Dragnet, the brainchild of Jack Webb, may very well be the most well-remembered, and the best, radio police drama series. Dragnet was a long running radio and television police procedural drama, about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a Dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
The cops stake out a hotel lobby for juvenile armed robbers. Burglaries in new housing projects. An old man named Oskar brings in stolen property he claims he found. Friday and Smith track down a confidence ring that is selling defective watches. Friday and Smith track down an escaped convict who is armed and dangerous.
A doctor is slugged in a downtown hotel and narcotics are stolen from his bag. A statue of baby Jesus is stolen from a church, and Friday must find it before Christmas. The police interrogate a suspect, played by Lee Marvin, whom they believe to have murdered more than a dozen men.
A store manager identifies a robbery suspect, but Friday and Smith think that the suspect is the wrong man. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip.
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It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Old Time Radio Programs. Detective series. Reviewer: BixLives - favorite favorite favorite - August 17, Subject: Inferior Transfers There are better transfers to these shows.
Look around. I have every one of these shows, most of them in far better fidelity. If I ever get the time, I will post. Usually on acetates, hard vinyl and pressings. Lacquers are also out there but like acetates they have limited play time before they noticeably degrade.
On period tables, they lasted only a few plays. There are even many dubbed discs out there — of lower, but still stellar quality when compared to these shows. These sshows come from all sorts of amateur sources, such as cassettes copied many times. Webb had to record all shows on transcription discs for playback in different time zones. I think Webb owned a piece of the show and kept everything. So don't strain your ears, there are FAR better transfers out there. Many of these are home-made recordings and others have gone through years of analogue transfer, that quickly destroyed the audio quality.
For every analogue transfer, you double the distortion and noise. Now you know why the Beatles recorded full music beds for almost every song before adding vocals. That is why they sound so clean today. Jack Webb was a fine producer and made sure to record on top-drawer gear. Some of the post shows here can barely be understood. Once you have heard a show in decent fidelity, it is worth every penny. For spoken word like this, 64 kbps at a 22 kHz sample rate is more than adequate for s broadcast quality sound.
It will sound crisp and clean with good EQ over the entire audio spectrum. Fun Fact: AM radio in the s, 40's, 50s and 60s was of far higher fidelity than today. It sounded pretty good, IF you had a decent multiplexer hard to find. Reviewer: honey showkat - favorite favorite favorite favorite - January 24, Subject: Classic Radios I love it. Reviewer: TheWhistler - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - October 5, Subject: Dragnet An inovation on American radio.
Reviewer: JoplinJerry - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - July 10, Subject: Great listening Good clarity on the shows. I like to sit out late at nite and listen to the Dragnet episodes on the deck and sort of let my eyelids drop. Reviewer: Missroberta21 - favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 22, Subject: I love love dragnet I Always go to bed listening to radio shows and this is my go to lately.
Reviewer: Habakkuk21 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - April 24, Subject: Great stories for bedtime I've been using these to fall asleep.
Hasn't failed me yet! Reviewer: exchaoordo - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 16, Subject: A big help! Had the OP took some time and a little work getting them from YouTube he might have had a decent little download here.
Reviewer: cthane - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 4, Subject: About the videos Thank you so much for uploading these. I was wondering if you happen to have the original uncompressed files that these videos are sourced from.
Reviewer: apalka - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 20, Subject: Thanks for the collection I think this is all the ones extant on here, tbh, unless someone sneaky uploaded a few new ones since Thanks for organizing it. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
Dragnet was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in American media history. The series gave millions of Americans a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real life police work.
Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers. Actor and producer Jack Webb's aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting. He achieved both goals and Dragnet remains a key influence on subsequent police dramas in many media. The shows cultural impact is demonstrated by the fact that even after five decades, elements of Dragnet are known to those who have never heard nor seen the program. The ominous four note introduction to the brass and tympani theme music, titled Danger Ahead , is instantly recognizable as well as the shows opening narration: "Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true.
Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. All of these versions ran on NBC. There were two Dragnet feature films, a straight adaptation starring Jack Webb in , and a comedy spoof in There were also television revivals, without Webb, in and Dragnet debuted inauspiciously.
The first several months were bumpy, as Webb and company worked out the program's format and eventually became comfortable with their characters. Friday was originally portrayed as more brash and forceful than his later usually relaxed demeanor. Gradually, Friday's deadpanned, fast-talking persona emerged, described by John Dunning as "a cop's cop: tough, but not hard; conservative, but caring".
Friday's first partner was Sergeant Ben Romero, portrayed by Barton Yarborough, a long time radio actor. When Dragnet hit its stride, it became one of radio's top rated shows. Webb insisted on realism in every aspect of the show. The dialogue was clipped, understated, and sparse -- influenced by the hard-boiled school of crime fiction. Scripts were fast moving, but didn't seem rushed. Every aspect of police work was chronicled, step-by-step.
From patrols and paperwork, to crime scene investigation, lab work and questioning witnesses or suspects. Two announcers were used. Episodes began with announcer George Fennemen intoning the series opening: "The story you are about to hear is true.
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