W episodes with a wide selection of veteran actors playing his partner: Barton Yarbrough as Sgt. Ben Romero, now we see Barney Phillips (The Twilight Zone) as Sgt. Ed Jacobs, then two different actors that played Frank Smith. Herb Ellis, and Ben Alexander.

[@Rushmore222]

Dragnet was top 10 in ratings for its first 5 years, some of those in the top 3. It was a mega hit. Most people with a TV set back then were likely watching this show.

[@thomashugus5686]

Wasn’t born till 1950. These episodes I’ve never seen and actually better than the 1967 reboot!

[@adamschwartz3449]

Eddie Firestone, who played the drunk, had a long career that included a small role in Spielberg's first feature length movie _Duel._ He played the café owner.

[@dariowiter3078]

"Duel" was a television movie that aired on ABC in 1971.

[@danceswithcomicbooks7733]

It was a feature it was a tv movie. Come on man. Do your research.

[@aaron2709]

He's great. I see his influence coming through Sam Rockwell.

[@daviddowns7552]

@@adamschwartz3449 I think I seen him in the untouchables. He was a pilot. I think the episode was one part of the big train.

[@africanqueenproject]

We were driving thru the West on a family vacation when we watched the Duel on the motel TV.. I was totally freaked out about semi truck's for thr rest of the trip lol ..I was 16 years old at the time. Great movie

[@johnstuartsmith]

Barney Phillips (Sgt. Ed Jacobs...) looks strange without that third eye in his forehead.

[@MyREDTAIL]

WOW A really young Jack Webb May he RIP and is missed by all of his Fans etc.

[@lisamiller8174]

His step-son runs a nice Facebook page: The Jack Webb Archives

[@tonyarceneaux286]

I agree with you.

[@gobbollino2688]

He carries a baaadge

[@bobtis]

Great actor and producer. RIP

[@Tommy-76]

These episodes are wonderful. As I post this (January 12, 2023) it’s the 46th anniversary of the first episode of the 1967 revival, known as The LSD Story, the so-called Blue Boy episode

[@phylliselizahb1041]

If s'one only knows 1 Dragnet ep, it's the Blue Boy ep!

[@randquadrozzi1280]

Stacy harris was great as the scamming forest ranger in the newer episodes.just kept spewing knowledge about the forestry dept I was impressed

[@kathyflorcruz552]

The criminals in this series have their excuses down pat!! It's hysterical hearing them in rapid fire exchanges.

[@richardsalicejr5295]

He played various villains through the series.....he even played the crime boss in the mid-fifties big screen version of "Dragnet" which was surprisingly gruesome for the time

[@randquadrozzi1280]

@@richardsalicejr5295 yes it was and i found the content of the 2nd movie to be very disturbing

[@heyoldman2003]

what movie was that ?

[@randquadrozzi1280]

@@heyoldman2003 the dragnet movie was made in 1966 but did not air until 1969.meant as pilot to kickoff dragnets 2nd run on tv.It's about missing girls and it's grisly but well done.

[@dariowiter3078]

Jack Webb had many wonderful actors and actresses working for him on both versions of Dragnet(radio & television), which always gave Dragnet a wonderful edge to it. 😃

[@justiceforall6412]

Interestingly enough the series was re-done in the 90's I believe and dramatized a bit more. They only got as far as one season. It's a shame.

[@Tommy-76]

I have a name for his actors: “The Mark VII Repertory Company”. Folks like Virginia Gregg, Peggy Webber (still with us at age 95), Harris, Howard Culver, Vic Perrin and many more…

[@tonyarceneaux286]

And some of them apperred on his other tv shows.

[@lilajagears8317]

@@Tommy-76 Vitginia Gregg was also in multiple westerns, in particular gunsmoke.

[@thurayya8905]

He must have really gotten on the bad side of writer James Ellroy, though, as Ellroy is quite scathing about him in his trilogy novels.

[@jimlaguardia8185]

You know we’re in big trouble in 2024 when we have to go back 70 years to get good entertainment.

[@silverhammer7779]

Yeah, but it's worth the effort 🙂

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

You know we're in big trouble in 2024 when any nitwit can pose as an entertainment expert on social media.

[@silverhammer7779]

@@steverhodesvideos6244 If you are implying that you're an "expert," doesn't that also make you a "nitwit" by your own definition?

