Dragnet | Ep130 | "The Big Canaries"
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Originally Aired: December 6, 1951
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Audio Credit: "Dragnet" by The Old Time Radio Researchers Group is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Superb writing, acting, and sound effects. As often with _Dragnet_ it had just the right tone of horror and compassion toward the criminal. Joyce McCluskey, who played the 16-year-old girl, was actually 23 at the time. According to an old time radio site, Joyce McCluskey was born in New York, New York, on December 28, 1928. Best known on radio for her work with Jack Webb, her late husband was Robert Hugh O'Sullivan who wrote for _Family Theater._ He later joined the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, where he had a second career (30 years). After retirement, he and Joyce traveled the world.
I heard Joyce McClusky's Voice and Acting during her brief role on The Big Rod... I ended up on this one and man oh man , She does a GREAT job on this episode! That last line!
My Favorite episode now.....
“The Big Canaries” December 6, 1951
Funny a canary is used to help folks avoid death in caves... ironic isn’t it?
• simply chilling!
I’ve listened to every known radio Dragnet, the ending was incredibly different. Webb was a genius!
Thanks Again for the RUclips post 👌
This was a classic!
Love this one. The toy piano was such a good touch.
Really creepy.
yes, very creepy indeed 😳
What a great idea to use that toy piano... I could see her playing it!
Chilling
Right little psycopath...
This was such a grim episode. And people are convinced that "the good old days" we're so much better than now. Dragnet certainly illustrates the 50s had its share of horrific crimes.
the volume of crimes today is appalling. easy access to guns has made mass murder epidemic. this was something unheard of in the 50s, except in war zones.
@@mymanjosquin Gun laws have expanded since the 1950's. Access to guns was easier in the 1950's than it is today. The volume of crime today is a cultural problem not a gun problem. The breakdown of the family and degradation of basic morals in the inter city has pushed the crime wave. Children born with out a father is as high as 70% in large American cities.
@@mymanjosquinThe volume of crime today is appalling, but there are now over 25,000 gun laws on the books, far more than there were in the 1950’s, so guns have nothing to do with it. Just shows how useless gun laws are, targeting only the law abiding. The problem is far deeper today, in people with no moral compass, not inanimate objects which are far harder to get now than they were 75 years ago, despite the lies of the anti-freedom, anti-self-defense, pro-criminal, unilateral victim disarmament gun banners.
That was so sad. 😭
Jack Webb was A 🤴 👑 King among Men...
0:35 Jack Webb savagely attacked a woman with a knife, then insisted to a vice principal that he get to immediately tell the woman’s daughter.
He then framed the daughter and drove her mad and convinced her that she killed her own mother.
Then he 28:19 gave all his friends the gift of cancerous death for Christmas.
@@Efferheim Dude, you are seriously delusional and in need of professional help.
Wow, I'm speechless Wanda. You didn't make your usual inane comment. Thank you for that.
At this point, having sat thru at least 500 Fatima ads, I actually would buy a pack if they still made em. many thanks for all the uploads.
Hahaha
I actually went looking for them. I guess it's good. Not made anymore. :)
The ads are a little creepy considering what we now know about cancer and cigarettes.
You will catch Emphatima
Cigarettes were the norm . Everyone smoked and they did it everywhere. Movies , hospitals ..oh the good old days .. hahahaha 🚬☕️
I like when Joe says Homicide ! You know he means Business...
It was almost my favorite thing to hear lol, I’ve been known to say yesssss, while laying down to sleep, and the first episode I’m listening to, at random, turns out to be HOMICIDE!
It always seemed strange to me that missing persons had homicide investigators… I assumed they figured most missing people were dead! I finally heard Joe say that missing persons didn’t have specific officers, so homicide took those cases!
This may be a key to the writing at the time or it may indeed be the same writer. 19:42 "....you can see that, can't you?" It's interesting how that line crops up in this episode, and several before. Week to week, one probably wouldn't notice, but when you binge listen, you pick up on it. Also, notice when on the phone they repeat themselves as if the other person on the line didn't hear them properly, and how when they visit someone at work or school, they always have something to finish....ie...wrap a package, finish sewing....finish a mechanics job...and they always say..."I have to get this done"...in some form or another. It's fascinating how radio producers had to put the vision of the scene in the listeners head. Pretty cool.
James Moser usually wrote the episodes during this period; Jack Webb (as "John Robinson") wrote several scripts every season.
Sometimes Webb was really bad with phone calls lol. Frank/Ben Alexander was better at it, so was Ben lol. And I get a good laugh when they hang up after 5 seconds, then repeat 20 minutes worth of info lol!
@@moxievintage1390 I noticed that too about Webb. Friday would pick up the phone and in one second he would just hang up without saying a word to whoever was on the phone😂 Then Friday would say , "let's go , they found the car" or whatever. Lol
This is the only episode where a reporter was directly asking Joe and Ben about a case … which seems normal and makes me wonder why there weren’t any reporters in other cases nosing around.
I thought I had heard every episode and re- listen on occasion but this one I had NEVER heard! And wow! A great episode, very sad. The fact she killed the bird’s too makes it sound like she was a sociopath. But she expressed remorse. These same type crimes happened back then as they do today. I wonder how often as compared to the many we have today.
I’m surprised they didn’t get the family doctor fir the 16 year old girl . They always offer the adults “something “ poor kid
Who else expected Porky Pig to pop out in the middle of the Intro?
" Dibdibddiba That's all folks!!!!
Bill23799 hahahaha you bet 😎
I did when I first started listening to these. Also maybe Bugs Bunny can pull it down like a shade.
Did anyone else notice that Sgt. Joe Friday does not swing his arms front and back as he walks like most people do ?
What? While on the radio?
I noticed that in a 1967 episode ("The Big Explosion" I think) he doesn't swing his arms when walking, so yeah. Right on
If you swing your arms it slows your draw. Like Putin
Yeah i wonder why?🤔
Nowadays “a couple of pictures of the 16 year-old daughter for the paper?” Yeah, I don’t think so. Minors are a no-no.
Got a Picture of the dead woman’s 16 year old daughter ?? Get out of here 😃
Really.. . Like hey old man' says . .yeeesh.!!!!!