Dragnet - The Big Phone Call, S01E12 * Classic TV Police Drama

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Dragnet - The Big Phone Call
Season 1, Episode 12
Original Airdate: May 22, 1952
A jeweler is suspected in a robbery. When Friday questions him he loses his cool and his credibility.

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@rickmiller1429 Жыл бұрын

The sound of the rotary dial phone, miss them

@kathyflorcruz552 3 жыл бұрын

Talk about a rapid fire exchange!😂 No one did it better than Jack & his actors.

@starguy2718 Жыл бұрын

"Just the facts, ma'am!"

@daviddowns7552 Жыл бұрын

didnt he also do adam 12 and Emergency.? great shows.

@RebelRob34 4 жыл бұрын

Who gives this classic a thumbs down???

@kathyflorcruz552 3 жыл бұрын

THEIVES.

@starguy2718 Жыл бұрын

DA George Gascon.

@graydonjones6912 Жыл бұрын

Criminals

@mick7even Жыл бұрын

ANTIFA?🤷🏻‍♀️

@yarnmoods Жыл бұрын

My husband hates this show. He says it’s boring and slow. I like the simplicity and the references to LA since I grew up here.

@JasonNoxid 9 ай бұрын

The chemistry will all three cast members were spot on!

@coppingtonfarnham7731 Жыл бұрын

As a fan of Outer Limits, I always like hearing the "control voice" Vic Perrin in an acting role.

@Celluloidwatcher 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the Dragnet episode, The Big Phone Call, aired May 22, 1952, on NBC Television. Love the rapid-fire delivery of Webb's Sgt. Joe Friday and the other two characters, a classic, hallmark portrayal that personified the series on radio and TV. It never grows stale, in my opinion.

@shirtless6934 Жыл бұрын

Back in 1952, when this show was first broadcast, there was no requirement to give the suspect Miranda warnings (that did not come along until 1966), and whether the recording was legal made no difference, because prior to 1955, California courts admitted illegally seized evidence as long as it was relevant. The California Constitution gave him the right to have counsel present, but he never asked for a lawyer, did he? And even if he had, and they had denied it, his statements likely would be admitted into evidence so long as they were voluntarily made. The Warren Court changed all that, which is why we do not see this sort of procedure on the 1967-1970 version of Dragnet.

@James_Bowie Ай бұрын

Not hard to see suspects were brow-beaten and fitted-up back in the day.

@Tommy-76 Жыл бұрын

Vic Perrin is a part of the Star Trek TOS history log…the voice of Nomad in The Changeling

@Bigbadwhitecracker 4 жыл бұрын

This is what we called in theater a "three hander" and this is simply brilliant. I love the Barney Phillips as Ed Jacobs episodes. I wish Jack had kept him around another season or two.

@fromthesidelines 3 жыл бұрын

The problem with Barney was that he sounded too much like Jack (especially on radio). Herb Ellis replaced him as "Frank Smith"- and then Ben Alexander finally assumed the role by the end of 1952.

@dariowiter3078 3 жыл бұрын

@@fromthesidelines In Ben Alexander, Webb found the ideal actor to portray Friday's partner Joe Smith in whatever department of the LAPD that both characters were assigned to. 😁

@macmcleod1188 2 ай бұрын

"The first notable role of his career was the recurring character Sergeant Ed Jacob in the police procedural television series "Dragnet" (1951-1959). " So eight years. I think the entire run of the first series. Looks like he was on the show less as his career took off.

@richardburriesci7723 5 жыл бұрын

This is a film makers delight! Notice the story never left the room! As a screenwriter we quickly learn to write a very good interesting script and keep location to a bare minimum so budget costs make it viable. The producer adds good actors to a good script and you got a winner! This was the case of 12 ANGRY MEN

@fromthesidelines 3 жыл бұрын

In order to keep production costs reasonable, Jack often filmed these kind of "bottle" episodes, where the action took place in just one room.

@dariowiter3078 3 жыл бұрын

@@fromthesidelines 👍😁

@bgh8904 Жыл бұрын

no it wasn't, 12 angry men was about a hood with a knife, and inner city teen in a murder, nothing even remote connected to the plot of this episode. are you a bot to be so incoherent and trying to me smart? or what?

