Just the Facts - The Life and Sad Ending® of Jack Webb
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
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Mini bio about the life of actor Jack Webb. He was most famous for playing the part of Sgt. Joe Friday on the TV show "Dragnet". Written edited and produced by Steven Tevis. Copyright 2024 Развлечения
WHY the hell dies EVERY video of a past star start with ‘THE SAD EHDING OF’….NOT. Every ending is SAD,…it’s a pathetic lead in title.😠
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I just posted the same thing. This guy apparently registered the name and now has to use it whether it applies or not. Epic fail.
SAD?
In that era, thousands of people died in their sixties. Smoking was probably one factor. This dude could run for political office.
It's for clicks!
It actually starts with "The Life".
When I was younger growing up , I never missed an episode of Dragnet.
It really was a good show.
I missed one.
Just the facts mam.
Yes, because it happened anyway! Haha! Roar!
I don’t believe you!
I am a retired LAPD lieutenant and served the citizens of Los Angeles for 36. My primary motivation for choosing this career watch watching both Dragnet and Adam-12. Thank you Jack Webb for inspiring thousands to take on the noble profession of providing service to the public.
...and you're probably a white racist just like darryl gates, joseph wambaugh and the great majority of the white lapd establishment who recruited thousands of racist white cops from southern states and rural america who expedited their police mentality and their police duties with extreme prejudice, bigotry and racism.
I as well in Dallas for 32 years. Dragnet and Adam 12 growing up. Dirty Harry sealed the deal. lol
Can't go wrong picking Joe Friday or Jack Webb as a role model.
If he were still here, I wonder how Sgt. Friday would feel about the trust in law enforcement being at an all-time low?
Nice comment. Hope you weren’t too shocked when discovered that the show didn’t show the mind numbing hours of paperwork and court appearances!
My dad painted and decorated Jack's home. I was a kid at the time. Dad said Jack would pick up lunch everyday. GREAT GUY.
I loved watching Dragnet with Jack Webb in the 1970's!
Oh to have these tv shows today!
They do. I watch this anytime I want on Roku or Freevee.
I bought the complete set of “Dragnet” and can watch it on Plex anytime, anywhere. Still love me some Blueboy. I also picked up “Adam 12” and “Emergency.” Jack Webb was the best, “just the facts, ma’m.”
It's on MeTV.
Dragnet is here on RUclips
I loved Dragnet never missed a show
I am 65 and I still watch Dragnet,
I loved Dragnet as a kid
Thanks for his story. I loved Dragnet and Emergency
And Adam 12.
Glad that the Dragnet with both Jack & Harry is still on the air, as it covered a lot of topics that are still relevant these days. Sure, the funny-looking hippies are gone, but I still watch it every morning.
All those shows were super classic!! Loved all of them.
Thank you for the life of Jack Webb I never missed Jack Webb that was a great series and it's still on TV after all this time thank you for the update and story of Jack Webb so said he gone too soon❤😢
Wonderful! Nice job, Steve! Gone too soon but he smoked like s chimney. Loved Dragnet, loved Emergency! growing up, own every season of Adam-12 on dvd. RIP Jack Webb.
It’s amazing that Jack did Dragnet on both radio and TV from 1952-59. I’ve watched every episode of the 1967-70 second Dragnet series. Locally we used to have old radio shows on late at night. My clear favourite was Dragnet. It’s too bad Jack passed away before they could get the third series underway.
When I watch a 'Life and Sad Ending' from you about a person I don't know too much, I remember Cliff Notes when I was in college. I didn't read the book but the cliff notes told me the important stuff. I only knew a little bit about Jack Webb but your 'mini bio' about him told me all the important stuff. Enjoy your weekend Steve......
Thanks for watching.
I did love to watch Dragnet when I was a kid. And later on too.
Way back, my Dad and his brother, Don used to rush to their Mom's house to watch DRAGNET; after their jobs. They picked Grandma's house because it was closest. 😂 Thanks 😊 for this look at Jack Webb's life, Steve. 👍
Emergency was one of my favorite shows and still is. It was instrumental in becoming a paramedic for 15 years of my life
That's cool.
Emergency! was actually the baby of Robert Cinader
My goodness, i have learned so much background info on all these people you’ve covered with your videos. Too bad some people can’t see the good in what you do. Thank you.
Glad you like them!
always a pleasure my friend to stop by. Its Bitter sweet.
