Dragnet

Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner methodically investigate crime in Los Angeles..

[@33whiskey69]

While the 50s may not have been the greatest decade, it had something going for it that no other decade did: the beginning of nationwide TV and Dragnet was an example of the best ever. What a time to live! My mother got her first electric washing machine and her first electric clothes iron. We thought we were on an easy street.

[@denny906]

Dragnet is the best cop series ever made. I never get tired of this show.

[@onlythewise1]

not to me

[@56cadd]

@@onlythewise1 looks like everyone gave two shits. 😆

[@MrWolfTickets]

I'll second that! I've listened to the radio series countless times, especially the first couple years with Ben Romero.

[@msvirginia1799]

love this show. addicted 🖤🖤

[@asullivan4047]

Realistically portrayed citizens/criminals/law enforcement officials. Make this series more interesting & believable😉

[@mikedrown2721]

Radio, heater and white wall tires 😂😂😂😂😂

[@wandahall4435]

Thanks for posting these programs they are great 👍

[@craykanne]

I always wondered why Friday and his partner du jour were always working different divisions every week. And it always cracked me up how they were always pointing at stuff. Great show, I always loved Bill Gammon in the later series.

[@myriaddsystems]

Gammon??!!

[@7owlfthr]

​@@myriaddsystemsGannon. (Harry Morgan)

[@jamesclemons632]

That lady's make up😂😂 She looks like a clown🤡 lol..

[@waltoshie4493]

Best catchphrase ever just the facts ma'am

[@sheilapasquini6232]

Dragnet was my Dad's favorite show and because he was such a faithful viewer, I came to love it too. Thanks for the memories.

[@user-wy1dl2me2p]

Jack Webb was married to Julie London he wouldn't give that lady a second thought😅

[@ecnash8272]

Jack Webb died young. He was a great Director, Actor, & Producer. I had a Parrot that would sing the Theme Song from Dragnet! Birds are very intelligent & mine had a 50 word vocabulary!

[@gobbollino2688]

Good heavens! More than I do!

[@thomasmarshall1618]

I believe Webb died of throat cancer… from smoking.

[@myriaddsystems]

It was a pity about the smokes

[@johnhattabaugh4407]

some people, items, things, places, and what-not are icons, and others go beyond that to something more...dragnet was one of those...often imitated, but never bettered. plus the show still stands up to today's standards...very few television shows can claim that...look at most shows within the last decade or so, and then look at dragnet...you'll see what i mean...and as always, semper fi.

[@sheldonhchambliss1385]

Great show

[@bulldogbarks55]

All of the Ford cars used in both "Dragnet" series were purchased by Webb through Ben Alexander's Ford Dealership in Hollywood. After Ben passed on his children ran the dealership until they eventually sold it. The Blue Oval Forever!

[@MrWolfTickets]

That's an awesome factoid!! On the old time detective podcast (formerly old time dragnet podcast) the host read an article quoting Ben Alexander about how happy he was at his Ford dealership and that he didn't really want to get back into acting, Webb said "we do 3 episodes at a time, just come and do those three and see how you like it...."and Alexander said Webb knew that would get the hook in him and the rest is history. I never connected the Fords (Joe's falcon, the detective Galaxy or whatever 4 door they drove) and Alexander, though! Thanks for posting, 11 years ago, hope you're doing well in 2023

[@partack1]

i came here with only a brief glance of a wikipedia article and the notion that it was just an "old b&w detective thing". I was concerned it might be really boring, but I actually like it =D gonna go find more episodes now =D

[@VictorSamuelson-nk5nw]

That was just us we need that kind of stuff now

[@DondeArandas]

always a huge fan of this show. grew up watching it in the seventies Jack Webb genius. RIP

[@winonamassingill7895]

This reminds me of Ron White’s comment. Sure, I had the right to remain silent but I just didn’t have the ability!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@gobbollino2688]

My name’s Friday, I carry a beaaardge 😅

[@winonamassingill7895]

Also, when Ron White was 17 years old he was arrested in his home 🏡 town of Fritch Texas. He said that he just figured that they were arresting anyone who was driving down the sidewalk that day. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@Nikkymomo]

When I was kid I didn't have much appreciation for Dragnet. I was more into Adam 12. I loved Adam 12 and still do. But growing older has changed my values very much. I enjoy Dragnet. I love seeing Los Angeles the way it was. It has changed so much. Just like me. I have changed so much.

