Dragnet - Joe Friday Gets "ROUGH" With Suspect - Classic!

[rsdragonblood]

Looks like Joe Friday got up on the wrong side of the bed that morning. No wonder he got into his bad side.

[CatapultYourMom]

The good old days before that pussy Miranda ruling.

[SovereignStatesman]

They should show how the LAPD REALLY treated suspects with "The Third Degree," i.e. waterboarding, beatings with rubber hoses and phone-books and other tortures; also mind-games, tricking them into false or incriminating statements, psychological manipulation and interrogations, coerced confessions, etc.

[OrodesIII]

Enjoyable, entertaining make-believe from a time when no one expected tv to be realistic.

[SovereignStatesman]

@OrodesIII

Yeah more like the media hid the truth with with bullcrap-propaganda.

[ToiToiToiHerrKaleun]

police brutality

[TheFrogger15]

It's interesting how different the 50's Dragent & the 60's Dragnet were. Friday was this kickass cop in the 50's but in the 60's he just seemed to make a lot of speeches. Don't get me wrong, both shows were great.

[grendeljack]

Hey, what episode is this from?



[Killenwolf]

Just another jerk cop making speeches and beating on suspects while not doing crap

[madbicyclist]

Nowadays, it's politics and big bad crack dealers with automatic weapons. Back in those days, it was all about doing the job for the cops, and the criminals had sixshooters.

[radioactivenews]

Where in the hell is the A.C.L.U.?

[palonejr]

This is when we had real cops.

Cops have to ask permission to arrest someone.

Cops now imitate Military now because of hard core gangs and drugs smugglers.

I like the old days better with the cop on the beat making sure we were ok.

Now were on our own.

Cops are here to write the report after your a victim.

Its not the cops fault, it is the lawyers.

Bobby...

[3devv4]

god I love this -! The SLANG is great, "...the monkeys on your back, you're gonna have to help scratch it off" hahahahaha He has that speech pattern that "men of a certain age" had (my grandfathers generation), where every threat was prefaced with "Listen, Mister.." This must be the only clip where he doesn't use that phrase.. Thank you for posting this

[emmtampa]

Rotary phone...cigarette...that tells alot!!

[alexp9999]

right, because abusing power, betraying public trust, and committing brutality SHOULD be part of each American's life experience, guilty or otherwise...besides, i thought folks were innocent UNTIL proven guilty =/

ahhh, the good old days--you guys really had your shit together back then. lower crime! dedicated cops! cleaner streets! too bad they also lynched black folks. that was fail, to say the least =/

one good thing about the good old days, though: they'll never come back.

[TiminPhoenix]

@alexp9999 Yeah, this clip really shows the suspect being abused. How silly. Ooops, did me writing silly cause you to swoon or maybe wet your panites? It apparently doesn't take much for you to wave the old liberal flag of everybody being a victim and of your apparent hate for the police? Does your arrest for walking up and down main street in your sister's dress still sting? Is that it? You poor, mistreated, misunderstood person...I'm crying on the inside for you...deep inside.

[Lambieschmoo]

I'm gonna push you...........

[InvisibleRightLegLad]

If he wasn't an actor he coulda been an auctioneer.

[MisterMasterShafter]

Jack Webb, one of the Gods of TV cops and real America. Where the hell are he, McGarrett, Kojak, Starsky & Hutch when we need them now? Instead of all this PC progressive crap.

[silverbird58]

we need joe today

[Juliaflo]

I second that.

John Randolph Webb was one of television's noblemen.

[volfire2]

This is the video version of the episode "The Big Hate". If anyone knows the air date of this one, I would greatly appreciate it.

[hourlynewscaster]

It ran FIRST on radio (my God, let's not forget radio) in 1949 and continued through the 1957 season, while running concurrently on TV, with different episodes, starting in 1951.

[SithLordRising]

Wow! This was before Joe transfromed into Mr. Roboto.

[olabntrpr]

Man, look how young Jack looks!  He looks even younger than when he played "The D.I." which I think WAS after the first Dragnet shows.

[noctemacternus]

Joe didn't mess around...I think there were only 2 episodes where he actually smiled

[MrRightNow469]

That's the most violent the L.A.P.D. ever gets.

[wdc2998]

Rodney King would disagree. LOL

[Dunkleosteus9]

What year did Dragnet begin?

[GiacomoC]

1951

[Spartacus217]

"Young fella" ?

[bashir1980]

Now that's what I call a "no-nonsense" Joe Friday!

[volfire2]

Have any idea from what episode this clip is from?

[doctorpissoff]

2055 Malcom Ave, L A Calif. is a real address, check Google

[vinegaroon1]

I take it back about Lee Marvin. Now I think it's Don Keefer.

[vinegaroon1]

That's Lee Marvin, isn't it?

[pigletized]

Rough on criminals---as it should be.

[virus20021]

They should be rough on criminals, but Jo did what he had to do. He didn't just hit him for nothing. What Jo did was right. But real cops don't do it right.

[dgarr64]

sgt Friday busted me for possesion of a marijuana cigerette in 1961 he was a hard ass

[OptimusTOM]

Not worth posting

[tripjet999]

He was a heavy-handed, ham-fisted, brain-damaged smoker.

[slingblade65]

..Joe Friday certainly would not have put up with "420" burnt morons that jis stain up Youtube either.

