One thing that makes these so cool is that you don't need to watch them to enjoy them. It had been a radio program and Webb simply put visuals on top when TV became the thing. Great if you're working from home or have headphones at your job.
Marguerite Piazza was in the first commercial. I worked for a contractor who did some remodeling on her house. I spoke to her briefly and she must have liked the way I presented myself despite my work clothes because she asked if I'd consider selling amway products for her. Darn integrity, I could have been rich.
@@jessestreet2549 Well the commercial was for Came (R.J. Reynolds) l and Dragnet was sponsored by Chesterfield (LIgget and Meyers) so its not an authentic commercial. Ligget and Meyers also sponsored Dragnet on radio.
No HOPE IN DOPE !!! PPL DON'T THINK,NOW THAT DEMON WEED IS LEGAL IN STATES,MAYBE SOON FEDERAL ! Y !!??!? SO PPL THINK LESS IF NOT AT ALL ! DEMON WEED !
That commercial couldn't be original with the show. The show is from 52-53 and the commercial is for a 59 Chevy. They never advertised cars that far into the future. LOL
@@mistyjohnson662 I believe that was a '52 Ford they were driving, not a '53. Note the flattened "bullet" up front on the grill and the "star shaped" parking light lenses. The '53 grill bullet was more pointed.
@@USCG.Brennan Thanks, but I was commenting on the car in the commercial which was a 1959 but, the show was from the '52 - '53 season. I thought it was funny.
misty johnson - The Cold War produced Time Travel as well as the Hollywood Blacklist. Now Hollywood is bringing the Blacklist back! (they just won't learn, will they?)
I never knew until now that Joe Friday was a connoisseur of home furnishings. I could not agree more with his opinion regarding period furniture, and his partner too; true renaissance men of the LA police force.
I sometimes think that the glory days of Detroit could be revived if they would just build cars like they did in those days. Add the modern advances under the hood, but make them new and different-looking every year, big and comfortable and cool to drive. I sometimes look at cars passing and realize that if I had to describe them in words, I'd be pretty much using the same language for every car, only changing the color (from grey/silver to black to white, to occasionally blue or red). Boring, boring, boring.
The commercials are a great commentary on life in the '50s, "makes meatballs for a family of eight." That was back when children were considered a blessing and Moms were there to make homemade meatballs.
Milton Holley that was then. I worked in a union shop AFL-CIO. All I have ever seen a union do is protect shitty workers and have golf outings for the Stewards, Business Agents, and Bosses complete with HOOKERS and Booze using union dues to finance the party!!!!!!
@@larsv1377 Then you are blind, and stupid as well. How many non-union shops are there, where people get screwed every day? Millions. How come you don't bitch about that? Maybe you end up with no pension, then you'll sing a different tune.
In 69, the rebellion against falling in the habits of drinking alcohol like our parents became a prevalent thing. I remember riding with my father and got his pint of oil from the glove compartment. I told myself, we had this weed and it didn't make us act like a drunk. It quickly became the intoxication of choice for the young. Can't smoke it today. I guess I out grew it.
*Man oh Man Pat Boone & Dinah Shore I was two years old at the time!* *1959 Chevrolet Impala The Impala is firmly in control of the “top spot” in the lineup just as Chevy enjoyed top spot in industry sales with a 28% increase in production however Ford was gaining some ground and would continue to close the gap Webmaster Note: My father had a ’59 Impala convertible V-8 for years and we loved it Cost: $2,715.00*
Love seeing the old commercials those are just amazing- please don’t ever cut them out! They are almost as good as the episode thank you so much for posting these!
Love these old Dragnet shows.....but just one thing......the commercials were added after the fact......Dragnet was sponsored by Chesterfield or Fatima cigarettes....
@@Tedybear315 Ah, there’s always one in every crowd!! An ancient warrior whining about today’s “fill in the blank.” How childish!! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Such nice times no spliffs but lots of cancer causing tobacco ,and lots of alcohol read statistics then come back to comment,but the idea now of a mother cooking home cooking is the.stuff of fantasy.
@@davidshattock9522 WOW!!! WHOA There David!!! Not wanting a riot! Let's just stop, cool our jets, take a powder, let's be anti-frantic and stop bashing ears. The show is on the up and up. The Dragnet Squad are legit Big Daddy, they aint squaresville buddy. Don't flig a wig, the show is a real cherry, a good chili Daddy-O. I mean these fuzz will flip you in to fat city for realsville man! I'll clue you, these cats are hip brother, get with it? They wore lids in all weather and were on the stick with it. I mean hey Dragnet is Radioactive unreal and thats the word from the bird! {Dragnet was a great show - high moral lessons, encouraged good citizenship, taught life lessons, showed how simple selfish self-centered actions could ruin lives, showed how to be a supportive human being when others suffered - sure there were problems, there always are, but that's no reason to scrub it or goose the flute buckaroo, so let's enjoy the lessons and the "meant to be" world}. Thanks, Peace & Health to Us All. Be Safe out there and check your 6 and be a postive back-up for someone everyday - be a friend.
Amazing what you can do when you do not have to be bothered with Miranda warnings. The original broadcast date of this episode was November 7, 1952. The Miranda v. Arizona decision was not made until 1966.
