Joe Friday takes on cop killing gun nuts

[@Goldenbane]

"Flinch and you'll be chasing your head down 5th street!" I think this was one of Joe Friday's most badass moments!

[@nyterpfan]

The shotgun Friday carried in this scene was an Ithaca 37 shotgun loaded with several rounds of double ought Magnum buckshot. That weapon would blow an elephant's head onto 5th Street LOL!! (And I believe that was used by the LAPD for many years--that shotgun really packed one hell of a wallop!!)

[@anihtgenga4096]

"By all means, move."

[@dgwaters]

“Unless you’re growing, SIT DOWN!” is also memorable.

[@MegaJustGeorge]

@@nyterpfan I can only imagine what it feels like to get shot with that shotgun!

[@emt5330]

My favorite was in the two hpur movie that was supposed to be the pilot for the revival. Friday had his gun trained on a suspect who was reaching for his own Friday told him "Go ahead, pick it up..."

[@benniebarrow348]

“Joe Friday takes on cop killers”…….the gun had nothing to do with them being nuts

[@FedralBI]

Joe Friday didn't need any SWAT team to capture a couple of cop shooters, he brings a shotgun and an attitude and takes them down.

[@dougmontgomery1868]

Ain't it the truth! "Flinch and you'll be chasing your head down Fifth Street!"

[@studinthemaking]

FedralBI Good point.

[@JULYXXIV]

FedralBI Times change. Ironically, SWAT was found in that very building - Room 114. Also, line of duty deaths were far more frequent in the '60's and '70's.

[@emt5330]

TimelessOne no bullet resistant vests..

[@dianehaggart7297]

If you like Joe Friday you'll love the Mentalist and Cho

[@paulmax9728]

"I've handled jaywalkers who were tougher than you". I had to bust out laughing at that line.

[@emt5330]

Actually, the big guy actually was a pro boxer before he was an actor

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

I actually thought these two were some of the most menacing seeming crooks they ever had on this show. The bigger one was scared the crap outta me.

[@ChadQuick270W]

One of my favorite episodes! I love the way Friday lays into those two hoods there in the interrogation room 😎

[@jeffandbike4503]

What I like a lot about Sgt Friday is that he gets things straight with the criminals, especially when they try to hide the truth. We need more Cops like Sgt Friday. He does not put up with any filthy lies.

[@arkie74]

he should have just beat the shit out of them with that gun!

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@jeffandbike4503 and those lies are most filthy, of that I may assure you

[@avnmech]

Absolutely BAD-ASS! I especially love the part where the Officer just stands in the door of the interrogation room, just the sight of the Officer gets the mouth little peep to sing like a bird and send his “friend” down the creek without a paddle.

[@daleburrell6273]

"...why- if it wasn't for PRISON food, you'd starve to death! You haven't been out of the joint for more than 2 or 3 years in your entire LIFE!"

[@muffs55mercury61]

Imagine being in your 40s and being in prison (or juvenile hall or reform school in their younger days) most of that time. There's more to life than being a career criminal like that.

[@daleburrell6273]

@@muffs55mercury61 SAVE YOUR COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN APPRECIATE IT: SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST NO GODDAM GOOD- AND WE'D BE A LOT BETTER OFF WITHOUT THEM!!! "...this world is FULL of decent people; CRIMINALS we can DO WITHOUT." - Jeff Cooper EVEN GOD HAS HIS LIMITS- THAT'S WHY HE CREATED HELL!!!

[@muffs55mercury61]

@@daleburrell6273 I never said I had any compassion for those who shouldn't have it.

[@daleburrell6273]

@@muffs55mercury61...YOU SURE FOOLED ME-(!)

[@jeanleon1637]

These guys aren't gun nuts, they are just plain nuts.

[@opaljk4835]

TXVETJEB so there aren’t people who are gun nuts? Some people are cookoo for Cocoa Puffs, I don’t see why guns are any different

[@jeffandbike4503]

Sgt Joe Friday gets them straightened out. Nobody messes around with Sgt Friday, He leans on criminals very hard, especially when they lie. We need more cops like Friday.

[@sdwriter2626]

@@TXVETJEB No, an attack on gun nuts. Not quite a “well regulated militia.”

