Dragnet S04E25 Burglary Baseball

[@gregorymcleod1347]

Good episode! I love these old Dragnet shows!

[@heyoldman2003]

They are good ! But my fav’s are Dragnet Radio shows 👍🏼Room 42 ... Homicide 😎

[@gibby2937]

Jack Webb would be spinning in his grave if he saw how far our criminal justice system has fallen since his days.

[@gibby2937]

Yeah right...this guy wanted to go back to prison so he could rejoin the prison baseball team? Hasn't he ever heard of men's softball leagues?

[@lindamcdermott2205]

Love the old pictures of LA

[@ryancoulter4797]

Harry Morgan saying ‘far out’. Love it

[@randquadrozzi1280]

William boyett has been in every cop show I've seen and Virginia Gregg has been in so many dragnet and Adam 12 episodes she is like a regular cast member.both are excellent.

[@glorygriffith4386]

And don't forget emergency!

[@shirtless6934]

She was a regular cast member. Part of Jack Webb's close knit acting troupe.

[@randquadrozzi1280]

Yes like Stacy harris and vic Perrin also

[@lilajagears8317]

@@shirtless6934 The MARK V11 players.

[@sandybruce9092]

Virginia also did lots of radio programs!

[@DateTwoRelate]

Great TRIVIA! The criminal here was placed by Jack Sheldon - a well-known West Coast trumpeter (lots of album credits) and regular on the Merv Griffin Show as part of Mort Lindsay's orchestra. He and Webb likely had a lot of fun with this!

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

Good Episode!! That one guy was a good Drunk! Bill always calls Gladys when He's going to be late!

[@colleen4ever]

Ys mean Eileen.

[@glennyl]

60 cent cocktails at Happy Hour...not bad!!

[@kurtb8474]

Totally chose this episode at random. When Friday said "Monday, March 9th. It was cool in Los Angeles" I flipped! Today is Monday March 8th and it's cool here in N. California. That's pretty close.

[@itsofficialb]

A norteño huh?

[@ModMokkaMatti]

I always thought that LA was pretty far away from Northern California. 🤔

[@gobbollino2688]

Sure be do 😊

[@rebekahhesketh1220]

In an old black and white episode called "The Casing", Friday said, "It was Sunday, March 9th", and I flipped! I was born on Sunday, March 9th, just several decades later. 😊

[@adamhonestyanddecency5054]

The guy playing Mr. Walton also played one of Gannon’s neighbors on the episode where Joe stays at Gannon’s house for the weekend.

[@Hal09i]

Yeah he always seems to pop up...always did a good job with pages of dialog...30 DIRTY! miles...LOL! A lot of people don't know that actor Jack Sheldon was the voice behind "Schoolhouse Rock" on saturday morning TV in the 70's. He sang "Conjunction Junction" and “I’m Just a Bill”. He died in 2019 at 88, so he lived a long full life...

[@mescko]

@@Hal09i And a great jazz trumpeter, I've got some of his stuff on Vinyl.

[@Hal09i]

@@mescko True! he was even on an episode of Star Trek: TNG from the first season...playing a musician on the Holodeck.

[@heyoldman2003]

Love it . Just in time for Baseball season👍🏼

[@michaelmartinez1345]

That's the part that hurt the worst...That poor girl who loved him... He (Tyson) cared enough for her to make sure she did not get caught-up in his messed-up life... Gosh, I guess he figured that he really could not make it on the outside , if that is what actually happened... Prison, that has to have a huge negative impact on anybodie's life... $1,900 back then is like $25k now... A lot of $... One would think that with that much $ , he would want to start over someplace... He (G.D. Spradlin) definitely did an excellent job of portraying the perp... It would be interesting to see how various people who get out of places like prison, are able to start functioning again in normal legitimate lives, and how others end-up going right back in...What causes some people to actually want to go back into prison... Damn, 😢...Today is: 10/14/24

[@heyoldman2003]

@@michaelmartinez1345 they get used to it . i knew a guy in that spot .. “ i don’t want to hassle washing my cloths “