I once pointed out to a friend drunks get in the car and speed wildly, endangering themselves and others, stoners get in the car and drive so slow you think it's a little old lady.
Personality changes with age all the time, but less and less, as one gets older and older. Of course, the physical change is more dramatic with age. Look at all those actors and actresses, how they changed from their good-looking 20's or 30's to middle and then old age.
...someone once said "the more things change, the more they stay the same"....never did figure out what they meant...or, "ways and means change, the principle stays the same"...(Doug Hanson climbing instructor)
Marguerite Piazza who was advertising the stubby non filtered camel 🐪 s at 1:41 smoked 3 packs a day and lived until age 90 but died of congestive heart failure .
@@Richard-me2pq You want to put on a scarf and apply red lipstick, Richard??? SURELY you jest....RIGHT?? Psssst.....(and thumbing up your OWN comment is lame).
Sure, people laugh at the fact that pot was the thing in this. However, as you heard, the kids were going more for the harder stuff. Yet, despite whatever drug they could have featured, the more things change, the more they stay the same. What I mean is that the method of getting them to the youth is pretty much the same. Even though a few things here and there seem dated, in reality, these cases are just as real and relevant today as they were then. If you just updated a few things here and there--heroin for pot, PCP for the uppers, for example--and the tech, this story would not be out of place now. (P.S. I wrote this before I saw the scene where they WERE bringing in heroin! Seems more relevant now than before and more realistic.)
it is in no way realistic. cannabis is not physically addictive, and takes a very long time to build up even the smallest tolerance. if anything, the laws banning substances drive people to do different drugs. did you know that the first laws banning marijuana were pushed through congress in 92 seconds? they didnt know what marihuana was because it was only called cannabis back then. they specifically used "marihuana" because it sounded foreign, and if they included the most popular name nobody would ever pass it. the propaganda created then about cannabis used the widespread racism to scare people. the government took away a lot of rights included in the 10th ammendment. you ate it all up and asked for more like a good boy. most of our active prison population are in there for non violent drug offenses, and half of those are from cannabis. its slavery 2.0
True that. Jack Webb died of cardiovascular disease in his 60s; almost all who knew him, including his doctors, were certain that his heavy smoking was a major contributor.
Fire&Ice909 That is true, but since cigarettes are usually smoked at about 20 (a pack) or more a day, while even heavy marijuana smokers smoke about 6 joints a day, it evens out. Not to mention that tar is not nearly the worst thing about cigarettes, they have loads if carcinogens that marijuana does not. Not that it matters, neither cigarettes nor marijuana, imo, should be banned as a) people have the right to do to their bodies what they please and b) prohibition has always made things worse. Regulation and education demonstrably work better and cause less harm. I believe in harm reduction same as the World Health Organization does. Prohibition turns otherwise honest citizens into criminals, creates black markets that make criminals rich and make law enforcement spend time and resources that could better be used on violent crime. Alcohol prohibition failed, as has drug prohibition. Unfortunately, too many people make too much money to end it until they are forced to. It is coming.
Willis Bouchey was a favorite actor of John Ford. He appeared in a few of Ford’s films including The Last Hurrah and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In the latter he’s got the famous last line “Nothing’s too good for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”…
This episode is hilarious! If they were smoking marijuana, it would be more believable if the teenagers were laying on the sidewalks, refusing to work. They certainly wouldn’t be forming gangs, destroying local shops and beating up store owners. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Commercials were produced separately than the shows themselves, perhaps even in a different medium (videotape vs. film, e.g.) You can't expect all volumes to be on the same level.
I think shows like this one were counter-productive. Most kids knew that pot heads get very mellow and very hungry. A show claiming that pot makes kids violent was laughable and confirmed that their parents, teachers and police were ignorant or lying and made the pot pushers seem more believable.
The timing isn't right for the commercials. According to his IMDB page, Herb Ellis played Frank Smith in 1953-54. The Chrevolet commercial(Pat Boone and Dinah Shore)must have been from fall of '58.
The Camel commercials must have been added by the uploader, because Dragnet was sponsored by Chesterfield. The two smokes were made by different manufacturers: Camel by R.J. Reynolds, and Chesterfield by Liggett and Meyers (L&M).
I'm almost embarrassed to say that I know who both of those singers were In that last commercial. I always think I am only about 20 years old, but obviously I am at least 64, LOL. Those were the good old days. 😅
Today the episode would be about plastic straws. "Then they pulled out plastic straws...started drinking through them. Next thing I know, someone shot a spitball out of a straw, and then he called a self identified girl "he." Then all these kids threw the straws in the garbage. Do you realize what those straws would do to the environment?"
@Brian Salomon Although color broadcasting existed in the 1950s, It wasn't until 1966 when all prime time was in color. Also, it may be a black and white copy of the original commercial.