[@StarWarsMoments]

.......WITH GUNS.

[@MsStealYourDadAndMom]

@@StarWarsMoments that doesn't automatically make someone a gun nut 🤦🏻‍♀️ there's a difference between a gun nut and a crazy person with a gun.

[@hirampriggott1689]

Best Jack Webb rant ever!

[@littlerichie874]

“ you remember her name don’t you? You should, she was your sisters daughter.”

[@Lifeisshortby]

That was my favorite line from that episode.

[@albertchin1050]

"What's he doing still alive?" A reasonable question to ask about someone who's been gut-shot at point blank range with a sawed-off shotgun. And it's always fun to see Dick Miller, one of favorite character actors, in any role.

[@rebekahhesketh1220]

Dick Miller played Dave Roberts, is that right? Just clarifying. 😊

[@albertchin1050]

@@rebekahhesketh1220 Dick Miller played the scumbag in the striped shirt during the interrogation. He was the one with his face covered in shaving cream when Joe Friday and Bill Gannon made the arrest. He was a veteran character actor who's appeared in countless movies and TV shows in the 60s, 70s & 80s. But, his most famous role was probably that of "Walter Paisley" in a low-budget comedy/horror movie titled "Bucket of Blood ".

[@rebekahhesketh1220]

@@albertchin1050 thank you! 😊 I've always liked that part of Dick saying, "Can't I wash the soap off my face?" And Jack Webb replying, "Why? You look good!" 😂

[@albertchin1050]

@@rebekahhesketh1220 That was a good one. Joe Friday always had a good comeback when talking to criminals. BTW, for those not familiar with the cult classic "Bucket of Blood ", you may remember Dick Miller as the gun store owner who gets killed by Arnold Schwarzenegger in "The Terminator ". He also had a recurring role as a bowling alley owner in the TV series "Fame" (based on the movie).

[@LordTalax]

People don't die instantly from gut shots unlike what you see in movies.

[@james5460]

One of the best episodes of the entire series. "Flinch and you'll be chasing your head down Fifth Street."

[@michaelmorgan7893]

I used a modification of that scene in one of my sci-fi storyboards where a similar circumstance took place.

[@jamesshort8660]

My favorite Joe Friday line. A pure Savage

[@RewskOnTV]

I used to chase pigeons down 5th street

[@mikesuch9021]

Grew up watching this show before it went into reruns. Then for the past 5 years on Me-TV. Lost the signal last year when too many buildings blocked it.

[@peace-yv4qd]

What I enjoyed about this show is it cut to the chase, it had a human quality, just the facts. It kept your interest, and had interesting characters. Law enforcement back then didn't have computers or national data bases. Just good hard police work.

[@briane173]

Well back then Jack Webb had a half hour to tell a story it would take two hours to tell today. Back then there were few TV dramas that went past 30 minutes; most of them were Westerns. Webb ran a tight ship and the dialogue was even tighter. The pace drove most of his crew to drink, but he knew how to draw an audience.

[@troywright359]

That's not good. We need databases and DNA evidence.

[@ECO473]

"You need a witness...and that you ain't got!" "Ain't we?"

[@shamrock1961]

FYI Mert Howe who was mentioned by Capt. Brown was the Deputy Chief of Detectives. He is alleged to have been Friday and Gannon's first commander they served under. Later he would head up a shooting board for Friday who kills a burglar at a local launder mat nearJoe's appt. He had come across the guy when he went out to buy a pack of smokes. Chesterfields I believe. Anyway Howe was a REAL Deputy Chief as Jack tried to use as many of the real names of the LAPD detectives that were serving at that time. Kind of neat how he managed to include so many names and so few people. The miracle of shooting by Jack Webb.

[@wingz350]

I wish more of the current police shows got back to the basics of solving cases and trimming the fat in the storytelling. One thing about Dragnet is that it showed the human side of police work and I always loved when Friday gave his speeches. They cut right to the chase when it came to the cases. There was no drama, sex scenes and bullshit. Only police show that is the best on TV now is Chicago PD.