[@JohnnyLovato36]

… Your logic seems similar to mine! I can look back over past years and recall what was and compare to what is today! And a young person, (55 or younger), does not have any concept of what you’re referring to! Yet I can remember 58 years back that my then Beach Bunny Girlfriend! now Beautiful in every way, Wife!, we’re Cruising P.C.H. in my 1964 British Triumph Roadster loving life as we still do today! It seems people accuse me of being fatalistic or living in the past! I have a past! and it is Memorable! It’s just that today is so Effen Lame! The Music and Their Logic just to name Two! WTF …

[@Downecker]

You're right! I'm 74 and don't bother with TV. So many commercials, no matter what channel!😮 The 50's and 60's was my prime years enjoying outstanding TV !!😂😂

[@jeangriffith8017]

Good one ! Thank you for posting.

[@AnnacolleenEtters]

So clear! The picture is just excellent! Can't say fairer than that, either.

[@gobbollino2688]

Is that the ranger at 17:30? 1970 Dragnet S04E21 Yeah a young Stacy Harris

[@sonnynewton5906]

We have to go back 70 years for folks to have a good life!

[@betsya7054]

It wasn't good for everyone

[@bobtis]

Very old 1952. On for a long time and back in 1967. This one B4 Ben Alexander. Barney Phillips. Another wonderful actor of the time. Loved him. For early TV 1951 this was awesome. Holds up till this day.

[@jossetteking4967]

Stacy Harris was, in real life, Jack Webb's best friend. Jack named one of his daughters after him.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

Unfortunate he never married or had children & passed away so young at 54 from a heart attack.

[@tonyarceneaux286]

Jack Webb's daughter worked on Adam 12.

[@daviddowns7552]

jack webb had been married many times. julie london for one. the smoking did kill the man.

[@dariowiter3078]

​@@daviddowns7552 Jack was 62 when he died in late 1982.

[@larryb8022]

Miss Frank Smith, RIP sir your missed.

[@michaelterry4394]

Not guilty he doesn't smoke LOL. Ben Alexander Mr Smith. Rip.

[@busterhikney6936]

Most of the fellas referred to him as the September Man, but she called him The Big September Man.

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

the actor playing Tanner, Stacy Harris, appeared in more than a few of the later "Dragnet" episodes, playing everything from a doctor to a white supremacist to a nut case impersonating a forest ranger.

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

Jack Webb and Stacy Harris were great friends. Webb named a daughter of his Stacy after Harris. Harris also played an important role in the Dragnet movie (1954).

[@OuroborosChoked]

I wonder if that Mark VII Production bumper is where the Williams Street bumper got its sound effects from... the TONG TONG along with the rumbling timpani sounds just like the WS bumpers.

[@-0rbital-]

It sounds identical to me.

[@jackzaccardi1896]

Webb saved big $$$ with all the narration.

[@davewitter6565]

Late September in Los Angels and they are wearing hats and long winter coats.

[@daviddowns7552]

i watch these dragnets all the time. i dont think they are one i havent seen. same as adam 12.

[@7owlfthr]

Working on it.wached them as a kid. They're still good!

[@daviddowns7552]

@@7owlfthr I probably seen all the episodes of color but I'm sure they are many episodes earlier in b.w. I have not seen. I'm sure I've seen all the Adam 12 also. I really enjoy these.

[@jamesbradley4548]

These shows are great! Friday was The Complete Cop/LEO. See 2:00 mark. He can even find a toothpick, and keep the team on point! :) 😃 (That's humor folks; not a beat-down of cops. What an I say: I'm working from home. Plenty of extra time! ) 😃

[@jerryshunk7152]

Friday lays out the whole plot while his colleague picks his teeth😅

[@rustydog1236]

"The Blue Canary Bar" a sly reference to "The Blue Parrot Bar", which was a notorious gay Bar in Hollywood from the 1930s on. A coincidence? [Wink Wink] (The Blue Parrot Bar was also the slimey Sidney). Greenstreets Bars name in "Casablanca". Another coincidence? ) Notice that everyone agrees the drunk guy has no romantic interest in the pretty murdered girl. Just used her to borrow money.

