This has always been one of my favorite episodes of this show. The promises made remind me of every single MLM any of my friends have tried to recruit me into and the tambourine just brings it home.
Yeah, I had people who tried to get me in on MLMs. The thing that pissed me off the most is they thought I was dumb enough to fall for it. I hope they were betting money on it as they deserved to lose😈
Just one wif of Gannon and Friday from a mile away and you can smell COP stronger then a burning refer. Virginia Gregg's most exuberant and wild performance! She's great!
When EMP bombs wipe out the electrical grid and render all electronic devices nothing more than fancy bricks, slide rules, abacuses, and the like will be the only calculators will have left. They'll be state-of-the-art modern tools once again.
Little known fact: After she got off probation, Bonnie Bates founded a new company called Costco, which today has a market cap of 243 billion dollars and 113 million members.
I used to work for Costco for 10 years, funny, her name never came up:): Here are the real facts even though I know you were kidding!! lol Founded: September 15, 1983; 39 years ago ... Number of locations: 847 (2023) Founders: James Sinegal; Jeffrey Brotman Headquarters: Issaquah, Washington, U.S Jeffrey Brotman · Price Club · Costco bear · W. Craig Jelinek
At the ending credits, a voice over would say.."Stay tuned for The Dean Martin Show..next! Dino's guests will be Buddy Hackett and Don Rickles!......."
Bert Fields (who played the prosecutor) was a prominent lawyer in the entertainment industry for decades. You can read more about him here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Fields
Have you ever considered how you would wash your dishes if you hadn't any washing-up detergent? And how about a washcloth, a scrub brush, or a scouring pad? #peepshow #jeremyusbourne #pyramidselling
*There are various pyramids, tall skinny ones almost like a Christmas tree, and wide fat ones, but no matter what form of MLM one is in, the chances are not good, in the beginning they may tell you something like* *"All it takes is hard work and or dedication!"* *Okay, so that sounds honest and fair enough, but lets have a CLOSER look!!! 🧐* *Is the company scamming you by doing something such as the following, lets say the head office gets a call from someone who has heard through the grapevine of the company's products or services and they are somewhat interested, okay so will the company ever reefer that customer or client to YOU, perhaps the closest person to where this person lives so that the wealth can be distributed more evenly* *OR* *Will they always ONLY be referring such callers to just their TOP favourite people alone who have already earned much and who are possibly paying the company finders fees, kick backs and perks under the table?!* 🤔 💸💸💸
Hal Davies: "In other words, for Mrs. Bates' pyramid scheme to work, it would take a membership of 160 million more people than the entire population of the United States!" Dr. Edgar Peter Sunstroke: "That is exactly correct."
This is exactly the way Amway operates, as well as the new one called Starfish. Beware of all these so-called discount programs all it does is cost you money
Details (documentation) please. (I had a teacher in high school who handed back one of my compositions with this comment: _"Document_ what you say, or it becomes invective only, and loses effect." (Emphasis hers.))
I think what TWS1956 is trying to say that “Bonnie Bates’” presentation and meeting was very similar to what Amway did at their meetings. When I was in college in the 1980s, I was involved with Amway for several months, of course having been invited by a friend! Quite a few details on this episode were different than an Amway meeting, but the general principle of a high energy presentation with people giving speeches, etc. yes, that’s almost exactly what I experienced in those Amway meetings All those years ago. That was in the USA by the way.
@@dougmontgomery1868 I had a teacher in high school who said: "Better to stay silent and have people think you're a fool rather than speak and remove all doubt."
@@LogoMan7777 Regardless of which party you are an adherent of, if we could just all simply agree to make the top -richest 3% of corporations/ individuals who do not pay their fair share of taxes do so, there would be A HELL OF A LOT OF "FREE MONEY" FOR THE REST OF US WHO DO PAY OUR FAIR SHARE OF TAXES! ! ! ! ! ! ! . . . (and the beat goes on!) . . . . .
@@blueelkmarketing3436 let me see; 1. the one where she was the magazine reporter at the police academy. 2. this one 3. the Rachel Candy stores. 4. the Gambling Husband 5. the dog bit a little girl. 6. the lady who accused the cops of robbery. 7. The gypsy episode. anything else?