@dariowiter3078 Жыл бұрын

@@bgh8904 What makes you think the guy is a bit, you dummy? 😠

@matttheyak 6 ай бұрын

... 12 angry men was similar in terms of being filmed on a limited set like this production was, which was clearly the point being made@@bgh8904

@karenmartin7978 3 жыл бұрын

A very educational episode. I learned to dial 9 to get an outside line.

@starguy2718 Жыл бұрын

Or, you just pull out your cell phone.

@kevinmadden1645 Жыл бұрын

Vic Perrin was a good. character actor throughout the fifties and sixties.

@sleepytickle 3 жыл бұрын

EXCELLENT!!!! Gotta love Friday

@craykanne Жыл бұрын

Never saw this partner before. Very interesting!

@PlasmaCoolantLeak 6 жыл бұрын

The actor playing Garvey was the late Vic Perrin, who appeared in the 1950s and 1960s "Dragnet" movies, a few episodes of the series, and was the "Control Voice" of the original "Outer Limits".

@fromthesidelines 3 жыл бұрын

A "few" episodes? Perrin was a charter member of Jack Webb's "stock company", and turned up *a lot* on the radio and TV episodes.

@dariowiter3078 3 жыл бұрын

@@fromthesidelines He was also the elevator operator in Don't Bother To Knock(1952) who says to Marilyn Monroe's mentally ill character Nell "Are you OK, lady?" towards the end of the movie. 😁

@Tommy-76 3 жыл бұрын

He was also NOMAD on the Star Trek TOS episode The Changeling

@loischrisvera 2 ай бұрын

He also played another character on Star Trek. In the episode Mirror Mirror. He played the leader who did not want to turn over the crystals.

@thomasthomas2418 11 ай бұрын

7:50; If "Bewitched" is the drinking-est television show, "Dragnet" is the smoking-est. MAD Magazine did a hilarious spoof of the show and in every other frame, the characters are offering one another cigarette until they're smoking dozens at once! "Me a cigarette too?"

@thomasthomas2418 11 ай бұрын

"The suspect was tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree. The judge suspended the sentence and remanded the suspect to the custody of his wife!" DOM-DA-DOMM-DOMM! 🤣

@christopherbellore3511 10 ай бұрын

No school like the OLD SCHOOL!

@starguy2718 Жыл бұрын

Friday speaking with his usual clipped, rapid-fire delivery. Perp responds in exactly the same way. I love it!

@dariowiter3078 Жыл бұрын

That was how Webb wanted his character to sound on both radio and television; the same applied to the other characters on the program.

@janepickle4762 Жыл бұрын

Friday's, partner was in a show that a exterestual being, outer limits one, came to earth and was talking to him. And the end he lifted up something and a third eye

@nunyabusiness863 11 ай бұрын

Yes that was a twilight zone episode about venusians vs martians.

@mountainhobo 2 ай бұрын

Excellent episode.

@michaelplanchunas3693 Жыл бұрын

A little background on Joe Friday from a 1949 radio broadcast. He was 34 years old (1915), single, lived with his widowed mother on Colfax Avenue, had an aunt who lived in LA and an Uncle Fred who lived in Spokane Washington. Dated, nobody he was serious about, and had a dog.

@James_Bowie Ай бұрын

34 year old, lives at home, no close female friend. Today he'd be called a closet case.

@JohnReitz-ps2ct 28 күн бұрын

@@James_Bowie He made up for it later...

@MA_808 3 жыл бұрын

that was great...

@LordZontar 5 жыл бұрын

Garvey likely got more peace in Q than he'd had the last couple of years with his wife and kids.

@nescafe7154 4 жыл бұрын

You got a good point there lol

@nunyabusiness863 11 ай бұрын

For real. 'Take me to jail. I dont care. ' That's a broken man right there.

@gregb6469 6 жыл бұрын

Los Angeles is "pretty much like your town"? He must be joking! LA is its own world!

@Rockboy122 6 жыл бұрын

Used to look like your typical town those days.

@funnyblooperreels7135 Жыл бұрын

With friends like Garvey, who need enemies.

@bobtis 2 ай бұрын

This is just class😮c acting . 1950 everyone so pay attention

@Richard-me2pq 2 ай бұрын

Garvey is a jeweler who can at least afford an attorney on retainer so he can tell Friday and Jacobs to take a hike!

