Dragnet The Big Shoplift

[@machfiver753]

Damn! I was close to tearing up at that chicks performance she did a great job with her lines.

[@somersetdc]

The actress who played Dorthy Kirkman was beautiful.

[@Joeblow-ms3cv]

Indubidubly 🙂

[@TimRobinson-hc7mt]

These Dragnet shows from the 50's are great to look at thanks for posting them

[@zekelucente9702]

That’s the dude from Jack Benny “yeeees”

[@paulcaron400]

No, it’s Frank Nelson. Google it on the Jack Benny Program.

[@mikeh.7499]

xm148 is where i first got interested in Old Time Radio,especially Dragnet !

[@hopediamond4real]

Peggy Webber, the kleptomaniac actress, is still living. She turned 99 in September.

[@machfiver753]

Still smash? Prolly she was a fox back in the day. Those doe like eyes meow

[@JohnParks-zc1pn]

Peggy Webber was a long time member of the Dragnet troupe, appearing more than once in the 1960s version, too.

[@harlankrissoff9966]

Also appeared 3x in Adam 12

[@marcyeaglecloud4572]

That is some beautiful Greg's Shorthand! I remember learning that in High School, Business Education class.

[@yitzchokkranczer6066]

Joe grinning widely at 10:55 is unusual.

[@hertzair1186]

His face probably was sore for a hour….

[@thegreatselkie6009]

😂😂😂

[@maryettag777]

One of my favorite Dragnets.

[@JAZZ4643indy]

I always liked the early dragnet series 1950s with Ben Alexander co star… black and white..

[@JohnParks-zc1pn]

@@JAZZ4643indy also interesting to see police work before they had a rule against illegal evidence or had to give Miranda warnings.

[@billotto602]

I LOVE how everyone smokes & you can smoke everywhere ! ♥️♥️♥️

[@Michelle-xk9gl]

Nowadays only stupid people smoke. Everyone with a brain knows that it will kill you. I have two children with asthma I don't want anyone smoking around them. I'm very grateful to have laws nowadays to keep people like you away from my children.

[@martymclean4355]

14:46 A Kleptomaniac? Must have been Claude Cooper from Cleveland.

[@alexanderangelo7284]

Stealing Copper Clappers

[@dariowiter3078]

😆😆😆😆😆

[@dariowiter3078]

@@alexanderangelo7284 😂😂😂😂😂

[@susancummings3930]

lol lol lol !!!!!!!!

[@karendeaton9297]

LOL! I just saw that routine again a couple of night's ago!

[@yourfabuloushappymann5154]

Basic detective work never changes....

[@jimmie200]

The actress who played Mrs. Sterling was in an episode called "Cheap Labor" on Gunsmoke. Excellent actress.

[@Kur10usity]

She was also in 2 movies riffed by MST3K: The Screaming Skull and The Space Children.

[@jefferyhorton7496]

Prevented and caught a lot of theft my 20 plus years as a security professional. The strangest was a “serial vandalizer”. We caught who was wanted for destroying roofs on plant buildings. Also caught a guy who worked in the crib in a plant who had stolen for years. Like this lady. It’s too bad they did not get spiritual, psychological, or whatever help earlier.

[@hertzair1186]

Factoid: Jack Webb was a huge UFO enthusiast. He later did the 1977 TV series ‘Project UFO’ based on cases from the USAF Project Bluebook.

[@susanhuber1932]

Oh for the days when shoplifting was a crime and was punished with prison time.

[@howing13]

THanks I loved watching these in the 60's that an Perry mason even Twilight Zone,

[@mickaelwilliams6129]

that was then, this is now.....;today shoplifting is legal....my how things have changed .

[@kjm4422]

At 12:14 Friday describes Mrs. Briggs as a 38 yr old. I don’t think so.

[@muffs55mercury61]

I thought that too. The part was played by a supporting actress named Myra Marsh (1894-1964) who would have been 59 then. While people did look older in those days, I initially thought early 50s before I did a little looking up.

[@bigtalk2598]

38 going on 54.

[@dodgerthepumi]

that is a rough 38

[@jamesstuart3346]

I'd nominate Jack Webb as the most influential TV producer ever. He invented the "police procedural" which accounts for probably 1/2 of all TV dramas

[@fallandbounce]

Interesting that they would use the same scripts and stories from the radio version.

[@phylliselizahb1041]

Actress "shoplifter" was in "Screaming Skull" movie!

[@noahbianchi1920]

In today’s LA she would have been in the clear.

[@kingmiura8138]

The Big Stolen Stole......Dum da dum dum

[@JohnW1711stock]

Suspicious package, see something, say something, is nothing new.

[@Catquick1957]

These days it's a bomb

[@kachoo2135]

Television Land has had something nothing else had, and that's me

[@Marcia-k7g]

Think this would happen today. No! No doctor's wife would be going to prision for an illness.

[@JohnParks-zc1pn]

16:45 Apparently not even a prominent young surgeon could afford a house in Beverly Hills, as they leased the place they were living in. Also, note the comment that they had no children. I guess back then, if a married couple did not have children, that made them morally suspect to the police?

[@AnnacolleenEtters]

It tied into the storyline, nothing to do with it making childless couples "morally suspect", and everything to do with her unhappiness, which she felt contributed to her kleptomania.

[@JohnParks-zc1pn]

​@@AnnacolleenEtters16:35 they learned she had no children before they talked to her.

