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.
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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)
There are a lot of memorable moments and pieces of dialog as usual, like some of the colorful characters both Bill and Joe interrogate. But also, like how both react on the case as their both almost can't keep a straight face and are as puzzled as we are.
I really like how there is an amount of intrigue in this episode as we find a lot of conflicting descriptions on the snatchers but also it shows a reality on how hard it truly is to catch theves as the whole point is to steel and disappear.
Can Joe and Bill snatch the purse snatcher, you'll just have to wait and see.
Rating: 4 stars.
- hellraiser7
- Aug 24, 2022
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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