Dragnet 1967 - Season 1
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Actor: Harry Morgan, Jack WebbBrand: WEBB,JACK
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 432 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Dragnet 1967 - Season 1
DVD Review: Great Show! HORRIBLE PRODUCT!
Summary: 3 Stars
Dragnet is without a doubt, one of the most entertaining shows ever, I love it. Buying this season was a no-brainer. I saw "3 discs" on the box and was delighted at that much viewing time. What the heck! The first disc has eleven episodes on it, however, you can only directly access four of the episodes, the other seven have to be viewed by seeing them in their order after you hit the "play all" option. Did I mention that the other seven are on the back of the first disc. The second disc is one-sided and has a whopping three episodes on it. The third disc has no episodes on it. Who developed this product? I expected a better layout than this and was letdown. DVD Review: When is Season two finally oming out?
Summary: 5 Stars
The season one collection was great! But when are we finally going to see season two come out on dvd!!!?DVD Review: Great show - crappy copy
Summary: 3 Stars
Is it possible for someone other than Universal to release this show and do it correctly ??? Dragnet was a fantastic show I loved as a child. It's worth watching again and again, since there's nothing decent to watch on tv these days. Please, someone, release this properly !DVD Review: Great series is very dated
Summary: 5 Stars
I was only 4 years old when Dragnet hit the small screen in 1967.
I have seen the series very few times, but remember watching some
with my parents in the 1970s!
I really enjoyed this DVD collection and will definitely get Season 2 !
It is very dated and the acting can be very stiff which was intentional
from Jack Webb, but is very entertaining.
To bad Jack passed away when he was planning on a new Dragnet
1982 series with Kent McCord as his partner.
DVD Review: Dragnet
Summary: 5 Stars
I would reccommend this product to anybody that likes Dragnet. It was worth the purchase price.
Description of Dragnet 1967 - Season 1
No Description Available.Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 7-JUN-2005
Media Type: DVD
"This is the city--Los Angeles, California." "I carry a badge." "My name's Friday." And who could forget "Just the facts, ma'am"? These lines, delivered in classic deadpan style by actor-director Jack Webb's Sgt. Joe Friday, are among the hallmarks of Dragnet, one of television's earliest and most influential police dramas. And the appearance on DVD of all 17 episodes from the show's first season (1967), covering two discs (plus a third with a radio broadcast from 1954) and running more than seven hours, is a treat. Decades after the fact, when vivid, often graphically violent cop shows like the C.S.I. and Law & Order franchises (all of them clearly owing a debt to Webb's show) dominate the airwaves, Dragnet seems tame, even quaint. Violence and gunplay are kept to a minimum. Special effects are non-existent, and many scenes are talky and static; "The Big Interrogation" takes place almost entirely in a single room in the police station, and includes a four-minute speech by Friday about the plight of a police officer ("You're a cop, a flatfoot, a bull, a dick, John Law. they call you everything, but never a policeman"). The stories are uncomplicated, the criminals are usually dunderheads, and "square" barely begins to describe the overall tone (witness "The Big LSD," a risible depiction of a "hippie" on a psychedelic sojourn). Still, one gets the feeling that we're laughing not at but with Webb, the writers, and the rest of the cast (including Harry Morgan, later of M*A*S*H*, as sidekick Bill Gannon). By about halfway through the season, with episodes like "The Big Candy Story" and "The Big Fur Burglary" (an almost whimsical tale wherein Gannon pretends to be an expert furrier), it appears that Webb and company are enjoying themselves just as much as the viewers are; at the same time, the characters' personal lives are explored in a bit more detail, which adds some welcome texture.
Sure, it's dated--everybody smokes, everyone's white, and character descriptions like "strange-behaving juvenile" are more common than not. But in the end, the Dragnet approach, stilted though it may sometimes be, is a refreshing antidote to the oh-so-hip cop melodramas that have come along since. Best, and simplest, of all, Dragnet 1967 - Season 1 is downright entertaining. --Sam Graham
Dragnet Trivia
. When the original show ("Dragnet" (1951)) ended, Joe Friday had been promoted to Lieutenant. However, Jack Webb decided to make Friday a sergeant again for the new series because "few people remember that Friday was promoted toward the end of our run. We think it's better to have Joe a sergeant again. Few detective-lieutenants get out into the field."
. Jack Webb and Harry Morgan wore the same suits for the entire run of the television series.
. Through all 100 episodes of the series, Friday is only seen wearing something other than his regular suit four times: three times for undercover work and once for a scene in his apartment.
. Episodes from this series were used as training tools by the real-life LAPD.
. When Jack Webb revived the show in 1966, it was in response to the growing tide of teen-age drug use, especially LSD.
. Jack Webb would pay $25 to any officer who submitted a story that was used for an episode plot.
. During the run of this version, the title would change to reflect the year that it was broadcast in (Dragnet 1967, Dragnet 1968 and so on).
. Friday's badge number (seen at the beginning and end of each episode) is 714. Badge 714 belonged to Sgt. 'Dan Cooke' , the technical advisor. The badge has been retired and displayed at the LAPD Academy's Museum.
. The pair of hands seen hammering the Mark VII logo at the end of every episode belong to Jack Webb.
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