Dragnet | Ep2 | "The Nickel Plated Gun"

[@damagecontroller8637]

This radio podcast has changed my life I have came up with new ideas from listening to all of the stories🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@kimberlyferris3860]

I was born in 1963 and moved to a town of 218 people in Wyoming when i was 12. We had no tv and two radio stations we could get. But at night we could get an am station out of LA and they played the old radio shows. Fell in love with them and when i finally got a smartphone i found out i could get them on yt. I'm still in WYO and still don't have tv, so i'm as happy as a clam!

[@krazycatz]

My guess is you listen to 1070 KNX-News Radio. I live in Los Angeles and that’s the station that used to play one hour of a radio drama show every night. 📻📻

[@bradyfry8031]

These old radio shows are a million times better than most shows you'll see on TV these days, this is coming from a 25 year old

[@SartorialisticSavage65]

I'm 32 now, too young, like you, when I started listening. We both realize a revival would be valuable.

[@hayden7525]

I feel the sane exactly way. I'm able to visually create these scenes in my head so I basically watch all of this

[@Gail1Marie]

As they used to say, "On the radio, the pictures are better."

[@TheMusicalStylingsofBrentBunn]

31 here. So happy I discovered old-time radio

[@jaydemo5792]

When working overnights driving a MACK construction dump trailer with some loads weighing 30 tons of more , having to navigate my way through the streets of NYC , listening to these Dragnet episodes not only helps to keep me alert but also keeps me interested for every minute cause' of the action and adventures involved with every story....... I've got to give you a big , sincere Thank You for these ...... Jimmy Demolition

[@otrarchive]

My pleasure, Jimmy Demolition! Great name :)

[@ChristopherStewart-nk8bz]

Excellent

[@armintabaum1611]

I love old things!! My favorite genre is classics! This is the best!!!!!

[@crystalheart9]

Thanks so much for the upload. I love these old radio shows. I was born in 1951 and have only known tv, I never listened to any radio shows. I think they were gone by the time I was old enough to start watching tv but my parents would tell me about not having tv when they were young and listening to stories on the radio and how great it was. These radio shows really do capture your imagination.

[@JohnDonovanProductions]

Fun Fact! Following Webb's death on December 23, 1982, the L.A.P.D. honored him with a funeral normally reserved for officers who had died in the line of duty and permanently retired Joe Friday's badge number 714. Dragnet debuted over NBC-Radio in June 1949 and ran through February 1957. Webb also starred in two very successful television versions of the program- from 1952-59 and 1967-72. Webb first got the idea for Dragnet while working on the 1948 film He Walked by Night. Webb got to talking with one of the movie's technical advisors, officer Marty Wynn, who complained, "It rankles every damn cop in the country when they hear those far-fetched tales about crime. Why don't you do a real story about policemen?" Webb took his time in developing the series, plotting out every detail right down to the last sound effect. The L.A.P.D. approved the series, but had a few requirements: All dramatizations had to follow the facts of a real L.A.P.D. investigation; the show could never glorify or defame police officers; and it had to represent policemen as "real" human beings.

[@perrywatson8505]

THANKS FOR THAT ÌNFO, APPRECIATE IT!

[@fromthesidelines]

Repeats of 1952-'54 episodes were heard on radio from September 1955 through February 1957.

[@ShanaHagerlisreal2014]

Thanks for sharing!

[@rohnkd4hct260]

Great show! Grew up watching it.

[@JohnMartin-cd1qm]

Absolutely love these old radio programs But never realized how many Southerners moved to LA to work in law enforcement.

[@garbostyle1]

Thank you so , so much for sharing these with us all. I absolutely love these old programs. I am a new subscriber and cannot wait to listen my way through all the episodes.

[@otrarchive]

Thank you for subscribing!

[@garyfrancis6193]

I wish I had one of those IBM machines.

[@Monkofmagnesia]

Thank you! Nice to hear this series from the begining.

[@blixten2928]

Such a good-quality upload! Thank you so much!!

[@ronaldfontaine7447]

I think Alonzo Jackson was actor Jackson Beck. Beck was once the voice of Bluto, from the Popeye cartoons, and the narrator for the Superman radio series. I kinda recognized his voice, although it sounded slightly higher pitched, here.

[@fromthesidelines]

Nope. He was in New York at the time.

[@CuriousGoodsJessica]

Jack Webb sounds a little younger, but I bet he was the hallway monitor from kindergarten onward - the most authoritative and intimidating voice he had! But he had a mournful type of kindness too. He had a presence, if you know what I mean. Thanks for a great show!

[@davidswift7776]

Joe Friday.... Jack Webb genius ! Simply compelling ! Left handed redhead, nice leads.

