Dragnet 1969: Season 3

A great series of crime stories from Los Angeles. Jack Webb and Harry Morgan are such a great time with Morgan's advice to the bachelor Friday! I love the format and narration! The color is great. One of my favorite cop shows from the 60's. No fancy special effects just the matter of fact story telling.

I bought the complete seriesLove this ShowWorks great on my dvd player no issues

Dragnet started out as a go for broke, radio show, Webb had nothing to lose,since no one was paying for it! he and his Mexican American partner (in the show, Yarborough was playing a Mexican American,and even here the role was played straight,no stereotype),shows about rape/murder of little girls, ripper murders etc...that could never be made for most movies,let alone 📺.the original crimes can be found as photos in the book "death scenes" ,such as the murder of the mother by the girl in"the big canarys",but the black and white tv series is apparently lost ,even though it is public domain, doesn't matter much, the 📻 series survives, and the b and w were mostly remakes of the 📻 scripts. the radio series Dragnet is the BEST series!! no question about it, but the 60's were where political correctness took over,no more rape/murder, very little graphics aloud,clamp Down to excess, these shows are remarkable that they still are enjoyable,despite being shut down on any thing real, still Webb manages to explain that the father sewed his childs penis shut with red thread ,because he wet the bed, and the terror a child goes through with child abuse( im glad my mother wasnt a Dragnet fan ,i wet the bed to ,and this could have given her ideas) Webb was about the only one on tv talking about child abuse, its amusing to think he is looked on as a consecutive, when he was a Roosevelt, Johnson Democrat, how times change! i look at this as filling in the blanks for the radio series.put it together and police life falls into place!

LAPD's finest investigators, Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and his faithful partner, Det. Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) return for this 1968-69 Season of this classic police drama from the mind of Jack Webb.It is just another day in Los Angeles.: smog, traffic and unceasing crime. But no matter the day, duty calls for Friday and Gannon. From dealing with burglars, runaways and druggies to representing the LAPD on an L.A. talk show and working with the secret service to prep for a visit from the President of the United States, you know these homicide dicks will have it handled. Ladies and gentlemen, the stories you are about to see are true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. This is DRAGNET 1969.Spawned from the popular DRAGNET radio program, followed by the acclaimed 1950s television series, DRAGNET which ran on NBC from 1967-1970 featured Jack Webbs chief creation in its prime: opening the door for his later hit shows like DRAGNET's spin-off series ADAM-12 and EMERGENCY contributing to veteran Officer Pete Malloy(Martin Milner)and his hotshot rookie partner Jim Reed(Kent McCord)LAPD's finest patrolmen and L.A. County Firemen Johnny Gage(Randolph Mantooth)& Roy De Soto(Kevin Tighe)L.A. County's finest paramedics.In fact, this season even has a cast-colliding episode when Reed & Malloy meet up with Friday & Gannon for the very first time in the "Internal Affairs-DR 20" episode.Watching this Junior year season of DRAGNET complete & uncut on these DVD box sets is so much better than watching them in reruns on COZI-TV, ME-TV, Antenna TV, TV Land, and Nickelodeon, with all those deleted scenes & added commercials.BTW, Warner Bros.is releasing CHiPs- Season 3 out on DVD on Tuesday March 3, 2015.

Since SHOUT took over the dvd production of Dragnet, the quality has been GREAT! Like Dragnet 1968 SHOUT has placed bonus material on one of the disks. For this version disk 1 has a rare 1954 Dragnet episode (I forgot the name not being at home as I write this), two Jack Web PSA announcements on Social Security along with Muscular Distrophy and a promo for Dragnet 1969. The quality of these bonus features are not restored. The rest of the disks look great and has the same selection format as Dragnet 1968. For the price this is a worth the purchase and a nice way to finish off the Dragnet series. The 69 Dragnet has quite a few episodes on Juvenile cases and if you are as old as I am you, know the bright colors used on clothes and household items at that time. Often I judge the quality of the dvd processing by the crispness of bright colors and the luminance transition from bright to dark. The dvd's are beautiful. There is very little color smear and the colors tend to be slightly warm. The fourth dvd when the Gannons drop by Friday's apartment for dinner is a good example of this. Bill Gannon's wife Rita is wearing a yellow-green suit, notice how crisp the colors are and when the neighbors drop by the apartment for a party (toward the end) notice all the different colors and see how they track (no smearing or fading). SHOUT did a nice job. THANK YOU!!!!!

Descent value

I really love these DVDs. This particular year is very good, although there doesn't seem to be a lot of 'Out in the field' work. Most of the episodes so far, have been near a desk, unlike Season 4, which I also have, where there's more detective work. As it turns out, these episodes are very entertaining still and the acting from the cast is superb, as always! Highly recommended for any police drama fans or anyone who likes the modern detective shows. This is where it began and still holds up, especially being a half-hour show, without a lot of special effects or guns, like today's TV shows. The acting and dialogue sets this show apart from most others of it's time or by today's standards.

Another season -- just one more to go. Gannon is always a hoot, and Friday is so serious all the time it's funny. Some very good episodes, but there are quite a few "talking" ones where the script was essentially written to tell us a message -- sometimes they essentially sit through the entire show.Many good episodes. The one covering the police's reaction to the murder of Martin Luther King was good.If you want action, this is not it. It's about procedure. Still entertaining, and I look forward to the next set. Some nice extras on the box help, too.Good value. Quality of video is good and the sound is fine.

Friday and Gannon keep up the pace in this collection of anti sixties counter-culture crackdown. Great lines and more irony as one looks back with hindsight.

Great to watch these episodes. YouTube only has a few of this era. Rest are old b&w.