[@a.rosesrbleu9580]

Mr. Elliot was a tv repairman/mortician in Mayberry

[@magarac99]

Good story

[@allencampbell8322]

She should have lawyered up

[@DevoShire]

Pre Miranda - of course she could have asserted her mights and gottten the 3rd degree from the stenographer…

[@vexer2942]

I've watched hundreds of bodycam and other police videos on YT and have never heard kleptomania given as a reason for theft. It must be extremely rare.

[@DianaSanders-ie6wp]

❤❤

[@AliceJones-yc1kh]

What a sad story! She had everything and nothing at all! Maybe prison time will help her find what's missing when she gets out...

[@allencampbell8322]

I was on her side

[@jbull911]

This comment section is some of the funniest comments ever

[@hertzair1186]

Love the series….the accenting horn music gets a bit much though.

[@JohnParks-zc1pn]

16:55 Of course she had no criminal record. Not under her married name. The change of name makes it difficult to track a woman's history.

[@lindastretch2522]

i watch it before than thanks to my uncle

[@devynmckenney6988]

0:00 The music is beautiful

[@muffs55mercury61]

With the passing of Herb Ellis in 2018 at age 97, Peggy Webber is the last surviving adult actress of both Dragnet versions (as of 2022) Some of those who played teens in the 1967-70 version are still around but well into their 70s now. I strongly disagreed with her being sent to prison for this. She was sick like someone on drugs, alcohol or a gambling addict. People aren't going to seek treatment if a jail sentence is involved. Perhaps Oregon did the right thing in decriminalizing possession of such.

[@TheMidnightBell07]

Hey, I understand that she's ill but if you want to feel sorry for someone feel sorry for the poor salesclerk that was badgered for 8 years, called a thief until she couldn't take it anymore, and finally had to quit her job. Then she went somewhere else and had the police show up on the first day of her new job and say we'll be watching you. How do you think she felt and how long do you think she lasted at that job? Sure, they caught the woman but do you really think anyone from her old place apologized for how they treated her? What about all the stress and sadness she must have felt? Even when the police gave her a chance to accuse someone else she stayed a lady and didn't do it. Yeah I feel sorry for the woman that shoplifted those items and they can be replaced but not the 8 years she stole from the poor salesclerk.

[@leskobrandon691]

Here we go again...applying today's standards to yesteryears situations. It just wasn't that way back then. The country was a much safer place. And before you start in on Jim Crow, that just wasn't a thing in LA, especially post WW2. That's one of the reasons so many blacks migrated to LA.

[@DevoShire]

@@leskobrandon691 The Watts Riots happened…where?

[@jerryneku3138]

And yet she has to be taken off the street, perhaps until she will be healed. Because this kind of crime causes a lot of damage and tolerating that would disrupt coexistence. Illness is not an excuse.

[@tarstarkusz]

Anyone who thinks she went to jail for this is insane.

[@mikebennett3812]

There are far, far, better (clearer and focused) copies available. As readily available from others posted.

[@heyoldman2003]

bummer , yeah they should have done something besides prison

[@terrymartin5777]

3 people are fur thieves

[@feralbluee]

now wait a minute, she's a klepto - and she's put in jail insttead of treated? Wow - even then, i find that hard to believe. and really horrible! she'll just keep doing it! no therapy at all?! she can't have children, loses her husband and is a lost soul and no help!! really sh---y if you ask me! she didn't hurt anyone for god's sake!

[@cekalble]

Cry me a river....

[@muffs55mercury61]

I agree. She was like a drug or gambling addict who needed help and not prison. People won't seek help if they have a jail sentence hanging over their head.

[@karendeaton9297]

I agree 100%

[@leskobrandon691]

The naiveté & lack of understanding of different eras makes me wonder one, do our schools completely gloss over history these days (it's obvious they do) and two, if you found an older show like this, do you not watch others like the classics, and realize that times were different? The "you aren't responsible for your actions" in today's world replaced a time when people understood that you are 100% responsible for everything you do. I still choose to live that way. It doesn't matter that someone may have slighted me or said something i didn't like, today euphamized as a micro aggression, in which we are allowed to say that their actions caused me to behave or react in a manner that I couldn't control. Oh we can control ourselves, but people have learned that they can blame everything that doesn't turn out to their liking as someone else's fault. This period actually overlapped with the tail end of the lobotomy period, where doctors were scrambling peoples brains by sticking the equivalent of an ice pick through the corner of their eye and dicing up the frontal cortex of the brain. We shudder, except, we are in the midst now of a similar scandal in which future society will charge us as irresponsible brutes because we are chopping off the body parts of children in the name of compassion, denying them for the rest of their lives of intimacy as their ability to experience orgasm & birth children, on & on, etc, are gone forever, but their new so called vaginas, which are nothing more than an open wound that will make them slaves to their doctors for the rest of their miserable lives. This will be viewed as nothing less than barbaric butchery!

[@mikeh.7499]

1000 thumbs up lesko😮😮​@@leskobrandon691

[@joyceyagoda4207]

Lots of lung disease

[@Cracktaculus]

If Dragnet was on today this episode would be about not hurting or arresting a mob of 49 black people while robbing an entire 6 floor department store.

[@garymckee8857]

I was thinking the same thing 🤔

[@thegreatselkie6009]

Racist pos’!!!

[@charlesphilhower1452]

It is not limited to blacks and it is the result of the lack of prosecution and defund the police. The fact is most of the funding for BLM came from white leftists that live in the suburbs or in wealthy city neighborhoods.

[@TheChancellor212]

Sure, Klan.

[@karyshort4994]

You know what else is shoplifting? Store 🏬🏪👝🛍️s overcharging customers!

[@leskobrandon691]

Always the victim!

[@Michelle-xk9gl]

Poor baby, not a reason to steal.