@fromthesidelines 6 жыл бұрын

Adapted from the February 14, 1952 radio episode.

@lizbryant8347 6 жыл бұрын

Sometimes the radio and television episodes aired concurrently.

@thomasthomas2418 11 ай бұрын

"Dial 9". That's what finally broke him! 🤣

@MrWolfTickets 3 жыл бұрын

22:00 in the radio version during this last call attempt before the admission Friday says 'what's the matter Garvey? Don't forget to dial nine!' and you can just hear his smile.

@vim1000 Жыл бұрын

I can pay you.. then he changes his mind. Everything is perfect on this.

@daviddowns7552 Жыл бұрын

vic perrin was that creepy voice in beginning of outer limits. do not tune youre television set!!!!!!!

@bobtis 2 ай бұрын

Actors of the 1950's post WW2. I loved Barney Phillips. No Maranda in 1950 ⚡️⚡️

@James_Bowie Ай бұрын

0:24 look at that smog.

@willoughby1888 Ай бұрын

That was back in 1952. I wonder what "Detective A I" can get on people nowadays.

@LucianTSkeptic 2 ай бұрын

Dial 9 to get an outside line.

@ronaldringler1497 3 күн бұрын

Friday looks rather grubby in this episode.

@vexer2942 12 күн бұрын

Tape recorders/players like the one shown recorded and played back voice at 1 7/8 inches per second (ips). I can't imagine why the machine featured played back much faster.

@corallewis3788 3 жыл бұрын

Heh, heh his wife was a shopaholic!

@mm72213 5 ай бұрын

Never marry a shopaholic 😂😂😂

@factenter6787 Жыл бұрын

Should have tapped that pencil

@OfficerLarryNMSE Жыл бұрын

I certainly hope that this guy has learned his lesson that day. "You Have The Right to Remain Silent. Don't Say a Damn Thing to Anyone Without an Attorney Present!!!!"

@Tommy-76 Жыл бұрын

He didn’t have that right then. Miranda didn’t come until 1966

@luissanchez7523 7 жыл бұрын

👍👍

@TopHotDog 2 ай бұрын

Grilled before public defenders were available for interrogation proceedings.

@katiezee2 6 жыл бұрын

the guy reminds me of my exhusband--present hard evidence of his lying and stealing to him. .denies everything, it's all a big plot and lie against him, everyone else is lying, blah blah. infuriating

@kathyflorcruz552 3 жыл бұрын

I think we all know someone like that. It IS infuriating.

@Clancydaenlightened Жыл бұрын

0:23 good way to learn my way round california...😎

@Clancydaenlightened Жыл бұрын

10:20 hai gbatemp

@Clancydaenlightened Жыл бұрын

16:30😎

@austinsmith1505 11 ай бұрын

The big phone call What did they use a cell phone in the 1950s

@deanguando1335 Жыл бұрын

Another one bites the dust.

@MJBYouTubeNetwork 6 ай бұрын

Dial 9.

@SamuelKhan 6 ай бұрын

😂 They bring in a tray of food and eat it in front of them Joe and Ben Romero played a card game in a radio episode Dial 9!

@thomasthomas2418 11 ай бұрын

Another brilliant "interrogation" episode, this time with the great Vic Perrin. Jack Webb directed these episodes with restrained suspense, like the interrogation of Kent McCord (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLhzkqmTrpjagok.html&ab_channel=TimelessTVClassics) But the Big Daddy of all the interrogation shows is "The Squeeze", with John Sebastian as George Fox (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nsV6rZZ9qp6YlaM.html&ab_channel=NeilMartin).

@Clancydaenlightened Жыл бұрын

22:19 sounds just like lydia

@Revelation18-4 2 жыл бұрын

Priest was probably a Jesuit.

@dariowiter3078 Жыл бұрын

He most certainly was, Isaiah.

@938quilt Жыл бұрын

a chance to make a statement?

@juancarlosvaldes4538 Жыл бұрын

BUSTED and DISGUSTED!

@stans1058 2 ай бұрын

The takeaway is don't say anything .

@Traderjoe Жыл бұрын

I thought the guy was Kevin Spaceys father or something

@chrisdunham9818 6 жыл бұрын

You have the right to remain silent.

