Dragnet | Ep3 | "The Werewolf"

[@JaketheMovieGeek]

Love how families would sit around the radio to listen to their entertainment

[@mikedifrischia6273]

When the world was a better place. I wish we all could go back to these times thank you from the bottom of my heart for posting

[@intothenight756d47]

You start out wondering if this is going to be some weird silly supernatural episode but it is actually outstanding.

[@dustyrustymusty3577]

Theater of the mind. The best. Thanks for posting.

[@jamesbrown-ws3fz]

I still love listening to these simple and great radio shows,there the best!!!!

[@carolinerollins4676]

I love Ben. He was Joe's best partner. Ben, was so funny. He made the stories come alive. 😀😀😀

[@nellwackwitz]

@Caroline Rollins I agree completely! Ben was fun, intelligent, caring, and Friday respected him. Absolutely the best partner Joe ever had!

[@heyoldman2003]

Great stuff ! Just think of a family sitting around the radio on Friday night ? And listen to this story.. werewolf ? 😮. Bet it scared em good haha History is cool .. he’ll I’m history hahaha

[@CedroneTravels]

And every member of the family imagines a different scene and what everything looks like. That’s the difference between tv😊

[@JESUSISLORDFOREVERMORE888]

5/30/2021: Wowow, really enjoyed this

[@james4582]

Love the sounds of those Ford flatheads starting up and rolling out. Distinctive sound when they start.

[@heyoldman2003]

And a stick shift 😎

[@GlamRockCowboy]

The part of Ed Backstrand, Chief of Detectives, was played by none other than Raymond Burr, who later rose to fame playing Perry Mason and Ironside.

[@fromthesidelines]

Not in this episode.

[@x-rockfm92hd81]

LOVE OTR NOW IN 2022! BEATs TV!

[@wandahall4435]

Thanks for posting these programs they are great!!!

[@sharonroller8849]

Love this show , good memories, thanks

[@GlamRockCowboy]

This was the first episode to use the theme song generally known as "Danger Ahead," composed by Walter Schumann. Several years later, a lawsuit was filed challenging Schumann's authorship. It was eventually settled out of court. Schumann, already in frail health, passed away shortly after the settlement was agreed to. For more information, consult Wikipedia under "Dragnet theme song."

[@Antedithulian]

I love comments like this. Something I would never have known until I read it.

[@coilmanjoe]

the internet can be bad, but this is quite interesting.

[@KororaPenguin]

That means "George Slocum -- Thief" probably used the same theme music as "Nickel-Plated Revolver".

[@davidcafalone5469]

One of the greatest. Definitely a Hall of Fame Candidate Big little guy.

[@synthiastewart7064]

Just all together a famous “Team” Stories awesomeness ❣️ on point entertainment ✌🏼

[@calebcresse1641]

I quit listening to these for a while, because they kept giving me nightmares lol. But now I'm back 😁👍🏻

[@misskim2058]

Hmmm...The Werewolf moniker was associated with serial killings, and a particularly infamous one as well. So, did they use the same moniker, or totally shift the type of the attacks, the locations of the found victims, and the description of demographic of the targets?

[@bilkenhampton]

love this show

[@tylercherneski1805]

Anyone else notice how joe never has his own pack of cigarettes and is always bumming them from Ben?

[@michaelmohrle1773]

Because he smoked O.P. cigarettes, Other People's !! Haha, a joke my dad told me back in the day.

[@tylercherneski1805]

@michaelmohrle1773 haha so your dad noticed that too?

[@michaelmohrle1773]

@@tylercherneski1805 No, when I bummed cigarettes from him as a teenager in the mid 80s he told it to me !

[@jeremybear573]

Bravo!

[@susancummings3930]

@Jeremy Bear GOD BLESS YOU THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE 🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@jeremybear573]

@@susancummings3930 My pleasure!

[@kennethhaggerty153]

play it on 0.5 speed it sounds like "DRUNK-net"

[@davenelson7159]

ADK would become 1K80 on television.

[@gergemall]

Love them

[@calebcresse1641]

Don't you mean, "The Big Werewolf?"

