Friday seeks four robbers who have escaped from San Francisco. Director: Jack Webb Writer: Jack Webb Starring: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Olan Soule, Vic Perrin
In an interview, Leonard Nimoy said this role was one of the most difficult he'd ever done, because of the way Jack Webb had individuals shot by themselves. There were no other actors in the shots to react to, just someone holding a cue card. He had to read the lines and react as if other actors were in the room.
@@Landrew0 Shatner was the same way just after the end of Star Trek in the early 70s didn't want to be associated for the rest of his career with being Capt Kirk, avoided early ST conventions until Nimoy of all people actually showed him conventions could be both a boost to a lagging career and also quite profitable. The greatest fear of most serious and dedicated actors is being typecast and never landing another role again because of it. The most famous from that era was John Wayne. Nobody would accept him in any other role other than being in a cowboy.
Yes, the drunk hotel clerk was a hoot. Good acting. Actually, the hard-of-hearing hotel clerk from earlier in the show wasn't bad, either; but the drunk clerk had a funnier role to play.
Not a gun person, but a instructor said that in the Vietnam War, the smell of Hope's would sometimes trigger a ambush by the enemy, found out by accident that Rem oil packets can be used as fire starter.
The Mark VII end credits always used to scare me when I was a kid. I still have this deep down fear of it and I'm an old man. I'm expecting someone to turn to the camera and laugh in my face.
When I was a kid I thought the hands were creepy. I couldn't figure out if they were sweaty or covered in some kind of metal. Very weird. I thought I was the only one that found them scary.
I love this one. 22 year old Leonard Nimoy does indeed pass for 18. Peter Leeds as the desk clerk who's had a few drinks too many is excellent in this episode and brings out a few laughs.
In the radio equivalent of this story (Episode 40) Friday's partner is Ben Romero rather than Frank Smith. However Officer Smith is in the episode as another officer who gives Friday the information on four hoodlums. The radio episode is the first appearance of Officer Smith who would eventually become Friday's partner.
I always read the credits at the end ... I had to rewind to find Spock as I completely missed him the first time around. I had to look at him real hard even then!
You're close only thing I was missing 5 rounds from 9 mm and my bag of cash was empty as was my fifth of jack still haven't figured out who stole my bullets pretty sure I know where the JD and the money went through Damned ole Mr Spock took them and had Scotty to beam him up then he gave Kirk my booze and money Sorry I couldn't stop I was on a roll LOL
The desk clerk- the voice reminds me of the guy in the second Dragnet series when they had the dogs who stole purses and went to visit the owner of a theatrical booking agency.
Don't know where you people come from. Must be the Tucker Carlson school of unbelievable BS. California's got a lot of homeless people because you can't afford to live there.
In the days that the episodes were made, they didn’t have the abilities that your hardcore obsessive followers of today have. No one would drag them through the mud and publicly humiliate them like today. Dragnet was one of the early ones when it came to television. I love the hell out of them, mistakes and all. 😀
@@Inkblot67 You may note in the credits: almost ever show had a person in charge of continuity. Their job was to avoid such gaffs. I do not recall dragging anyone through the mud. I enjoy these shows too.
@@andrewbillingsley9377 I was suggesting that in the beginning of television, as it was, no one could have anticipated just how much power the average person would have in the future to research every single aspect of every single episode of any given program at any given time…they may not have been as concerned about continuity regarding a particular episode. There may have been a reason for doing something the way it was done. Who knows. I wasn’t insinuating that you yourself were dragging anyone through the mud.
I didn't recognize Leonard Nimoy at first, he looked so young and with a pencil mustache! He said in an interview that he'd done an old Dragnet episode, so this must be the one. I didn't think that men back in the early 1950s could wear colorful ties that the ones Frank Smith and Tony Chavez had; usually men's ties back then were more conservative like Joe Friday's. I guess there were exceptions back even then.
I didn't recognize him either, had to go back and re-watch the scenes he was in and check the credits. I also saw him in an episode of"The Untouchables" many years ago
The very first TV episode was a remake from the 1949 season of the radio show. Raymond Burr is in both but in the TV episode he is Deputy Chief aka Chief Of Detectives Thad Brown where in the radio episode he was Brown’s predecessor Ed Backstrand
@@allysonflowers7496 Gringo is slang fort North American. It's not a nice term IYO and you don't speak the language nor are you Hispanic. I am. All I said was his North American accent is thick. I know you just woke up honey, but you should have been born in my generation. You'd really be butt hurt.
