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presdoug 
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Posted: September 15 2013 at 09:03 |
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Any fans here of the radio play/tv series/movies of Dragnet?
I have been watching the old tv series from the 1950s on DVD, and really enjoying it. Jack Webb does a fine job as Sgt. Friday.(he also produces and directs)
One of the things i like about this Dragnet, is that they make their point without being too unnecessarily graphic. The acting is great, and they keep you hooked every episode.
I also have season 1 of the 1960s tv series, which i quite like as well. (i have not seen any Dragnet beyond that)
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Posted: September 15 2013 at 09:45 |
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Never watched a second of it other than the opening credit of the film adaptation made in the 1980s, I know it mostly from crime novelist James Ellroy using Jack Webb as a character in one of his short stories. (a lot of real people appear in major roles in his literary work)
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Posted: September 16 2013 at 11:06 |
'Just the facts ma'am....'
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I used to watch it sometimes as a kid when it originally aired........yes I'm that old.
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presdoug
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Posted: September 16 2013 at 11:29 |
^that's awesome, really. 
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Posted: September 16 2013 at 11:47 |
I used to watch it in re-runs and remember really liking it when I was younger. I got a kick out of the Dan Aykroyd movie..I remember seeing it at the movies. The Pagan rituals and whatnot. I caught an episode fairly recently and thought it was quite dry. I don't quite remember the details but it seems that it had something to do with unpaid parking tickets or some such thing. I couldn't imagine any modern crime dramas centering around unpaid parking tickets in this day and age. 
Edited by rushfan4 - September 16 2013 at 13:52
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Posted: September 16 2013 at 13:49 |
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I recently saw an episode that had to do with racial profiling.....the humor was always dry, but there was humor. They seem to always end the shows with a lesson learned attitude....
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Posted: September 16 2013 at 19:29 |
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I don't know, the show always struck me as preachy and outdated. Fun to see Harry Morgan in an earlier role, but I didn't like Webb; he seemed to emulate the arch-conservative attitude so out of step with what was happening in society, at least in the 1967 series.
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Posted: September 18 2013 at 06:50 |
 Catcher10 wrote:
I recently saw an episode that had to do with racial profiling.....the humor was always dry, but there was humor. They seem to always end the shows with a lesson learned attitude.... |
That certainly is true, and to give the show credit, most of the "lessons learned" are pretty valid ones, at least on the ones i have seen.
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Posted: September 19 2013 at 22:55 |
My fave stoner-metal band Cathedral actually used a Jack Webb-Sgt Friday sample to begin one of their songs!
"They deaden their drives with a magic pill. There are a lot of hippies in trouble"
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Posted: September 21 2013 at 02:50 |
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Which song is it? The only Cathedral album I'm familiar is their debut Forest of Equilibrium, but it would be well in line with Lee Dorrian's sense of humour.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: September 21 2013 at 23:19 |
Toaster Mantis wrote:
Which song is it? The only Cathedral album I'm familiar is their debut Forest of Equilibrium, but it would be well in line with Lee Dorrian's sense of humour.
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It's definitely not on "Forest of Equilibrium" or "The Etherial Mirror"...I'm thinking it's on the "Carnival Bizarre" or "Supernatural Birth Machine" album but I'd have to give them a spin to find the exact song...I'll try to find out in the next couple days. But ya, Lee Dorrian is a funny guy...and so much happier after leaving Napalm Death for Cathedral
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: September 22 2013 at 15:50 |
The.Crimson.King wrote:
Toaster Mantis wrote:
Which song is it? The only Cathedral album I'm familiar is their debut Forest of Equilibrium, but it would be well in line with Lee Dorrian's sense of humour.
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It's definitely not on "Forest of Equilibrium" or "The Etherial Mirror"...I'm thinking it's on the "Carnival Bizarre" or "Supernatural Birth Machine" album but I'd have to give them a spin to find the exact song...I'll try to find out in the next couple days. But ya, Lee Dorrian is a funny guy...and so much happier after leaving Napalm Death for Cathedral |
OK. The song is "Revolution" off the album "Caravan Beyond Redemption".
There's actually many Cathedral songs that incorporate the odd sample here or there. The best known one is the song "Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)" which features Vincent Price delivering a line from his film "The Conqueror Worm". There are 2 versions of the song on 2 different albums. The first release is from an EP called "Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)" and begins with what sounds like a 20 second film preview as a narrator says: "The year is 1645, one of the bloodiest of a bloody civil war. But now, a new pestilence is visited upon the land, bringing in it's wake an epidemic of killing and torture. This pestilence has a name." Then Vinnie delivers his big line, "I am Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder". The 2nd version on a later album only has the Vincent Price line.
If you've ever seen this film, it was pretty horrific for it's time. Vincent Price had been portraying characters in several Edgar Allan Poe adaptations (Pit and the Pendulum, Masque of the Red Death, etc) and they were mostly psychological thriller types. The Conqueror Worm was a very graphic tale of Hopkins who travelled from village to village and appointed himself the Witchfinder General. The film is overflowing with witch interrogations, torture, and burnings. When you hear Vincent Price's voice on the Cathedral song it brings back all the horror of the film and is soooo creeeeepy 
Edited by The.Crimson.King - September 22 2013 at 16:17
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