Dragnet S02E09 The Big Grandma

[@creatornat]

The looks the fashion department manager gave after the flirtation took place was hilarious!

[@evelynwaugh4053]

Love the social commentary, and everyone looks better in suits and in black and white.

[@nescafe7154]

Evelyn: Yea the long stories and chats the characters do is fun to hear. This has always been one my favorites

[@Joemantler]

"Do you think the good Lord will say I was wrong?" "Yes, Ma'am." "Why? He came to help the poor" "When he told the rich man to give away all his money, he also told him not to steal."

[@angelamalek]

“He didn’t use a check book.” Too good!

[@richardpodnar5039]

I love the use of the term "charge-a-plate" in these early days of what we're later to be known as credit cards😊

[@suppylarue220]

most were made of cardstock, resembling library cards. and some of them had small aluminum number plates impressed upon the cardstock.

[@77thTrombone]

They were charge plates - steel plates, maybe double the dimensions of military dog tags, and they had the person's name and account# stamped into the metal, as done with dog tags. I only saw one, and I don't remember the store being indicated on it.

[@77thTrombone]

They were charge plates - steel plates, maybe double the dimensions of military dog tags, and they had the person's name and account# stamped into the metal, as done with dog tags. I only saw one, and I don't remember the store being indicated on it.

[@lppuzio]

My mother’s charge plate had notches and each notch stood for a particular store. Broadway, Bullocks, Robinson, MayCo, I. Magnin, Saks.

[@motherbrain86]

lol at the butcher just chowing down at the liverwurst, i wanted that meal that old lady was cooking near the end, always loved frank smith

[@brandonleague3641]

Can't blame him. Liverwurst rules.

[@lindathrall5133]

EATIN GOOD IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

[@ThePattibeth]

Hey me too plus some hard rolls and kosher pickles

[@RBAILEY57]

Jack Webb and Dragnet were excellent, in both the 50s and 60s editions.

[@sportsfix6975]

Remember cheques? Could you imagine still having those today? Haha 90% of them would be bad!

[@lindathrall5133]

I STILL LIKE DRAGNET I LIKE TO FOLLOW ALONG AND PICK UP ON CLUES

[@cmoneytheman]

@@lindathrall5133 ill be upgrading to hd and fixing grain/scratches and dots of both drag and adam12

[@suppylarue220]

@@sportsfix6975 many people still use checks.

[@grampabill]

This show aired on the day I was born. My grandma used to make the best meringues!

[@marquiswallace9957]

The greatest police show ever produced.

[@peterlester8830]

Enjoy listening to this and Highway Patrol

[@gmax-go3pp]

just love these old shows. most episodes were baced on real police investigations. back when cops were cops and not shown as action heroes or crooked.

[@bobaldo2339]

Television in glorious black and white - the way god intended.

[@marthaschmidt9771]

dragnet is the best. this is one of my favorite shows

[@bobsaturday4273]

100% agree !

[@duran007fan5]

Dragnet, the Lone Ranger and One Step Beyond are my favorite. don't need cable. LOL.

[@mnific1953]

Also Highway Patrol with Broderic Crawford.

[@Starphot]

Back then when Granny's borosilicate PYREX dish didn't explode in the oven!

[@LazyIRanch]

Ha! Glad I'm not the only one who thought about that! I buy old cookware at estate sales to use because they are way better than the ones now.

[@suppylarue220]

they didn't have microwaves then.

[@Starphot]

@@suppylarue220 Um, The modern pyrex brand is in all lower case are exploding in conventional ovens when you open the oven door, not much at all in the microwave oven.

[@uppercut70]

RIP cream sauce

[@MJBYouTubeNetwork]

The Lord came to help the poor. There was a big difference, ma'am. Yes, what's that? He didn't use a checkbook.

[@hollyb6885]

4:54- a 50 year old is an elderly woman?! Ouch that hurts, Joe!!!

[@jec1ny]

When this first aired, life expectancy was 66.

[@Krana-rt2yy]

I heard a 38 year old referred to as old lady in one of these shows.

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

In those days that was the way People looked at things I guess! They sterotyped the old lady with the glasses, rocking chair and knitting needles, and they called everybody Sonny!

[@ajjackson1526]

@@jec1ny Back in the days when 9 out of 10 Doctors recommended Camel Cigarettes lol

[@TheLocoUnion]

She was listed as 50 when her crime spree began by the time she was caught, she was described as 60. I think she looks 70 though!

[@mwilliams1330]

Wow, at the 10:45 mark we see Joe Friday is more than just police work. Even on duty he enjoys a little innocent flirt.