@@Catquick1957 As a Vietnam VET US Army Veteran who reported to General Alexander M HAIG - NATO COMMAND, Yes, I am LAUGHING. Because I was the Director of DRUG INVESTIGATIONS, "CLOWN". You are an Idiot if you think for a second Marijuana use leads straight to HEROIN. Drinking water started BEFORE Heroin. Maybe the WATER DID IT? Marijuana and HEROIN and two totally separate drugs. My god. Stop being sucked in to this TRAP. By the way, I DO NOT think Marijuana serves ANY MEDICAL NEEDS. California was STUPID for making it Legal. Putting Police in Danger. Wasting Law Enforcement time. Who is legal and who is not? Then there's the idea MARIJUANA DOES NOT CAUSE "DUI'...Yes, it does. No one should be DRIVING WHILE "UNDER THE INFLUENCE". My entire family has been Law Enforcement, Drug Investigators, State Troopers, DEA since 1923. AMERICA HAS LOST ITS MIND AND WILL BE IN A "CIVIL WAR" IF TRUMP GETS HIS WAY.HE WANTS AMERICANS "DEAD"> TRUMP WANTS MILLIONS OF US CITIZENS WHO VOTE AGAINST H9M KILLED. HE IS SETTING UP KKK, NAZI'S, RIGHT WING ARMED MALITIA'S TO KEEP HIM IN OFFICE PAST 2024. LIFETIME. YOU SOUND LIKE A TRUMP FUKING LOVER! LMAO HATER...POS HATER. SEE YOU ON THE BATTLEFIELD. LMAO "I WANT TO FIND DON JR. LMAO
@@GiacomoVeteran you don't know what you're talking about. You're making excuses for your own weed use. It's a well established fact weed is a gateway drug. The water equation is truly weak. Check the "idiot" talk, SONNY. You might want to look in the mirror. Trump is the only pol in 3 decades with America's best interests at heart. It nixes your entire post when you troll him. Wake up! Doing what you say you did doesn't give any more currency to your insights that mine. I don't believe you anyway.
Please, God, I`m only 17. The day I died was an ordinary school day. How I wish I had taken the bus! But I was too cool for the bus. I remember how I wheedled the car out of Mom. ''Special favor,'' I pleaded. ''All the kids drive.'' When the 2:50 bell rang, I threw all my books in the locker. I was free until 8:40 tomorrow morning! I ran to the parking lot, excited at the thought of driving a car and being my own boss. Free! It doesn`t matter how the accident happened. I was goofing off--going too fast. Taking crazy chances. But I was enjoying my freedom and having fun. The last thing I remember was passing an old lady who seemed to be going awfully slow. I heard a deafening crash and I felt a terrible jolt. Glass and steel flew everywhere. My whole body seemed to be turning inside out. I heard myself scream. Suddenly I awakened; it was very quiet. A police officer was standing over me. Then I saw a doctor. My body was mangled. I was saturated with blood. Pieces of jagged glass were sticking out all over. Strange that I couldn`t feel anything. Hey, don`t pull that sheet over my head! I can`t be dead. I`m only 17. I`ve got a date tonight. I`m supposed to grow up and have a wonderful life. I haven`t lived yet. I can`t be dead. Later I was placed in a drawer. My folks had to identify me. Why did they have to see me like this? Why did I have to look at Mom`s eyes when she faced the most terrible ordeal of her life? Dad suddenly looked like an old man. He told the man in charge, ''Yes, he is my son.'' The funeral was a weird experience. I saw all my relatives and friends walk toward the casket. They passed by, one by one, and looked at me with the saddest eyes I`ve ever seen. Some of my buddies were crying. A few of the girls touched my hand and sobbed as they walked away. Please--somebody--wake me up! Get me out of here! I can`t bear to see my mom and dad so broken up. My grandparents are so racked with grief they can hardly walk. My brother and sisters are like zombies. They move like robots. In a daze, everybody! No one can believe this. And I can`t believe it, either. Please don`t bury me! I`m not dead! I have a lot of living to do! I want to laugh and run again. I want to sing and dance. Please don`t put me in the ground. I promise if you give me just one more chance, God, I`ll be the most careful driver in the whole world. All I want is one more chance. Please, God, I`m only 17!
Exhibit A for how this government and their whorehouse called the media, lies to, manipulates, and brainwashes the public. Think it doesn’t work? Joe Friday 50 years ago sounds like Jeff Sessions today.
At 1:35 Marguerite Piazza, an example of an opera or near opera diva who became better known for pop music and regular non opera entertaining similar to an earlier Jeanette Mac Donald and later such women as Anna Moffo , Beverly Sills and Mary Costa .
Thanks for including the retro commercials! I’m going to order a ‘59 Chevy today! 👌🏼
One thing that makes these so cool is that you don't need to watch them to enjoy them. It had been a radio program and Webb simply put visuals on top when TV became the thing. Great if you're working from home or have headphones at your job.
As I do when I take off hat, you make a good point !!
I also love listening to OTR shows when I go sleep!
@@jeremybear573 Me too!
I’ve listened to all of these episodes first on old time radio.
Exactly! I've been surfing the web while listening.
Love these old episodes of Dragnet! Loved seeing the old commercials!
Me too. I love the old commercials too
Marguerite Piazza was in the first commercial. I worked for a contractor who did some remodeling on her house. I spoke to her briefly and she must have liked the way I presented myself despite my work clothes because she asked if I'd consider selling amway products for her.
Darn integrity, I could have been rich.
Good morning madam, you’re pregnant and you feel tired, smoke camels, nothing is better for your fœtus.
@@jessestreet2549 Well the commercial was for Came (R.J. Reynolds) l and Dragnet was sponsored by Chesterfield (LIgget and Meyers) so its not an authentic commercial. Ligget and Meyers also sponsored Dragnet on radio.
