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SEASON 1:
A revival of the old series.
Many things are kept from the original series: The opening badge and show name with actors, the intro with scenes while Joe talks, the conclusion text, the guilty party of parties with voiceover about what happened, and the serious tone with some light humor with the partner, all just like the original series. Also, the opening theme music is retained, although the end is changed.
For some odd reason, each year they'd put the year in the title. So, "Dragnet 1967" and "Dragnet 1968" for example.
Lynn Murray scored the first two seasons. I used a template for quick editing of the text file, that already had the composer names inserted, so even if I used the Replace function to delete the redundancy, I'd still have to delete the empty lines, too, so it's just easier to leave them in.
Attention readers: I have been using a system that is nothing more than a note to myself; for cues that I want to include in a suite one day, for now on I will denote them with ^ symbol. It has no special meaning to anyone else but myself. No, the lack of an up arrow symbol doesn't mean the cue is bad (it just may have too much SFX or FX for suite use or just isn't worth my time to edit and include). Hence forth this system will be in all future threads and pre-exiting threads that I go back to for missed episodes. Anything in ( ) are just notes to the arrow and you need not bother with that. The system does not mean that I will make a suite or that one has been made, it's simply for my own reference if and when I do decide to.
Dragnet (A.K.A.: the pilot)
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533433154288
In 1966 a feature-length pilot was shot for a possible revival of the old series. It was picked up and in 1967 the show continued, with Jack Webb reprising his role as Joe Friday. However, he has a new partner (actor Ben Alexander, who played Frank, was committed to the TV series "Felony Squad"; then he died in 1969). For some reason, at the time, the pilot didn't air until 1969.
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
10:35 in.^
19:56 in.^
23:17 in.^
23:58 in. The source music.
37:38 in.^
38:42 in.^(open)
43:38 in.^
55:07 in.^
56:12 in.
59:20 in.
1:03:52 in.^
1:06:25 in.^
1:07:47 in.^
1:09:30 in.^
1:18:30 in.
1:29:29 in.^
1:34:12 in. Followed by the end credits.^
I think what that prunes-loving man at the party was trying to say is: People who eat prunes, give a shit... ;-)
I can see why this wasn't aired to start the series. It's long, slow, and could easily have thirty minutes cut from it.
(NtM: 2:57, 19:50, 31:34, 40:35, 52:40, 1:01:46, 1:10:25, 1:13:44, 1:23:50, 1:33:00)
(composer credit: 1:35:07 in)
Gannon: "Right now I'd sell my whole head for ten cents."
Friday: "I had a partner named 'Smith' once; it was a good name."
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"The Big LSD"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533441870576
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
7:17 in.^(open)
9:47 in.^
17:41 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
This show uses an entirely new end credits theme, which doesnt' work at all and is just wrong.
(NtM: 1:44, 23:18)
"The Big Explosion"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533451832048
Highlights:
1:41/4:28/5:557:25/9:28/11:35 in. Militaristic cues with snare drum and timpani.^
12:24/16:15 in.^
18:58 in.^
20:01 in.^
21:11 in.^
22:31 in.^
23:39 in.^
This is a good score and it does a lot with maybe just five instruments.
The whole plot point of a guy loaning his vehicle to a guy he doesn't know the name of, doesn't know where he lives ,etc., and the vehicle was in an accident, was already done in an episode of the otiginal series.
"The Big Kidnapping"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533453601520
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
1:41 in.^
2:17 in.^
8:09 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
9:42 in.^
11:06/12:03 in.^
12:59 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
15:20 in.^
20:51 in.^
21:29 in.^
22:59 in.^
Another good score.
"The Big Interrogation"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533454453488
Highlights:
23:06 in.^
This episode features a timpani-only version of the opening theme and closing theme. And there is barely any score in it. One cue, in fact, is a short solo timpani piece and was used twice. Four, maybe five cues total counting the repeated use.
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"The Big Masked Bandits"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533455895280
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
2:30 in.^
3:49 in.^
6:21 in.^
14:40 in.^
18:06 in.^
"The Big Bank Examiners"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533457861360
Highlights:
0:00 in.
