Brilliant!

i have been watching Dragnet again
the Wisdom of Jack Webb is Breathtaking
and Sorley Missed

one basic issue today is that people have way too much free time
100 years ago just finding food was a problem that took time
today, people think they should be entertained all the time and have zero idea how to do it now without they phone
think what will happen it there IS a massive solar flare....

Classic. Too bad Biden can't remember the show otherwise he might say "OK guys, give me a break." No breaks for you Biden. You are the problem, not the solution.

Webb talks about instant food, instant communication, and instant transportation.

We now have a whole generation of kids glued to devices, who probably don't even notice when Spring arrives.

This is even more relevant today than it was in 1967.

Holy smokes! I haven't seen this in years, but I do remember it!

Memories, I was on my way to Vietnam when dragnet started, but years later it was a staple in our home. Looking at it today, it was a total indoctrination, not much different than TV is today, but al lease it was all in the direction of good and humanity, unlike today. Love it, will dig out some more and rewatch them. Thanks....

Remember when the westerns were on TV, the big gun fights, but no one ever died? At least not until the movies came out.

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!! I thought you were older than me Blar-buddy. You is not!

Love these old shows. Catch them on Pluto TV

OH MY GOSH....I remember this too...Dragnet...those were the days! and the year of my High School Graduation!

That is so good, and so what kids in school should be hearing, not this Schools of Education doublespeak! Maybe that is why we appreciate the USA, this is what we watched. Another great one was "Blue Boy" as Friday told boy the bad side of drugs. Anohter was "Route 66" eps. Bircage on MY Goot, the best anti drug episode ever! Young Richard Dreyhuss. At age 6, I had a giant teddy bear, named Joe Friday! Now it is all Taylore Swift who knows nothing about anything! Sad.

The other night watching "Suits" on Netflix, Lewis Litt, played by Rick Hoffman, sounded just like Jack Webb, except a little slower, but even faster when he got mad. That's the only person I've ever heard that sounds like Sgt. Joe Friday. Interesting I just found this: “The story you are about to see is true, the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” DRAGNET (1951-2004) Fabulous. I thought it started when I was just a kid, makes sense now. How quickly we forget.

Thanks for the link. Everyone should listen to this. It applies well to today's protestors too.

I was a high-school freshman and our family always watched Dragnet. That speech was fantastic then, and means so much more now. It's a shame that kids nowadays wouldn't understand it, even with the line by line laying out of the idea. They have nothing to relate to. We have just one combined task. Return the young minds to sanity and show them what this country means. Under today's conditions, that seems nearly impossible.

Bam da bump bump!!! It was a rare episode when either Jack or Harry broke a smile. I remember Harry’s character puking one time at some atrocity or another. A great show.

Shame I was only a toddler when this aired.

It might have prepared me against the communist onslaught in my upcoming public education.

Nowadays, I think people that age have it worse than I did.

Now just wait a minute ... I listened and watched this Dragnet bit ...
Half way through "We took a little boy into central hospital the other day, he was four years old, he weighed eight and a half pounds..."
Did I hear that correctly?
How in hell can that be possible?
So help my mathematical mind, this sounds absolutely impossible.
I once had a cat that weighed eight and a half pounds . . . I know what eight and a half pounds looks like...
Looking online, a nourished four year old will weight around 40 pounds...
A newborn child might weigh eight and a half pounds.
Or did they mean eight and a half kilograms?
Or are the writers bad at math?
Or do the writers know full well what they are putting out into the public airways, they know that it is preposterous, but, blend in some preposterous with the mid-1960's message of the Red White and Blue and if we can slowly dull the populace in terms of their ability to differentiate the preposterous from the moralistic message, then we can feed even larger doses of the preposterous... and if we carefully control the blending, soon we can have them believing any nonsense that we wish to publish while questioning or even discarding objective reality.

Then at the end, Something about recalling a man that killed six million people and calling it a social improvement.
Clearly, I mean, Obviously, they must be referring to Joseph Stalin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_....

Propaganda -- why? Because it works.