Just the Facts - The Life and Sad Ending® of Jack Webb
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 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".
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!
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 loved watching Dragnet with Jack Webb in the 1970's!
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 Dragnet never missed a show
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 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.
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.
All those shows were super classic!! Loved all of them.
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.
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❤😢
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.
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.
always a pleasure my friend to stop by. Its Bitter sweet.
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
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. 👍
My gosh I still watch reruns. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 1 Adam 12 handle code 3.
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!
He was Great as the D.I.(USMC) May He R.I.P.
Everything Jack touched, turned to gold. I loved Jack Webbs police work. He is iconic in so many ways.
I watch it every morning before work!
The episodes about Drugs is the most entertaining!
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.
Those police shows were very popular. I was a big fan of Dragnet.
Thanks Steve, interesting as always.🇦🇺
I still watch Dragnet reruns .
Jack Webb is perfect for that role
Still listen to the radio shows on radio classics
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.
I watched all his shows as a youth. Loved them all.
Very talented and prophetic pioneer.
Pete Kelly's Blues was a trip to watch ...... Joe Friday played a horn and fronted a band... !
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. ✌️
Blue Boy was one of my favorite episodes,
Jack Webb was a great actor and producer. I loved him on Dragnet.
The "D.I." is a real gem if you ever get to see it.
I love that show he's allways so serious that what makes the show so great he sounds like a robot.❤❤
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.
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!
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 👍👋
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
Entertaining Guy , by voice , recognition on the radio , him , Harry Carey , Paul Harvey , top 3 most recognizable voices ,
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!
Joe Friday scared me out of my Maijuana addiction back in the late 60's.
He saved my life!!!
Then I became addicted to 😻!
I still watch Dragnet every day
This was great. As a child I loved Dragnet!
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.
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😅😊
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.
Dragnet,Adam-12, and Emergency! were awesome. I watched them when I was a kid.
Thank you …much appreciated
I use to watch this tv show with my parents when I was a kid I still watch this show today
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.
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.
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.
What a great actor
Legendary
I loved his shows he is missed
enjoyed all those shows.
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 it every week .
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??
Thank me? *THANK YOU!*
Love Dragnet ❤
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!)
What I heard, the Mark VII hand and hammer production mark was Jack Webb’s hands.
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.
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
Dragnet, Adam-12 and Emergency are on the daily TV schedule somewhere on US tv.
I loved Emergency ❤. Think i still have a red helmet i wore when i watched it.
I still watch drag net what good days when policeman were respected
Excellent video. Very informative.
Thank you!
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)🌈🎉💵😉.
Martin Milner was great, miss him a lot
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
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.
Ah yes, Sergeant Joe Friday. Probably on of the most popular "cops" of the L.A. Police Department. "Just a fact".
watched Dragnet every single week till then end! Remember he was married to singer Julie London and she accused him of beating her..
"Cry me a River" fame...
Semper Fi Mr. Webb.
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
If I'm not mistaken it was originally called Badge 714.
He would have been great as DEAN WORMER.i love his belief the movie didn’t make any sense it wasn’t supposed to.
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.
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).
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.
Bobby Troup wrote the song Route 66.
Why do they always say "the life and sad ending" of these celebrities? Many aren't sad endings and lived full lives. Is it for the dramatic effect?
I don't know about they. I trademarked the title (The Life and Sad Ending®). Unfortunately many have used it about people who are still living. That's not me. Everyone has a sad ending. I never said they had sad lives. The imitators and thieves have just about ruined my brand, so this is a sore subject.
Yep
That is unfortunate… my bad.
Thank you. Death is sad! As for Jack Webb, the man smoked cigarettes constantly and that is what killed him! Webb joined about one hundred TV and movie stars who died because of heavy smoking; hell, these people were often paid to do radio, print, and TV ads touting and glorifying their favorite cigarettes!
@@TheLifeandSadEnding But if the ending was not comparatively sad (all deaths are sad) it's a click bait lie, trademarked or not. Lame.
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.
Spouses
Julie London
(m. 1947; div. 1954)
Dorothy Towne
(m. 1955; div. 1957)
Jackie Loughery
(m. 1958; div. 1964)
Opal Wright (m. 1980)
I recall seeing the Project UFO series in the late 70s
The bad guys always got their come-uppance on dragnet.
A trial was held....
Friday October 13, working the day shift out of robbery burglary, the boss is Captain ‘Nichols…
I remember watching an old Dragnet rerun, it must have been one of the episodes from the late 1960's, in which Sgt. Friday told a cautionary tale about a hippie who took LSD and went blind from staring at the sun. Note: no such case ever happened.
you do not know that
I use too watch every episode of Dragnet as a child before policing became a detriment to our communities.
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 .