When trial began at Division 69, Municipal Court, Los Angeles Judicial District the suspect pleaded not guilty of Operating a lottery and false advertising.
There are many crimes that departments don't bother to arrest or seek prosecution for anymore because of the expense to taxpayers (just getting someone through the justice system for such a crime as public intoxication is hardly cost-effective). But some of these crimes come in handy in other ways: for example, arresting someone on one of these types of charges to get them in custody and available to be interviewed during an investigation into more serious crimes.
April 15, 2024. First day of trump's pump and dump fraud trial made me think=of this episode. Virginia Gregg was brilliant as Bonnie Bates. Of all the actors Dragnet used in varying roles,she's my favorite.
So, she pays her $500 and lays low for six months and then goes back to it under another name? Also, today in 2021 the United States still does not have 360 million people, The population is about 332 million.
@@iignorerepliesfrombores4010 "Now, Brother Bubba, you can get those cigarettes at the prison commissary for $9.54. but at the Dollarwise Commissary, those self-same cigarettes are only $5.53! Just get three of your fellow inmates to join under you for only $199.95! When they buy, you get FREE MONEY! FREE MONEY! FREE MONEY!"
@@heyoldman2003 At the beginning of the episode the captain had complained that Mrs. Bonnie Bates's late husband was only slowed just a bit by the conviction on a false advertising charge. In the case of Mrs. Bates, the addition of the lottery charge resulted in a $500 fine plus six months of probation. I'm sure that really, really slowed her down.
@@1969atiq Well certainly not the $500 fine. While $500 went a lot farther in those days, it would still be pocket change for Bonnie Bate. Would the six months probation put a crimp in her business? A little bit, but I don't think enough to persuade her to go into a different line of work.
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Love Virginia Gregg.
and that tambourine! Great to see Chet Stratton! Love the mathematician and that slide rule! ❤ 😂
This has always been one of my favorite episodes of this show. The promises made remind me of every single MLM any of my friends have tried to recruit me into and the tambourine just brings it home.
Yeah, I had people who tried to get me in on MLMs. The thing that pissed me off the most is they thought I was dumb enough to fall for it. I hope they were betting money on it as they deserved to lose😈
Every Bit Character actor ever to be in Dragnet was at the meeting in the audience
i love how Jack Webb used the same players. Virginia Gregg is my favorite!
@@mikea8293 Stacey Harris was his personal life best friend as well. He named his daughter Stacey after him.
They were all good.
A lot of them were also YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR vets
@ hey thanks for the response. I get to watch this again now
Just one wif of Gannon and Friday from a mile away and you can smell COP stronger then a burning refer. Virginia Gregg's most exuberant and wild performance! She's great!
This actress, Virginia Gregg, does the voice of Mrs. Bates in the movie Psycho and here's her character with the last name Bates. How ironic.
Probably no coincidence.
Yet another Jack Webb in-joke.
I always thought ironic meant made of iron
Amway. That's one heck of a light sentence!
My cousin used to sell Amway products. After her divorce she needed the money.
You have no idea how Amway works. Nobody gets $$ for people just "getting in". Feds have given them a full rectal exam on this very fact.
Yup, seems hardly worth the bother of prosecuting her. She could wait for just a few months, or perhaps a year, then be back in business again.
Bonnie Bates is being played by Norma Bates.
Virginia Gregg provided the voice of Mrs. Bates in the original 1960 Psycho.
They gave her a slap on the wrist 'cause she was needed in the next episode....
She had to start her shift at Rachelle's Candies... or wait up for her husband (another Dragnet regular) to get home from a night of gambling....
I thought I recognized that gap in her teeth! LoL
Virginia Gregg has to make that phony accusation of theft on the police officers who handled her friend’s death in the next episode!
You can tell how ancient this episode is at around 21:30 when Dr Sumstrom uses a slide rule to do some calculations.
And his brain . . .
"That is exactly correct"
@@denniscoffey1247 Those guys have skilzz.
When EMP bombs wipe out the electrical grid and render all electronic devices nothing more than fancy bricks, slide rules, abacuses, and the like will be the only calculators will have left. They'll be state-of-the-art modern tools once again.
@@MokkaMatti
But the people who know how to use such tools will be dead.
