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Courage & Despair. Medic (Mon. 9 p.m.; NBC-TV), the second big NBC threat of the week, also wore the unmistakable mark of the professional. Created and written by James Moser (who learned how on Dragnet), the filmed show is one which NBC hopes will put a big dent in the top rating of CBS's / Love Lucy. Medic may well...
Avalanche of Bathos. Hollywood's filmed TV fare included Dragnet, which began its new series with a shocker: the tracking down of a criminal who was flooding local high schools with obscene pictures. The daring theme was soon buried under an avalanche of bathos as Jack Webb set about proving that there is some good in everybody, even pornographers. Brought to bay, the filthy-picture dealer was revealed as a broken-down movie producer with total recall about the good old days in the film business...
...Dragnet (Warner) is the second major television show-I Love Lucy led the way with The Long, Long Trailer (TIME, Feb. 22 )-to make the tricky segue from the electronic to the silver screen. The transition is fairly well accomplished in a general way, though sometimes what goes big in the parlor gets lost in the movie house (e.g., the staccato monotone, urgent and effective when the actor is only ten inches high and has to exaggerate plenty to get attention, is just a meaningless affectation when he is 20 feet tall...
...Sergeant Friday (Jack Webb ) and Officer Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) are assigned to discover who put the blast on a bookie's runner with a sawed-off shotgun. The audience is avalanched for the thousandth time with infinite details of police procedure. Relief is provided in the usual Dragnet style by tight little tick-offs of "types": a dainty curator of natural history, a folksy cardsharp, the victim's hard-drinking, one-legged wife...
...Dragnet (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). Sergeant Friday in his new fall series...