Cigarettes for opera singers, lol. I also like the ads where doctors recommend mentholated cigarettes. We've come a long way, baby.
Used to get stoned and loved watching these drug episodes with my stoner buddies!!😅😅 those were the days!
As a 17 year old kid in 1969 I got busted for having some weed. This show reminds me so much of my Mom's reaction. "Refer Madness"
Reefer, not refer.
Propaganda 1960 - What is Propaganda 2023? Little tougher to see but always there.
No HOPE IN DOPE !!!
PPL DON'T THINK,NOW THAT DEMON WEED IS LEGAL IN STATES,MAYBE SOON FEDERAL !
Y !!??!?
SO PPL THINK LESS IF NOT AT ALL !
DEMON WEED !
Propaganda!?!?
F A C T !
I bet you also read Mad Magazine. That's where the bad ideas come from!
A cleaver rendition of Reefer Madness. The commercials are great, Pat Boone singing with Dianna Shore selling a Chevy with fins, a real trip.
That commercial couldn't be original with the show. The show is from 52-53 and the commercial is for a 59 Chevy. They never advertised cars that far into the future. LOL
@@mistyjohnson662 I believe that was a '52 Ford they were driving, not a '53. Note the flattened "bullet" up front on the grill and the "star shaped" parking light lenses. The '53 grill bullet was more pointed.
@@USCG.Brennan Thanks, but I was commenting on the car in the commercial which was a 1959 but, the show was from the '52 - '53 season. I thought it was funny.
@@mistyjohnson662 Yes....you're right. If you scroll down you'll see I made the same comment myself before I saw yours. Good eye!!
misty johnson - The Cold War produced Time Travel as well as the Hollywood Blacklist.
Now Hollywood is bringing the Blacklist back! (they just won't learn, will they?)
Don’t get between a pothead and the refreshment stand at the movies 😂.
Chris E Yeah, THAT'S why they destroyed the concession area..."Give me 20 boxes of Jujyfruits, God damn it!".
That’s funny🤣
Hit hit with the hot butter!
Munchie madness not reefer madness.
I never knew until now that Joe Friday was a connoisseur of home furnishings. I could not agree more with his opinion regarding period furniture, and his partner too; true renaissance men of the LA police force.
Forget the dope I want a 1959 Chevrolet that they were advertising in blue I’m placing my order
I sometimes think that the glory days of Detroit could be revived if they would just build cars like they did in those days. Add the modern advances under the hood, but make them new and different-looking every year, big and comfortable and cool to drive. I sometimes look at cars passing and realize that if I had to describe them in words, I'd be pretty much using the same language for every car, only changing the color (from grey/silver to black to white, to occasionally blue or red). Boring, boring, boring.
Nice to see the original ads with this classic TV show.
Love those shots of the city at night with the cars. Very surrealist.
That sure went from two joints to a heroin ring real fast...
Nice piece of propaganda,
They acted more like speed freaks than potheads.
pot sticks ,And they call them narcotics. Never mind the goofballs and Barbich with that wouldn’t cause any problem ha ha ha
It's a half hour show
@@Nikolaii2571 They are ignorant
Love the way this started with the promotion of cigarettes before moralising on the evils of drugs :)
The commercials are a great commentary on life in the '50s, "makes meatballs for a family of eight."
That was back when children were considered a blessing and Moms were there to make homemade meatballs.
I love this comment.
Milton Holley that was then. I worked in a union shop AFL-CIO. All I have ever seen a union do is protect shitty workers and have golf outings for the Stewards, Business Agents, and Bosses complete with HOOKERS and Booze using union dues to finance the party!!!!!!
@@larsv1377 Then you are blind, and stupid as well. How many non-union shops are there, where people get screwed every day? Millions. How come you don't bitch about that? Maybe you end up with no pension, then you'll sing a different tune.
Millennials are such experts on the fifties.
@socal rocks the President for almost the entire fifties was Republican. But live your fantasy.
In 69, the rebellion against falling in the habits of drinking alcohol like our parents became a prevalent thing. I remember riding with my father and got his pint of oil from the glove compartment. I told myself, we had this weed and it didn't make us act like a drunk. It quickly became the intoxication of choice for the young. Can't smoke it today. I guess I out grew it.
A great episode. Very well put together. I'm thinking that tomorrow would be his birthday and that his mom was hoping to see him then. What a horror !
At 17, she should not have had to wait for his birthday to see him, particularly when we consider that the age of majority back then was 21.
Oh My! Those black and white saddle shoes. I remember wearing those. They were all the rage.
The first girl I had a crush on wore white saddle shoes.
Than you so much for leaving the commercials in! As I was watching the first one I wondered if she died from Camel cancer like my dad did.
Marguerite Piazza lived to be 92 and did not die of cancer.
@@zzydny Thank you.
Love when they have the advertisements with them still
Great ads have an amazing way of making an already fantastic show even better for me.
*Man oh Man Pat Boone & Dinah Shore I was two years old at the time!*
*1959 Chevrolet Impala
The Impala is firmly in control of the “top spot” in the lineup
just as Chevy enjoyed top spot in industry sales with a 28% increase in production
however Ford was gaining some ground and would continue to close the gap
Webmaster Note: My father had a ’59 Impala convertible V-8 for years and we loved it
Cost: $2,715.00*
If you still got it I'll gladly give you what you paid for it lol
I wondered about that too. Pity Dinah didn't sing "See the USA in your Chevrolet".
