dragnet (the jack webb 1950s tv series)

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holy shit this is good.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 6 July 2006 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

Just the facts, Am.

Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Thursday, 6 July 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

nicely played.

i got some shitty P.D. collection of this stuff. what's the best quality DVD out there?

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 6 July 2006 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

never seen it, only the campy '70s version where all they do is go after hippie girls who've drowned their babies and crazy manson-type guys who paint their faces blue.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 6 July 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer the later 1960's version (in color) when they regularly confront deviant hippie lifestyles - y'know, the baby's been floating in the pool for weeks 'cause mom and dad were
"on weed." And the outfits the hippies wore . . . holy kazama.

Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Thursday, 6 July 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

just downloaded the 1954 cinemascope FILM. looking forward to watching it. jack webb's films are interesting but pretty much forgotten now.

the 1967-68 version of dragnet is coming out in installments on legit DVDs. the old stuff is still PD and the same dozen or two dozen episodes circulate in shitty copies on innumerable crappy labels. someone needs to get on the ball and release more of that stuff in better condition. i think maybe it's owned by universal now??

figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 01:07 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.tradeport.com.ph/uploads/Image/magnavision/Dragnet.jpg

fleetwood (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 01:11 (fifteen years ago)

Got the whole works on .avi (along with the 1967 TV movie).

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 01:13 (fifteen years ago)

TV movie? like a pilot for the new show?

figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 01:15 (fifteen years ago)

do you mean you have the entire series run from the 1950s??? i doubt that--i think some of them don't exist anymore.

but if you have a bunch of '50s episodes, could you like, burn them for me or something?

figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 01:16 (fifteen years ago)

Sorry... It's the 1960s episodes I have the complete run of (along with a complete run of the radio series - at least the episodes that are still available)

Correction on the 1967 TV movie. It's was actually filmed in 1966 and was intended to be a one-shot TV movie but NBC ended up commissioning a new series. The movie is great and probably the best of the entire series. Loosely based on Lonely Hearts Killer Harvey Glatman who was active in L.A. in the late 50s it's pretty hard boiled for television. More here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064257/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Glatman

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:55 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, it's the 1950s tv episodes that can be elusive... the same ones get repackaged constantly.

figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)


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