Dragnet
Friday, September 15th, 2000SEASON 1 – NBC
Created by Jack Webb
This series is the second version of the show of the same name, which originally aired between 1951-1959, itself a spin-off of the radio program of the same name that broadcast between 1949-1957
Theme song: “Dragnet” (aka “Badge 714”) by Walter Schumann
- 001. The LSD Story – 1/12/1967
- Detectives Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and his partner Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) work for the Los Angeles Police Department and are on the trail of a new hallucinogenic drug known as LSD that is gaining popularity, particularly among juveniles. They respond to a call reporting a juvenile in MacArthur Park who has painted his face and is chewing the bark off of a tree. When they arrive, they find his head buried in the ground. He is Benjie Carver (Michael Burns), but he goes by the name of “Blue Boy.” His parents (Robert Knapp, Eve Brent) rush to his aid and demand that he is released, but they hold him under a generic law for minors. Of concern is the fact that there are no laws against LSD on the books yet. But once the law passes, Friday and Gannon are able to get information from two girls, Sandra (Sheri Lee Bernath) and Edna Mae (Heather Menzies), to lead them to an acid party in the Hollywood Hills. They arrest all parties for being under the interest, but it is a pharmacist who has sold empty pill capsules that leads them to the location of Blue Boy, who is found dead from an overdose at the scene of his apartment. Art Balinger is Captain Lou Richey, Alfred Shelly is Sgt. Dominic Carr, Olan Soule is Ray Murray, George Fenneman is the main title announcer, and John Stephenson is the narrator. 9/15/14