Everything Jack touched, turned to gold. I loved Jack Webbs police work. He is iconic in so many ways.
The D I was a memorable movie for sure.
Hi Steve! Enjoyed the information about Jack Webb. Dragnet was one of my favorite shows on TV. Hope all is well with you.
Glad you enjoyed it! try to redo some old videos of mine without being demonetized again. Fingers crossed.
Bonus note: Last time I checked, tons of Dragnet radio shows were available on The Internet Archive. I downloaded, burned to mp3 CD, and listened at work. It's fun identifying the episodes that were later recycled by Webb for the TV show, and you can hear him interrogating a young punk played by Martin Milner (more than once, I think).
The line "Just the facts, mam" only occurred in the radio show. The most used line on tv was "Joe, see you a minute?" He was buried with a replica 714 badge. The real one is on display at the LAPD Academy, permanently retired. Small fact i appeared as a walk-by extra in the Adam-12 episode. "Suspect Number One" I conned my way into meetimg Marty Milner and Kent McChord. They were great! Yeah, I am a Dragnut!
Jack Webb was a genius. He actually gave the ‘60s counter culture a bit of a voice in Dragnet. Afforded some respect to young folks.
He was Great as the D.I.(USMC) May He R.I.P.
In the military, I rank Jack Webb with R Lee Ermey. His performance as The D.I. was superb. Definitely brought back memories when I served which was the best decision I ever made. Strength and Honor.
My gosh I still watch reruns. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 1 Adam 12 handle code 3.
Still listen to the radio shows on radio classics
I watch it every morning before work!
The episodes about Drugs is the most entertaining!
I still watch Dragnet reruns .
Jack Webb is perfect for that role
Those police shows were very popular. I was a big fan of Dragnet.
Thanks Steve, interesting as always.🇦🇺
I watched all his shows as a youth. Loved them all.
Those shows were instrumental in shaping my career path. In 1975 I applied for LAPD but ultimately decided to stay in San Diego county. Wish I hadn’t taken that period of my life for granted. ✌️
Very talented and prophetic pioneer.
Blue Boy was one of my favorite episodes,
enjoyed all those shows.
One of the most interesting things on Jack Webb was his grandfather was a surveyor for the Santa Fe Railway
i did not know that.
Jack Webb was a great actor and producer. I loved him on Dragnet.
I loved his shows he is missed
I love that show he's allways so serious that what makes the show so great he sounds like a robot.❤❤
Love it! I watched the show on Nick at Night as a pre-teen and teenager. Still do today once in a while. Love the channel, man. At least until I meet my sad disconnection from the internet.💀😱😁
Thanks a lot!
The "D.I." is a real gem if you ever get to see it.
This was great. As a child I loved Dragnet!
Jack Webb is a person of HERO status. By producing police shows, he put the police profession in a very positive light. Many people became policemen because of his shows. He instilled confidence in the law enforcement professions as well as that of paramedics and firemen(Emergency). He also tried diligently to restore faith in public service. I grew up watching his shows. Derek Chauvin and Tou Thao, two crooked cops, attempted to destroy most of what Jack Webb did. I have heard of too many stories on RUclips and other places of crooked and obnoxious cops bullying innocent people further destroying Jack Webb's work. Although I have never been arrested, I have crossed paths with too many cops who are smart alecks! For example, my catalytic converter was stolen in 2010. The cop, who made the police report, said that my catalytic converter was stolen because I owned a Toyota Tacoma. I said to the cop, "Just write down the police report, and omit your opinion. What make and model of car would you recommend me buying?" He was silent after that. I gave him a Jack Webb-like response to his remarks. I have some other incidents with cops which have destroyed my confidence in cops. I have noticed that cops are extremely insecure people! My sister married an ex-cop. He was the most insecure person that I have ever met in my life because he flunked out of college, and I have 3 college degrees! He was not the only one. I have given Jack Webb-like responses to many people. These responses have changed many people's moral, political, and social views. They say, "I never thought of it that way!" or they say, "You're Right!" I wish that someone like Jack Webb would run for president. This country desperately needs more heroes like Jack Webb!
Pete Kelly's Blues was a trip to watch ...... Joe Friday played a horn and fronted a band... !
Just in case no one had heard it before, there is a story behind Joe Friday's badge number. Jack Webb was a fan of Babe Ruth, who hit 714 home runs during his career. That is why the badge number was 714. It is a good thing that you have included a picture. Now I can tell which is the true "The Life and Sad Ending" channel is.