[@bignoseharry6561]

Yeeeup. Way older...I can talk. It has been rather interesting, life that is...ain't finished quite yet though. But Everywhere has changed, for I dare say, much worse...And WE have all allowed it through time with Tolerance, and Apathy. Just as Arostotle warned of.

[@angelface22322]

Both excellent episodes. We didn't have a TV those days, and I guess I was way too young to watch such a violent show. LOL! @53:40 I guess that was pretty high tech bugging for those days. Love it!!!

[@howardblasingame7961]

The interrogation of Niki Prescott is iconic. FRIDAY'S blush at the end is adorable.

[@Bigstooler0]

LA had the ability to record these bums but7 years later Dallas PD has no tape recordings of Lee Oswald interrogations? Impossible

[@howardblasingame7961]

LBJ organized JFK assassination, with muscle supplied by the CIA, FBI, Dallas PD, Mafia. That 1963 Coup de'tat of America has led to the mess we are in today.

[@MrBullethead63]

They claimed the the room was too crowded to have a stenographer...😂

[@chrissnape9537]

Dragnet always left you guessing what the actual sentence was. Of course it was meant to scare people because they would say was executed at San Quinton that they liked haha 😄 fun to watch the old shows, the clothing styles and such. Some nice cars from that era

[@KdAnceful]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! for finging and uploading these vids. I was hooked on Dragnet like people are hooked on Law and Order. I like Law and Order but I'll take Dragnet anyday. Thanks

[@cherokeerosethomas6573]

I love this Show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Linda-sq2ti]

My late brother loved Dragnet , Highway Patrol , and other police shows . I can remember me trying to pronounce Highway Patrol , it didn't sound right , but at least I tried !

[@mefrank]

My favorite tv show in my life

[@johanneGiampietro]

I watch this show every morning

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Realistically portrayed citizens/criminals/law enforcement officials. Enjoy viewing the automobiles/police equipment/furniture clothing of that era🤗.

[@lilakilonen5663]

Friday, i'm in love.

[@micheleploeser7720]

What’s up? Dragnet with no cigarettes?? YET.

[@shannonperrigo6206]

The Best!!!!

[@felinenine69]

I'm still not persuaded that the so called wife isn't a man.

[@bignoseharry6561]

Transinsanity was promoted on the stage, and then the TV...now the computer phones. if one would just really look at the sports casters, news, film, and commercials, it is so obvious the infiltration of those sick creatures. The child is absorbing this propaganduh. You sit by, appathetic.

[@joyceyagoda4207]

I don’t know if curiosity killed the cat but it sure did him!

[@82Echo411]

Not 1951, when Joe & Frank drive up in a 1956 Ford.

[@ironman7036]

What Detectives they always caught the Hoodlums.........., Geepers , this show is swell.....thanks

[@candeffect]

Friday didn't protect his innocence lungs.

[@LaptopLarry330]

The episode at the start of this "program" is from 1956.

[@alikatie2828]

love this show !!!

[@bulldogbarks55]

Jack actually got the inspiration for "Dragnet" from a role he played in a 1948 movie called "He Walked By Night." Jack played "Ray (Pinker or Murray?)," an LAPD Crime Lab tech. The opening narration of the film, the staging, the staccato dialogue is "Dragnet" to the nth degree. Watch it and you'll see.

[@fmichaelb]

14:05 Now wait just t a minute here. Because 'they seemed nice enough' and paid cash in advance the building manager didn't even ask their names when he rented the office to them?

[@rorschach1911]

@yogafan6500 Actually the first TV episode is from 1951, titled "The Human Bomb" and featured Barton Yarborough as Friday's partner Sgt. Ben Romero. From the presence of Parker Center, we can assume the first episode shown here is from 1955 or later, when Parker Center (then called the Police Administration Building, or PAB) was built. The second episode shown here is from 1953.

[@shamrock1961]

Yup it's down the block from Parker Center. Parker Center was closed this past winter.

[@ApartmentKing66]

Guess they figured it was time for a move after almost 60 years.

[@francie18]

Dragnet was great!

[@winonamassingill7895]

I lived in Fritch but that happened before I lived there. 😊

[@KylesArtwork]

This episode is The Big Deal

[@twowayyo11]

She had Junk in the trunk

[@rahkinrah1963]

thank you ampop

[@user-mq4vx6ep2e]

I never thought Ben Alexander was right for the part.