That would be amazing to find the polaroid mugshots of Leonard Nimoy they used for the movie 😳 very likely thrown away right after the take though, but maybe lost somewhere for 70 years...
Much cheaper. When a character speaks, they have to be a union member. Non-speaking roles are classified as extras, which can be non-union and paid at a much lower rate. This rule carries on today, pay attention next time you watch a show how many people don't say a word.
Jack smoked two to three packs of cigarettes a day. The radio and TV version of Dragnet from the 1950's was sponsored by Chesterfield and Fatima cigarettes. Jack often smoked chesterfields.
The girl's Spanish at the beginning is excellent but Det. Tony's Spanish, while correct, has the most atrocious "I'm a gringo speaking Spanish" accent that I've ever heard!
What’s the point of mentioning he’s a gringo speaking Spanish? Plenty of people try to speak English with incredibly heavy accents. Should we make fun of them too?
@@Krana-rt2yy There's no particular point. He was understandable and that is the ultimate purpose. When I heard him, though, I reacted much like my former Chinese congregation when they heard me speaking Mandarin. I suppose I would have assumed that people in the LA area would have a bit less pronounced accent due to the proximity but I suppose that was a different time. I'm just glad to have had the opportunity to see some of these old episodes. All I ever saw as a kid were there ones with Harry Morgan.
The writing of his part was horrible. If I were the actor, I’d be embarrassed to play it. I know people of that time thought that such depictions of drunkenness was funny. Even in the early & mid 70’s, comedians like Foster Brooks were considered hilarious. His whole persona was “drunk guy”.
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In an interview, Leonard Nimoy said this role was one of the most difficult he'd ever done, because of the way Jack Webb had individuals shot by themselves. There were no other actors in the shots to react to, just someone holding a cue card. He had to read the lines and react as if other actors were in the room.
Funny to think his biggest claim to fame would be acting with pointed ears. Before Spock he seemed to always play the heavy.
@@dokskwyr4353He appeared in an episode of Bonanza entitled “The Ape,” playing a card dealer.
Glad you pointed that out, I didn't recognize Mr. Spock!!
Seems like Nimoy always had something to complain about.
He didn't like being known as Spock, the role that made him rich and famous.
@@Landrew0 Shatner was the same way just after the end of Star Trek in the early 70s didn't want to be associated for the rest of his career with being Capt Kirk, avoided early ST conventions until Nimoy of all people actually showed him conventions could be both a boost to a lagging career and also quite profitable.
The greatest fear of most serious and dedicated actors is being typecast and never landing another role again because of it.
The most famous from that era was John Wayne.
Nobody would accept him in any other role other than being in a cowboy.
The drunken clerk was hilarious.
The drunk guy, played by Peter Leeds, stole the show😂🤣!
That desk clerk was “in a condition”. He’s Peter Leeds, another one of those character actors you could plug in anyplace.
“I’m sure gonna have to explain this to Claude.”
At his time of death he'd apparently appeared on TV more than 8,000 times...and was actuallt best known as a straight man for various comedians.
Hotel Clerk was Mel Ford. Not Peter Leeds. He's in the credits. Not much info on Ford other than the IMDB.
Indubitably ☺️
Fun characters. Colorful and funny. Loved the drunk hotel clerk.
Yes, the drunk hotel clerk was a hoot. Good acting. Actually, the hard-of-hearing hotel clerk from earlier in the show wasn't bad, either; but the drunk clerk had a funnier role to play.
Apparently Joe didn't recognize that the open gun cleaning solvent bottles he was smoking over were highly flammable!
Highly illogical.
Not a gun person, but a instructor said that in the Vietnam War, the smell of Hope's would sometimes trigger a ambush by the enemy, found out by accident that Rem oil packets can be used as fire starter.
These old dragnets were really well done and entertaining!
I like how Friday's partner doesn't know Spanish here but in another episode he's relatively fluent...
Yes talking about a little high school Spanish when he sounded way more fluent then some high school Spanish....lol
Yup. In the bar murder episode.
The Mark VII end credits always used to scare me when I was a kid. I still have this deep down fear of it and I'm an old man. I'm expecting someone to turn to the camera and laugh in my face.
