A Revolution of Common Sense

I am a huge Dragnet fan, particularly the Christmas episode, "The Big Little Jesus." They made it twice, in the 1953 and 1968 versions of the show (and maybe the radio version as well.) The scripts are almost identical, and they used many of the same actors. We watch the two versions every year at Christmastime.

Speaking of Joe's narration, in the 1953 version, filmed at the Old Mission Church downtown, Joe gives the history of the church and adds, "...most of the devout Mexicans in town attend Mass there." The idea that you get most of the devout Mexicans in Los Angeles into one little church is another example of how much things have changed since those days.

Not sure what your project is, James, but if it involves Dragnet, I certainly will be interested.

WilliamWarford (View Comment):

Not sure what your project is, James, but if it involves Dragnet, I certainly will be interested.

I'm having fun with the opening narration, the music cues, the sets, the locations, the actors, and other things that catch my eye and ear. It'll start Tuesday at the Bleat. It won't concern the radio show, of which I have heard every single blessed episode.

Just remembered I did something last Monday in my Black and White feature, a look at the old B&W TV ep, because it had a guest star who looked like Edgar Buchanan's idiot brother, and had the most remarkable resume you could imagine.

Net-Net Trump had a really rather impressive week but, proving he has NOT lost the Art of the Self-Inflicted Wound, like the pigeon poop on the newly washed & waxed limo drawing your eye to that flaw, he really stupidly decided FIRST on the blanket pardon rather than a selective one and then, SECONDLY, decided another dumb move by pulling the protection from 3 of HIS OWN former aides.

(He almost relegated the TikTok move into irrelevance, at least for the time...)

Dr.Guido (View Comment):

SECONDLY decided another dumb move by pulling the protection from 3 of HIS OWN former aides.

Shouldn't we want him to be consistent? If he only removed protection from people like Fauci, he would get dumped on for that.

@kedavis Not sure why Fauci needed protection from Iranian hit squads. That the good Doc had protection at all should mean, if we are consistent, that every government official who ticked off a large segment of the population should get lifetime Secret Service protection. No?

I could be wrong and I do agree here with Trump that especially in Fauci's case, since he was, we were told, THE highest paid employee in the Federal government, he could afford his own private protection.