Ralphie_Boy .h
Less than ten years later, the Impala was demoted to number two by Chevrolet.
I remember the camel cigarettes when I was a kid. Too strong for me
Oh my goodness I remember those black and white shoes, "saddle shoes" we used to call them.
@ Dindin Private- I had a pair of saddle shoes when I was young. A long time ago now.
Couldn't keep my saddle shoes white. Always scuffed. Beat up my ankles, too.
"Frank and I picked up a hot dog and a glass of milk for lunch."
Yeah, I threw up in the back of my throat a little, when he said that.
A little PSA from the American Dairy Association.
Definitely a kosher meal!
pot ~ 1952 . a piss in the wind compared to 2019 meth, crack and opioids today.
This kid looks like he could be Rodney Dangerfield!
Love seeing the old commercials those are just amazing- please don’t ever cut them out! They are almost as good as the episode thank you so much for posting these!
They added those, not original. A commercial for a 59 Chevy in a show that aired on Nov 1952, they would have had some psychic powers.
I love the vintage TV ads. GE, Camels etc. When things was cheap!
Around 21:40A glass of milk and a hot dog for lunch. Lol make mine coffee.
I love how it ends so dark and then a song about Chevy.
Love these old Dragnet shows.....but just one thing......the commercials were added after the fact......Dragnet was sponsored by Chesterfield or Fatima cigarettes....
Well to be blunt, These commercials are a hell of a lot better then the dribble we get shoved at us on a daily basis currently
The brand that Jack Webb smoked?
@@Tedybear315 Ah, there’s always one in every crowd!! An ancient warrior whining about today’s “fill in the blank.” How childish!!
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That was the RADIO SHOW Dragnet
Yes the 59 Chevy ad in a show that aired on November 5, 1952 pretty much proves your point.
LOVE the Old TV shows, VERY unique and original, GREAT stories and ideas. BUT the commercials and Smoking! WOW!
Such nice times no spliffs but lots of cancer causing tobacco ,and lots of alcohol read statistics then come back to comment,but the idea now of a mother cooking home cooking is the.stuff of fantasy.
@@davidshattock9522 WOW!!! WHOA There David!!! Not wanting a riot! Let's just stop, cool our jets, take a powder, let's be anti-frantic and stop bashing ears. The show is on the up and up. The Dragnet Squad are legit Big Daddy, they aint squaresville buddy. Don't flig a wig, the show is a real cherry, a good chili Daddy-O. I mean these fuzz will flip you in to fat city for realsville man! I'll clue you, these cats are hip brother, get with it? They wore lids in all weather and were on the stick with it. I mean hey Dragnet is Radioactive unreal and thats the word from the bird! {Dragnet was a great show - high moral lessons, encouraged good citizenship, taught life lessons, showed how simple selfish self-centered actions could ruin lives, showed how to be a supportive human being when others suffered - sure there were problems, there always are, but that's no reason to scrub it or goose the flute buckaroo, so let's enjoy the lessons and the "meant to be" world}. Thanks, Peace & Health to Us All. Be Safe out there and check your 6 and be a postive back-up for someone everyday - be a friend.
a glass of milk and a hot dog for lunch🤗
That was a popular lunch old time ago I watched the older people eat this in the 80s
Soooo Kooool.....Ultra Kool cars. Young JD'S .....Now they're all in thier 90's and
attend Lead East every year
(The world largest 50's convention)
I want to order one of those new 1959 Chevrolet's. haha I remember my Aunt had one.
better then tin cans your riding around in today
Mother in law has 2 of them. Beautiful cars.
My uncle had a 59 Impala 2 door 283 four barrel, it rusted out in 7 years and this was not in a northern state.
@@garymckee8857 was it by an ocean? Salt water?
@@chucksnightmare7674 No Tennessee vehicle
"Language I wouldn't use at a stag party": Kid "Golly gee, ya creep. Get off my back!"
Oh...? And what were you doing at a stag party, Peter Pure?
@@FigaroHey Don't let any kids read this comment.
"Golly gee!!!"
“Some of the language I wouldn’t even use at a stag party”.
how times have changed, huh? lol
Maybe not, but you just admitted that you would go to a stag party, you filthy animal.
Tacohead Makenzie every decent all American man would go to a stag party, especially if pornograhy was featured.
@@JDAbelRN
That's how all the homosexuality began to become prolific.
He din do nuffin, he was getting his life together
If they had only smoked the joints, there probably wouldn't have been any violence, only a run on popcorn and juju beans.
They were taking ' speed ' with the DOPE !!!
Nice touch with the commercials, though you did forget one thing at the end-the NBC chimes!
I love seeing those old commercials.
Dentu Creme, so strong you can clean your oven with it.
The commercials are priceless.
Amazing what you can do when you do not have to be bothered with Miranda warnings. The original broadcast date of this episode was November 7, 1952. The Miranda v. Arizona decision was not made until 1966.
Yeah those pesky constitutional rights just get in the way of police. At least North Korean cops don't have to put up with that.
Smoking a blunt while watching this. Hilarious.
