Hard to imagine, but there was a time when Comedy Central actually did that. They also aired Jack Benny and Abbott & Costello at some point. It’s literally been almost twenty years since I’ve seen any of it.Ĭomedy Central used to run Kovacs episodes late Sunday nights, back when they had a Golden Age of Comedy block. I know the state library across from where I work has it, so I’ll have to check it out soon. Netflix used to have an Ernie Kovacs set available for streaming, probably the same one that every library seems to have, but I don’t see it there now. And, unfortunately, it's not available through any of the streaming services! Damn shame, that's what that is. I'd watch Get Smart, because damn do I love that show, but it's in a pretty terrible time slot.
#Dragnet episodes from 50s lost to time tv#
Fun show, though I think I'd like it better if Honey didn't constantly need rescuing! She's the title character, let her get the big action scenes, 1960s TV producers! I did catch some Honey West reruns super late one Saturday night when I couldn't sleep. I'd watch more, but the shows I'd watch are rarely on when I have time to watch them, and no cable = no DVR.
#Dragnet episodes from 50s lost to time series#
It dawned on me a month or two back when we stumbled across it on Sunday morning that my son is 7 and had never seen it at all (where as I had probably seen the whole series 3 or 4 times over by that point). We pick up METV through the antenna, so I can watch that way, though the only thing I've really watched with any consistency on that channel so far has been The Brady Bunch. The Big New Years (Aaron Spelling) ()ġ30.We don't have cable anymore, just an antenna and Roku, but the TV helpings are pretty plentiful there. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent."ĩ8. "Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. The first episode of Dragnet, "The Human Bomb", actually appeared as a preview on a series titled, "Chesterfield Sound Off Time". It shared its time slot with another police series that started on the radio. By 1989, however, there were new police series with more excitement like the " Cops TV Show" or " America's Most Wanted" for viewers who wanted to see police officers in action.įor its first 22 episodes, Dragnet was only on the air every other week. While the storylines remained pretty true to the Dragnet format, the entire cast was, of course, different with Jeff Osterhage and Bernard White playing the two plainclothed police detectives. In 1989, Dragnet returned to television once again. Only Jack Webb and Harry Morgan returned from the original cast. That was Joe Friday's badge number.Įight years after this version of Dragnet ended, it returned in 1967 for another three season run, ending in 1970. When Dragnet was shown in reruns, it was titled, "Badge 714". That radio series ran until 1957 so both versions of Dragnet aired concurrently from 1951 to 1957! Jack Webb also played Joe Friday on the radio series but his "sidekick" was played by Barton Yarborough who also appeared on this TV series but not as Friday's partner. Hal Gibney read it for the 1967-1970 series.ĭragnet premiered two years after the 1949 premiere of a Dragnet radio show.
George Fenneman (Groucho Marx's sidekick on " You Bet Your Life (1950)") read the opening narrative (see below) on this series and the radio version of Dragnet. He insisted that the step-by-step work involved in an investigation and arrest by accurately shown. His main concern was that the show would follow the real-life daily duties of police detectives.
Jack Webb was the creator, star, and executive producer of Dragnet. For the first time, audiences saw what detective work was really like including everything from capturing dangerous criminals to filling out the paperwork. Dragnet was a police detective drama series that aired on NBC and showed every detail of the procedures involved in the investigation of a crime, analyzing the clues, and apprehending the perpetrator.
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