[@karenhernandez9001]

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[@SalvationinCHRISTalone888]

5/19/18: WOW, brings back memories around the radio. thnx for posting.

[@philipinchina]

Good stuff!

[@tonychristo8393]

Dragnet,dollar,spade,Marlowe,Regan,etc. These shows are Incredible!!! When I was a kid i would hide my transistor radio under my pillow & listen.pretty sure my parents knew?!!?!! Thank you again!!!!

[@otrarchive]

I would fall asleep listening to these on cassette :) Not quite the same as hearing them on the radio but still pretty fun. Thanks for listening!

[@dancelli714]

@@otrarchive I was listening to radio shows in the 40's. Starting in1946, I guess I was 5. I remember;THE ADVENTURE OF SUPERMAN, THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE . When I was older; DRAGNET, YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR, JACK BENNY etc. Later R&R. In '55 we saw a R&R concert; the Eldorado, Shirley and Lee etc. I always loved radio, I also had my show on public radio. I have over 1000 OTR's and supplied KSFO in San Francisco with some of them. Each Night I play one before I go to sleep, my co-worker would do the same. We'd play a show before starting our work, Coffee and a good Detective story.

[@sooverit5529]

If you like Dragnet, be sure to check out This Is Your FBI. It is so entertaining; the stories are great, and the actors are superb! Dragnet favorite Stacy Harris plays the lead, Special Agent Jim Taylor.

[@dannygaines1352]

Straight clean lines.

[@missbirdie05]

In my personal opinion, every episode of this show is enough drama to fill at least 5 seasons of CSI, or any other police procedural these days :-D

[@coilmanjoe]

Yes, great entertainment!

[@Mr.Caring]

Hi. Cindy?

[@bansheemania1692]

Am i the only 30yr old or younger Person that Loves OTR More then Stupid TV..

[@oliviatheresa]

Im 37 and I love it!!!! 👍

[@halonothing4210]

You're not the only one, but we are few. There are more great resources with the Old Time Radio Researchers group... and of course archive.org

[@mikejordan8259]

Much respect to you Brother.

[@zacharybowen4247]

I am 33 almost 34 been listening since I was 10

[@riverfox5581]

Not the only one, I'm in my twenties and my husband only turned 30 this year. We even have some Suspense on vinyl! :)

[@TheRealDannAlexander]

Gold

[@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo]

1949: “They’ll be executed next week.” 2023: “They’ve been on death row for 20 years!” How times change. I’ve been a Dragnet radio and TV fan for decades, but thought the first radio shows were from the mid-fifties; no idea he started this early. 1949 clear till 1972 or so on TV, what a great franchise Webb built. Happy to see all these shows in one place! 👍

[@Cat-rc5bp]

They just executed a guy down here on death row since 1989.

[@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo]

@@Cat-rc5bp Wow, back then they would have put him in the chair within the month! Of course they also didn't take time to verify any claims of innocence in those days, so probably a few mistakes happened before they figured out the guy they had just executed hadn't done it. Still, 34 years on Death Row kind of defeats the purpose, they might as well do life without parole...

[@Optimalillusion]

The saying is that due to Webb's sticking to everything that worked, you can actually listen to the later TV shows without watching, and it will still play like the radio show. And it does.

[@winmancan8374]

Absolutely correct Close your eyes and it's the radio

[@dancelli714]

They were simulcast.

[@perrywatson8505]

I have noticed that when I walk away from the TV if I can hear it I don't miss anything

[@ajtstvandmusicarchivechann1585]

I love how they called a computer "an IBM machine"

[@advorak8529]

That would not be a computer --- at that time a 'computer' would anyway be a human doing calculations --- that would have been a 'simple' sorting machine: in goes the whole stack of punchcards and separated out are the ones that match all parameters: gender, age-range, skin colour, preferred weapon types. preferred methods, hair colour, ... ... basically you would have a card for every recorded person, every crime and/or crime sprees, etc. And if you want 'one or more of' or 'one or the other' selections and similar, you just have to do several runs through (usually) the resulting cards.

[@frankkool]

It was an IBM machine. The first one took up the whole floor of a office building. "The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, also called the Mark I, was completed in 1944 after six years of development with Harvard University. It was the first machine that could execute long computations automatically."

[@scottsmith9438]

Lol it was a IBM machine, just like the ones IBM gave to Germany .

[@howardoller443]

I am fairly certain the actor who played Alonzo Jackson in this episode is also the same actor who portrayed the bungalow court manager earlier in the episode. Using the same actor for multiple roles was likely either a cost-cutting move or he served as a last-minute fill-in replacement for an actor who bailed.

[@robt5818]

LOL at "cold in Los Angeles".