[@michaelmartinez1345]

@@heyoldman2003 It just blows my mind that anybody would want to choose prison over freedom... Especially when they legally get out, after a non violent offense, tike that guy (whoever that is) did, and have to purposely put themselves in a position to go straight back in...Even after meeting a nice woman 👠 and still want to go back... There had to have been something that happened early in their lives that consistently convinced them that they needed to continue paying a debt to society.... IDK...Something more than ' Get used to it '... I'm Guessing at this now... WTF makes some people want to do things like this? Today iis: 10/15/24

[@dormitionchurch9452]

11:35 I knew a self-assured stubborn secretary like that. I was sharing space at a law firm and then moved to a new location. I was looking everywhere for a particular file, but I could not find it. Then I thought, maybe it is still in the filing cabinet at the old office. I called up the legal secretary there. No, it is not in that filing cabinet. Have you looked? No, I do not need to. I know what is in that filing cabinet, and that file is not in it. I went over there during the lunch hour, when I knew she would be gone. I told the receptionist what I there for. We looked in the filing cabinet. There was my file. I took it and left.

[@lukedrifter1]

I wonder what Bill's wife had cooked for the dinner he missed because he had to work late? My guess would be pot roast with hash browns and string beans. If I had a nickle for every time Gannon had to work overtime and miss dinner, I'd be a very rich man.

[@938quilt]

'tell him if he needs anything,c all me' right after telling them the one place he's always hung out LOL!

[@adamschwartz3449]

The drunk was played by the marvelous Jack Sheldon, who was also an accomplished trumpet player and singer. Kudos to Jack Webb for casting black actors as cops, before that was common thing to do. These _Dragnet_ writers did a lot of research on these scripts--all that info about the safe.

[@petez4608]

Jack Sheldon’s performance is fantastic. I keep watching it over and over.

[@WeedsComedy]

❤😮😊From Philly and Gerruw and Sean and ER Baseball and your welcome and how fortunate I actually learned winning 😊

[@retiredmusiceducator3612]

Ahhh, life before the computer came and 'blessed us!'

[@yojoeski]

Just realized with his hairstyle and clothes, how much Tyson looks like Carl Sagan circa 1980.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

I just realized that he shared something in common with Neil deGrasse.

[@jonathanechols9985]

He sure loves his baseball.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

Baseball ⚾ will always be far better than soccer, futbol, football ⚽, or football 🏈. But not ice hockey 🏒🐧❄️.

[@josiahquincy2744]

The safecracker was the crooked politician in Godfather II

[@glennyl]

A basketball coach in "One on One'" and a football coach in "North Dallas Forty".

[@waylandjennings4073]

@@glennyl They're all part of the same hypocricy.

[@gregschannel4918]

Senator Gary

[@josephfinnegan151]

Good Lord Virginia Gregg yet again, aint there no other older women in actors union back in 1970s ?

[@michaelmartinez1345]

He also casted another woman quite often... The very attractive and highly skilled, Peggy Weber, who was outstanding just like Virginia Greg was... There were several people on Dragnet who were given great opportunities to become actors for larger Productions... Martin Milner and Kent McCord Were in Numerous Episodes Later appearing in Adam 12... William Boyett was another on Dragnet ,Adam 12, and Highway Patrol numerous Times... Another outstanding Actor. One of my favorites on several episodes on Dragnet is A Fella named Don Dubbins who played numrrous roles of suspects and other civilians who Helped the LAPD do their work.. Perhaps one of the best Roles of Don Dubbins, is of Private Owens in a GREAT movie of Marine Corps Boot Camp in Paris Island S. Carolina... Jack Webb Plays the part of the Senior Drill Instrutor named Gunnery Sergeant Moore... The Movie is called - 'THE D.I.' 1956 That one is a TRUE GEM... Today is: 10/14/24

[@joydavis8583]

I am watching this episode of Dragnet from 1y ago sorry 😞 that I missed I am watching it with so much love 💞 Friday and his partner that he was working with they was the best actors in the world 🌎 is they still living they will never how have a TV 📺 show like this in world like this again Ms Joy see this is the part of my favorite TV 📺 show Dragnet

[@kev3d]

Tyson got out, changed his name, cleaned himself up, got into politics and was actually quite a successful senator, but then he murdered a prostitute in Reno. Although he just couldn't figure out why he couldn't remember what he had done. Still, he got some help from a wealthy family in the Lake Tahoe area.