@Bigbadwhitecracker 4 жыл бұрын

Not in the '50s you don't.

@macmcleod1188 2 ай бұрын

@@Bigbadwhitecrackeryou had the right in the fifties too but they didn't have to tell you you had that right. And then is now police officers could hold you all day and also lied to you. Folks should watch the video made by a law professor and a police Sergeant entitled "don't talk to the police" and make sure their kids see it too.

@panheadbob2926 2 ай бұрын

Maybe in the '50's People were dumb enough to talk like that to the Police. But in 2024, it just wouldn't go down like that.

@danceswithcomicbooks7733 2 ай бұрын

Watch real life interrogations..people blab like crazy.

@toddsterben6647 6 жыл бұрын

Watch him read the script....

@LordZontar 5 жыл бұрын

That was the way Jack Webb wanted it. He didn't want his actors to "act" (unless it was somebody like Virginia Gregg or Burt Mustin) but to read off of scripts or cue cards like in a radio play. The closeups and tight camera angles covered that up, and only the occasional long-angle shot would be played "live" as such. That was his way of minimising the number of takes a scene would require and also kept tight control on the performances.

@dariowiter3078 3 жыл бұрын

@@LordZontar And to keep the pace of the show going smoothly and quickly, I might add.

@markgarin6355 Жыл бұрын

Ah...short show ..lots of pre show filler

@VictorSamuelson-nk5nw Жыл бұрын

We need justice the way this one was done forget about Miranda rights look what we have now anarchy

@billhinton9787 Жыл бұрын

They ALL smoked, I wonder who died of cancer.

@macmcleod1188 2 ай бұрын

The criminal died of cancer in 1982 and Jack Webb died of heart disease at the age of 62. I don't know how things turned out for the other sergeant.

@Richard-me2pq 2 ай бұрын

I wonder how many non smokers in LA died of 2nd hand tailpipe exhaust?

@Richard-me2pq 2 ай бұрын

Which kind of cancer did the criminal die from? My doctor told me there are 200 varieties of cancer as well as 100's of varying carcinogens. Also, cardiac medicine in the 1950's and 1960's was inferior as compared to today's cardiac care. So, do not confuse me with the facts because my mind is made up?

@Jack-bs7cy Жыл бұрын

Wow SOS Miranda rights. And this is what they put on TV. Bet in real live things were much worse.

@TopHotDog 2 ай бұрын

Black eyes, cracked ribs, splintered knees, amongst other injuries.

@brd400 6 ай бұрын

These guys violate all the things we know now. Never answer police questions without your attorney.

@TopHotDog 2 ай бұрын

They edited out the rubber hose segment.

@josephpetrino1741 5 жыл бұрын

And his lawyer is where? The cops bugged his office? This was legal?

@oober2004 5 жыл бұрын

Yes to all of the above.

@josephpetrino1741 5 жыл бұрын

@@oober2004 Maybe in your country comrade.

@oober2004 5 жыл бұрын

@@josephpetrino1741 most countries

@shirtless6934 Жыл бұрын

In 1952 it was legal. There was no requirement to give a suspect Miranda warnings, and prior to 1955, California admitted illegally seized evidence as long as it was relevant. The Warren Court changed all that. Thus you do not see this procedure in the 1967-1970 episodes.

@shirtless6934 Жыл бұрын

@@josephpetrino1741 Legal in our country in 1952. See my other comment.

@davidcurran5973 4 жыл бұрын

Could they violate anymore of his constitutional rights or what?

@dariowiter3078 3 жыл бұрын

His rights were not violated in this episode, dummy! Dragnet is a police procedural drama that shows how police detectives get the job done.

@reynaldoflores4522 Жыл бұрын

If they didn't read him his Miranda Rights , and the admission of guilt was done without the perp's lawyer, the case would get thrown out of court!

@shirtless6934 Жыл бұрын

@@reynaldoflores4522 Today yes, but the law was vastly different in 1952. Until 1955, California admitted illegally seized evidence so lpng as it was relevant, and the US Supreme Court was okay with that until 1961. The requirement to read him his Miranda rights was not established until 1966. It was a different world back then. Given the changes made by the Warren Court, Dragnet 1967 had to be entirely different in terms of procedure.