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 tolled, 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)
The show is about various conflicting reports from around the city of dogs stealing purses. Seriously. While this sounds impossible, Friday and Gannon's meeting with a dog training expert confirms that such tasks COULD be taught...but that he doubted that the dogs went bad and developed the racket on their own (actually, I added this last portion myself). But with no leads, Friday organizes a stakeout until finally the rogue mutts can be nabbed.
Overall, a fluff episode that is still worth seeing and enjoyable. Plus, according to the introduction, these are taken from REAL cases, so apparently the doggy gang really did happen!
- planktonrules
- Nov 18, 2009
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- Filming locations
- Studio Motor Inn, 4055 Lankershim Blvd., Los Angeles, California, USA(dog snatches purse in front of this location)
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- Runtime30 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1