Dragnet | Ep181 | "The Big Mole"

[@heyoldman2003]

I remember getting a mobile in a mad magazine. Maybe 1963 or four. Very groovy

[@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo]

Far out man! Sounds pretty keen! 👍

[@huntingthekaiser6490]

For those not old enough to remember, mobiles were the rage in the 1950s. A number of them hung in my kindergarten room at Longfellow Elementary. Another 1950s thing was to paste your picture at an angle onto construction paper, so it looked like you were peeking around a doorjam. Why that caught on I don't know. Anyway, then your picture joined everyone else's taped to walls around the classroom, most also pasted at an angle. Memories Memories

[@jamesvanscoyoc6064]

They were pretty big in the 1960s, too. "Hello Girls", a mobile by Alexander Calder, took pride of place in LACMA's outdoor collection when they opened in 1956. At the time it was standing in a pond and moved by a jet of water, but they soon did away with the water features as they always do in L.A.

[@huntingthekaiser6490]

@Poacherbuster Lima, Ohio--built in 1899, it is also torn down and students there now go to school in a huge metal box with air conditioning.

[@imadrifter]

I love the snare drum used to make a gunshot sound, except you can hear the rattle of the snare slightly as it subsides. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go enjoy a Chesterfield cigarette with my lunch consisting of a glass of milk and a hot dog.

[@theoregan4183]

Alan, the awfully nice boy who likes to putter around a fabric store and Rudy the friend he was out with until 5 am have more in common than mobiles, and puttering around fabrics stores. I think Jack Webb, who was a very meticulous man, must have known that this character was a very SWEET man. He was with Rudy all night long, and even tried to setup a date with Joe and Frank! Interior Designer was the 30's, 40's,and 50's ways of saying GAY

[@heyoldman2003]

They always comply .... when they run out of bullets 😮

[@douglasschaden3475]

And he didn't face any charges related to the gun. Where's the posession, reckless endangerment, discharging a firearm within city limits, intent to cause bodily injury? That dude did 5 years and came out with a great story.

[@donaldkhafre3639]

The advert for more teachers at the end of the episode is interesting. It is 1952 and the beginning of the 1950s "baby boom" which would tragically produce horrible creatures like me.

[@heyoldman2003]

Donald Hotep oh come on .we are not that bad 😎

[@mikeh.7499]

self depricating humor is a sign of maturity Donald so i think we turned out alright....

[@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo]

I think Gladys Nichols sounds like Virginia Gregg who was in so many of these episodes. The TV show as well.

[@David_R75]

From Merriam Webster: "The verb form of burglary can be either burglarize or burgle. Burglarize, which was formed by adding the -ize suffix to burglar, is more common in American English. Burgle, formed by removing the -ar suffix from burglar, is more common in British English."

[@tranzco1173]

"Sent out an APD on the stolen television". Things have changed a bit.

[@chillydawgg4354]

Why not just call them best-erfields

[@wadechilds6671]

It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 🚬☠️

[@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo]

Chesterfields on this one. Same extra mild tobacco though!

[@wandahall4435]

Jack Webb is A Savage!!!

[@howardoller443]

Why do you hate the police, Wanda?

[@DCShaneTours]

A very confusing script. How they choose which store to stake out at the end is not specified. They implied that he did this at all the other robberies, and it is not quite spelled out, how did he manage to make a cubbyhole The hide out in in each place without being discovered?

[@teresas8173]

The stores were all within the same block so the ventilation system was shared? How the criminal built a room in there I’ve no idea. How he could view the owners opening their safes well enough to get the combination from where he was located idk. I think police just picked a store within that block hoping it would be burgled, waited it out and of course it was. It wasn’t explained very well.