Dragnet mp4 downloads

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. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Five stars, of course, for Dragnet and its talented crew. Don't let the subspecies Homo Sap that occasionally wanders in here get you down.

Reviewer: hipyoungmom - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - April 25, Subject: Easy listening I love this show! It's not too over the top sound-wise , and it's very easy to just listen while at the office or doing chores around the house. I am obsessed in general with old time radio dramas! It's bad enough having to listen to that very badly played theme song all the time also loud, and apparently never played the same way twice, which also seemed very unprofessional.

And then those mindless commercials telling us how wonderfully safe these certain cigarettes were, I even think it was cigarettes that killed Jack Webb at a very young age though he always sounded like an old man, even in the beginning. But I can understand, if you're going to listen to old-time radio you have to take what came with it, and back then that's what they did. I know it's been said he was all about authenticity, if it took 22 steps from one room to another he would use exactly 22 steps on his recordings.

It still kind of sounds obsessive but at least I can understand his reasoning. But what I don't get is, every single episode would start out with this series of loud and phony-sounding footsteps walking or running somewhere.

They sounded like they were trying to mimic the sound of cheap dress shoes detectives might have worn back then, though they also sound too slippery to handle many of times they were involved in chasing crooks, mostly on hard waxed surfaces, they would have fallen on their faces. So what you get on the radio is this constant loud clomping of mens shoes drowning out all the dialog and other sound effects for the show, and to be honest, as listeners, we don't really care.

Yes, there should be some indication that people were walking or running when necessary, but it should not ever be the dominant sound effect on this or any other radio or television show.

The stories have their own problems but are tolerable, apparently Jack Webb was a massive control freak and it shows in every minute of his shows, for good or for bad, but in the case of the footstep sounds, after a few episodes it literally becomes unbearable and ruins the show, you just can't listen any more.

I don't like this old-time radio web site re-design, it's very had to use or find or download anything. Every time I download a simple zip file it says "invalid file," and it's almost impossible to download individual episodes anymore. So you go to a better web site like TV by the Numbers. Reviewer: graceasher - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - January 29, Subject: Smiles : I wish I could thank the person who uploaded these in person. I am a retired Police Officer of 12 years and I got hurt pretty bad over a year ago arresting a man on meth.

I'm home almost every single day of my life awaiting surgery. I have become depressed and can't sleep at night. I now lay in the dark and listen to these Dragnet episodes and feel relaxed and at peace while I am listening. They are so nostalgic and it's amazing to me how much some things haven't changed. These shows really help to cheer me up. Thank you to the person who took their time to do this.

You never know who's life you might touch incidentally. I appreciate this. God bless. Reviewer: oldmusicfreak - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 8, Subject: Dragnet These show are the best of OTR. I remember hearing them when I was a kid, and they havent lost any of their punch over the years. The earlier ones were the best, but even after Ben Romero died the shows were still great, tho the format was slightly different.

I dont watch TV much, its mostly crap anymore instead I listen to these old shows, its much better entertainment. Reviewer: Harry Wilson - - August 9, Subject: Hello, Aquilla If you go to the top of this page and click the link under 'Keywords' that says 'Dragnet', it will open two pages of links.

This page has pretty well every extant episode, in very good quality. The first CD zip of the Dragnet series has quite a bit of interesting material.

If there's a show that you're interested in, a page provided by the OTRR is almost always the best place to start. Hope this helped, and nice to meet a fellow Dragnet fan. If you're a die-hard Jack Webb fan, check out his book on police work, 'The Badge', first published in and still in print at a very good price.

From the s and these are public domain? Isn't at least the music still under copyright? What about the scripts? I understand the actual performances and recording might be without copyright if it wasn't renewed, but what about the other elements?

Reviewer: powers - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - February 19, Subject: love my dragnet!!! It's no-nonsense approach to presenting the dry, but realistic daily routines of police work, plus the stark drama of fighting criminals, made this series an all-time classic, both on radio, and later on, television.

DRAGNET continues to be an all-time classic, and, is the drama that set the standard of all police dramas that followed it, have tried to emulate. None have been able to do so since. Reviewer: mnpd - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 29, Subject: How times have changed! I'm a retired metropolitan police commander, and knew the business had changed. I just didn't realize how much until I listened to an episode of radio Dragnet. Friday hauls in an entire load of bar customers because they might have seen a shooting.

Then, an overnight "dragnet" produces over more suspects who are promptly taken downtown for interrogation. Effective yes You can't take anyone "in for questioning. Well, there are suspects, but you can't do a thing about it unless you have enough evidence to arrest them. The only people the cops take in these days are those which have been arrested for an articulable crime, and evidence exists to prosecute them.

Worse, his department would side with the plaintiffs by claiming that they told him NOT to conduct himself in that manner. So, Friday would find himself working in the Tow-in-Lot or answering the phones down in Warrants until the Department figured out a way to get rid of him. Something smells f An excellent, taut, police dram The search for the other man in the A large dragnet slowly gets him cornere While in custody, he jumps out of Reynard's mother has been murdered, his wife is A gang of juveniles is hanging out on Spring Street Sponsored by: Fatima, Velvet Pipe Tobacco.

A Chinaman has be A young boy named Stanley Johnstone is missing, and so is the. Sponsored by: Fatima. A gang that usually holds up drugstores robs More than one HD channel here plays all of them. Home crime dragnet. Please enjoy these old time radio episodes: Show 25 shows on page Show 50 shows on page Show shows on page Show shows on page Show shows on page Show shows on page Show All shows on page Air Date Title Synopsis Rating Spoiler : So enjoyed Dragnet on radio and of course watched every episode on TV.

Spoiler : Virginia Gregg was on everything! I love catching her in tv shows like "Dragnet. Spoiler : I wasn't expecting myself to enjoy Dragnet this much. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.

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