That poor old lady in red. She got swindled by a fortune teller and now she’s going to join this scam…. You’d think she’d learn
She should be a televangelist on PTL
Or TBN (thieving believers nationwide)
Reminded me of Amy Semple McPherson
😂
😂
As of October 2021, The population of the USA is about 332 million, so even 50+ years later we are not even at the 360 million.
That's First World reproducing rates for you.
😜
Rumor has it they borrowed that tambourine from the local Pentecostal Church.
Nah, definitely looks Hare Krishna...
I love this episode
I agree with you. There are obviously several Virginia Gregg episodes, but I definitely think this is the best one She is in.
This is one of the best of episodes. That and Public Affairs
and of course, the LSD episode
Little known fact: After she got off probation, Bonnie Bates founded a new company called Costco, which today has a market cap of 243 billion dollars and 113 million members.
Was she also involved in crypto????
@@donathon7303 lol
I used to work for Costco for 10 years, funny, her name never came up:): Here are the real facts even though I know you were kidding!! lol
Founded: September 15, 1983; 39 years ago ...
Number of locations: 847 (2023)
Founders: James Sinegal; Jeffrey Brotman
Headquarters: Issaquah, Washington, U.S
Jeffrey Brotman · Price Club · Costco bear · W. Craig Jelinek
But the names used in this, were made up. How could, she be real then. Or, unless you're joking🙄…………
This was Virignia Gregg's finest episode of Dragnet. Very convincing.
9:57. He was in the first Dragnet episode on December 14 1951.
Yes! Virginia Gregg.
It's funny how no one seemed to see the wacko lady as a phony. If anyone talked like that they'd walk away.
My dad actually did a report for the newspaper that covered one of these. They really do (or did) talk like that.
How did you know?!
I love this episode!
Joe got stumped! 😂😂😂
At the ending credits, a voice over would say.."Stay tuned for The Dean Martin Show..next! Dino's guests will be Buddy Hackett and Don Rickles!......."
Mister Warmth. He was really good in "C-3PO Sharky".
@ I'm a nice Droid!
Why didn't Don Rickles ever have a cameo in a Dragnet Bunko scheme? That'd be wonderful!
Actually it would take a lot more considering about a third of those 200,000,000 people at the time were minor children.
Brilliant prosecuter at the end.
Too bad he retired before the OJ trial.
@@stephenpenrice1230 What do you mean by that? Was he also a prosecuter in real life or just an actor?
@@dianarendon5845 he was a real life prosecutor
Bert Fields (who played the prosecutor) was a prominent lawyer in the entertainment industry for decades. You can read more about him here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Fields
@@Jackinbarr The defense attorney was played by Byron Morrow, aka Admiral Komack from Star Trek.
Exactly like MLM schemes today.
Ha! Amway, Herbal Life
And Quixtar!
All infomercials from the 80s abed 90s used the crowd reactions from her presentation as a training tool for their crowds lol
23:16 Priceless jury reaction elicits satisfied looks and nods of agreement from the good guys.
And a wink from the reformed purse-snatching dog in the corner.
The LA police department had an in house statistician and an in house cartographer.
I would like to see those people on an episode of The Rookie.
😊
Nowadays, they have an entire IT department. The statistician in this episode wasn't all that sophisticated. That probably wouldn't be the case today.
Byron Keith seen here, most famous for 77 Sunset Strip.
See him at 17:24.
Also Admire Komak from Star Trek Amok Time
@@sarnow76 And didn't Byron Keith also appear in a few episodes of the 1960's "Batman" series as Gotham City Mayor Linseed?
Jeez, what a bunch of rubes.
Now it's multi-level marketing. Beware.
Have you ever considered how you would wash your dishes if you hadn't any washing-up detergent? And how about a washcloth, a scrub brush, or a scouring pad? #peepshow #jeremyusbourne #pyramidselling
That's the very same thing that was depicted in this episode. Grifters got to grift.
11:56 Yes, bless Joe Friday on that.
"Massa's in the Cold Ground" arrangement playing throughout the episode.
I just looked it up. You are right, but it's pretty much the same tune for "Shall We Gather at the River"
Stephen Foster!
At trial the prosecutor missed his reexamine of Joe to show he knew what he was talking about
You mean "re-direct." (I am a paralegal and I notice these things.)
On the stand and Joe did not have the last word .