[@harlankrissoff9966]

That girl also played Friday's girlfriend for 2 episodes.

[@TowGunner]

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you happy to see me?

[@D45VR]

ground breaking show. Webb was amazing

[@cellmate1]

Butcher eating his goods up 😂😂😂😂

[@herrwolfe4041]

So many folks post the same episodes hard to know what one you have already watched. LAPD retired Jack Webb's badge # when he died, class act.

[@dariowiter3078]

That badge number of 714 was never issued by the LAPD in its entire history, but when Jack died in late '82, the LAPD honored his memory by retiring it anyway. 👮🚨🚔⚖️☺️

[@gadsdonflag4289]

And they flew their flag at half mast.....which had never been done before.

[@shirtless6934]

So were there officers with Badge 714?

[@buzaldrin8086]

25:11 Officer Frank Smith's revolver with stag grips. Nice rig. That's probably a 4 or 6 inch S&W Model 10. Heavy, too. Notice how it's pulling his thin belt down? He should get a sturdier belt.

[@janbahno303]

Thank you for a fine show..always enjoy watching these episodes..oh for the old days when crooks got what they deserved

[@joecantello4022]

Many of the Dragnet TV episodes from the 1950's were first broadcast on the radio, watch the credits carefully and you will notice.

[@fromthesidelines]

Right! Ironically, at the end of the radio episodes during this period, George Fenneman reminded listeners, "Watch an entirely NEW 'DRAGNET' case history each week, on your local NBC television station. Please check your newspapers for the day and time." Of course, they weren't "new" at all, they were adapted from radio scripts. Eventually, Fenneman substituted the word "different" for "new".

[@sanfernando2stories998]

Barry I. Grauman “thank you George Fennemen”

[@davidsigalow7349]

I just listened to the "Big Grandma" radio episode. The dialogue was identical, but the extra bits put in for television - the butcher eating the liverwurst or the fashion show guy giving Frank the hairy eyeball - demonstrated that they were adapting to the new visual medium.

[@timmitzlaff8960]

A nice figure! 🤔 That guy must have just gotten out.

[@r2gelfand]

🤣 Either that or blind as a bat!!!

[@yevetter.2126]

Hahahaha

[@tomcarpenter700]

He was talking about the figures on the checks

[@rocketscientisttoo]

Just like a politician. Willing to give away lots of money as long as it is not their own.

[@McIntyreBible]

21:45, she stole to be charitable the poor, but she didn't realize that charitable giving done dishonestly is sin!

[@garrettmills841]

Every episode named "The big" something

[@nunyabusiness863]

The last shot of the cream sauce overflowing was genius.

[@davidlium9338]

I don’t think I would be smiling knowing I was going arrest that woman.

[@AliasUndercover]

This woman is why I have a debit card now.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

There was no such thing as a debit card back then. Credit cards are SUCH a trap!

[@sportsfix6975]

With TAP!

[@reynaldoflores4522]

This woman is why nobody accepts personal checks anymore.

[@1969atiq]

@@kathyflorcruz552 he said debit cards. Not credit.

[@randquadrozzi1280]

20k lot of money back then.probably get a light sentence cause she reminds people of their own grandma.guy eating all that liverwurst was just plain weird but that's a typical dragnet scene.

[@suppylarue220]

there was indeed that certain quirky humor of Jack Webb.

[@randquadrozzi1280]

@@suppylarue220As a young kid in the 70s Dragnet always gave me the impression that people in California were kinda of crazy.

[@ThePattibeth]

I like liverwu😢rst grew up on it

[@randquadrozzi1280]

@@ThePattibeth never had liverwurst but did get a lot of deviled ham sandwichs for lunch in elementary school.

[@jomon723]

A regular Robin Hood

[@johnalanelson]

It's so Strange seeing Jack Webb playing the same role as in the 67 series but at a much younger age. At times he sounds almost like a teenager.

[@genkatqltr8517]

He was born in 1920, making him in his mid thirties or so. I looked it up.

[@jujujupiter]

@@genkatqltr8517 thanks

[@Charlotte-wp9rf]

She must not know about the wooden spoon trick to prevent boilover. ;)

[@randquadrozzi1280]

Seemed like a rotten cook but a good crook.

[@teresas8173]

I like Jack Webbs smile

[@mercedesbenzformula1]

What a crazy and interesting story!

[@theothertroll]

He (The good Lord) didn't use a check-book - LOL!

[@cottagechskitty]

Probably my favorite episode of the series.