6:44 in.^
10:10 in.^
15:52 in.
(NtM: 15:48, 23:50)
"The Big Hammer"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533461924592
Highlights:
2:29 in.^
8:44 in.^
11:15/12:52 in.^
17:38 in.^
19:09 in.^
23:01 in.^
(NtM: 20:26, 22:12, 23:59)
"The Big Candy Story"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533466774256
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
1:31 in.
3:54 in. I don't make such comments very often, but that was a perfect cue to follow up what she said.^
5:21 in.^
9:55 in.^(open)
11:51 in.^
23:56 in.^
(NtM: 13:46, 18:00)
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"The Big Fur Burglary"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533482044144
Highlights:
0:00 in.
1:46 in.^
2:37 in.^
4:05 in.
10:10 in.^
15:09 in.^
18:26 in.^
23:47 in.^
(NtM: 6:35)
"The Big Jade" (10)
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533484665584
Highlights:
8:12 in.
12:55 in.^(open)
15:07 in.
15:55 in.^
23:21 in.^
(NtM: 1:38, 4:15, 10:55, 14:33)
"The Big Shooting"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533502884592
Highlights:
2:34 in.^(open)
4:05 in.
10:25 in.^
11:13 in.^
14:45 in.^
18:22 in.^
19:20 in.^
20:19 in.^
23:36 in.^
A number of these cues sound like they could have been for "Batman".
(Note to Me: 18:05)
Friday: "Flinch and you'll be chasing your head down fifteenth street."
Bill Gannon: "If it wasn't for prison food, you'd starve to death."
"The Big Hit-and-Run Driver"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533505833712
Highlights:
5:09/6:46 in.^
9:09 in.
9:43 in.^
14:50 in.^
16:10 in.^
23:00 in.^
I think many of these cues are likely tracked from the interrogation episode.
About 4:10 in: Joe's entire speech with photos is what young people getting their leaner's permits, should be required to watch.
(NtM: 14:34)
"The Big Bookie"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533508717296
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
6:35 in.^
8:45 in. Source cue.^
9:27 in. Source cue.^
12:37 in. Source cue.^
(NtM: 16:13)
"The Big Subscription Racket"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533511011056
Highlights:
2:02 in.^
8:42 in.^
15:50 in.
19:47 in.^
22:38 in.^
Long since this episode aired, there are now two Federal laws dealing with pretending to be/have been in the armed services, one of them is commonly known as Stolen Valor. There used to be a guy on Youtube named Don Shipley who would call up, and in some cases show u at the houses of scambags pretending to have been SEAL's and what not. Don isn't just anybody, in conjunction with the branches and the Federal government, he created, runs and maintains a database of all current and former members, including the Frogmen of WWII.
The scambags ganged up on him and reported a him in mass on tons of videos and got him kicked off of Youtube.
He started his own website which is also used to get around Youtube's ban: https://videos.extremesealexperience.com/
(NtM: 12:46)
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Finishing SEASON 1:
"The Big Gun"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533512714992
Highlights:
6:50 in.^
15:52 in.^
16:21 in.^
Friday always wants the facts, but so far into the first season he has said L.A. has three million people in it, then 2.5 million people, and now it's "nearly three million"...
"The Big Kids"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533551119088
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
3:36 in.^
6:00 in.^
6:59 in.^
12:11 in.^
14:01 in.^
16:20/17:04 in.^
17:31 in.^
19:31 in.
21:11 in.^
I think the first two I cited, are tracked from"The Big Shooting".
About a minute or two before the 16:20 cue, Joe gives another good speech.
"The Big Bullet"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1533578775280
Highlights:
13:44 in.
Not a lot of scoring in the episode and while I can't say this with 100% certainty, I don't think anything is original -- I think it's all tracked.
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SEASON 2:
"The Grenade"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1537301547760
Highlights:
4:14 in.
13:15 in.^
17:03 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
22:04 in.
23:50 in.
About 8:30 in, Bill gets his chance at a good speech.
