#the dragNET

[reality-detective]

PROPHETIC: A powerful segment from a 1967 episode of Dragnet STILL perfectly dismantles the greatest lies sold to young Americans 🤔

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Detective/Crime TV tie-in board games (1950s to 1970s)

[80smovies]

[oldshowbiz]

iconic

[undergroundrockpress]

The Fall, 1979.

[artbyblastweave]

New years eve is one of those times of year where my social media usage convinces me that my friends from high school and college are lapping me in terms of socialization and memory-making until I remember how much of my life I've structured around preventing images of my face from ending up on the internet

[theactioneer]

Dona Speir, Dabney Coleman & Ava Fabian, Dragnet (1987)

[spawksstuff]

333 Montgomery BTS - With Sound

Y'ALL. I found it with sound! Now this version has about 30 seconds of De cut out from the footage I have (https://www.tumblr.com/spawksstuff/765458500411392000/333-montgomery-found-footage?source=share) but at least we get to hear a majority of it!

You’ve seen this location before. The man in it now is the real article, the master himself, Jake Erlich. Perhaps the greatest trial lawyer of our time. A defense attorney who has never had a client pay the supreme penalty of law. A brilliant, many faceted man. Ruthless compassion. Tough, gentle. Crafty, sincere. In my entire career as an actor I’ve never faced a challenge like this: watching him, learning from him, and trying to find a way to bring this excitement to life in front of the camera. I started by living with the master. Incidentally, you’re seeing the actual office at 333 Montgomery. Wherever possible, here, the courtroom, around the city, we photographed scenes on actual location. It’s an honest picture, right down to the nails in the wall. I wore the same clothing, took his calls, even wore his attitudes and ideas. And when you do that, if you love this business as I do, something begins to happen. You forget you’re an actor named DeForest Kelley and you become the master too.

Now, add to all of this the most colorful city in the world, the one locale which matches the excitement of the character, and blend all that into the hundreds of actual cases from Jake Erlich’s varied career: the episodes, incidents, and stories, which tumble out of this man, well, I think you know what it adds up to: an exciting [unintelligible] television series unlike any you’ve seen or any we’ve been privileged to work on.

Well I’m sure you can see the satisfaction on my face and yet I’ve never worked harder in my life or with a greater sense of exhilaration and accomplishment. And I’m not going to try to hide the fact that it hasn’t been fun because it has. 333 Montgomery. I hope you like it. Good night.  

@cheer-deforest-kelley I'm screaming!

[citizenscreen]

Ann Robinson (left) is learning to shoot from real policewomen Pat Wright and June Howard as instructor Sergeant Roy Bean gives direction. Robinson is preparing for her role in Jack Webb’s DRAGNET (1954).

[columboscreens]

[girl-drink-drunk]

the dragnet movie really is perfect. just an hour and a half of dan aykroyd talking and listing things nonstop

[eightiesgalaxy]

Dabney Coleman 1932-2024 RIP

[sonimage1965]

Dragnet Girl

dir. Yasujiro Ozu

1933

[flowerishness]

Phlox paniculata (garden phlox var: "Flame White Eye")

Dragnet 2023

"Just the phlox, ma'am. Just the phlox."

[80smovies]

[loretta-dont-you-oppress-me]

Dragnet & Drag Racing Today

The most Monty Python sketch that SNL ever did. Hosted by Eric Idle in Season 2, controversial at the time.

It was aired in 1976 and contained:

✔️ Men in drag

✔️ Absurdity

✔️ Switching from video to film and back

✔️ 4th Wall Breaking

✔️ Abrupt ending

In the DRAGNET sketch all the cops were in drag, notably Eric Idle and Dan Aykroyd, until John Belushi breaks the scene to point out that "drag doesn't work in America". They give up on the scene and cut to a short film, which picks up with a drag race between Idle and Aykroyd both running in drag.

Source Link to film: reddit archive