Reefer Madness.
Me too, my niqqa! LMFAO...
Some people act like animals on drugs. And MJ. Is a gateway drug.
I am leaving red lipstick 💄 on the end of my Chesterfield Kings as I am watching this episode!
Interesting. This is a rerun broadcast in 1958, from a show from 1952.
IIRC, it was recycled in the 1960s Dragnet as well.
It was on radio in 1952 then moved to T.V.
Curious how cigarettes are now bad and weed is good.
Weed is still bad
That was always the case.
Liquor and cigarette Bobby's made sure marijuana Is remained illegal
I meant to say lobby not Bobby's lol
@@Glenbo-vk5zr It's now legal here in MO. The sale of recreational pot starts on Feb. 8, 2023.
The commercials seen with this episode are the same ones shown when the program was aired.
Noooo, Waaaay ?
You can't be that stupid along with your 16 friends with thumbs up.
Reefer madness! Weird how weed mellows you out and definitely doesn't make anybody violent.
I once pointed out to a friend drunks get in the car and speed wildly, endangering themselves and others, stoners get in the car and drive so slow you think it's a little old lady.
I knew it.......those kids are on the marijuana.
“I've tried everything. But I prefer a camel.” Old joke.
"What's old, is new."
...people don't change, only the faces do.
Personality changes with age all the time, but less and less, as one gets older and older. Of course, the physical change is more dramatic with age. Look at all those actors and actresses, how they changed from their good-looking 20's or 30's to middle and then old age.
...someone once said "the more things change, the more they stay the same"....never did figure out what they meant...or, "ways and means change, the principle stays the same"...(Doug Hanson climbing instructor)
I love the commercials too. ;-)
Marguerite Piazza who was advertising the stubby non filtered camel 🐪 s at 1:41 smoked 3 packs a day and lived until age 90 but died of congestive heart failure .
Hot damn! Now it all makes sense. Pete Davidson the pothead is his son so you know he did it!!!
Interesting the newest car shown was a '52 Ford, yet they advertised '59 Chevy's at the end? An older rerun even for back then??
I want a 1959 Chevrolet so I can put a scarf on my head, apply lipstick 💄 while looking in the rearview mirror and donning my Ray Ban sunglasses 😎!
@@Richard-me2pq You want to put on a scarf and apply red lipstick, Richard??? SURELY you jest....RIGHT?? Psssst.....(and thumbing up your OWN comment is lame).
Do I watch the show to the end or do I run out to order my Chevrolet?
You pull a fast one on the sponsor and order an Edsel from Ford instead !! :-)
I like the 1954 Ford Customline Friday is driving,
Yes impressive since this episode aired in November of 1952.
Watching this while trimming my legal weed plants, I love dragnet and I love living in the 2020’s
I was rolling joints!
"Along with various stimulating drugs". Just going to slide that in here? Oh the fifties.
Love these shows. Thanks for the uploads!
Jonnys mother sure seems stoned out of her mind.
Johnny's mother was probably worn out from working all day!
Excuse me, I've got to go out and buy a blender.
It’s only ten and a half inches tall!!
A glass of milk and a hot dog for lunch
Yum!!!🎈🎈
I guess the '59 Chevs came out late that year at Oct 16th.
Generally new cars were released a month or more prior to that date.
Sure, people laugh at the fact that pot was the thing in this. However, as you heard, the kids were going more for the harder stuff. Yet, despite whatever drug they could have featured, the more things change, the more they stay the same. What I mean is that the method of getting them to the youth is pretty much the same. Even though a few things here and there seem dated, in reality, these cases are just as real and relevant today as they were then. If you just updated a few things here and there--heroin for pot, PCP for the uppers, for example--and the tech, this story would not be out of place now. (P.S. I wrote this before I saw the scene where they WERE bringing in heroin! Seems more relevant now than before and more realistic.)
it is in no way realistic. cannabis is not physically addictive, and takes a very long time to build up even the smallest tolerance. if anything, the laws banning substances drive people to do different drugs. did you know that the first laws banning marijuana were pushed through congress in 92 seconds? they didnt know what marihuana was because it was only called cannabis back then. they specifically used "marihuana" because it sounded foreign, and if they included the most popular name nobody would ever pass it. the propaganda created then about cannabis used the widespread racism to scare people. the government took away a lot of rights included in the 10th ammendment. you ate it all up and asked for more like a good boy. most of our active prison population are in there for non violent drug offenses, and half of those are from cannabis. its slavery 2.0
I love Joe Friday's vitriol toward marijuana and all his talk about addiction as he chokes down 2 packs of cigarettes a day 🙄
Yep, contributed to his death.
True that. Jack Webb died of cardiovascular disease in his 60s; almost all who knew him, including his doctors, were certain that his heavy smoking was a major contributor.
Fire&Ice909 That is true, but since cigarettes are usually smoked at about 20 (a pack) or more a day, while even heavy marijuana smokers smoke about 6 joints a day, it evens out. Not to mention that tar is not nearly the worst thing about cigarettes, they have loads if carcinogens that marijuana does not. Not that it matters, neither cigarettes nor marijuana, imo, should be banned as a) people have the right to do to their bodies what they please and b) prohibition has always made things worse. Regulation and education demonstrably work better and cause less harm.