I’m make own version of the Mark VII Productions end credits called Mock VII.
As a kid, I always thought they chased away the man behind the sweaty hand after he forged the VII impression because it was shiny and he was dirty.
Here's some useless trivia for you guys; The sweaty Mark VII hands are Jack Webb himself.
Use to scare me too! Theme music didn't help either 😜
When I was a kid I thought the hands were creepy. I couldn't figure out if they were sweaty or covered in some kind of metal. Very weird. I thought I was the only one that found them scary.
That hotel clerk was absolutely great
Poor Spock
Thanks for the tip-off about Nimoy. I wouldn't have recognized him.
...may the Schwartz be with YOU!...
Always loved the characters they ran into during their investigations, some really quirky characters portrayed by some quite talented actors.
Betcha didn’t recognize Dr. Spock! The desk clerk deserved an Emmy. I have no idea how Joe and Frank kept from laughing. Love these - thanks so much!
I recognized Mr. Spock of Star trek fame however I guess I missed Benjamin Spock AKA Dr. Spock was he also in this episode ?
Long time supporting actor Peter Leeds was the desk clerk. Excellent career.
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Lol Doctor Spock. 🤭😁 adorable
I love this one. 22 year old Leonard Nimoy does indeed pass for 18. Peter Leeds as the desk clerk who's had a few drinks too many is excellent in this episode and brings out a few laughs.
I disagree. I thought that Nimoy looked a lot older than 18. I'm surprised he was only 22 at the time.
...their lucky he didn't use his Vulcan grip on them...
The girl playing Maria was born in 1909, making her about 43 or 44. No way did she look that age.
In the radio equivalent of this story (Episode 40) Friday's partner is Ben Romero rather than Frank Smith. However Officer Smith is in the episode as another officer who gives Friday the information on four hoodlums. The radio episode is the first appearance of Officer Smith who would eventually become Friday's partner.
"No need to shout.....WE USE CARDS HERE!"
Every time the Hotel Manager raised his hands I fell out laughing.
I laughed every time he barged in to tell Friday and Smith that the puppy was missing, when he was in the linen closet with them all the time.
I always read the credits at the end ... I had to rewind to find Spock as I completely missed him the first time around. I had to look at him real hard even then!
Without his Vulcan ears he doesn't look right!
Me to
He's very young!
Thanks for posting these programs they are great 👍
Lenard Nemo was very young in this . Thanks Mr. Webb.
Nemoy
@@donniegray553 **Nimoy
Mr. Spock on the other side of the law.
He was 23.
@@jameswilliamjohnson in 1954.
Thanks for mentioning Mr. Spock I completely missed it because I wasn’t looking at him duh!
I love this show
I kinda like the drunk desk man. What a dork!
really takes a lotta talent to play a drunk or "stupid" character. Actors like these never get enough credit
One of my favorite episode's
From America s most wanted to flying around the galaxy, rest n peace mr spock 🖖
Jack Webb is A Savage!!!
Who else got hypnotized by the barber pole and woke up with a bag of cash a four missing bullets from their ,38?
If you can find the blonde dame from the painting, she might tell you who set you up. My two bucks is on the guy in a tux in the casino.
You're close only thing I was missing 5 rounds from 9 mm and my bag of cash was empty as was my fifth of jack
still haven't figured out who stole my bullets pretty sure I know where the JD and the money went through Damned ole Mr Spock took them and had Scotty to beam him up then he gave Kirk my booze and money
Sorry I couldn't stop I was on a roll LOL
The desk clerk- the voice reminds me of the guy in the second Dragnet series when they had the dogs who stole purses and went to visit the owner of a theatrical booking agency.
Sounds like you’re describing Phil Arnold. He was that animal bookie agent. He’s not related to that other fellow.
It's ok to crap in the streets as long as you don't call it Frisco.
Don't know where you people come from. Must be the Tucker Carlson school of unbelievable BS. California's got a lot of homeless people because you can't afford to live there.
There’s a railroad named Frisco.
Ha Ha Spock got busted! 😂
Thanks for posting these shows
I hope those boys grabbed a bunch of Snickers because they aren't going anywhere for awhile.
Desk attendant: This is one of Claude Tinney's places...
Detective: Oh, yeah? How many has he got?