[@JamesTJordan1]

Yes. There needs to be a procedural police drama today that deals with the real life decisions of community policing and public safety. Maybe an enterprising producer/writer/director will pick up the mantle for this. That actually shows what real police do. That is what Jack Webb set out to do with Dragnet in the 1950s and then in the 1960s with Dragnet, then Adam-12 and Emergency. Not sure if today's audience would watch it, but it depicted the normal, everyday life of the thin blue line---be it police, detectives, EMD, Fire Dept., etc. These departments are the bulwark of civilized society. The men and women who station those posts should be celebrated!

[@wingz350]

@JamesTJordan1 that's why I said Chicago PD. It's still the best on TV as of now but they're letting the soap opera aspect take over.

[@Psycho9263]

Jack Webb in real life was nothing like Joe Friday. As a director he was very controlling, he was also a very heavy drinker. After a shoot (be it Dragnet or some other production) Jack would hold court in his bungalow and listen to ideas from cast and crew members. Jack invited everyone. The price of admission was the next day's hangover. Everyone would show and Jack would pour away. Not to mention he was a heavy smoker which everyone knows. But he had a unique way of directing. On the Dragnet shoot if anyone was acting too natural, he would simply say; "Cut!" and then he would coach the actor by telling them; "Stop acting! Just read." And that's how Dragnet had that unique appeal. Either an audience loved it or hated it. Look at the difference in Harry Morgan's acting in Mash. A far cry from Dragnet because Harry was less tense as Colonel Potter.

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

Two different roles in two different shows. Morgan even said everyone who played the cops were straight-laced; he was also the comedy foil to Joe Friday's monotone appearance.

[@emt5330]

Randolph Mantooth makes no bones about the fact that he and JW did not get along. JW didn't want Randy to be on Emergency. Ironic considering that is what Randy is best know for.

[@snowblind9065]

just like to add this...according to his biography,courtesy of find a death ,directory.He held court in the early70,s every Monday night at a bar called HMS Bounty no doubt their would a lot of bigheads at the next days shoot.Yup Jack was a big chain smoker and puffed on unfiltered chesterfields,L&M and Camels,He also consumed huge quantities of Red meat.Ignoring his wife and friends about getting help for his deteriorating health and a change in lifestyles,he was a heart attack waiting to happens-which it did December 23 1982,he woke up at night complaining about a stomach pain..he collapsed on his kitchen floor while drinking a glass of milk he dead when the paramedics arrived.He was 62 years old

[@TheLocoUnion]

@@snowblind9065 wow!!!

[@muffs55mercury61]

@@snowblind9065 Webb was also so tied up in his work for like 30 years, almost like an obsession. I know what that's like as it's very stressful and keeps one up for hours when they should be sleeping.

[@whiskey5jda]

Gun nuts? Don't you mean criminals, felons, wanted men, robbers, or drug abusers? All the "Gun Nuts" I know are nice law abiding people.

[@davidpallin772]

Most “gun nuts” are law abiding.

[@rosemaryl8740]

"Flinch and you'll be chasing your head down 5th St.!" Love it

[@StukInBuf]

@Rosemary Seifert(open): Years later, TJ Hooker(William Shatner) would tell a perp he was about to arrest, "Unless you surrender now, this gun will make a 6-inch hole going into your stomach, and the Holland Tunnel coming out!"

[@RewskOnTV]

@@StukInBuf Someone once told me TJ Hooker meant Tijuana hooker

[@larrypeterson1227]

the wounded cop, i believe is actor Don Marshall from Land of the Giants. Better known for Star Trek episode The Galileo Seven, Lt. Boma.

[@orion3706]

Joe Friday tells a story like no one can!

[@LordTalax]

The COMposite drawing.

[@NGMonocrom]

Nice try, but I've seen the entire episode. These two weren't gun nuts. They were a two-man team of petty, violent thugs who went around robbing liquor stores, gas stations, and other small mainly cash-only businesses using a sawed-off shotgun as their only weapon. Far from a pair of gun nuts.

[@hannahlemmings7609]

@His Gayness Baron von Cockenknocken I don't think its that deep dude. He called a couple of criminals on a fictional TV show gun nuts, who cares, they shot people with guns thats obviously the connection there. He dedicated it to the victims of mass shootings because it shows the horrible things bad people can do with guns. It'd be a really really insanely shameful thing to forget that those who were shot and injured or even killed are the actual victims here and not gun owners who feel people are being mean to them.