[@Heavenzvoice]

cottagechskitty mines is Blue Boy...

[@allisoncorona7381]

@@Heavenzvoice "Blue Boy" is one of the best episodes of Dragnet, but I think that it is also the scariest! A TV show or movie doesn't have to be gory to be scary. The next scariest episode is when the baby drowns in the bathtub while her parents are stoned; all they showed was the tub overflowing, and you knew what had happened.

[@Heavenzvoice]

@@allisoncorona7381 yeah BlueBoy had a very creepy vibe. Especially the part when he had his head on the dirt. It was creepy. I saw the one with the baby... yeah that was sad.

[@grampabill]

@@Heavenzvoice I still remember BlueBoy all these years later. It certainly left an impression on me.

[@deezimmo4814]

The actor that plays Frank Smith is an uncle to Martin Milner and got him into show business. That is why you will see M.Milner as an extra in some episodes of Dragnet.

[@fromthesidelines]

Milner became a valuable actor to Jack Webb- and not just because he was Ben Alexander's nephew. Webb KNEW talent when he saw it- and when he started planning "ADAM-12", he had Marty in mind.

[@MrAlumni72]

Milner had a show business resume well before Dragnet, starting in 1947 with Life With Father. He must have made a good impression on John Wayne as well - he was in Sands of Iwo Jima and Operation Pacific too. All of them before Dragnet.

[@nescafe7154]

Interesting fact about Milner being Alexanders nephew, thanks for sharing that!!!

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

Didn't know that. I was a big Adam 12 fan when I was a child and I just watched Route 66 for the very first time. Terrific show.

[@ernestclements7398]

As well as in the Dragnet spin off Adam 12.

[@aardvark1956]

Whole eggs to make meringue ⁉️😆Vinegar and water “in a small pitcher” but added straight to the meringue😂❗️

[@iheartscaryclowns]

Honestly I was ready to pause the vid and get a pen and paper to write down the recipe.

[@LazyIRanch]

Right? The screenwriter obviously never made meringue, can't have any yolk at all, it won't whip.

[@rogerrobin2774]

The best thing about Dragnet is how nearly everyone they interview has some kind of eccentricity. One would almost think folks from L. A. are weird.

[@nunyabusiness863]

😅

[@49lucky]

They r weird fruits and nuts

[@suppylarue220]

they still are weird. jack Webb had a big hand in casting character actors.

[@LM-bn1wt]

weird in LA? Not a chance

[@SMigacz100]

At 50 she is "young" enough to be my daughter!

[@suppylarue220]

that actress did look older than her actual age, and died in 1954.

[@tessmoore3762]

Now the state of California would do nothing. They probably wouldn't track her down let alone prosecute her and send her to prison.

[@sportsfix6975]

Throw the book at her!....make sure it's not a checkbook though!😇

[@cinerama62]

I just lost my taste for Liverwursut.

[@JohnParks-zc1pn]

13:19 If the signature looks like Mary Walker's handwriting, how were the police able to tie it to Grandma?

[@lillymyra6441]

I'm just worried about the cream sauce.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

She never went to prison. She paid her bail by check, and disappeared.

[@bobsaturday4273]

good one

[@ricardo53100]

LOL

[@jimmypearce9323]

@@ricardo53100 I worked with a woman who was arrested for bad checks.....she bonded out....gave her bail bondsman a check....a hot check.

[@shirtless6934]

@@jimmypearce9323 Nowadays, bonding companies are more careful. Many of them will demand cash security or even a first mortgage on real estate, after they have obtained a title report.

[@tonydavis6482]

You might say she `Checked` out....

[@classicsurvivor]

Just think, 50 years from now people will be watching this and saying, Honey... what are checks???

[@rickmartin6147]

In the UK they are non-exsistent in shops

[@winonamassingill7895]

This cut me off before I could send my reply. 😡😡😡😡😡☹️☹️☹️☹️

[@winonamassingill7895]

No, if it had said credit cards 💳 they would have understood. The cost of progress??? Go figure!!!😂😂😂😂😂🙄🙄🙄🙄😲😲😲

[@reynaldoflores4522]

This episode is a big reason why nobody accepts personal checks anymore.

[@VladamireD]

@@reynaldoflores4522 that and they're a big hassle for merchants to deal with. They served a use in their day, but so did town criers.

[@JohnParks-zc1pn]

With today's technology, it would take nine minutes, not nine years, to catch her.

