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"Dragnet"
Eposide #18:
The Big Seventeen Dragnet - Episode # 18
"The Big Seventeen"
w/commercials (11/06/1952)
"Dragnet" has endured a half century of TV reruns. In the 1950's, it was a popular cops and robbers show with the memorable "This is the city, Los Angeles, California..."
In this episode, Sergeant Joe Friday investigates the destruction of a movie theater by a gang a teenagers!
The cops find a small box containing marijuana and put two-and-two together- the reefer is making the kids go wild! Turns out that teenage Johnny is pushing weed, yellow jackets, goof balls and "H." His friend tells the police- ”but it's too late...Johnny takes a hot shot and ODs!
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This episode also contains original TV commercials from the 1950s.
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: dragnet; drugs; classic television; film noir; crime
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
Runtime: 31 minutes
2006 EMOL.org. Entertainment Magazine.
This is a public domain archive.
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Dragnet (1987)
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks
Director: Tom Mankiewicz
The line between parody and tribute can be hard to draw, but any marginally hip baby boomer who ever watched Jack Webb's straight-laced Detective Joe Friday caught a glimmer of the comedic vein waiting to be mined beneath Dragnet's gritty Los Angeles streets. In 1987 moviegoers had yet to be crushed under the weight of the 1990s TV remake mania, and Dragnet comes off as fresh and funny. Dan Aykroyd plays Joe Friday, the straight-arrow nephew of Webb's iconic cop. This part was made for him (in fact, he's given top writing credit), and under his steely exterior you can tell he's having a ball delivering those rapid-fire recitations of regulations and deadpan expressions of moral outrage. Tom Hanks plays Pep Streebek, the laissez-faire narco agent who is Friday's new partner. Their assignment: bust the Pagans, a wild-and-woolly gang of dope fiends, deadbeats, and beatniks behind a bewildering array of bizarre robberies. Hilarity ensues. Friday and Streebek outfox a corrupt televangelist (Christopher Plummer), bicker over chili dogs and cigarettes, alternately revile and fawn over a porn millionaire (Dabney Coleman), wrestle a 30-foot-long anaconda, and rescue the virgin Connie Swail--the only girl capable of stealing Friday's heart. --Grant Balfour, Amazon.com
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DVD Movie Plot:
Friday and Streebek are assigned to some very strange robberies, like i.e. the stealing of one bat, a 30 feet long snake and the mane of a lion from a zoo. All the latest BAIT magazines were also recently stolen, and some chemichals that when are mixed correctly develops a very deadly gas. All these thefts have one thing in common; visit cards with the word "PAGAN" left at the crime scenes. Solving these crimes, including why plenty of police vehicles have been stolen lately, involves the usual; to drink coffee at strip tease bars, rescue kidnapped virgins from drowning and lose the job.
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