[@blackdogslivesmatter1568]

@His Gayness Baron von Cockenknocken It's a shame that fuktards learned to type...just to prove how stipid they are....we already know!!!!

[@emt5330]

And the OP obviously did not watch the whole episode, or he would know the officer did not die

[@SteveHolsten]

@His Gayness Baron von Cockenknocken You're right. The uploader has to be a Useless Sorry Assed Anti-Gun Leftist Loon Loser DemonRat!

[@warrocketajax373]

@@SteveHolsten Now this idiot probably wants to defund the police.

[@AldenRDavis]

11:25 - “While you waited for the owner to show up, you sat in the back of the car popping pills and chasing it with cheap port wine.”

[@briane173]

I"m sure he woulda loved to have said "Manischewitz" but he didn't have the production budget for settling lawsuits.

[@chinary8]

"Ya sat in the car popping pills and chasing them with cheap port wine" LOL

[@dougmontgomery1868]

Any better than smoking pot?

[@stevesoufi]

lmao

[@Jiltedin2007]

Did you notice how quickly Friday and Gannon reacted when they heard that it was A Policeman getting shot?

[@charlesmartel5907]

Whenever an officer drops an “assist”, or a citizen, on a police radio, calls for help because an officer is in trouble, and unable to do so, every officer, within earshot, drops whatever they’re doing and responds to the scene Code”3” ( emergency traffic/ lights and sirens ) 👮‍♀️👮‍♀️👮‍♀️🚔🚔🚔🚨🚨🚨 Been There, Done That !!! 👮‍♀️🚔🚨

[@DateTwoRelate]

Rarely did Joe Friday flash a gun. Usually his words were enough.

[@sneakysingy3693]

So Harry Johnson beat the rap. And somehow was still able to get a job at a gun store and was ultimately killed by the T-800??? Tough run...

[@classicgunstoday1972]

Glad I wasn’t the only one who caught that.

[@bobbyknightmare]

"Flinch and you'll be chasing you head down Fifth Street!"

[@delorme9]

Is there a Fifth Street in LA?

[@bobbyknightmare]

Doesn't every town have a Fifth Street?

[@dougmontgomery1868]

There sure is.

[@dougmontgomery1868]

I live in Gardena, CA. The lowest number here is 129th Street.

[@mt3311]

From the looks of them two, they were on the portion of 5th St that is in the Skid Row district, of LA

[@aggressiveattitudeera887]

"Why, if it wasn't for prison food, you'd starve to death".

[@julieannblack3]

I'm always amazed at the lack of medical equipment in hospital rooms in shows from the 50s and 60s. Seems like the doctors told the injured to rest and hoped the body cured itself.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

"Did you give him a little sip of brandy just after he was shot?.... "Good, did you yell, "COME ON, DON'T DIE ON ME NOW!" as they put him on the streacher?".... "good, did they give him 20cc's of saline solution in the ambulance??" ....."Good, did they have a dramatic scene where the defribulated him whilst dramatically yelling "CLEAR!" even though his heart was functioning perfectly fine?" "They did? Well, then theres nothing more we can do for him now except slowly take off our hats and state that he's in Gods hands now"

[@Soxruleyanksdrool]

Those sketches look like Patrick Swayze and James Dean.

[@shamrock1961]

Nope. They were Roger Kensington and Harry Johnson. Joe got the information from his informant Virgil Hicks. He followed the two to the Adobe Red Hotel and got the manager shit faced on port and got the info Joe needed. Great episode and a personal favorite of mine.

[@travissloan6864]

I thought the second sketch looked like Darren McGavin.

[@TBONE_2004]

@@travissloan6864 Darren McGavin was a badass in Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

[@travissloan6864]

@@TBONE_2004+ Check McGavin out as the Drill Instructor in that movie named "Tribes".

[@trwent]

​@@travissloan6864Precursor to Full Metal Jacket.