I believe in harm reduction same as the World Health Organization does. Prohibition turns otherwise honest citizens into criminals, creates black markets that make criminals rich and make law enforcement spend time and resources that could better be used on violent crime. Alcohol prohibition failed, as has drug prohibition. Unfortunately, too many people make too much money to end it until they are forced to. It is coming.
Maybe if marijuana companies were helping to fund TV shows like this and Hollywood in general he wouldn't have such vitriol.
back when it was safe for your nostrils, sinus and ??? wonder why they don't mention the lungs?
Thank you for leaving in the old commercials! :D
Willis Bouchey was a favorite actor of John Ford. He appeared in a few of Ford’s films including The Last Hurrah and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In the latter he’s got the famous last line “Nothing’s too good for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”…
Willis Bouchey was also a judge on the Perry Mason show.
Bill Bouchy (a/k/a Willis Bouchey) who played Harold Everson's father, was frequently a judge on the Perry Mason Show.
Loved Dina Shore & the Chevy Commercials etc May she RIP What a Beautiful looking Woman she was,
That dress!
This episode is hilarious! If they were smoking marijuana, it would be more believable if the teenagers were laying on the sidewalks, refusing to work. They certainly wouldn’t be forming gangs, destroying local shops and beating up store owners. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
More like they would be rioting
If the commercials are any indication, the moral of the story is to say no to pot and say yes to tobacco.
This video, with commercials proves that the commercials were indeed louder then the shows dialogue. JUST TO GET YOU TO PAY ATTENTION TO THEM!!!
Commercials were produced separately than the shows themselves, perhaps even in a different medium (videotape vs. film, e.g.) You can't expect all volumes to be on the same level.
Hemp, Mary Jane, grass, weed, smoke, it makes you crazy.
Oh wow I can smell the hair spray from here
I think shows like this one were counter-productive. Most kids knew that pot heads get very mellow and very hungry. A show claiming that pot makes kids violent was laughable and confirmed that their parents, teachers and police were ignorant or lying and made the pot pushers seem more believable.
Great episode. Now to place my order for my brand new 1959 Chevy...
The timing isn't right for the commercials. According to his IMDB page, Herb Ellis played Frank Smith in 1953-54. The Chrevolet commercial(Pat Boone and Dinah Shore)must have been from fall of '58.
Radio program on 1953. T.v. version filmed 2 years ahead and the commercials added later.
This was a syndicated rerun.
The Camel commercials must have been added by the uploader, because Dragnet was sponsored by Chesterfield. The two smokes were made by different manufacturers: Camel by R.J. Reynolds, and Chesterfield by Liggett and Meyers (L&M).
They were also sponsored by Fatima cigarettes on the radio.
Children, this was a syndicated rerun. That’s why the advertisements aren’t original.
*1959* Chevrolet???
I'm almost embarrassed to say that I know who both of those singers were In that last commercial. I always think I am only about 20 years old, but obviously I am at least 64, LOL. Those were the good old days. 😅
Today the episode would be about plastic straws.
"Then they pulled out plastic straws...started drinking through them. Next thing I know, someone shot a spitball out of a straw, and then he called a self identified girl "he." Then all these kids threw the straws in the garbage. Do you realize what those straws would do to the environment?"
did you know heroin od is 3500 a year straws are much more dangerous
Get Joe Friday on the case ...👌
absolutely, i carry pliers at all times for straw removal..the armadillos are the toughest extractions !
That lady in the Camel commercial had Fred Munster head top
🎵 _" See the USA in your Chevrolet "_ 🎼
And I believe that this is from a rerun or a syndicated version. The commercials seem too advanced for 1952
You are correct, sir. That GE Blender commercial was from 1965.
One thing's for sure. That '59 Chevy commercial was sure out of place when Joe was driving a Ford no later than a '54.
@Brian Salomon Although color broadcasting existed in the 1950s, It wasn't until 1966 when all prime time was in color. Also, it may be a black and white copy of the original commercial.
17:50 (lady's voice) "did you say only ten and one half inches high"
"ONLY?!!! ... I'm pretty proud of that!"
Anybody notice how addicted to nicotine the adults are???
A friend was an emergency room nurse. Always says she'd rather have a room full of potheads than 2 drunks.
I'd rather have an emergency room with sober people who didn't cause their own problems by being high.
Dying from heroin back then too. Guess we never learn.
IT ALL STARTED WITH "MARIJUANA". LMAO. They all DIED and used HEROIN because of MARIJUANA.....M leads to MASSIVE HEROIN USE AND OVERDOSE! LMAO
Laugh it up clown, but almost all junkies started out using weed.
