[78-L] Dragnet

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Which ones? The very early ones with Ben Alexander playing Jack Webb's 
sidekick?
Those are the ones I'd be interested in seeing.
Mal

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On 2/19/2011 9:31 AM, agp wrote:
> At 19:16 19/02/2011, db wrote:
>
>> I just bought a box set which has about a dozen episodes of the TV version of
>> Dragnet.  It doesn't seem to include the famous Dragnet theme at the
>> beginning
>> of the episodes, maybe there was a copyright issue.
>
> I can think of 2 reasons for this. The compiler may have sourced the
> episodes from the renamed version the series. As they had already
> been seen in primtime in past years, in syndication the opening
> credits were redone with the show name as Badge 714 so as not to
> conflict with the primetime version. Perhaps the compiler didn't
> think that buyers would know this fact.
>
> Second is the possibility that they may have reference to
> Chesterfield cigarettes in the opening credits, and the compiler
> didn't want to give advertising to tobacco products thinking it would
> run afoul of the laws against tobacco advertising.
>
> That said -- go back the radio version. It is much better! My wife
> and I listen to an episode everynight at bedtime
>
> T
>