[@bignoseharry6561]

It's pretty sad in retrospect and especially today that a former Marine Corps Drill Instructor, or D I for short, which Webb was in real life, and he actually wrote a book with the simple name of D.I. as the title of it. How A Marine would take on the unconstitutional task of placing the blame on guns and white guys back then. The plan has been in play for a while. There are so many things wrong with today as far as the unjustice system operates. There are so many laws on the books now you can't do anything without breaking one of them and if they want to charge you with any of them they can do it 20 times a day or more. They got the squeeze on us. They've got the squeeze of bullshit laws taking away our freedom in effect.

[@irish89055]

Jack Webb was not a DI in real life...

[@aryanson]

Never sween composit drawings that looked like photographs before

[@FallokBloodfist]

"I still don't remember them." You don't have to. They remembered you well enough.

[@dougmontgomery1868]

They sure did! One look at Officer Dave Roberts--_in uniform_--and they were so surprised they incriminated each other!! :D

[@daleburrell6273]

@@SimuLord NO, IT'S JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE OLD PRINCIPLE OF: "DIVIDE AND CONQUER"...AND IT REALLY WORKS!!!

[@Godhumbledme]

love these stories Glad we have Police we support you!!

[@don4321]

I submit, one sawed off shot gun does not a gun nut make. Epilogue: The guy with the striped shirt did time, got paroled, eventually opened up his own gun store, but was himself killed in a robbery in 1985 by a mysterious, heavily built man with a robotic German accent, who was never caught...

[@FN_FAL_4_ever]

don4321, you can't do that

[@don4321]

do what?

[@FN_FAL_4_ever]

don4321, it was a Terminator reference

[@don4321]

got it, sorry for the slow uptake--I didn't think anyone would get MY reference! ;)

[@dougmontgomery1868]

Did you have to add a reference to that Austrian musclehead clod?

[@shamrock1961]

Back in the 1950s detectives were their own SWAT teams. Firing tear gas and shoot outs. Times changed when the cops got outgunned.

[@richardjacques1731]

SWAT teams started after the Clock Tower shootings in Austin. Shooter was taken out by one cop and one civilian volunteer. Cops' pistols couldn't shoot the top of the tower and they commandeered rifles from local gun shops.

[@arise2945]

@@richardjacques1731 Citizens showed up with high-powered hunting rifles and joined in the barrage, too.

[@mikespenser4013]

I like how Friday handled the store clerk who hates the police. The store clerk says when a cop gets it you drop every to catch that person. Friday told him we go after them because a police officer is armed if a criminal shoots an armed police man he won't hesitate to shoot an unarmed civilian. (this was missing from the clip)

[@dougmontgomery4851]

That store clerk was Dick Whittinghill, a familiar DJ I'm Los Angeles in the 50s and 60s. He did not hate the police; in fact, he played himself in a later episode where he was called a good friend of the LAPD.

[@arise2945]

@@dougmontgomery4851 Whittinghill and Webb were friends.

[@tomservo5347]

"Shut up tunnel mouth!" lol

[@daleburrell6273]

No, Friday said: "All right tunnel mouth- let's all save time..."

[@JohnnyEstrada-g8u]

No nonsense Friday is the best

[@MegaJustGeorge]

In case you're wondering why Sgt. Al Vietti looks familiar, it's because he was played by a veteran Mark VII acting talent, Alfred Shelly.

[@muffs55mercury61]

Yes and continued playing parts on Adam 12 as well.

[@MegaJustGeorge]

@@muffs55mercury61 Truly, Alfred Shelly was one of the best at Mark VII Limited.

[@STP43FAN1]

Note how Johnson seems surprised Kensington was doing his own niece

[@84sp84]

Michael Daly I noticed that too, even he seemed to be like “ what a scumbag”!

[@charlesmartel5907]

Child molesters and “baby rapers” are among the most hated in the general prison population and often have a short life expectancy 👮‍♀️😡👍

[@MegaJustGeorge]

@@charlesmartel5907 That's true, Charles - those bastards rarely ever last past their first year in prison.

[@charlesmartel5907]

George M ... And if one of ‘em got “shanked” it never bothered me at all ... 👮‍♀️👍

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@charlesmartel5907 Yeah, cept if they're big strong arm types like that guy. He'd be a booty bandit inside for sure.

[@scottneedham4871]

"This is the city". You can tell by all the smog.