[BUNGLEJYME]

ACLU: "American Communist Lawyers Union". yeah a lot of frigging good these jerks have done allowing perverts and scum to enjoy more civil rights than upstanding law-abiding citizens. Now the Police are handcuffed and can't do their jobs because of horseshit like "profiling, etc, etc". Sure, there are bad cops but I believe they are a minority.

I live in a high crime area and the cops are always right here when I call them.

[coprographia]

@BUNGLEJYME ahahhahahaa, yes

Oh, wait. You're serious? Eww.

[HowardOfOz]

well if you don't like this "garbage country" pick a better one and go there....

[ROUTE66OLDIES]

first, kiss my ass you OJ-Loving ax murderer racist bastard!!

[HowardOfOz]

wow what a brilliant incisive well reasoned retort...I stand in awe of your amazing analytical deductions of me simply because I challenged you to find a better country. Astounding!! I see your ignorance is only surpassed by your sheer stupidity.

[slingblade65]

Burnt 420 retards probably bend over forwards for shithole groups like the ACLU as well

[nagmashdriver]

Ahhhh, the good old days before the fucking ACLU and the other Left wing do-gooders made it hard for cops to do their job.

[BUNGLEJYME]

Agee 100%

[DrakeMarino]

Funny because I never liked the ACLU, hell the founder of the ACLU was disgusted with what it became. I found myself in a situation where my rights were violated by police and I called the ACLU and they told me to get bent.

[BayouChick31]

Because they only care about the rights of certain groups. If you are a decent person who works for what you get you are out of luck they don't care.

[jbyrd0861]

does anybody know the name of the other actor in this clip...he looks familiar

[ohiofan1989]

The actor in this clip is Sam Edwards. To my knowledge, he appeared in many episodes of Dragnet in the 1950's. In fact, he was featured in the pilot episode 1951. The episode was called "The Human Bomb" and he was featured along with Stacie Harris, who also did many episodes of the show.

[SheriffTankStoner]

@ohiofan1989 And he shared the spotlight with Stacy Harris in the Dragnet 67 Season 4 episode 'The Pill Maker'. Sam was voice of Paul Carter in the Dragnet 67 Season 2 episode 'The Squeeze'.

[ohiofan1989]

You may recognize Sam Edwards from the 1966 Dragnet movie. While NBC produced the movie in 1966, it was not aired until 1969. The movie was so good that NBC decided not to air the movie and instead give Jack Webb the "go ahead" to do the entire 60's run of the show. During the 60's run, he used many of the original actors who appeared in the 1950's episodes.

[megamanj2004X]

and it's ironic that when NBC commissioned Jack Webb to do "Dragnet '67'," he originally wanted to bring back Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith, but he already tied down to ABC's "Felony Squad" so Webb had to reluctantly recast Officer Bill Gannon in Frank Smith's stead.

[SheriffTankStoner]

@ohiofan1989 Yep, like Howard Culver, Peggy Webber, Martin Milner, Stacy Harris and Virginia Gregg. Wasn't pre-Paladin Richard Boone considered part of Jack Webb's 'Stock Company" for the 1950's at least?

[mista123420]

@jbyrd0861 reminds me of rosko from dukes of hazard lol

[patriotisnot]

ANICON2006 Stay on strike get out of the business local writers there product is not worth the time spent watching

[WallyPlumstead]

Joe browbeats a suspect real good but he should try using a blackjack on them every once in awhile. Works wonders in the compliance department!

[ANICON2006]

..the dialouge from the early Dragnet radio programs are great too.. makes u realize how moronic the writing for TV programs is today; wish they would stay on strike, they're already overpaid!

[maraflore]

that isn't shatner.

[AdventurousPutty]

Oh noes, they're interrogating Captain Kirk! Beam 'im up, Scotty, quick!

[takomaguy]

See, there you are. I've never seen CSI. I think they all are a bunch of jerks compared to some of the cop shows back in the 50s and 60s.

[takomaguy]

Gee. I've scene Joe get tougher than that.

[GuitarSource]

Joe provoked him when he went to call his mommy.

[IVSolar]

I was only two years old at the time of this show but I love the reruns.

[racer500gp]

Impossible, this episode was from 1954 and your profile says that your 42 years old. You're probably thinking of the second incarnation of Dragnet which ran from 1967-1970.

[IVSolar]

Yep! you're right.

[fromthesidelines]

The suspect is Sam Edwards, who was one of Webb's "stock company" players on "DRAGNET" for years...

[ohiofan1989]

Sam Edwards was also in the very first episode of Dragnet (The Human Bomb) in 1951.

He shared the spotlight in the episode with yet another "stock company" player, Stacy Harris.

[STP43FAN1]

@ohiofan1989 Among Webb's stock company - Edwards, Harris, Howard Culver, Olan Soule, Peggy Webber, Virginia Gregg, Herb Ellis, Harry Bartell, Herb Vigran, Dennis mcCarthy, Sarah Selby, Don Dubbins.

[HammerBoy3397]

What year is this from?

[ohiofan1989]

This clip is from the episode "The Big Hate." The original air date was February 12th, 1953.

[yowzephyr]

@ohiofan1989 Wow. I had no idea Dragnet went back to 1953. Lucky TV. I wonder if all episodes are available on DVD.

[WSenator1]

@yowzephyr - The original "Dragnet" really goes back to 1951 - and on radio to 1949. For those who don't have a taste for the 60s version, they should check out these earlier ones. I was a very young boy when they were first on TV, so it took me till now to see the great stuff I was missing.

[WildmanWoodie]

In Webb We Trust!