And for all the false reality about grenades that Hollywood has portrayed in fil and TV series where they wait to explode as the plot/writing deems, have minimal affects, blow you into the air, etc., here we see an accurate portrayal: As long as the grip/trigger has not been released, you can re-insert the pin to avoid the explosion.
(NtM: 7:52)
"The Shooting Board"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1537302203120
Highlights:
2:11 in.^
7:51 in.^
10:53 in.^
21:19 in.
According to Bill Gannon, he and Joe have been working together for five years. That would mean in-universe, Frank and Joe ceased being partners about five years after the original series ended.
Bill: "Nothing ever happens the easy way to you, does it?"
"The Badge Racket"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1537302530800
Highlights:
0:00 in.
3:05 in.^
8:07 in.^
9:36 in.^
12:11 in. Comedic music opens this cue.^
21:27 in.
(NtM: 16:11)
"The Bank Jobs"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1538076773104
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
2:21 in.^
4:22 in.^
8:49 in.^
12:46 in. And the cue after the commercial break.
15:30 in.^
16:47/18:12 in.^
23:49 in.^
A good score.
Karate Lady: "I didn't hurt him, did I?"
Friday: "Not where it shows."
"The Big Neighbor"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1538107902704
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
5:10 in.^
19:56 in.
23:57 in.
(NtM: 2:55, 13:45)
Friday: "Bill."
Bill: "What?"
Friday: "Pay the two dollars."
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Continuing SEASON 2:
"The Big Frustration"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1538108820208
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
3:06 in.
4:24 in.^
8:50 in.^
(NtM: 1:24, 23:11)
"The Senior Citizen"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1538109999856
Highlights:
10:10 in.^
12:18 in.^
15:38 in.^
18:31 in.^
21:57 in.^
22:59 in.^
This was an enjoyable episode when they caught the guy.
Given it's an old guy criminal and how Morton Stevens always did scores for episodes of various series like this, I wish this had been a Morton Stevens score.
(NtM: 10:03)
"The Big High"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1538132544240
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
6:35 in.
15:00 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
20:39 in.
23:42 in.^
(NtM: 1:29, 4:26, 18:27)
"The Big Ad"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1538134641392
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
2:47 in.^
5:52 in.^
7:19 in.^
10:17 in.^
13:20 in. And the cue after the commercial break.
16:18 in.^
17:17 in.^
20:29 in.
23:42 in.^(close)
A good score, and not quite like his work thus far on the show.
(NtM: 1:39, 7:10)
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Continuing SEASON 2:
"The Missing Realtor"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1540562225904
Highlights:
1:31 in.^
5:02 in.^
6:52 in.^
11:37 in.^
15:25 in.^
22:33 in.^
32:19 in.^
Another good score. I'm not advocating for a full release of the episode score, but certainly all the cues cited above.
"How much do you need to get mugged these days?"
Friday: "Not very much."
"The Big Dog"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1540562815728
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
3:17 in.^
9:33 in.
13:03 in.^
15:18 in.^
16:50 in.
18:45 in.^
22:15 in.
23:13 in.^
10:55 in: I think this is tracked from the prior episode.
23:47 in: I think the closing cue is the same closing cue from one of the last two episodes.
(NtM: 1:35)
Friday: "It's been said that Los Angeles is the strange character capitol of the country."
"The Pyramid Swindle"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1540569238256
Highlights:
13:22 in.^
16:55 in.^
23:53 in.^
I enjoy when TV series expose real-life garbage like this -- it hopefully saves somebody some money.
Penn & Teller also had an episode of this series "Bullsh!t!" that exposed scams like this -- the season eight episode "Easy Money", Here is an excerpt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_92zhGt05gU
"The Phony Police Racket"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1540570286832
Highlights:
0:00 in.
7:15 in.
8:33 in.^
11:12 in.^
21:04 in.^
(NtM: 16:23)
My local police department could learn a thing or two from the below quote. It got caught years ago unlawfully putting tracking devices on cars. Stopped, then started doing it again and then again got caught unlawfully putting tracking devices on cars. And other incidents. Doesn't seem to matter how is in charge. There's a high turn over rate now, with newbs typically lasting six months. I heard two of them bitching about the "official" unofficial two tickets a day policy, which of course, is unlawful. Never did see them again -- I think they bailed.
