Word: dragnet
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...Asphalt Jungle cannot quite be considered a period piece because it hasn't been left amoulding in the MGM morgue long enough. Its interest lies, rather, as an antecedent to the Dragnet-type thriller. The tender first steps of that animal are unsteady and grouping; but as progenitor of a brood of offspring, its technical effects are interesting to watch in evolution...
...season's situation comedies are wreathed with mistletoe: Medic finds its weekly tragedy at an office Christmas party; Spring Byington goes Christmas shopping on December Bride; Red Skelton plays an O. Henry tramp on Christmas Eve; Robert Young stages an old-fashioned Christmas on Father Knows Best; Dragnet repeats its Christmas heart throb of last year and the year before; Eve Arden deals with enchanted music boxes on Our Miss Brooks...
...Angeles, policemen closed in on Richard Sauer in the Citizens National Bank, caught him with a note demanding "all your fives and tens," hauled him off to jail after confiscating his toy badge and his plastic pistol labeled "Dragnet...
...best Dragnet fashion. Detectives Charles Fitzgerald and Herbert Wilk got her picture identified, discovered her modus operandi, and put a stakeout on her neighborhood. Maggie, meanwhile, decided to lie low, after a $500 score in an A. & P. market last August. She went to Miami for a while, then to Las Vegas, finally settled down as a waitress in Galveston's redlight district. She got a little nervous there, mostly because she had to serve a lot of big Texas cops. Once she even went out on a date with a cop: "I wasn't much...
...crime shows, CBS's Wanted (Thurs. 10:30 p.m.) and The Lineup (Fri. 10 p.m.), follow the Dragnet pattern of sticking to fact, however stranger fiction may be. Wanted told the unhappy story of a sadistic wife-beater and general no-good, who accidentally killed a girl by running her down with his car. After being sentenced to a maximum ten years for manslaughter, he jumped bail and is now WANTED. The deplorable principle of the show was to portray the villain as so abhorrent that all viewers would ride along to the very end having a happy hate...