[@francisphillips53]

A couple of cop shooters talking to LAPD like that.. BACK THEN?? be lucky to be feeling anything below the neck.. RIGHTFULLY SO TOO.

[@chrismc410]

In WV, they wouldn't get that far. He'd be chasing his head down fifth street then and there once found

[@apolloniaaskew9487]

Anytime an officer is hurt; every law enforcement agency is there. A State Trooper was attacked at the Driver Testing Center ( formerly in Midtown) and in a matter of seconds, officers from the Memphis Police, VA Hospital Police, University of Tennessee Police, Memphis Housing Authority Police and Shelby County Deputies arrived.

[@willypete1897]

Holy shit - Johnson was the gun store owner who was shot by Arnold in the first terminator.

[@tommythevenot7617]

He was in Gremlins too. The Gremlins got on his TV antenna on his roof and he went to check on it. It didn’t end well.

[@emt5330]

A couple of things I noticed: A) they put the two of them in the same interrogation room, which cops would never do. They would question them separately so that inconsistencies in their stories can be used against one another. B) Friday left Gannon in the room with the both if them. Who's to say they would not try to overpower Gannon and escape. They already shot one cop.

[@clearcreek69]

Good point. I just watched this clip & never even thought about the errors.

[@trwent]

Escape from ... the POLICE STATION ??

[@emt5330]

@@trwent like no one has ever tried it?

[@trwent]

@@emt5330 Some have tried; few have succeeded. (Rambo succeeded.)

[@TTony-tu6dm]

Both of these are correct. I’m sure they were overlooked for the expediency of filming

[@jamesenglebert9149]

Great episode but they are just plain nuts not gun nuts.

[@AldenRDavis]

“All right, tunnel mouth! Let’s all save time!”

[@milart12]

11:39 Dropping bennies and swallowing wine...Luv it!!!!

[@williambinions4205]

" I hope you write my book" best line ever

[@mamarine81]

- Knock, knock! - Who's there? - Joe Friday, his shotgun and his gigantic brass balls!

[@scoobycarr5558]

Those two thugs in today's modern era belong in the Supermax federal joint 23 hours straight in solitary!

[@emt5330]

Actually, they'd be in Pelican Bay, which is California's supermax

[@charlesmartel5907]

Florence, Colorado USP Supermax ( “The Alcatraz of the Rockies” ) 👮‍♀️

[@greedyd5524]

Gun nuts? You must have never seen the episode

[@daleburrell6273]

IT WAS JUST A LOUSY CHEAP SHOT-!!!

[@sd31263]

Umm...if you sleep with your shotgun, you're a gun nut. Watch the episode.

[@Polkovic]

Those guys aren't gun nuts.

[@dougmontgomery1868]

Just misfits.

[@daleburrell6273]

@@dougmontgomery1868 "EVIL TRASH", IS A MORE ACCURATE DESCRIPTION-!!!

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Click Bait 👀 titles. Sad people can't be more creative...

[@BigBrotherMateyka]

God, the dialogue was sharp. We are lesser men of greater sires.

[@briane173]

The farther removed from great sires generationally the lesser their offspring becomes. We went from the Greatest Generation to the Worst Generation in merely 60 years.

[@l337pwnage]

@@briane173 It's what we get for them fighting on the wrong side.

[@jameschavira565]

Thank You for your Work the Editing is perfect

[@renemcintyre3653]

Notice the way Joe Friday holds up the table when he runs. Já Já.

[@GeorgeMaster-xg7lg]

Hopefully MeTV will bring this to the prime time lineup instead of 5-6am while I am sleeping.

[@TheSignal337]

Joe Friday is Joe Friday ( Jack Webb). Just the Facts.

[@martyschleder]

Make a hell of cop today. Need a detective like Friday today

[@bradfromthevalley]

Officers are part of a kingdom, and the nicer people are they nicer there job is. Whether are called a guard or a officer.

[@willievillanova1008]

The guy in the yellow sweater made the most out of every single syllable he had.