Friday: "If a police force is to function effectively, it must not be held in suspicion by community."
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Continuing SEASON 2:
"The Trial Board"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1541639244528
Highlights:
8:19 in.^
16:49 in.^
22:50 in.^
0:00 in: I think that's tracked from a prior episode (maybe one of the last half dozen).
(NtM: 9:14)
"The Christmas Story"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1541641669360
Highlights:
5:52 in.
8:50 in.
14:06 in.^
16:06 in.^
19:25 in.^
23:08 in. In this closing cue, Murray re-makes the closing cue of the original 1951 series episode.^
As this is a continuation of the original series, it seems really really ODD that they have chosen to REMAKE an episodes of the 1951 series ("The Big Little Jesus"). It's the same universe, it's the same Joe Friday, played by the same character -- it's not a remake series, it's not a re-visioning series, it's a direct continuation. This is strange!
And it's largely a shot-for-shot remake, too! Little change. Even character names are the same.
One thing that is different, however, is the comparatively inferior score by Murray. In the 1951 series episode, Walter Schumann provided a score that I praised. Here, it's just servicable.
"The Big Shipment"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1541646322416
Highlights:
5:45 in. This might be tracked from one of the last half dozen episodes.^
7:30 in.
8:43 in.^
9:33 in.^
10:55 in.^
15:49 in.^
18:39 in.^
22:55 in.^
23:45 in.^
"The Big Search"
By: Lyn Murray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUeigwsxB3Q
Highlights:
3:24 in.^
6:26 in.^
7:22 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
10:28 in.^
12:43 in.^
16:41 in.^
21:35 in.^
23:50 in.^
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Continuing SEASON 2:
"The Big Prophet"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1541656939248
Highlights:
Nothing. But the India-hippie source music would be nice to have. It would also shake up an release of season two scoring with a different sound.
The drug-pushing hippie shitbag said fifteen years at the most for the bullshit he was peddling. That was 1968. Over fifty years later and while he was partially right about these people getting into positions of power and ruining things, that's about it -- so far Joe Friday was and is still right. I think this episode is something people in training for being a peace officer, should watch.
(NtM: 6:54, 11:28, 22:25, 23:59)
Friday: "You couldn't sell me directions to the men's room."
Friday: "There's no shortcut to getting threw life, fella.
"The Big Amateur"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1541658839792
Highlights:
11:55 in.^
16:44 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
19:00 in.
22:41/23:37 in. Assuming this isn't just the same cue broken into two, a good editor could seamlessly combine the two and that's how a set of season two scoring should present it.^
Watching the opening exchange about envelopes got me to thinking: as much as Joe and Frank worked together, I think Bill Gannon is a better partner. He has more to his character and seems to mesh better with Joe's character. Probably sacrilege to say to fans of the original 1951 series.
"Let's get to him before he trips over his own halo."
"The Starlet"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1545691073264
Highlights:
0:00 in.
21:41 in.^
I'm not sure there is any original scoring in this episode.
The cue after the theme music: pretty sure that is tracked from one of the last three episodes.
4:00 in: an edit job, tracked from "The Big Prophet".
9:05 in: tracked. Cue after that, tracked, too.
11:21 in: pretty sure this is tracked, too.
Closing cue: tracked (probably from "The Big Prophet").
Bill: "'To Whom it May Concern'. That's all it says."
Friday: "That about covers it, doesn't it."
"The Big Clan"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1545691466480
Highlights:
0:00 in.
6:22 in.^
16:57 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^(second: 19:19)
(NtM: 22:53, 23:40)
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Continuing SEASON 2:
"The Little Victim"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1545692121840
Highlights:
(NtM: 11:08, 13:19)
"The Squeeze"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1545699920624
Highlights:
9:57 in.^
14:03 in.^
22:22 in.^
0:00 in: pretty sure this is tracked.
This good episode harkens back to the original series, with just three actors and one room. The plot has its holes, mind you.