[@Beadbud5000]

These two episodes were not in 51. Ben Alexander came on the show in the second season

[@ApartmentKing66]

No, this was '56.

[@markgarin6355]

Lights up a cigarette.... then says 'okay if I smoke?'. Yeah freaky eyebrows.

[@LaptopLarry330]

The other episode is "The Big Trunk", from 1953.

[@lindastretch2522]

my uncle met him downtown he was police offer under chief parker

[@hugepoirotfan]

@48alfaone: I agree. Jack Webb made OTR. He made an appearance once as Srgt Friday on the Bob Hope show. It was hilarious.

[@bignoseharry6561]

Her Act Died Tragically...

[@norellpolk]

actually 12 of the 1950s episodes were remade in 1967 if youtake a look at the entire list from wikpedia and read through each season carefully

[@JackGordone]

First episode takes place in June, "it was hot in LA." But Joe & partner always wear their felt hats & suit jackets. Worse, many women in one street scene are wearing long winter coats!

[@edwardboesman5140]

Jack Gordon Ricky nelson

[@edwardboesman5140]

Jody duty time

[@MsLogjam]

Don't know about the ladies' coats but the dress code for detectives in those days required the hats, coats, and ties.

[@lordfunkbottom9541]

and practically everyone of them confessed

[@shermanshiflett6224]

Wish you had dvds of everything

[@2011paramedic]

Police Administration Building Parker Center in Los Angeles California on Los Angeles Street was closed as a police station for good? did they make a new parker center after that?

[@48alfaone]

Ya, old Jack was a cool guy. With Bob Hope he would have been great all right! Pat Novack was a good show but not to many episodes out there? Thanks.

[@wardenphil]

Starting at 22:55, I wouldn't touch that "female" with a stolen one...

[@AUTISTICLYCAN]

Doesn't the lady who was part of the car stealing ring remind you of Norma Desmond just add blonde hair.

[@miyoshiumeki]

Who owns all off the 250 or so missing episodes from the 1950s.

[@ApartmentKing66]

Wow...didn't realize Parker Center was that old (:42).

[@ranhar1]

It opened in 1955.

[@ApartmentKing66]

Thanks!

[@wandahall4435]

Jack Webb is A Savage!!!

[@bignoseharry6561]

Loyola College. Jesuit hornets nest. Now go figure Joe Friday / Jack Webb is in on it

[@Richard40171]

@DrFeelRotten Movie came out during the TV series. Webb advertises it after one such episode. I think it's at the tail end of a fine upload called THE BEST OF DRAGNET, inc 5 hours of Dragnet episodes. Webb advertises that it's in widescreen and color. But the movie, which I recall seeing as a child, is awful, though it has a good Webb quip to a criminal who boasts of having fancy cars and asks for an ashtray during interrogation: "You've got the Cadillac. Drive over and get it." Dum-de-dum-dum!

[@davebaker9128]

Is there any episode where the person was found innocent at the end?

[@danjones2436]

Is Harry Larwell Nick Adams?

[@thatbritts]

Parker Center Closed 1/15/2013

[@Bestmanme08]

Jack Webb in great bio (All about Jeffrey Hunter) at amazon!

[@nancejantz]

when the old man is talking to Friday, does Joe have an earring on his right ear, his left ear, or am i see things?

[@rahkinrah1963]

+nancie pacetti or a really weird ear...

[@edwardboesman5140]

rahkin rah it's Hutu duty time

[@craigdallas784]

This must be a repeat.

[@tyronedean4173]

For the people who write comments just the facts

[@HaroldWillett]

After 28 minutes this movie will stop playing?FYI.

[@RJBFIRECHIEF1]

@fmichaelb As long as their names were Washington,Lincoln, Jackson, who cares?? Money, not names pays bills.

[@GoldandAppel]

9:46.Uhhhhhhh

[@grifftrain]

@HaroldWillett no whole thing plays for almost 54 minutes

[@jamesdodd64]

Lie.

[@ApartmentKing66]

Care to elaborate, or just post random words?

[@jeffmiller3112]

It`s Thursday 2pm and muggy outside and I`m working the day watch when my partner passes out from too much bad acting and worse writing. I`m a little green myself.