I searched and found your post before I repeated it. I have wonderful memories of being Joe Friday, and my sister was Bill Gannon! Sometimes I have a moment of anamnesis - a brief but valid memory of my sister and I playing Dragnet by the House with June Bugs - that is triggered each time I hear the theme song. For that one second or so, I am transported to 1967.
I still watch Dragnet every day
Thank you …much appreciated
Legendary
Oh yeah, i I remember the show Hec Ramsey , Richard Boone and I lived in the same town , I (still do )my brother did work on his home 🏠 I don’t think I knew Jack Webb was once married to Julie London . I watch 2. Episodes of Dragnet every morning ,emergency still comes on every day as 📺 well. Enjoyed 👍👋
Entertaining Guy , by voice , recognition on the radio , him , Harry Carey , Paul Harvey , top 3 most recognizable voices ,
Joe Friday scared me out of my Maijuana addiction back in the late 60's.
He saved my life!!!
Then I became addicted to 😻!
Loved watching this show when I got home after school I was in the army for 6 yrs and watched it then can not get enough of this show I hade to hear this about him
Webb always seemed to me an unlikely star, mainly because of his dour demeanor. He was a very talented man with legions of fans and much success. Thanks Steve.
I heard he had a quick temper too.
Also a big fan of Jack Webb and the shows that he produced. Emergency was my favorite. Helped spark my interest in health care. Never made it to Paramedic level. Have been a basic EMT for years and did become a EMT-intermediate for a number of years. The last 34 years I have spent working in Respiratory Therapy as a CRT/RRT and CPFT. Don’t help with EMS anymore but keep the EMT-B certification. I’m also a fan of the cast of Emergency, still like the old reruns of that show.
What a great actor
I still watch it every week .
I use to watch this tv show with my parents when I was a kid I still watch this show today
Dragnet,Adam-12, and Emergency! were awesome. I watched them when I was a kid.
Love Dragnet ❤
Thank me? *THANK YOU!*
What has happened to great tv shows? I just keep learning more and more about Jack webb. I watched speraticly when I was young . Back then you had to watch it when it aired. Now I'm watching all episodes of TV shows from my youth. Love the actors and actresses and the old metal bumper vehicles. Schwinn bicycles. And well you know all of it.
Found you're channel a few months ago and I can't stop watching it. I'm 63 and always wondered what happened to (insert name here) now I know.
I remember listening to the old Dragnet radio broadcasts over Armed Forces Radio while stationed in Korea back in the 70s.
It made those cold lonely nights pulling guard duty go a little faster😅😊
When Jack Webb died, I remember hearing the LAPD also retired that Sgt. badge number.
I loved him in the movie The D.I.
I also read a bio about him that said he was a very heavy drinker.
And a heavy smoker
I still watch drag net what good days when policeman were respected
I loved Emergency ❤. Think i still have a red helmet i wore when i watched it.
the reasoning that Emegrncy ended in 1977 was that was the season that made both Roy and Johnny CAPTS right before Roy had taken the ENGINEERING exam & passed it, but he didn't take it cause he could be BOTH an ENGINEER and a paramedic at the same time and also there was a cartoon of EMERGENCY
As a child, I watched "Dragnet" from its beginning & even remember Bart Yarborough, as Webb's original partner!
My sight impaired Grandmother would listen to the radio version, (which was broadcast simultaneously) in one
room, while I watched the t.v. version, in another!/ This program was unlike any other "police show" & all subsequent
police dramas, to this day, owe their realism & specific content to this 'groundbreaking' program! R.I.P. Jack #714! p.s.
(I recall Sgt. Friday being promoted to Lt., before the original series ended, but "demoted' to Sgt. when the show resumed!)
One of the reasons, he did the Dragnet show for the second time to be bring attention to the problems of Drugs. He was revered by the LA Police Department.
His funeral was given full honors by the LAPD. The badge he used on Dragnet is on display at the LAPD museum. He did charity work for cops who were killed in the line. Lots of the actors that had appeared several times on the Dragnet show were friends of his. Not well known but he was a jazz enthusiast. I heard that he turned down the role in Animal House because he felt it defamed the Sgt Friday character. Harry Morgan and Webb were best friends, before and after Dragnet. A problem of his was, he was a chain smoker.
714. The number on his badge is the same number that was on the Qualude. Coincidence??
Excellent video. Very informative.