"The Suicide Attempt"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1553349151472
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
15:11 in.^
I guess it can vary from the type of pills you take, but the frequent Hollywood use of general pill overdose is not really a likely cause of death. Most of what you think will kill you from access, can in reality induce vomiting, diarrhea, serious health issues and will just leave you in horrible pain with possible life-long medical issues, rather than kill you.
And as for the plot, in real life everybody reacts differently, so not everyone is on a strict two-hour plot time-bomb schedule. For a show that aims for realism, the more realistic outcome of this episode would have been to have found her brother, dead.
4:41 in: tracked.
(NtM: 9:08)
"The Big Departure"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1553350134512
Highlights:
5:41 in.^
8:06 in.^
(NtM: 1:42, 16:44, 22:43)
Bill: "We've done quit a bit of fighting all around the world. Whether you think it was moral or not, a lot of people are free today to make their own mistakes because of it. And that just may include you."
Bill: "You can find enough to keep you busy right here. While you're at it, don't break things up in he name of 'progress' or crack a plaquered stick over somebody's head to help him see the light, be careful of his rights, because your property, your person, and your rights aren't any better than his. And next time you may be the one to get it. I remember a man who killed six million people and called it social improvement."
Friday: "So, hang in -- don't try to build a new country -- make the old one work. It has for over four hundred years. And by the World's standards, that's hardly yesterday."
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Finishing SEASON 2:
"The Investigation"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1553350855408
Highlights:
0:00 in.
8:45 in.
21:31 in.^
10:51 in: I think this is tracked.
13:18 in: an edit job of that intro cue and the above cue.
"The Big Gambler"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1553351379696
Highlights:
8:44 in.^
17:15 in.^
19:11 in.^
23:50 in.^
0:00 in: tracked.
"The Big Problem"
By: Lyn Murray
https://ok.ru/video/1553352428272
This is the final effort by Murray for the series.
Highlights:
0:00 in.^(open)
14:28 in.^
22:30 in: tracked from an early season two episode.
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SEASON 3:
For the last two seasons of the show, Frank Comstock was used as the composer. And I guess they were pleased with his work more so than Murray's, because Frank gets his composer credits in the opening theme music credits instead of the end credits like Lyn.
The opening theme music has been slightly re-done, also adding congas.
"Public Affairs"
By: Frank Comstock
https://ok.ru/video/1572677618416
Highlights:
4:05 in. The fake TV show opening theme music.
There's almost no scoring in the episode, as most of this is talk-show speaking.
Lordy lordy lord, for a show with two leads who speak so well on subjects and really put thing into perspective, I was surprised at how truly awful they were on firearms. It was embarrassing, as well as the written rant of the guy at the podium.
Continuity Errors: Joe says he's been on the job twelve years, but that's just factually incorrect. This show takes place in-universe the same year as the year in real life. Joe was not "new" to the force when the original series began in 1951. That's at least about seventeen years. Then he also states in the same sentence he's only fired his sidearm twice from eight draws, which is also factually incorrect. Just in the original 1951 series he's fired it more than that. In that one episodes where he and Frank shot a guy in the back who was fleeing alone, I think he fired a handful of times.
For the guys here: 21:06 in -- beautiful redhead. You're welcome.
"Juvenile"
By: Frank Comstock
https://ok.ru/video/1572678535920
Highlights:
0:00 in.^
19:44 in.^
"Community Relations"
By: Frank Comstock
https://ok.ru/video/1572679322352
Highlights:
10:46 in.^
12:41 in.^
19:20 in.^(open/19:14)
"Management Services"
By: Frank Comstock
https://ok.ru/video/1608044645104
Highlights:
12:35 in.^
This is a special episode. TV series would sometimes ignore real-life events just to keep the show going without shaking it up and causing any issues, but there, the real life assassination of Martin Luther King is what opens this episode.
(NtM: 22:35, 24:39)
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Episode is titled "The Big Children". As noted in my 1951 thread, there are a lot of mis-labeled loads out there and even ones with made up names. Double check it against the links for "The Big Children".
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There's no episode of the original series that ran for eight years titled "The Big Child". The vimeo link goes to a video by a different episode title. Now I'm just confused.
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