[@wandahall4435]

Jack Webb is A Savage!!! Ben Romero is My Favorite partner

[@dancelli714]

Barton Yarborough .

[@nellwackwitz]

He is my favorite partner as well. Romero and Friday were equals.

[@stuartwald2395]

And on top of the other names/voices already listed, the old cop at the 77th Street Station who directed Friday and Romero to Alonzo was "Chester" from Gunsmoke, the ever-appearing Parley Baer!

[@otrarchive]

Very cool! How do you know?

[@stuartwald2395]

I recognized the voice; he seemed to appear everywhere on radio and television through the 1960's.

[@heyoldman2003]

On my second round of Dragnet .. I was somewhat distracted the first time .. I love this old stuff . I’m not impressed with today 😬

[@jaredhowe1698]

Room 42......... homicide!

[@heyoldman2003]

Love it !!!

[@calebcresse1641]

I feel you. I am a going to be a senior in high school and get kinda bullied for watching/listening to these old shows. But its not my fault shows of today are just plain stupid. Not all of them, but most of them. 😂

[@heyoldman2003]

Good for you Caleb. School will be over soon and you will be able to be YOU . All the clicks will be gone .. if you like Old Dragnet . Hell with em …let em talk .. just be your own man 😎 so a senior next year?

[@JaketheMovieGeek]

Same

[@GlamRockCowboy]

The voiceover for Chief of Detectives Ed Backstrand was provided by Raymond Burr, who later became famous for his portrayal of Perry Mason.

[@larrygrebler5054]

Thanks for the info.

[@swertyr6]

Tom Nichol in this episode, it was Charles McGraw who voiced Ed Backstrand, not Raymond Burr. He came along later

[@davidgibson7615]

I thought it was Tol Avery

[@krazycatz]

Raymond Burr was also the star of the radio show Fort Laramie before he went on to do Perry Mason.

[@darrenmuse]

So, fun thing to do: look up the names of the victims and their addresses that the give in the show. They're actual locations where these things happened. At the time, they really had no idea that people could find the locations decades later! They didn't know to use 555-5555 and fake numbers and addresses like they do now.

[@Heavenzvoice]

The first wounded officer that Friday talks to at the shooting scene is the voice of Richard Diamond( another OTR detective). I know that voice anywhere!

[@fromthesidelines]

Actually, it was "Randy Stone" from "NIGHT BEAT" (1950-'52): Frank Lovejoy.

[@dancelli714]

@@fromthesidelines Yes, love joy. Richard Diamond was Dick Powell

[@davidswift7776]

What ? ... No Fatima commercials 😅. Thanks for post, absolutely amazing Dragnet 👍

[@fromthesidelines]

Liggett & Myers [Fatima] didn't become the show's sponsor until October 1949. During its first four months on the air {as a summer replacement}, it was presented as a "sustaining" series- no commercials.

[@strawwormcariama3280]

​@@fromthesidelines Do you know what happened with episode 1?

[@fromthesidelines]

No one can find a copy of the first episode (yet).

[@davidswift7776]

@evakatrinaa 😅

[@LeonardGarcia-yn2ej]

Thank You ❤ LAPD Needs Sgts. Joe Friday and Ben Romero ASAP! 👮‍♂️👮‍♂️🚔🚓🚓🌃

[@mcm542]

“The IBM machine.”😀

[@faithfulsaviour1207]

Thanks

[@otrarchive]

My pleasure, I am glad you enjoyed it.

[@isaiahvillarreal4512]

Love how Friday doesn’t go for bullshit. He’s so business like . Gives it to you straight . A wife starts bursting into tears cuz her husband got killed . Friday replies lady don’t breakup in here . If parents say you know how it with kids today. He comes back with no I don’t , I don’t have kids. Or married men try to explain why they killed their nagging wives . Friday just says no, I’m not married. Gives to you straight.

[@wufongtanwufong5579]

Friday would give it to you straight. Unless he was telling you a loved one is dead. Best one was when a man heard his missing son was home. It went something like. Father: I heard my son is home. Where is he? Friday: In his room. Father goes to see his son, but is interrupted by Friday Friday: Brace yourself Father: Why? Friday: He's hurt pretty bad Father: How bad? Friday: Pretty bad Short pause Father: He's dead isn't he ? Friday: Yes!

[@heyoldman2003]

Yeah , that’s pretty bad.. on my third run 😎 forget 2021 … give me Dragnet 1949 😄

[@JohnCena-ew1mf]

Lecturing a grieving widower is pretty shitty which is kind of the point. Fridsy softens up as the series goes on, he's a character with flaws.

[@MJBYouTubeNetwork]

28:20 Case closed.

