Joe and Bill are assigned a task to find a purse snatcher. They are surprised to learn it is a dog snatching the purses.Joe and Bill are assigned a task to find a purse snatcher. They are surprised to learn it is a dog snatching the purses.Joe and Bill are assigned a task to find a purse snatcher. They are surprised to learn it is a dog snatching the purses.
- Main Title Announcer
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- Mrs. Emery Downey
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- Narrator
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- Director
- Writers
- Henry Irving
- Jack Webb(uncredited)
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- TriviaDragnet has often used the same actors for different roles, whether cops, suspects, or supporting characters. Sometimes the actor plays the same cop in several episodes. In this episode, Art Gilmore plays Captain Howe, as he did in 4 other episodes. In the very next episode in the series, Gilmore plays Captain Lambert, as he did in one other episode. He has also been Captain Green, Captain Brown, Captain Walton, Captain Milemore, Captain Colwell, and Captain Nelson, as well as Lieutenant Moore. All told, he appeared in 14 episodes, playing 9 characters.
- GoofsIn The Bank Examiner Swindle (1967), Bill says he raised homing pigeons. Here, he says he's allergic to feathers and hadn't started taking allergy pills until now.
- Quotes
Sergeant Joe Friday: [Aerial footage of LA plays as Friday begins Opening Narration] This is the city, Los Angeles, California. It's made up of industry, education, commerce, agriculture, research and recreation. And, it's a living testimonial to the imagination of 20th century man.
[Camera zooms in on a group of protestors, one holding a sign saying, "Because of a few must all suffer"]
Sergeant Joe Friday: Imagination also turns solid citizens into strange characters. It's been said that Los Angeles is the 'strange character capitol' of the country.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Dragnet 1967: Auto Theft: Dog-Nappers (1970)
Here, the hippie flower-child flower shop owner, "Noradelle De Leone" played by Luana Anders....is a real trip, a caricature that will make you laugh even though her dialog is beyond ludicrous or believable, even for a '60s flower-child.
Another wacko character in here was "Wanda Kravitz," an older welfare-recipient woman who said a wolf took her handbag. Some of her statements to Joe and Bill are really bizarre. Jean Inness played her.
Hey, the story itself is strange (but all Dragnet shows are said to be based on real-life cases). A dog is snatching purses. He's done it over a half dozen times in this two weeks and the cops have to put a stop to this. One trouble is they can't even get an accurate description of the dog. We find out why later on.
Yes, this story is goofy but that's what makes Dragnet so much fun to watch. I gave it a "10" because of its entertainment value.
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- Studio Motor Inn, 4055 Lankershim Blvd., Los Angeles, California, USA(dog snatches purse in front of this location)
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1