[@calvinsaxon5822]

Really, what Friday is fighting against is enjoyment, jouissance. He wants to return to a pre-Oedipal earnestness towards all one's undertakings in life and cannot rest until others as well stop emitting signs of their enjoyment. But of course that's how his enjoyment works: he doesn't glance off int he distance when the boss gives him a lead about a liquor store, he looks earnestly at his partner as if to say, "Figures." And the TV series itself adopts this same gaze. Little does he suspect, though, that we the viewer are watching Friday's gaze out of a sheer sense of...enjoyment.

[@stevesoufi]

very well put sir

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

Sure this isn't just some kind of elaborate preamble toward a shpeal urging Joe to settle down with a good women? HEY, wait a min, have you been talking with Gannon?

[@TheStarTrekApologist]

Mr Fuddermen's dark past. How did they let him open a gun shop?

[@bird10498]

"...you look good." Best Joe Friday line ever.

[@arkie74]

these were not gun nuts. these guys were just killers. to see that cop survive a double barrel .12 ga is astonishing. my son was shot at point blank range with a load of #6 from a single shot. he lost 19 units of blood, they took 2 ft of large intestine, the shot went through his liver, and into his kidney. they dug the wadding out of it. so he lost it. they said it was a miracle he lived. how the cop lived, was crazy luck.

[@StarWarsMoments]

Threatening a police officer during interrogation; sounds like a felony.

[@gregoryhagen8801]

Sleeping with a shotgun? Is that a state or federal crime?😆

[@l337pwnage]

@@gregoryhagen8801 I think because it was modified, which would be illegal even then. Of course, that's in commiefornia, so maybe they had other laws too, lol.

[@1200kevin1]

One of the few episodes that the suspect were handcuffed in.

[@federalagenciesarecourtesans]

To be an actor all one needs is an exceptional memory to recall all of those lines.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

Weeeell, theres also emoting, and channeling sense memory and well, you knows but yeah basicly yeah thats true

[@richardjames1812]

The whole cast of the this LA show sounds like they just got out of "Jersey Boys" - but it's a good show.

[@AldenRDavis]

From the episode, “The Big Shooting.”

[@woodypapacane]

The doctor was a murderer in another episode

[@stevesoufi]

lmao there's a lot of that

[@Arbeedubya]

So what's a "gun nut"? Anyone who owns guns, enjoys shooting, and takes pride in their marksmanship? If that's the case, I'm a candidate for a padded cell and straitjacket and will apologize to nobody for it.

[@studinthemaking]

Actually the cop lived.

[@scoobycarr5558]

I saw this episode recently. Boy was I glad that Officer Roberts survived.

[@SamuelKhan]

You just know Bill Gannon is going to give them hell..."BULL COOKIES!" 12:22

[@myriaddsystems]

Superb quality upload THANKS

[@richspinaci8293]

One criminal in this episode is Dick Miller. Gun store owner in The Terminator movie, and in many Roger Corman movies

[@stevematz7354]

The Little Bad Guy was Character Actor Dick Miller. He goes back to the 50's. He was in GREMLIN's and probably most remembered as the Gun Shop Owner in "TERMINATOR"-1984. When Arnold is requesting different model firearms. He says Phase Plasma Rifle in the 40 watt range; which Miller replies Hey,Just whats on the Shelf. He was going to close early and Arnold helped him do that permanently ...

[@muffs55mercury61]

Also frequently cast in Roger Corman flicks. Miller lived to be 90, working almost to the end.

[@lineshaftrestorations7903]

Love how Jack Webb recycles his band of thespians.

[@1mrsohara]

Friday and Gannon are both dressed alike.

[@KeithFroehlich07]

The hood on the right played Mickey and Heart Like a Wheel

[@edhillmastersroofing895]

Back when CA had sense and put up with no nonsense

[@zachschimmel1599]

I can only attempt to imagine exactly how you feel, but I can say that I understand where yer coming from. The problem (I think) is that we're just too scared. "You think I can 'talk' my way outa' getting shot in the back? I don't think so!" This is a quote I made up to remind myself of what dangerous people go through in the "business world". Now not the kinda business with professionals in limos and private jets. I mean the kind you would see in "The Godfather". That kinda business.