[@wryanddry2266]

4:45

[@Mr_Oggie]

Dang! Who needs all these fancy computers of today? Based on that guys description out of 4,000,000 people they came back with one suspect...

[@-0rbital-]

Very realistic! 😂

[@LuckyBaldwin777]

I like the thumbnail. Looks like he's smoking one-a them thar left-handed cigarettes.

[@meganc2993]

Some of the acting is so stiff but it works and I kinda love it lol

[@fromthesidelines]

Adapted from a September 27, 1951 radio episode.

[@GrymsArchive]

Loved the show but now that I'm older it's quite obvious that Jack is reading cue cards. The eye's give it away.

[@stevecline5102]

You are right, pal . Jack Webb insisted that the actors would read from cards that were off stage. I learned that from the biography about Jack Webb, or else the history of the TV show Dragnet. One of those two books, maybe both.

[@lilajagears8317]

Do you have Dragnet that ran from 1967--70 with Harry Morgan?

[@Tommy-76]

There are some of the color episodes here on KZbin

[@tonyarceneaux286]

Does anybody know of any other KZbin channels that have any classic TV crime shows or anything I might be interested in?

[@heyoldman2003]

Johny Dollar. close second to Dragnet

[@LandondeeL]

1:25 Sgt. Lopez could have, perhaps should have been Romero's replacement on "Dragnet". Lopez spoke in a hoarse and husky voice to match Friday's.

[@MsLogjam]

He also had a nice, peppy manner--plus that nice, peppy mustache--that would have worked well with Joe's poker Marine face and monotone.

[@johnsiebelink4287]

I agree. But sadly this was the fifties. It would have been unheard of. I think they’d have made a great team

[@MsLogjam]

What about Ricky and Lucy?

[@lisamiller8174]

They had huge start power, and "Ricky" was not portrayed in the same way a serious cop would have.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

@@MsLogjam Have you heard what it took to get that show on the air? Almost didn't because Desi is Cuban.

[@Clancydaenlightened]

13:29 wonder if fire stations still understand dat....

[@joyceyagoda4207]

Loved those old cars! Air conditioned?

[@-0rbital-]

In the 50s? Don't think so.

[@spartandodge6034]

We had "wind wings". Did the trick.

[@lineshaftrestorations7903]

Jack Webb started his collection of thespians in the early edition of TVs Dragnet.

[@dariowiter3078]

He started doing that when Dragnet began as a radio program on NBC in June of 1949.

[@mikeh.7499]

​@@dariowiter3078YEP!

[@dindinprivate3477]

Just found this series. I remember it from my childhood many years ago. The actor BARNEY PHILLIPS (Detective Ed Jacobs), looks very familiar. Anyone know if he went on to other series on TV?

[@Ace_Hunter_lives]

I listen to a fair amount of old-time radio and his voice sounds very familiar.

[@johnsiebelink4287]

He was a regular on various TV shows for many, many years. Wikipedia has a good list, I checked it all out. It’s legit

[@dindinprivate3477]

Thanks John Siebelink

[@mistercash1000]

www.imdb.com/name/nm0680237/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

He had three eyes on the Twilight Zone that another commentor already mentioned. I think he's my favorite partner of Joe's and should have kept him on longer.

[@allandonovan4620]

LAPD doesn’t refer to police cars as “cruisers” but Black and Whites”……..

[@WilmerCook]

Have another Chesterfield Jack, doctor's say cigarettes are harmless (In 1954)

[@7owlfthr]

Looks fine to me!

[@DennisSullivan-q2r]

May 1952. I am busy being a toddler. 1950s Hard boiled police drama.

[@LordZontar]

Friday's still smoking Fatimas at this point.

[@deziramson3451]

Emfatima

[@yourpcgoddess]

Chesterfield for this year

[@deziramson3451]

@@yourpcgoddess Chesterfields we're fortified with 8 essential vitamins.that year and he changed brands.

[@minnowviewbait]

did ALL of ya reellyy miss that Hillllllarious thumbpic of Webb in slooowww motion Flyin High ? - LoLs jus Cracked me Up !

[@silverhammer7779]

At 4:15 it shows Friday interrogating a suspect while wearing his holstered service weapon. This was a violation of department protocol as well as common sense, since it would have been very easy for the suspect to grab the weapon and use it. Other than that, a pretty good episode.