[@nostalgia6578]

They didn't call episodes "The Big" anything until FATIMA showed up.

[@shortlinet]

How come the news boy sounded 50 😆

[@teresas8173]

Maybe not 50, but certainly didn’t sound like a kid/teenager

[@Cat-rc5bp]

And sallow faced.

[@mike7288]

Do not "know", but read a while back that Jack Webb was such a baseball fan he picked 714 as Friday's badge number to honor...who else? Babe Ruth.

[@Cat-rc5bp]

Maybe he liked Quaaludes?

[@heyoldman2003]

@@Cat-rc5bp hahahahaha

[@heyoldman2003]

Skipper … they used that line up into the 1970’s . I wonder if they ever called him Skippy. ?

[@SVT1969]

I had an ex-Marine boss named Skippy in the 80's, I would guess he was a Capt, what other rank is skipper?

[@huntingthekaiser6490]

Guys on the radio sucked in cigarettes like they were breathing in oxygen.

[@misskim2058]

Yep, it helped sell them. Overt behavioral programming. Overt, but still so many people don’t make the connection...even to this day, they don’t make the obvious connections, not just to products, but to social engineering at large. and shaping and molding norms and public opinion. People will still think they own their own mind. If they’re absorbing TV, movies, radio, and social media, they definitely don’t...fortunately, a lot of people are turning away from it all...

[@larrygrebler5054]

@@misskim2058 Now a days young people are on their smart phone. Nothings changed,in some ways worse.

[@misskim2058]

True, Larry, some are lost in a deeper mess...

[@davidcafalone5469]

So what

[@calebcresse1641]

@@misskim2058 haha I know a Miss Kim.

[@jaystiletto4015]

Bill Gannon forever :D

[@junkboxxxxxx]

Dragnet used real street names but purposefully changed details of LA street topography, like changing N/S streets to W/E, bogus neighbourhoods, and intersections that didn't intersect. The chase around and into Hollenbeck Pk was all topographically correct tho'

[@KororaPenguin]

Webb didn't want vengeance-minded felons putting two and two together.

[@russellschaeffler]

I don't know if Huckleberry Hound makes for the best partner for Joe.

[@ljhendrickson2960]

That's spot on! Lol

[@calebcresse1641]

Yeah I agree. 😆

[@davidatkinson8561]

He made it easy for you. "Nothing to it"

[@missbirdie05]

Does anyone know who voiced Ed Backstrand in this episode? It ain't Charles McGraw or Raymond Burr, but he sounds familiar. Much thanks!

[@resmith66]

Sounds like Pat McGeehan. He worked a lot on Red Skelton's show.

[@swertyr6]

Cindy Chen definitely Pat McGeehan. Star of Strange Adventure. Also had a great part in the Crossroads of Christmas episode of Family Theater. Great choice of police commissioner

[@fromthesidelines]

Parley Baer is the "cashier" at the end.

[@williamchappell9858]

Now that's old fashioned programming this is great ! I'm a little tired of the color version I wanted to do something fresh & different

[@williamchappell9858]

I liked Ben too great partner yeah!

[@raymondgerman6671]

How would Ed react if Ben and Joe told him they didn’t have a minute to go his office?

[@rmedley22]

How about their tired and want to go home. See you in the morning.

[@fromthesidelines]

As heard on Fridays at 10pm(et).

[@lyndafish642]

How can a sprawled body be crumpled? 🤣

[@crazyhorseaz5224]

TRUTH IS WEREWOLF PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE WEREWOLF ARE AROUND. CRAZY PEOPLE.

[@Cat-rc5bp]

The Big Werewolf

[@calebcresse1641]

Werewolf???? I mean it is Cali. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@nostalgia6578]

Charles Manson maybe?

[@deziramson3451]

Ed Backstrain

[@nostalgia6578]

When Raymond Burr played the role, he became Ed Backside Pain.

[@Dulcimertunes]

Joes partner is Cliff Barbour from One Man’s Family

[@wandahall4435]

Jack Webb is A Savage!!!

[@howardoller443]

Why do you hate the police, Wanda?

[@philipinchina]

Women cause so much trouble.

[@user-tn3mg3xj6s]

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