[@muffs55mercury61]

It would take an incredible will to live to survive with 276 shotgun pellets in your body. But then there's nothing that's really impossible for man if they're will and determination is strong enough. This episode had great dialogue, an awesome 1960 Mercury which are seldom seen anymore and the interrogation of the two hoods. All played their parts exceptionally well. Season One of the revived Dragnet series is about the best. How does anyone live with themselves after they raped their sister's daughter? That is sick.

[@daleburrell6273]

...THE ONLY THING I CAN FIGURE IS THAT IT WASN'T THAT OFFICER'S TIME TO GO YET- BUT I WONDER IF HE EVER GOT HIS MEMORY BACK(?)

[@muffs55mercury61]

@@daleburrell6273 My brother told me he has a few memory blackouts from his time in Vietnam and some of the other guys did too.

[@daleburrell6273]

@@muffs55mercury61 ...IF YOU SAY SO-!!

[@daleburrell6273]

...SOME PEOPLE HAVE NO CONSCIENCE-!!!

[@trwent]

If they had chopped off his head, he could not have survived despite having all the will in the world to live.

[@regissuchma5764]

I believe the one in the stripe shirt is actor dick miller from the movie gremlins

[@KeithFroehlich07]

How could you not have Virgil Hicks on here?

[@maryhlad5277]

Those nuts got a big shock when they saw Ofc. Dave Roberts alive. They thought he died.

[@TBONE_2004]

Hope Kensington got life without parole.

[@chuckguerin8141]

Premise was sketchy all the way through. But if they got the right guys, then Hell yeah! Go Cops!

[@daretolive9357]

Son Im gonna tell ya something, and it aint pretty, Theres a thousand ways to die in this stinkin city!

[@allenjones3130]

Joe Friday gave the crooks a well-deserved chewing out in this episode.

[@briane173]

Shoulda heard him dress down a two-bit sex offender after refusing to talk to a "nigger cop." At that point I can't be sure Webb was acting when he was ready to unscrew that POS's head off his shoulders. I can't remember another show in that era that busted out the N-word in the dialogue with such effect -- or _at all,_ for that matter. It was the pilot episode -- which wasn't broadcast as a pilot; the only hour-long _Dragnet_ of the 60s redux.

[@TBONE_2004]

And got Johnson to slip his tongue and get a confession out of them! Perfect interrogation!

[@trwent]

I always got a kick out of the totally metal walls of the police station in Dragnet.

[@shodanart]

Yes. Bare walls. Bare offices. No pictures.

[@trwent]

@@shodanart Fits Friday's personality to a T, doesn't it?

[@jeffandbike4503]

Those 2 criminals charged with 2 crimes, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon at an officer, they should get a 3rd charge of obstructing justice for hiding the truth of shooting at an officer. Those 2 criminals have very bad attitudes.

[@walterbannister1176]

there are still decent cops

[@josephwonderless1258]

Until the democrats get a hold of them.

[@fwdixon04]

All cops are brutal, sadistic, racist murderers.

[@daleburrell6273]

fwdixon04 WHY DON'T YOU GO BACK TO HELL WHERE YOU BELONG AND TELL THE DEVIL ALL ABOUT IT?!! SEE IF HE CARES WHAT YOU THINK- BECAUSE I CERTAINLY DON'T!!!

[@daleburrell6273]

@@JohnDoeRando POSSIBLY...

[@rollinajoint9657]

I can say there are good mechanics and bad mechanics as well. I can think of a good cop. Indeed. My Dad!!!! They called him Top Cop!!!! He was .The best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was all that!!!!!!!Always fair. He cared about People’s needs. It always showed. A great man. I miss him so. As I look at things, Joe Friday is the man!!! 💭💭✌️

[@kgaretz999]

Did you notice the smog?

[@TonyFromSyracuse101]

Could you imagine Joe Friday trying to arrest someone in todays age, big black woman caught shoplifting at walmart and throwing haymakers upside his head

[@mountainmanws]

Anybody know the name of the bigger actor that shot the officer? I just saw him in the movie One Minute to Zero with Robert Mitchem and Ann Blyth.

[@markdoyon250]

Hal Baylor did a lot of films with John Wayne

[@juanmonge8]

Dave in bed with the respirator- that is acting!

[@stevesoufi]

lmao

[@ratmanf13]

Excellent editing.