Dragnet | Ep43 | "The Big Book"

[@johnshawngrubb4675]

Raised our kids on these true stories of good old-fashioned good and evil.

[@heyoldman2003]

Good Man 👍🏼

[@RatzoMcFatso]

I love how Webb included all the vibrancy and diversity of LA. He really made it come alive.

[@nellwackwitz]

It's always fun to hear Henry Morgan's voice. Thanks for these wonderful uploads!

[@bansheemania1692]

M.A.S.H Col. potter?

[@forestgeorge8855]

I thought that was him as the parent during the PTA. Nice to hear him on a Dragnet pre-Bill Gannon.

[@-oiiio-3993]

@@bansheemania1692 Also Bill Gannon, Friday's partner in the 1960s Dragnet TV series.

[@-oiiio-3993]

His character in this ( 05:32 ) _really_ wouldn't have liked the internet!

[@douglasschaden3475]

He wasn't as bald back then, my point is he was Harry.

[@Dulcimertunes]

The contrast between the time of this program and now is earth shaking. From prosecuting those who peddle filth, to school boards REQUIRING it be taught, no society can endure when wrong is called right.😢

[@nostalgik._]

Sign of the times. Parents in those days actually gave a damn.

[@InuitInua]

Love that line "Laws don't decide how moral a city is going to be, people do."

[@heyoldman2003]

And LA is so moral today 🤪

[@Efferheim]

@@heyoldman2003 Agreed; that is just the problem. Some people think that it is immoral to punish someone for crapping on the sidewalk, for getting drunk or high in public, stealing less than $1000 worth of stuff. They think that it is immoral to punish someone or hold them accountable for their own actions against other people. They let them attack people on the sidewalk, they let them destroy things. People believe that morals are relative. They are not. Morals are inflexible, rigid things. Letting them go lax always causes issues.

[@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo]

Poor Joe Friday would have a heart attack if he went to North Hollywood today! By the way I just watched one of the old TV shows from the’50’s (partner was Frank Smith) with this exact theme, and Martin Milner (Adam-12 Officer Malloy) played the High School kid selling the “filthy trash joke books,” with his locker packed with them. He looked very young, must have been one of his first TV appearances. Just checked here and it was Season 4 Episode 1 “The Big Producer,” from the 1954-55 season opener. So Jack Webb did the story here on the radio in 1950, 4 years later on TV, and then 10-12 years later in the 1960’s Dragnet TV show where they focused on stopping cheap porn films. The one where the young girl killed herself at the end?

[@slumpyb]

Coffee and Mexican food? Then adding ketchup?

[@-oiiio-3993]

Bottled salsa was hard to find in those days, I suppose.

[@Billys-Joint]

haha

[@nostalgia6578]

Sgt Romero should know better - Even Detective Frank Smith wouldn't do that to a burrito 🌯! 😸

[@douglasschaden3475]

Didn't this episode pretty much mirror the plot of the 1987 Dragnet movie with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks?

[@SemperFighting]

California's academic policy would make those books look like comics.

[@Krana-rt2yy]

Plus California is probably the center of the porno industry, lol.

[@heyoldman2003]

Sad but true . I told my grandsons Porno is no good . Gets you all worked up .. and no where to go 😬

[@nostalgia6578]

Especially the 🏳️‍🌈 books.

[@Billys-Joint]

Well, according to global website traffic data from Statista, the top 3 porn sites in the world receive a combined 5.81 billion website visits per month........haha. we've come a long way

[@Dulcimertunes]

A long way down

[@nostalgik._]

For the worse. 😒

[@heyoldman2003]

I told my grandsons . Porno is no good . It gets You get all worked up .... and no where to go 😎 best to just leave it alone 👍🏼

[@Cat-rc5bp]

If one had a daughter they should be very much against pornography. Those books are full of pictures of somebody's daughter. Our society is full families with no dad's active in their children lives. Any dad who thinks it's ok to have their daughters pictures in these books or movies should be dealt with harshly if you catch my drift.

[@heyoldman2003]

@@Cat-rc5bp yes i do 👍🏼

[@sheilapasquini6232]

These days, this wouldn't merit a look. Morality is a joke and the filthier the better. Thanks to a generation of parents who forsook right and wrong in favor of "inclusion ".

[@Krana-rt2yy]

Yep. And nowadays there are stories in the news of kids texting out the nude pictures of classmates. They don’t even need Playboy magazine or whatever any more. It’s tough being a kid in today’s world.

[@heyoldman2003]

Sad days 🥺

[@-oiiio-3993]

But it was _wise_ to smoke Fatima long cigarettes. Jack Webb died of a massive heart attack at 62.

[@AA-zq1sx]

Funny that anyone would think pictures of naked ladies and pinups are "filthy" and "immortal" while pushing chain smoking unfiltered cigarettes, hard alcohol, and giving benzo tranquilizers to any woman who got emotional over the murder of her child on this show, because that's "hysterical". The 1940s were far from moral, it was a time of incredible ignorance, racism, sexism, homophobia and censorship. A catholic council controlled what was allowed on radio and in films, self righteously preaching to everyone else while molesting children. If you think this is a time we should go back to, you're delusional!

[@nostalgia6578]

​@@-oiiio-3993 Pornographic material should never be in the hands of any youngster - period. Depending on what state law is enforced, 18 or 21 tend to be the legal age to purchase, and the same goes for tobacco products. Was a big deal in 1950, as it should be in 2022.

[@wadechilds6671]

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

[@nostalgia6578]

Your first puff will tell you, 🚬"cough cough wheeze choke - ahhh dat's different!" 🤣

[@larrygrebler5054]

Made a big deal over porn, yet pushed cigarettes. I know they didn't know how bad cigarettes are back then, but it's still funny.

[@-oiiio-3993]

Jack Webb died of a massive heart attack at 62. I don't suppose those _wise_ long Fatima cigarettes had much to do with that?

[@howardoller443]

Sounds like you're supporting moral relativism.

[@larrygrebler5054]

@@howardoller443 I don't know if I'm supporting anything? I just found the whole thing funny knowing what we know today.

[@howardoller443]

@@larrygrebler5054 I understand. Cigarette smoking and porn are two completely different stand-alone issues and both bad for you.

[@mikecappadocia5959]

Mr. Herzberg died in 1976 from a heart attack.

[@-oiiio-3993]

As did Webb at 62. It's _wise_ to smoke Fatima long cigarettes!

[@nostalgia6578]

​@@-oiiio-3993And Chesterfields too - best for you!

[@kenknight4560]

Wonder what caused more long term harm and death; a nudie book or the smokes that sponsor the show......

[@bansheemania1692]

And A few years later. Playboy

[@-oiiio-3993]

Now; _the internet._

[@nostalgia6578]

In 1953, with Marilyn Monroe nude. You're a detective sergeant.......

[@dustyrustymusty3577]

I think I heard the voice of the woman who usually play Friday's mother. Really irritating.

[@mikeanderson8069]

Peggy Webber. She was in her 20's, yet played a lot of older ladies in many shows.

[@howardoller443]

I liked that actress as long as she wasn't playing an older lady, like Friday's mother, which was so irritating.

[@nostalgia6578]

​​​I could just imagine people back in '50 hearing her old lady (Mrs. Friday) voice mama-coddling Joe and say, "DIE ALREADY YA OLD BAG!!!" She did after Romero died.

[@sailatmojo]

"Dirty" Books ... banned in Florida 😀

[@mrsenchilada776]

The point I'm trying to make is...

[@A7-.-]

I wonder why they had to call them (Fatimas)extra mild?

[@Billys-Joint]

There are 1.3 million porn websites