@@Catquick1957 As a Vietnam VET US Army Veteran who reported to General Alexander M HAIG - NATO COMMAND, Yes, I am LAUGHING. Because I was the Director of DRUG INVESTIGATIONS, "CLOWN". You are an Idiot if you think for a second Marijuana use leads straight to HEROIN. Drinking water started BEFORE Heroin. Maybe the WATER DID IT? Marijuana and HEROIN and two totally separate drugs. My god. Stop being sucked in to this TRAP. By the way, I DO NOT think Marijuana serves ANY MEDICAL NEEDS. California was STUPID for making it Legal. Putting Police in Danger. Wasting Law Enforcement time. Who is legal and who is not? Then there's the idea MARIJUANA DOES NOT CAUSE "DUI'...Yes, it does. No one should be DRIVING WHILE "UNDER THE INFLUENCE". My entire family has been Law Enforcement, Drug Investigators, State Troopers, DEA since 1923. AMERICA HAS LOST ITS MIND AND WILL BE IN A "CIVIL WAR" IF TRUMP GETS HIS WAY.HE WANTS AMERICANS "DEAD"> TRUMP WANTS MILLIONS OF US CITIZENS WHO VOTE AGAINST H9M KILLED. HE IS SETTING UP KKK, NAZI'S, RIGHT WING ARMED MALITIA'S TO KEEP HIM IN OFFICE PAST 2024. LIFETIME. YOU SOUND LIKE A TRUMP FUKING LOVER! LMAO HATER...POS HATER. SEE YOU ON THE BATTLEFIELD. LMAO "I WANT TO FIND DON JR.
LMAO
@@GiacomoVeteran you don't know what you're talking about. You're making excuses for your own weed use. It's a well established fact weed is a gateway drug. The water equation is truly weak. Check the "idiot" talk, SONNY. You might want to look in the mirror. Trump is the only pol in 3 decades with America's best interests at heart. It nixes your entire post when you troll him. Wake up! Doing what you say you did doesn't give any more currency to your insights that mine. I don't believe you anyway.
It's as old as prostitution.
Please, God, I`m only 17.
The day I died was an ordinary school day. How I wish I had taken the bus! But I was too cool for the bus. I remember how I wheedled the car out of Mom. ''Special favor,'' I pleaded. ''All the kids drive.'' When the 2:50 bell rang, I threw all my books in the locker. I was free until 8:40 tomorrow morning! I ran to the parking lot, excited at the thought of driving a car and being my own boss. Free!
It doesn`t matter how the accident happened. I was goofing off--going too fast. Taking crazy chances. But I was enjoying my freedom and having fun. The last thing I remember was passing an old lady who seemed to be going awfully slow. I heard a deafening crash and I felt a terrible jolt. Glass and steel flew everywhere. My whole body seemed to be turning inside out. I heard myself scream.
Suddenly I awakened; it was very quiet. A police officer was standing over me. Then I saw a doctor. My body was mangled. I was saturated with blood. Pieces of jagged glass were sticking out all over. Strange that I couldn`t feel anything.
Hey, don`t pull that sheet over my head! I can`t be dead. I`m only 17. I`ve got a date tonight. I`m supposed to grow up and have a wonderful life. I haven`t lived yet. I can`t be dead.
Later I was placed in a drawer. My folks had to identify me. Why did they have to see me like this? Why did I have to look at Mom`s eyes when she faced the most terrible ordeal of her life? Dad suddenly looked like an old man. He told the man in charge, ''Yes, he is my son.''
The funeral was a weird experience. I saw all my relatives and friends walk toward the casket. They passed by, one by one, and looked at me with the saddest eyes I`ve ever seen. Some of my buddies were crying. A few of the girls touched my hand and sobbed as they walked away.
Please--somebody--wake me up! Get me out of here! I can`t bear to see my mom and dad so broken up. My grandparents are so racked with grief they can hardly walk. My brother and sisters are like zombies. They move like robots. In a daze, everybody! No one can believe this. And I can`t believe it, either. Please don`t bury me! I`m not dead! I have a lot of living to do! I want to laugh and run again. I want to sing and dance. Please don`t put me in the ground. I promise if you give me just one more chance, God, I`ll be the most careful driver in the whole world. All I want is one more chance.
Please, God, I`m only 17!
Pat Boone and Dinah (Shore) she was so cool before i knew about cool.
i was really fond of her. mwah!!!!
Mj wouldn't make moviegoers riot, merely buy extra popcorn.
Booze, now...underage drinkers get really rowdy.
Thank you for the upload and the old timey commercials. The blonde lady was really pretty. Ty I Love Dragnet 😃
Blonde lady is Dinah Shore. And yes she was a knockout!
Black and white films has it place in American history. It hard for young people to sit and watch something like this for 30 minutes
Younger generation has been dumbed down to watch the spectacular and the voyeur, rather than a good story line.
They were hopped up on pot had the strength of ten men
How long you been blowing marijuana!!!
More like a pack of sloths
Ah, yes, easy listening while stoned.
Love this episode!!!
Very Entertaining both the show and the comments from all the self-righteous pot-heads.
hahahahahahahahaha "pot heads"...…..and "alcohol heads" are still OK, eh?
Exhibit A for how this government and their whorehouse called the media, lies to, manipulates, and brainwashes the public.
Think it doesn’t work? Joe Friday 50 years ago sounds like Jeff Sessions today.
and the self-righteous slack-jawed horse's asses with the IQ below zero
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Marijuana, grass, reefer, Maryjane, is a gateway drug. pot today, heroin tomorrow.
Love the pant style!
the old commercials are a hoot
At 1:35 Marguerite Piazza, an example of an opera or near opera diva who became better known for pop music and regular non opera entertaining similar to an earlier Jeanette Mac Donald and later such women as Anna Moffo , Beverly Sills and Mary Costa .
The Eberson boy should be getting out of the pen right about now.