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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!!!
1 posted on 03/06/2013 1:43:14 PM PST by llevrok
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No contest!

Jack Webb, who also made a more realistic D.I. than the “pseudo gunny” of later years!

Semper Watching!
*****


2 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...)
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I’m a Dragnet fan!


3 posted on 03/06/2013 1:49:56 PM PST by rochester_veteran ( http://RochesterConservative.com/forums)
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I’m a Dragnet fan!


4 posted on 03/06/2013 1:50:20 PM PST by rochester_veteran ( http://RochesterConservative.com/forums)
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They were both pretty good but I liked Dragnet a little bit better.


5 posted on 03/06/2013 1:50:56 PM PST by yarddog (Per Ardua Ad Alta.)
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They were both pretty good but I liked Dragnet a little bit better.


6 posted on 03/06/2013 1:51:26 PM PST by yarddog (Per Ardua Ad Alta.)
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Dragnet! No contest..I can’t stand Broderick Crawford..


7 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)
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What ... no ‘Car 54, where are you?’?!?! Heh.

Dragnet.

SnakeDoc


8 posted on 03/06/2013 1:53:09 PM PST by SnakeDoctor ("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens)
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Yeah, I’m with you. I like Dragnet lots, but Highway Patrol really evokes the era like nothing else can.


9 posted on 03/06/2013 1:53:40 PM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon
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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."

10 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.)
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HP had better theme music, but Dragnet/Badge 714 had Colonel Potter/Harry Morgan.


11 posted on 03/06/2013 1:55:31 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (I)
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Hard to forget Brodrick Crawford in his Mercruiser.


12 posted on 03/06/2013 1:55:52 PM PST by umgud
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Dragnet for me!

(Adam-12 a close second though)


13 posted on 03/06/2013 1:55:51 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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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.
14 posted on 03/06/2013 1:56:05 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: llevrok

HP


15 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.)
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Yep, gotta say Dragnet. Jack Webb was a bigtime anti-Communist. Surely would have been a FReeper were he alive today.


16 posted on 03/06/2013 2:00:03 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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17 posted on 03/06/2013 2:00:16 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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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.


18 posted on 03/06/2013 2:02:24 PM PST by 1raider1
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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.


19 posted on 03/06/2013 2:04:13 PM PST by Nepeta
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Uh, a Mercruiser is an Outboard boat engine, not a car.


20 posted on 03/06/2013 2:04:13 PM PST by 1raider1
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