Maybe I should slow down on watching the DVDs of old black-and-white Dragnet shows I bought this summer. After all, having watched one in October and another earlier this month, I’m going to run out of novel things to say about each disc.
This one includes a couple of commercials–instead of Chesterfield cigarettes, we get a couple of L&M cigarette spots as well as a Post Cereals spot. So those are certainly novel. And I noticed and thought worthy of mentioning that not every show starts out with the “This is the city….” montage, but maybe half of them do–with Friday narrating over it some trivia and “I’m a cop.”
This disc contains:
- “Big Break” where Friday and the gang surround the house of a wanted man, and a shootout ensues.
- “Big Hands” where Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a woman in a hotel room.
- “Big Betty” where con artists are preying upon the families of the recently deceased.
- “Big War” where Friday and Smith try to avert a bloody gang war between rival groups of juveniles who might go at it with pipes, brass knuckles, and knives–and their leader is a 17-year-old high school student whose mother coddles him.
Again, enough variety to keep you wondering what might come on next week episode. Most, again, adapted from radio plays.
Maybe I should start watching to see how often, or even if Jack Webb says, “Just the facts, ma’am,” which was kinda the catchphrase associated with him in my youth. Maybe not.
And watching this program, coupled with the fact that my nineteen-year-old has a professional job where he dresses in one of my suits for a variety of events, makes me think I should haunt thrift stores looking for sport jackets. I’ve fallen away from going Grant over the last couple of years. Maybe I should get back to it.
