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

Joe Friday gets "physical" with a suspect when he won't cooperate.  Great acting by Jack Webb.

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[mista123420]

@jbyrd0861 reminds me of rosko from dukes of hazard lol

[yowzephyr]

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

[SovereignStatesman]

@OrodesIII

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

[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.

[ToiToiToiHerrKaleun]

police brutality

[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.