Thank you!
What I heard, the Mark VII hand and hammer production mark was Jack Webb’s hands.
Just the facts ma'am.
Interesting/informative/entertaining.Off & on over the years I watched A hand full of reruns. Harry Morgan went on to have a flourishing career. Wonder how far Webb's career would have gone???🤔Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous (2024)🌈🎉💵😉.
The comedy skit between Jack Webb and Johnny Carson, “The Clapper Caper” is one of the best of all time.
Claude Cooper copped the clappers.
Didn't know Jack Webb launched Emergency! I use to have the metal Emergency! lunchbox with thermos. Wish my parents would have kept it. 😢
It was Robert Cinader
He would have been great as DEAN WORMER.i love his belief the movie didn’t make any sense it wasn’t supposed to.
Dragnet, Adam-12 and Emergency are on the daily TV schedule somewhere on US tv.
Martin Milner was great, miss him a lot
I wish the 80s version of Dragnet had made it to air at least a year or two. It would've been very interesting. Webb didn't take care of his health enough sadly.
I watched Dragnet as a kid and joined the PD in 1968 partially based on this TV show.
Semper Fi Mr. Webb.
I recall seeing the Project UFO series in the late 70s
Ah yes, Sergeant Joe Friday. Probably on of the most popular "cops" of the L.A. Police Department. "Just a fact".
Bobby Troup wrote the song Route 66.
Spouses
Julie London
(m. 1947; div. 1954)
Dorothy Towne
(m. 1955; div. 1957)
Jackie Loughery
(m. 1958; div. 1964)
Opal Wright (m. 1980)
The late 60s incarnation of Dragnet was hysterically funny. You were almost guaranteed to get Sgt. Friday sternly lecturing hippies about their behavior. The lecture would of course go unheeded, and then they died from mainlining pot or acid. I believe the show was popular because many Americans wanted to get in hippies’ faces like Joe Friday did.
Dude looked 15 years older than he really was. Should have cut down on the cigarettes and bourbon. And he should have taken the role of Dean Wormer.
Both him and his ex wife Julie London smoked like chimneys and paid the price. But in that era most did smoke especially actresses
I use too watch every episode of Dragnet as a child before policing became a detriment to our communities.
Joe Friday was such a stick in the mud, but Jack Webb's TV shows handled some important social issues of the time.
Friday October 13, working the day shift out of robbery burglary, the boss is Captain ‘Nichols…
I never missed Emergency when I was a kid. I think Jack really showed his sense of humor when he did the Clean Copper Clappers sketch with Johnny Carson.
If I'm not mistaken it was originally called Badge 714.
I'm thinking a Broderick Crawford "Life" video would be well received by the same folks enjoying Jack Webb's story !
Broderick would pull his 1955 Buick Century up to the location of the bad guy's hideout... whip out his trusty 38 special, lean across the roof of that cruiser and shoot the bad guys 100 yards away ! What a shot ? What a show ?
The Good Old Days ? Broderick loved his booze
Crawford used to drink with Lon Chaney Jr., it usually ended ina brawl.
Jack Webb was astonishing in a comedy bit on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, doing a "Dragnet" scene. Watch it, prepare to laugh.
Claude Cooper copped the copper clappers.
Man, cigarettes and booze sure exacted a heavy toll on his body -- he looks about 80 in that thumbnail picture. I wanted that badge -- 7/14 is my birthday. Adam-12 is still a pretty entertaining show -- they also did an episode that was a pilot for a show about the DA's office starting Frank Sinatra, Jr. Jack's daughter, Stacy, had a production staff credit on Adam-12, collaborated on a book about her father, and was killed in an auto accident involving a Highway Patrol car. Oh, and speaking of the CHP, you can spot the Sergeant from Adam-12 as an officer in some old episodes of Broderick Crawford's Highway Patrol (another related program).
The bad guys always got their come-uppance on dragnet.
A trial was held....
The United States Government doesn't want you to see the last show Jack Webb made for NBC . It was called Project UFO even though I thought it was Project Bluebook because that is what the show was about . They were based on actual UFO sightings . It was a really great show and was doing great ratings . Then it was cancelled all of a sudden over alleged poor ratings . The last episode I remember had (in my opinion) the first appearance of Men In Black . The men in black would spy on the UFO investigators during the show . At the end they present themselves to the investigators and basically tell them to mind their own business .