Dragnet

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Performer: Jack Webb
Edition: Audio Cassette
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09
ISBN: 1570196346
Publisher: Radio Spirits

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Book Review: Dragnet Forever
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm too young to remember the original Dragnet TV show butI well remember
it's 60's reincarnation. As a wise guy ever so hip teenager, Sgt. Friday, with his straight talking lectures to hippies and pot heads
seemed hilariously square. And yet I liked the show's simple format(which
became ridiculous on its spin-off Adam-12, when a radio call would invariably feature a close-up of the car radio speaker!) and the sometimes gitty realism. Watching the re-runs 30 years later, it seems
a real museum peice. Not so, the 50's version. The shows are like the
raw material you imagine other film makers using to create the film noirs so popular in the 40's and 50's. The crimes are mostly real police blotter stuff, day to day petty crimes, sad sack dead-end characters abound - most of the shows on these discs are utterly lacking in glamor. Often, LA appears to be the armpit of the universe.
These two DVDs are a terrific bargain. The other reviews have detailed what they contain and I echo the writers who are frustrated that so few Dragnets are commercially available. The transfers are as good as a TV re-run from that era - I was pleasantly surprises they are as good as they are, considering the price. So far, I've seen about a dozen of the 20 episodes and haven't been disappointed. I was especially
tickled by the one where pot crazed teens trashed a movie house. If onlythe 1952 Sgt. Friday knew what was in store for him 15 years later!

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