Dragnet | Ep235 | "The Big Sucker"

[@vincentventra6891]

thanks for posting these great shows.

[@wandahall4435]

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[@nativeroscoe64]

Harry Bartell is the go to actor on accents. He did dozen's of GUNSMOKE radio episodes.

[@random-jj7ix]

Hey, Frank Smith is back from that extradition on the previous episode

[@wadechilds6671]

It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 🚬☠️

[@heyoldman2003]

Ya it all worked out .free room and board at the Gray Bar Hotel. 😎

[@theoregan4183]

But had he really been an illegal alien, he would have gotten cellular service, cash, free room and board in a 5 star 🌟 and more if he was in LA, New York San Francisco, Seattle Portland,

[@heyoldman2003]

@@theoregan4183 yep ..sad but true

[@theoregan4183]

@@heyoldman2003 you and I have been trading messages for years, Oldman is what my grandson who we raised as our own calls me when I get him Frustrated! He's a great kid, if you hadn't had that handle first, I would have used it..... Lol

[@heyoldman2003]

@@theoregan4183 hahaha yep… Happy New Year old timer . Always good to see your Notes . and screw 2022 , give me Dragnet 1950 . have i told you about Johnny Dollar? close second to Dragnet …Dom Da Dom Dom 😊

[@KororaPenguin]

"Best [cigarette] for you." That was much more relative than they realized.

[@johnjack902]

Oh yeah

[@rmedley22]

Joe and the Crook both implied the"Marks" are just as dishonest as the Crook. Why? Because they tried to negotiate the best price they could. Huh? So negotiating the price of an item is dishonest? If they were dishonest they would have took off with the diamonds after they had them appraised.

[@stuartwald2395]

It is a standard trope that most scams are played on people who are trying to "get rich quick", to get something for nothing or to take advantage of a situation; think about how this plays out over and over again in "The Sting". There are exceptions: there was a previous Dragnet radio episode on the "marriage scam" (single woman/spinster seduced into engagement and advancing money to man who then disappears), and in a TV episode in the late-1960's, Joe and Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) express their disgust over the scam artists who run the "bank examiner" routine on senior citizens who are just being helpful (and also have bad eyesight) as opposed to the bunco victims who are trying to get something for nothing.

[@ronaldsims6120]

Lol

[@wandahall4435]

Jack Webb is A Savage!!!

[@howardoller443]

And Wanda Hall is a loon!

[@theoregan4183]

A displaced person was afraid of jail of deportation, but now he'd get a cell phone and a trip anywhere in the country, and in comfort on government jets, let's go Brandon!

[@chillydawgg4354]

I come here to get away from that political bullshit, take it somewhere else