*There are various pyramids, tall skinny ones almost like a Christmas tree, and wide fat ones, but no matter what form of MLM one is in, the chances are not good, in the beginning they may tell you something like*
*"All it takes is hard work and or dedication!"*
*Okay, so that sounds honest and fair enough, but lets have a CLOSER look!!! 🧐*
*Is the company scamming you by doing something such as the following, lets say the head office gets a call from someone who has heard through the grapevine of the company's products or services and they are somewhat interested, okay so will the company ever reefer that customer or client to YOU, perhaps the closest person to where this person lives so that the wealth can be distributed more evenly* *OR*
*Will they always ONLY be referring such callers to just their TOP favourite people alone who have already earned much and who are possibly paying the company finders fees, kick backs and perks under the table?!* 🤔 💸💸💸
OMG! . . . . Not Reefer Madness again!!!
13:01 Busted! Cold busted.
Hal Davies: "In other words, for Mrs. Bates' pyramid scheme to work, it would take a membership of 160 million more people than the entire population of the United States!" Dr. Edgar Peter Sunstroke: "That is exactly correct."
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Burrn...
@@kencf0618 "Sunstroke", Hahaha! . . . . burn, indeed!
Obviously a geometric progression or exponential growth.
I'd love to know how many people would be required at the 15th level -- more than the entire population on Earth? 🤣
She said "members" 4x in one sentence. How did that get past the censors?
This is exactly the way Amway operates, as well as the new one called Starfish. Beware of all these so-called discount programs all it does is cost you money
Amway, anyone????
Details (documentation) please. (I had a teacher in high school who handed back one of my compositions with this comment: _"Document_ what you say, or it becomes invective only, and loses effect." (Emphasis hers.))
I think what TWS1956 is trying to say that “Bonnie Bates’” presentation and meeting was very similar to what Amway did at their meetings. When I was in college in the 1980s, I was involved with Amway for several months, of course having been invited by a friend! Quite a few details on this episode were different than an Amway meeting, but the general principle of a high energy presentation with people giving speeches, etc. yes, that’s almost exactly what I experienced in those Amway meetings All those years ago. That was in the USA by the way.
Or Herbalife, or NuSkin, or ....
@@dougmontgomery1868 I had a teacher in high school who said: "Better to stay silent and have people think you're a fool rather than speak and remove all doubt."
Agreed 100%!
FREE MONEY!!!!
A Democrat's favorite mantra.......................
@@death2pc I'm a Republican and I like free money.
Matthew Lesko mantra
@@LogoMan7777 Regardless of which party you are an adherent of, if we could just all simply agree to make the top -richest 3% of corporations/ individuals who do not pay their fair share of taxes do so, there would be A HELL OF A LOT OF "FREE MONEY" FOR THE REST OF US WHO DO PAY OUR FAIR SHARE OF TAXES! ! ! ! ! ! ! . . . (and the beat goes on!) . . . . .
It;s not even free money, you have to recruit people to earn it!
She must have started a company to sell steak knives after this.
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Dragnet: Episode 29
Season 2. Episode 12. "Pyramid Swindle".
Thursday, April 6 - 2023.
I want that free money!
I swear Virginia Gregg could pass herself as Vince Lombardi’s twin sibling
Virginia Gregg sighting 8 ( I think)
This to me is her best episode
I thought only 6, at least for these Dragnets.
@@blueelkmarketing3436 let me see; 1. the one where she was the magazine reporter at the police academy.
2. this one
3. the Rachel Candy stores.
4. the Gambling Husband
5. the dog bit a little girl.
6. the lady who accused the cops of robbery.
7. The gypsy episode.
anything else?
@@SW2799 I can never think of Virginia Gregg without hearing that tambourine in the back of my head!
@@thomasthomas2418 Me neither!! That's why this is one of about four Dragnet episodes I remember well.
Law and Order 1968
7:53 in 2024 money, $1,814.07
Kudos to the behind the scenes tambourine player.
11:20. $199 is almost $200. 😀
It's a marketing strategy. You notice that things cost $9.99, not $10.00, $19.99, not $20.00, $99.99, not $100.00.
When trial began at Division 69, Municipal Court, Los Angeles Judicial District the suspect pleaded not guilty of Operating a lottery and false advertising.
The judge also played a judge in the episode with Ginger the pot smelling dog
Free money 💸.
