Dragnet Jack Webb "Alcohol VS. Marijuana & LSD"

[Yavin4]

[Stuart G]

1. Jack Webb is an "expert" he says..really?

[Kingofalldems]

2. I guess that was supposed to be Timothy Leary he was lecturing.

Webb hated hippies too. If one appeared on the show, whatever crime was committed was done by the hippie.

[Art_from_Ark]

9. It was almost the same with Hawaii Five-O

But then came The Mod Squad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mod_Squad

[Populist_Prole]

3. They seem even more staid in retrospect; watching that stuff now.

It sure does look like establishment types shown are these stepford curmudgeons who are so uptight they could crack open walnuts between their ass cheeks.

[Ptah]

4. I liked him more when he was in the robbery division.

[Wolf Frankula]

5. And It Was That Legal Drug in His Pocket

Tobacco, that killed him.

Wolf

[TheMightyFavog]

6. Two pack a day Chesterfield smoker...

[ailsagirl]

8. What about THAT, Mr. Webb??

[Yavin4]

18. He's dead. He can't hear you. n/t

[ailsagirl]

7. God, who wrote those lines??

marijuana is the flame,
heroin is the fuse,
LSD is the bomb.


Seriously??

We used to watch Dragnet just to laugh at Jack Webb & Harry Morgan and their adventures in LaLa Land!!

[Art_from_Ark]

10. The only episode I remember from that show

was that some girl from my small hometown was supposed to have run away to LA and gotten murdered there.

[Tabasco_Dave]

11. Jack Webb was a huge Jazz fan

My mom was a jazz singer and told me, if you wanted to hang out with Jazz musicians and marry someone like Julie London as Mr Webb did, you had to smoke pot or they thought you where real square.

[ailsagirl]

13. He was Mr. Square!!

The LAPD loved him!!

Do the youngsters know what these goofballs are made of, son?

[joshcryer]

12. Ironically, LSD cures alcoholism...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. I always thought Jack Webb resembled French film star Paul Meurisse a bit

the star of the French horror film Diabolique by Clouzot.

[ailsagirl]

15. There is a distinct resemblance but...

Meurisse was much more attractive. What a movie Diabolique was! A definite must-see for horror movie fans (scary and without a gallon of blood & guts).

Before Dragnet came along, Webb had a tiny role in the classic Sunset Boulevard-- very different persona from Friday. In SB, he actually (playfully) plucks an attractive lady's strap (of her gown), all the while with a grin on his mug. He looked a lot more human then.

Then there was the Johnny Carson thing with the clappers.

[CBGLuthier]

16. I don't know. I still like the guy a lot.

He had to know that all the jazz legends he loved were smoking pot.

I know he may have been a square and such but he was a pioneer in offering minority roles on his shows and he really did it all by directing and starring in the show.

He gave his ex wife and her new husband a job (Emergency) so they could quit the road and raise their family. Seemed like a decent guy even if he was conservative.

And Dragnet was firmly anti-gun so I can ignore the silliness of their out-dated drug policy shows.

[antiquie]

17. The speech in the OP was by Joe Friday.

Jack Webb may have held a different view.

[fishwax]

19. "marijuana is the flame, heroin is the fuse, LSD is the bomb" -- sounds like it belongs on a t-shirt