DA: Just one.
Detective:🙄
Mr. Spock in a time warp.
Frisco! Now it's a toilet!
San Frantoilet
If you leave it would help clean things up.
1:01, "Joe, they don't like it up there if you call it Frisco."
Strange, in this episode Smith didn't speak Spanish. Yet in a different episode he spoke it quite well. Continuity.
In 1 episode, Smith spoke spanish to a hispanic bartender. Friday and Smith were looking for a killer. The episode is called The Big Bar.
Yeah he did
In the days that the episodes were made, they didn’t have the abilities that your hardcore obsessive followers of today have. No one would drag them through the mud and publicly humiliate them like today. Dragnet was one of the early ones when it came to television. I love the hell out of them, mistakes and all. 😀
@@Inkblot67 You may note in the credits: almost ever show had a person in charge of continuity. Their job was to avoid such gaffs. I do not recall dragging anyone through the mud. I enjoy these shows too.
@@andrewbillingsley9377 I was suggesting that in the beginning of television, as it was, no one could have anticipated just how much power the average person would have in the future to research every single aspect of every single episode of any given program at any given time…they may not have been as concerned about continuity regarding a particular episode. There may have been a reason for doing something the way it was done. Who knows. I wasn’t insinuating that you yourself were dragging anyone through the mud.
I didn't recognize Leonard Nimoy at first, he looked so young and with a pencil mustache! He said in an interview that he'd done an old Dragnet episode, so this must be the one. I didn't think that men back in the early 1950s could wear colorful ties that the ones Frank Smith and Tony Chavez had; usually men's ties back then were more conservative like Joe Friday's. I guess there were exceptions back even then.
They could actually, that was popular from the Late 40's through the Early 50's.
@@20thCenturyManTrad Thank you! i appreciate the info! :)
@@patriciahayes7315 No Problem I like to dress like these guys of the Era, so I learned quite a bit, from watching old shows and movies of the like.
He also played on Highway Patrol. As a thug for a bully.
I didn't recognize him either, had to go back and re-watch the scenes he was in and check the credits.
I also saw him in an episode of"The Untouchables" many years ago
Give me your cuffs joe love it
You’ll do EXACTLY as I say!!!!!
Christopher Lloyd (Jim in "Taxi") could very well have borrowed his schtick from the hotel clerk in this episode and expanded on it.
THIS WAS AN EPISODE ON THE DRAGNET RADIO PROGRAM FIRST. ALMOST WORD FOR WORD.
The radio episodes later became TV episodes.
The very first TV episode was a remake from the 1949 season of the radio show. Raymond Burr is in both but in the TV episode he is Deputy Chief aka Chief Of Detectives Thad Brown where in the radio episode he was Brown’s predecessor Ed Backstrand
It makes one wish for a purer past.
Tony needs more Spanish lessons. His gringo accent is thick enough to butter and eat.
Hablah comoh gringoh. As do the young ladies. Oh well, great show. Never tire of watching 'em.
@@barnard-baca I agree on BOTH counts!
Gringo is not a very nice term. Just because someone's Spanish isn't perfect,doesn't mean you call them a name.
@@allysonflowers7496 Gringo is slang fort North American. It's not a nice term IYO and you don't speak the language nor are you Hispanic. I am. All I said was his North American accent is thick. I know you just woke up honey, but you should have been born in my generation. You'd really be butt hurt.
12:01, a drunken frontdesk clerk.
That would be amazing to find the polaroid mugshots of Leonard Nimoy they used for the movie 😳 very likely thrown away right after the take though, but maybe lost somewhere for 70 years...
Fantastic story's ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
8:43 an ear trumpet!
This guy out drink me lol lol
Spock gets arrested lol
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LOL, I wonder if Hoppes No. 9 smells the same then as it does now.
Tony is a familiar voice from old time radio.
I wonder if the opening scene where Joe is cleaning his revolver violate youtubes' policy on how-to gun videos
Frisco, TEXAS.
I thought I recognized Fr. Xavier Rojas!
I wonder if this was Leonard Nimoy's first acting gig.
He was also in a few episodes of Highway Patrol.
Whats your name? Mr. Spock.
Evil Spock with a mustache from the parallel universe.
@@ivartillotson835 ...possibly.
Is Friday going to have to wear a heavy chain for his dog tags like Barnie?