[@desotokid99]

I wish I could find episode 1

[@simonmcgrath4112]

They've got it as I looked for and found it but always a but it's got content that is restricted in this country (England) don't no where ur from but obviously same for u but (another one!!) there is a way round it, just ask Google/You Tube and ule be told how to bypass the restriction!! Hope this helps!!

[@zacharybowen4247]

where I can find it anywhere. all of the website start with episode 2

[@KororaPenguin]

@@simonmcgrath4112 Where?

[@deziramson3451]

There is was museum in Tibet that my gardener's second cousin opened in 1998 and the main attraction is a dual display behind a window which contains behind it the hermetically sealed pair of Webb's black, tar-soaked, ravaged lungs next to Virginia Gregg's pair. It is the one of the most popular exhibits of all Tibetan wax museums.

[@Clancydaenlightened]

teh original livestream 😎

[@fromthesidelines]

This was still a "work in progress". I've yet to hear the first episode, but I KNOW it sounds just about the same as this one. Obviously, Jack Webb wanted things to sound more "natural" as possible- like a documentary- and less "melodramatic". After this episode, he started "tinkering" with the format: different theme music, a second announcer to provide the outcome of the suspects {if any} and the punishment they received {if any} at the end of the story, and so on.

[@perrywatson8505]

And thank Mr. Webb for Adam 12, that I watch everyday on TV , it ended TOO SOON JUST LIKE MR WEBB,, BLESS HIM FOR ALL HE DID

[@dancelli714]

Later the acting was NOT over done.

[@zacharybowen4247]

could you upload ep1? cant find it anywhere

[@Clancydaenlightened]

15:20 your average car don't sound like that nowadays unless you pay for it and duh gas money, dont get crank and cams factory installed lyke dat...

[@TheMusicalStylingsofBrentBunn]

The original Law and Order.

[@Clancydaenlightened]

12:00 sounds italian lulz 😎

[@sevilleandcoarthouse2960]

Why couldn't they keep THIS theme song....

[@ar6985]

The wounded cop sounded like Frank Lovejoy.

[@Horse237]

You are right. Frank Lovejoy was one of my favorite actors from that era.

[@andy24771]

I agree. He was very good. Always enjoyed Night Beat.

[@howardoller443]

@@andy24771 Nightbeat is a great radio show; one of my favorites! I recognized Lovejoy's voice immediately as the first injured cop.

[@Clancydaenlightened]

6:31 ibm product placement, wonder what duh fuk teh sold before duh electronic digital computer?

[@Clancydaenlightened]

show deez fukker my laptop, bak in 1949

[@Clancydaenlightened]

could film movies to simulate nukes in realtime wit audiovisual feedback, in yo lap, fuk dat tape and core/delay line memory

[@Clancydaenlightened]

what teh government would say to duh mixbreed educatin em wit a laptop in 1949: 6:37

[@strawwormcariama3280]

Maybe a Mark I?

[@KufLMAO]

what happened to episode 1

[@Johnnynbk]

interesting use of the warner bros porky pig backdrop

[@Mr22thou]

The suspect was a redhead and there was something funny about his nose. Did he smell like burgers & fries?

[@IceNiner199]

the suspect's partner wore a black cape and a mask and was heard yelling 'robble robble!' while waving a pistol around!

[@sevilleandcoarthouse2960]

He smelled of old fryer grease and cheap blood red hair dye...his fake cake-on facepaint was chipping and peeling at all angles,he pulls out a machete made of frozen fries glued together with trauma gauze and shaped into a primal blade,"ba-ba-ba"he walks closer,his mustard colored uniform ripping to reveal flesh like rancid,freezer burnt beef mixed with the unmistakable smell of rotten eggs,"da-da"...he's only mere inches away from you now *IM LOVIN IT* He screams in a half pig half demonic voice as he charges you,his buff,oily body streaks forward as you feel a sharp stabbing pain in the chest as you're lifted off the floor and everything goes dark

[@lyndafish642]

Hey isn’t the cop who got shot the same voice as the Lone Ranger?

[@leolaney1334]

Sorry for being stupid but how do I get above ep 200?

[@andrewwoodall9119]

Kinda makes you want to be a cop lol

[@Clancydaenlightened]

8:00 dont sound too different look at ppl nowadays

[@Clancydaenlightened]

sound like some kids arguing over duh toy or video gaem

[@Mike-pj1kv]

Thumbnail = Looney Tunes.

[@dancelli714]

Hahahaha . . . I'm glad they got rid of that original theme.

[@emobassist]

Whats up with the looney tunes cone thingy

[@martinnibataan7046]

The story you're about to hear is true except for the names, the dialog, the presentation and the way Webbs character always gets the last word. Jack Webbs alcoholism is not portrayed