[@McIntyreBible]

Tanner is knowledgeable of the Bible (18:01), but too bad he had a distorted view of it!

[@jackkreighbaum783]

I wonder when detectives removed their weapons when interrogating a suspect.

[@daviddowns7552]

the sound is weird.

[@sdgakatbk]

Lol, he looks like a kid in this one! Black and white too.

[@Darrell1019]

The "juice is loose" but maniac manson's still in! How does that work?

[@MsLogjam]

Because the care, feeding, and security required for a free Chuckie would cost millions in tax dollars. I'm guessing this was also the reason why no attempt was made to take Osama bin Laden alive. And OJ wasn't serving a murder sentence. That's how it works legally, anyway. How it works karmically is another story.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

One was a CIA op & was wasn't. You figure it out.

[@booklover6753]

@@kathyflorcruz552 Earth calling Kathy....Earth calling Kathy.....

[@DennisSullivan-q2r]

The good old days, before the Miranda ruling.

[@mohinderkaur6671]

2.03 Hallicrafter S38 receiver.

[@wfshanley4712]

I wrote "The Dragnet files, reopened because you demanded closure". Haven't heard back from HBO yet.

[@heyoldman2003]

Room 42….HOMICIDE 👍🏼

[@samdigiorgipo]

Wow a murder found and convicted , , , then put to death for the crime of murder , ,

[@spartandodge6034]

Phenomenal for California.

[@floydtinsley1108]

stacey harris is the best at playing nuts !!@@@😢

[@dodge96neon]

the killer in this episode could have been a david koresh/jim jones/ charles manson person

[@daviddowns7552]

he killed adelle.😥

[@jasongoldtrap1114]

Jack and Janet worked best as friends.

[@johnmore4861]

An attractive secretary was beaten up! Damn I could taken it if a secratary get beat up but an attractive one is a shame!

[@McIntyreBible]

13:44, Tanner's brother says the his brother distorted the Bible.

[@Clancydaenlightened]

24:10 😎

[@Clancydaenlightened]

18:00 seemed to reuse actors more often back den...

[@Richard-me2pq]

Why are they wearing long overcoats in Los Angeles,?

[@Richard-ur1uh]

Who?

[@reynaldoflores4522]

16:03 Why would an American passport need any visa to travel to South America? American passport holders can travel visa-free to almost any country.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

Ugh. People who hide behind religion are the worst.

[@benniebarrow348]

Agreed……ranks right there with hypocrite democrats preaching tolerance and then trying to destroy anyone with a different opinion.

[@mbellizia75]

It poisons everything

[@bradleisure8339]

Tanner was an example of the ones that don't really believe. It's just a mask.

[@dwightpowell6673]

Where there any Black cops in the 50's?

[@jeannemurray1046]

Probably not. The great part.. it's more equally respected.

[@JohnParks-zc1pn]

Back then they knew how to deal with religious kooks.

[@dans9463]

Stop Smoking

[@glennhopkins4294]

714 was the MLB homerun recird at the yime Coincidence

[@glennhopkins4294]

I think not.

[@Clancydaenlightened]

9:50 wot duh system say...😎

[@GathKingLeppbertI]

So much bow to assumed authority propaganda in this show

[@artistjoh]

As soon as someone starts talking the over-the-top god stuff I don’t trust them. So many of them use the god cover to hide their evil, and the worst of them use the idea of the retribution of god to commit terrible crimes, but mostly it is just a pathetic attempt to belong by people who struggle to form normal relationships. There are some lovely people who are Christians, or other religions, but the problem is, even the good ones are likely to bring you in contact with the bad ones. I prefer people with more sanity than to be thanking Jesus every chance they get.

[@benniebarrow348]

Yea…..like todays woke democrats. Hypocrites and shysters . Trust them no further than I could throw them .

[@mbellizia75]

"Normally, good people will do good. Bad people will do bad. But if you want people to be really wicked, give them religion" -Hitchens

[@godfreecharlie]

Hey, that guy they busted has been in a schlew of Dragnet episodes. Impersonation of a Forest Ranger, Conservationist guy, and there's more but I'm gonna let you look 'em up. Same mannerisms, speech pattern. Webb must have liked him because I'm sure he worked when others could have.

[@DrunkAuntSally]

1952...man, this was early TV 😊