Julius Carver is Leonard Nimoy, SPOK of Star Trek he speaks at 19:17
Who owns the hotel? I didn't catch the name.
Hotel Clerk was a great drunk.
I don't believe the officers had a right to take the dog.
19:20 young Leonard Nimoy
FRYDAY
i'd forgotten the nuances of black &white the scratchy sound sets the yrs
I always wondered why the girl who played Maria didn't speak.
She wasn't Hispanic and it would have been obvious. Maria was played by Adrienne Marden who had a long list of TV credits.
@@georgejetson3702 She has beautiful eyes!
Much cheaper. When a character speaks, they have to be a union member. Non-speaking roles are classified as extras, which can be non-union and paid at a much lower rate. This rule carries on today, pay attention next time you watch a show how many people don't say a word.
@@straightpipediesel thank you for the information.
@@straightpipediesel
That's interesting information, thank you
sir
What did ya do without the mail ..
The 2 Mexican girls were absolutely beautiful, but so are the majority of Mexican girls
how many cigarettes did webb smoke on camera
Jack smoked two to three packs of cigarettes a day. The radio and TV version of Dragnet from the 1950's was sponsored by Chesterfield and Fatima cigarettes. Jack often smoked chesterfields.
24:44 - Pre-Vulcan Leonard Nimoy
Just depends on which one was made first
Beautiful woman 👠
21:20 Cliff Small and George Schum
They skip the Pico hotel without paying and Friday asks if they left a forwarding address ????
Adrienne Marden!
The place in C1 was reserved for Herr Aditya Herr Alok Dr Virna Pandey not Jain Jai Hemraj
Open up another INOX with EDU RAIN respect Ha !
Was Leonard Nimoy in this? It sounds like his voice.
It was him. So he was a criminal before he was a Vulcan. 👍🏻
Yes, I also saw him In Sea Hunt as a pirate ☠️ 💙.
18:25 Carver and Malloch
Spocko! 18:30
There's a reminder: Not old enough to vote. Now never old enough to vote, even with the Twentysixth Amendment.
No, not until 1971 were 18 year olds given that right.
I thought dogs are lactose intolerant?
Maybe the milk is OK for very young puppies.
Cats are lactose lntolerant
Funny
Spock's first show?
If alls Gung Ho n Hunky Dory which cos of you all it ain't you kinda think why watch myself
no good in automobiles
I glad they didn't do anything to harm the girls; that would have been terrible.
Way too many ads! Switching channels
What ads?
Maria was a total babe...
Too bad that dog went from innocent collie to 🐷
Disgusting remark.
The girl's Spanish at the beginning is excellent but Det. Tony's Spanish, while correct, has the most atrocious "I'm a gringo speaking Spanish" accent that I've ever heard!
Maybe that's what he is
@@AndrewVelonis Harry Bartell.
What’s the point of mentioning he’s a gringo speaking Spanish? Plenty of people try to speak English with incredibly heavy accents. Should we make fun of them too?
@@Krana-rt2yy There's no particular point. He was understandable and that is the ultimate purpose. When I heard him, though, I reacted much like my former Chinese congregation when they heard me speaking Mandarin. I suppose I would have assumed that people in the LA area would have a bit less pronounced accent due to the proximity but I suppose that was a different time. I'm just glad to have had the opportunity to see some of these old episodes. All I ever saw as a kid were there ones with Harry Morgan.
@@HootOwl513 Harry had dark hair and a swarthy complextion. He could play a Hispanic, Italian, or an Eastern European.
I wonder how many of these guys died from lung cancer ?
Drunks aren't funny they're pathetic.
This episode is annoying AF,it's the clerk he's trying to be funny & it wasn't.
The writing of his part was horrible. If I were the actor, I’d be embarrassed to play it. I know people of that time thought that such depictions of drunkenness was funny. Even in the early & mid 70’s, comedians like Foster Brooks were considered hilarious. His whole persona was “drunk guy”.
Ted Cruz 2024.
Yes he does fit in
Considering the show is about putting criminals in prison
Ted Crud does fit in
I'd like to be the who puts the cuffs on him
Cruz is typical of the modern Republican fearmongering scumbags that need to be defeated at the ballot box.
This is one reason I am glad I never became a drinker....at least a heavy one anyways...🥳🥴
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