[@robynperdieu3434]

Mental patients would do this, too, when they were about to be discharged. They'd act up to get their time extended because they couldn't deal with the outside.

[@thomassnider6691]

The thief sure looked happy at the end.

[@jimschnase]

Spradlin was also a General in Apocalypse Now

[@michaelmartinez1345]

I remember G.D. Spradln (Arthur Leo Tyson in this episode) from various movies and shows... One of his most convincing parts was in the Movie 'MacArthur' as he played the part of Major General Eichelberger, in the WW2 campaign in New Guinea over defeating the imperial Japanese Army there. What is so sad about this episode, and several other Dragnet episodes is ; even though the names were changed of the actual people invloved, the stories were true and actually took place.... In this case, Someone who finally got out of prison, only to find that they wanted to go right back in, to play baseball in there with his 'buddies'.... That has to be a mental condition, of some type... 😢

[@andrewvelonis5940]

He was also the Senator in Godfather II. That's where I remember him from.

[@michaelmartinez1345]

@@andrewvelonis5940 it is interesting how these people who play various parts in their movie /TV careers are remembered... Almost as if they had other lives, one for their own, and several for the Hollywood lives they portrayed... I wonder if & when this could have had an effect, on their personal mental health...

[@Robster543210]

Great coach in One on One and North Dallas Forty.

[@DMBall]

Made millions as an attorney in the oil and gas industry before becoming a professional actor. One of his first big parts was as the cattle boss in "Will Penny."

[@williamfryman4360]

It is a mental condition. Called Recidivism. That’s where someone repeatedly goes back to prison because they can’t stop committing crime or function in the real world.

[@davidbennett6912]

Virginia gregg and Jack Webb were very good friends in real life that's why she's on here a good bit of course she was a character actor for years and years and years

[@lindathrall5133]

🐍 👀 THAT'S ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SAYING I USE THAT ONE WHENEVER I NEED IT

[@KevinBalch-dt8ot]

Senator Pat Leary should have put up the money for Michael Corleone to buy the casino in Nevada.

[@JesseWright68]

😂😂😂😂

[@hombredeacero3131]

G. D. Spradlin was great in the James Garner movie Tank.

[@DMBall]

Millionaire oil and gas man who decided to become an actor as a hobby. Excellent in "Will Penny," too.

[@williamburroughs9686]

You know your prison is too good when the criminals go as far as incriminate themselves just to go back.

[@TheodoreRizzo]

Dr. Sherman Potter play a good detective cop but I think he’s better at bein doctor

[@purplevanman9635]

we got him signed for five years true true

[@histguy101]

Where's my coffee!?

[@Forensource]

The actor from "apocalypse Now" the better angels of our nature.

[@josephfinnegan151]

51,328 View's So Far: Dragnet: Episode 97. Season 4. Episode 25. "Burglary: Baseball". Tuesday, July 11 - 2023.

[@Mr_Oggie]

Dang, I'd heard that baseball was considered "America's pastime" but to be willing to go to prison so you can get back on a team... didn't they have beer leagues back then?

[@John-r3p4q]

LONG BEACH??!! THAT'S 30 MILES FROM HERE!!

[@wendellmarthers3519]

He's telling the cop he drove 30 miles and he's drunk as crap, man times have changed

[@sandtoy11510]

Happy hour from 6 to 7…. Weeeee!

[@Mprator]

Sad, that guy threw his life away.

[@TheodoreRizzo]

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[@Robin-Lynn]

The story you have just seen is WEIRD!!!