[@kevinparks47591]

This is the city Los Angeles California, Let's Roll 😊 Kevin Parks Vincennes Indiana USA 2024

[@Ash-yu1yj]

What an animal, thieves are the worst. They come in all ages and races.

[@MK-ft3qt]

Joe Friday was deep in the matrix.😅

[@jacknakash2677]

During the fashion show scene(s) not one of the gals asked Friday or Smith; "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?"

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

The gal then said, "Forget the 6 feet. I'll take the 7 inches."

[@michaelcolfin8464]

Not the girls, it was the guy with the glasses. Didn't you see him take a double take?

[@markgarin6355]

She's making a meringue pie with whole eggs?

[@LazyIRanch]

Screenwriter knew nothing about making meringue!

[@shirtless6934]

@@LazyIRanch 😊

[@randallburgess46]

Love Dragnet! I was a young man when it was on tv, but now I’m older and watch it whenever it comes out on KZbin

[@karenmartin8223]

Oh dear, that cream sauce will taste scorched.

[@davidhostetler721]

Funny, Karen.....

[@jacquelinemilton6387]

I remb watching this and Perry Mason w my grandma the old black and white tv no remote

[@aishakakiaeakin-nc2gk]

She said especially waitresses.

[@lynnetteagard7828]

She does look older than their description.

[@Heavenzvoice]

Friday had the sexiest beautiful smile.. love how he was smiling when his partner was helping get the dishes, he was smiling but thinking... too bad we have to take you to jail.

[@user-mp3eq6ir5b]

Angelofmusic Wonder - Jack Webb was 1/4 Native American by his mom. A little background fill on his character.

[@america_is_a_myth]

Lock her up! Lock her up!😂

[@adamschneider8132]

I think her motive was beautiful.

[@jimmypearce9323]

Unusual not to hear the Miranda rights being read!!! Many years before that came about.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

The color series has the miranda rights.

[@shirtless6934]

Actually the Miranda case was decided June 13, 1966, or 54 years ago today. The color series began in 1967. It took Angelinos awhile to realize they had rights. Friday and Gannon would read them their rights, and they would start blabbing. 🙄

[@jlwilliams]

Guys, take off your hats when you're in the office! What's the matter with you?

[@davidsigalow7349]

@@jlwilliams Notice, however, that, like a true gentleman, Frank would not put his hat on the kitchen table.

[@reynaldoflores4522]

The good old days without the Miranda rights, police brutality cases, body cams, CCTVs , phone videos, etc.

[@sambucas.4645]

That nkoody music does my head in

[@kathyflorcruz552]

People used to be able to float checks until payday. Now you can't because of Big Brother & you get hit with cutoff utilities & fees & a myriad of problems.

[@ronwatson5996]

when they went to interview mary walker and she made tha phone call the hand set was backwards, the cord was at her ear not at the mouthpiece.

[@lisakilgore1903]

i still have tsd from when i fell victim to id and check theft.

[@timmitzlaff8960]

Whoever said grandma had a nice figure must have been locked down for a couple decades!

[@ianblackney9827]

This is one of my favourite TV shows

[@jeffreywoo9797]

SGT Friday got a flirty look from one of the pretty models and he got gainfully embarrassed at 10:45

[@MR-vf1fw]

Was she smiling at Friday or Frank's piece.

[@jeffreywoo9797]

@@MR-vf1fw either one, lol?! She might like the jealousy competition between these two studs!

[@phoenix-kenzodapathaan5568]

Love it......... "He didn't use a cheque book"! ¡

[@monicagomez4616]

I can’t help but feel sorry for grandma. She was trying to help the poor but went about doing so the crooked way. Thou shall not steal grandma, not even to help the poor. She tried being coyly convincing but the evidence…..

[@sidhayes6168]

A great show !

[@kenbritton6782]

21:34 Busted..the friendly grandma facade and all her kitchen diversions didn't work. Is this a true case? This is a funny one.

[@ricardo53100]

These are all true stories. I would have kept her at the county jail for a couple of years and had her cook.

[@BeingRomans829ed]

00:01 Every time I see this, I think of Babe Ruth.

[@paulmarsh9544]

I wonder what they would do if Richard Ramerez lived back there

[@arise2945]

They would bust him and send him to the gas chamber pronto. As it should be.

[@lindycorgey2743]

Inez Lambert was played by Gwen Delano. She would have been 69 or 70 in this episode of DRAGNET. Gwen was born in 1881. I guess she carried her age well.

[@herbchilds1512]

"The Big Liverwurst." Next week, it's "The Big Salami." Coming soon, "The Big Kielbasa." It was the best of times, it was the wurst of times. Any way you slice it, it's "The Big Bologna." Sauerkraut and mustard are included.

