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Highway Patrol or Dragnet ? (Vanity)
3/6/2013
Posted on 03/06/2013 1:43:10 PM PST by llevrok
Mid week nonsense time-
what was a better TV cop show in the 50's and early 60's - Highway Patrol (1955) or Dragnet (1951)?
Pls keep your comments to those two shows
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When Lt Dan Mathews says 2150-by, I darn near lose it every time. And those Buick radio cars with three on a tree!!!
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:43:14 PM PST
by
llevrok
To: llevrok
No contest!
Jack Webb, who also made a more realistic D.I. than the “pseudo gunny” of later years!
Semper Watching!
*****
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:48:13 PM PST
by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: llevrok
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:49:56 PM PST
by
rochester_veteran
( http://RochesterConservative.com/forums)
To: llevrok
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:50:20 PM PST
by
rochester_veteran
( http://RochesterConservative.com/forums)
To: llevrok
They were both pretty good but I liked Dragnet a little bit better.
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:50:56 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Per Ardua Ad Alta.)
To: llevrok
They were both pretty good but I liked Dragnet a little bit better.
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:51:26 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Per Ardua Ad Alta.)
To: llevrok
Dragnet! No contest..I can’t stand Broderick Crawford..
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:52:40 PM PST
by
ken5050
("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
To: llevrok
What ... no ‘Car 54, where are you?’?!?! Heh.
Dragnet.
SnakeDoc
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:53:09 PM PST
by
SnakeDoctor
("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens)
To: llevrok
Yeah, I’m with you. I like Dragnet lots, but Highway Patrol really evokes the era like nothing else can.
To: llevrok
Highway Patrol: never watched it, never even heard of it 'till I was an adult.
Dragnet: pretty much watched it every day after school.
"How 'bout some Vanilla Gold? Heh heh."
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:53:42 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: llevrok
HP had better theme music, but Dragnet/Badge 714 had Colonel Potter/Harry Morgan.
To: llevrok
Hard to forget Brodrick Crawford in his Mercruiser.
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:55:52 PM PST
by
umgud
To: llevrok
Dragnet for me!
(Adam-12 a close second though)
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:55:51 PM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: llevrok
I watched them both bot don’t remember the episodes. You can catch Dragnet on reruns though so I think overall it was more popular.
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:56:05 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: llevrok
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posted on
03/06/2013 1:58:23 PM PST
by
IbJensen
(Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
To: rochester_veteran
Yep, gotta say Dragnet. Jack Webb was a bigtime anti-Communist. Surely would have been a FReeper were he alive today.
To: llevrok
To: llevrok
One thing I never could figure about “Highway Patrol” was, at the end of each episode, Broderick Crawford would give a little speech about safe driving on the set and in the character of Dan Mathews, even shuffling papers or hanging up the phone, but would end the spiel with “this is Broderick Crawford saying, see you next week”. It was like “I’m Broderick Crawford, actor, but I also do real police work.
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posted on
03/06/2013 2:02:24 PM PST
by
1raider1
To: llevrok
Highway Patrol.
Recently, it was shown 5X a week at 5 AM on the THIS channel, and I got to revisit the series.
The theme music...the old cars...Broderick Crawford keeping his unnamed state protected from crime...
I liked Dragnet, but no fleets of old cars and California open spaces before things went bad. I also appreciate that Highway Patrol’s preaching was more subtle.
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posted on
03/06/2013 2:04:13 PM PST
by
Nepeta
To: umgud
Uh, a Mercruiser is an Outboard boat engine, not a car.
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posted on
03/06/2013 2:04:13 PM PST
by
1raider1
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