23:15. A smart defense lawyer would have known that beforehand.
Cashin In! The old fashioned way! Being a grifter.
I don't know about you.. but Everett Tottle was far creepier than Bonnie Bates.
No idea what you're talking about I love Everett
@@singulartrout He was too excited about the 'Dollarwise Song"
Of course, in today's LA.. this would not be a crime that they would prosecute.... same with a lot of the crimes on Dragnet.
There are many crimes that departments don't bother to arrest or seek prosecution for anymore because of the expense to taxpayers (just getting someone through the justice system for such a crime as public intoxication is hardly cost-effective). But some of these crimes come in handy in other ways: for example, arresting someone on one of these types of charges to get them in custody and available to be interviewed during an investigation into more serious crimes.
AMWAY !!!!
You can make plenty of money in a pyramid...if more people than the population of the whole world join.
April 15, 2024. First day of trump's pump and dump fraud trial made me think=of this episode. Virginia Gregg was brilliant as Bonnie Bates. Of all the actors Dragnet used in varying roles,she's my favorite.
23/15/25:07 they got her!!
So, she pays her $500 and lays low for six months and then goes back to it under another name?
Also, today in 2021 the United States still does not have 360 million people, The population is about 332 million.
And over half of that 332 million includes babies and minor children.
@@DeadhunterThe Yes, but with the messes they make, they can pay only $41 for a vacuum to clean them up!
Ha! Only 28 million more people and Bonny Bates's system will work!
Even people who do time for this stuff continue their scams in prison
@@iignorerepliesfrombores4010 "Now, Brother Bubba, you can get those cigarettes at the prison commissary for $9.54. but at the Dollarwise Commissary, those self-same cigarettes are only $5.53! Just get three of your fellow inmates to join under you for only $199.95! When they buy, you get FREE MONEY! FREE MONEY! FREE MONEY!"
Sometimes "possible" means "could be done," not "can be done."
AMWAY , SHACKLEE AND ALL THE REST .
It's not even "Free Money", you have to recruit people to join the group, that's work!
If you had time to prospect that many people you wouldn't need money as you'd be rich already.
Land in Los Angeles worth $199 🙄
Alot of prosecutorial resources for a fine and a sentence to probation. Stupid is what stupid does.
Yea , they showed em. ..... they will never try a stunt Like that again .. hahahahaha
@@heyoldman2003 At the beginning of the episode the captain had complained that Mrs. Bonnie Bates's late husband was only slowed just a bit by the conviction on a false advertising charge. In the case of Mrs. Bates, the addition of the lottery charge resulted in a $500 fine plus six months of probation. I'm sure that really, really slowed her down.
Note importantly, it certainly put a crimp in her business.
@@1969atiq Well certainly not the $500 fine. While $500 went a lot farther in those days, it would still be pocket change for Bonnie Bate. Would the six months probation put a crimp in her business? A little bit, but I don't think enough to persuade her to go into a different line of work.
Who knew they had cryptocurrency in 1968?
Who knew we'd have nothing but fiat currency and there's no gold at Fort Knox.
9:09
Sounds like social security
Because Social Security gets you to bring in friends to participate.
Math FTW.
What do you mean?
Ssss. It's *MATHS.* 😅
Reminds me of religious prosperity scam like Trump's religion adviser or Olsteen's scam. Grifters 😂😂😂😂😂
. . . . "This is not MY Bible . . . . it is A Bible"!?! . . . . .
LEAVE TRUMP OUT OF THIS, WILL YA?!?! HE WAS A GREAT PRESIDENT, MUCH BETTER THAN THAT PATHETIC WEAKLING YOU PUT IN THERE NOW!!!
Trump University 😂😂😂😂😂
Ah, yes . . . the 'ol "Stable Genius", Lol!
NO!!!!!!!!!!! TRTUMP WAS FANTASTIC!!!
BIDEN IS THE JERK!
I'M REPORTING YOU!!!!
Me want free $$$
Selling gold plated Trump coins.
. . . . "Captain Bonespur" ! ! ! ! ! ! ! HaHaHa! ! !
That woman's voice is irritating!
That poor old lady in red. She got swindled by a fortune teller and now she’s going to join this scam…. You’d think she’d learn
Greed and gullibility will never be in short supply.