[@mikerubin22]

this is fantastic, thank you so much for this

[@Caligari...]

They cut out the part where the Grandma throughs the boiling sauce in Joe Fridays face when he tries to cuff her .

[@shirtless6934]

At 22:31 Officer Smith expresses surprise that her husband did not know anything about this. Typical 1950's attitude. It is the husband's fault, as he obviously did not do a good job supervising the "little woman."

[@daniblabla709]

i see what you're going for, but i'm not sure this is really the best example whether your spouse has been a financial criminal for the past 10 years is... kind of a big deal? she said that her husband "wouldn't understand", that it would be terrible when he found out, so i read Smith's line as "how could you not tell him? how could you hide this from him?" the entire scene focused on the woman: it explores how she didn't really see herself as a criminal - the fraudulent checks weren't some dastardly caper from a moustache-twirling villain, they were a sweet old lady's little secret (so secret she didn't even tell her spouse) - and lets her make her own case - she was taking money from wealthy people and giving it to the needy, that's what god would've wanted -, before the protagonist proclaims his own moral and the credits roll, so i'm not too inclined to read a sexist message into smith's line there

[@shirtless6934]

@@daniblabla709 Good analysis. In the 1950s though a wife's ability to be financially independent should have raised her husband's suspicions. 🙂

[@charlynegezze8536]

Why is every episode the "Big" something? Is that from the original episodes?

[@jimervin387]

They could probably use a good cook in the slammer. And her name was Inez? That's my mother's name, also a good cook.

[@michaelallport5816]

If I am the the judge, she walks-period.

[@MrNYCman530]

The description said the woman was about 50 years old. The suspect looks like she's at least 75.

[@riversofjoy6529]

Most people were dead by 75 in the 1950s.

[@calendarpage]

I looked up the actress. She was in her 70's and died the year after this was made. I always look up the actresses on these shows when they say they are 'elderly,' because I am getting up there myself and like to compare. : ) They do tend to look so much older than people today.

[@ricardo53100]

Grandma was at least 65. I was a little kid in 1958. People really looked older then.

[@zacharycat]

They always do when you are young.

[@johntoal4399]

@@zacharycat 888m

[@McIntyreBible]

11:16, Detective Smith accidentally flashes his gun.

[@MJK1965]

Poor old lady. I feel sorry for her. Not only did she end up in prison, but her cream sauce burned too. I wonder if she used a cheque for her Pyrex dishes?

[@kevinkurtz9889]

Back in the day of counter checks

[@GiacomoVeteran]

SELLING THOSE CIGARETTES & MOST OF THEIR CUSTOMERS WILL DIE OF CANCER. The cig commercials were disgusting. RONALD REAGAN GOT HIS START IN TV DOING CIGARETTE COMMERCIALS. SPOKESPERSON....Shame on Mr. trickle down economics!

[@garrettmills841]

50 elderly?!? Lot of hot women out there 50+

[@Shadobanned4life]

Grandma ? Not Grandma ! 😟😳 Interesting and surprising episode.

[@montelmitchell9704]

In the future this is gonna be so foreign like a silent film movie today

[@beakt]

I notice he sometimes is working day watch, sometimes night watch. Sometimes homicide, sometimes robbery, and now forgery. Did cops really switch around so much back then?

[@timfreckman5227]

No, but since this was a "POLICE PROCEDURAL" he had to move around every episode. The 60s series was even better.

[@Nderak]

If you avg up the numbers given int he first 3 minutes, it comes to about $17.40 a check on average, which is between 60 and $90 today (its a mix of straight inflation and buying power, or I would of just quoted you the strict inflation rate). That would probably be what the avg check I've personally received has been. Nothing under $40 or over $250. Several of the businesses I've worked in would take checks up to 5k, IIRC, anything bigger they wanted direct transfer.

[@factenter6787]

$20,000+ back then was equivalent to ~$250,000 today (2023).

[@oregondennis]

To ..POINTY....GOOD REMARK..... LAUGHED OUT LOUD....THANKS....

[@lenny38138]

All the shows are the Big This or the Big That.

[@susanrochford1906]

That's because everything's Big in America Ha!

[@1969atiq]

@@susanrochford1906 including racism.

[@HearTruth]

8:06 Not for nothing that is $20+ worth of liverwurst today.. I know b/c I buy it you get 5 -6 slices for 5 dollars man we got it tough.. ha not to mention everything taste like disgusting now since it is all Modified..