Reefer Madness for the hippie generation.

FirstNationalBastard: Reefer Madness for the hippie generation.

I grew up on Dragnet and Emergency! on Nick at Night as a kid. Emergency! its self was unique in it's day, because not everyone made it at the end - there were several episodes which had terrible (emotion wise, not plot wise) endings.

Tales from the Highway Patrol was also fun.

He wasn't confused about reality because of the LSD.

It was the obvious matte painting he was standing in front of that threw him off.

"LSD is so potent that a single pound of the preparation could turn every person in Los Angeles County into a total psychotic."

Well that explains a lot.

This is what the whole hep world would be doing every Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This was the Sixth Reich.

BronyMedic: FirstNationalBastard: Reefer Madness for the hippie generation.

I grew up on Dragnet and Emergency! on Nick at Night as a kid. Emergency! its self was unique in it's day, because not everyone made it at the end - there were several episodes which had terrible (emotion wise, not plot wise) endings.

Tales from the Highway Patrol was also fun.

You too?

I remember the good old days of Nick at Nite when it was Dragnet and Dick Van Dyke Show and Adventures of Superman in late night... back when they showed classic TV.

However, Adam-12 and Emergency were only on TV Land. And it's great they're all on DVD now.

/wish Universal would let the B&W 1950s Dragnet out of the vault. The 60s show really was kind of crappy camp compared to the 50s show.

Still not weirder than the video for "City Of Crime".

I haven't seen that since it first aired. The hippies were too nicely dressed and nowhere near dirty enough.

Dragnet was a lot like The Outer Limits except that the monster of the week was almost always a damned dirty hippy

...and now, the acid heads are now TEA baggers in their old age!

I still prefer the Chips episode on Punks.

BronyMedic: I grew up on Dragnet and Emergency! on Nick at Night as a kid.

I grew up on Emergency! and Adam-12...when it was still first run.

/yes, I'm old
//marijuana is the flame, heroin is the fuse, LSD is the bomb!

It's Braveheart II!

PacManDreaming: BronyMedic: I grew up on Dragnet and Emergency! on Nick at Night as a kid.

I grew up on Emergency! and Adam-12...when it was still first run.

/yes, I'm old
//marijuana is the flame, heroin is the fuse, LSD is the bomb!

Don't forget Colonel Potter having to go throw up because the Debbil's weed made good parents turn bad and let their baby drown.

/in fact, the high father who let his baby drown was the man who was later Fireman Chet on Emergency. He also had a role in between as a guy obsessed with superheroes. I like to combine all the roles he played into one character... He was a pothead who let his baby drown, which made him obsess over superheroes, and after he did his bit for stealing superhero posters, he turned his life around and became a Fireman.

...of course, then he turned out to be a clone that Peter Graves can't save. But, shiat happens.

Not sure about the search, as the specific laws around that still confuse me a lot, but I can't imagine it being valid to read to read someone their rights when they're in that state of mind.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: Not sure about the search, as the specific laws around that still confuse me a lot, but I can't imagine it being valid to read to read someone their rights when they're in that state of mind.

It was the 60s, and Miranda rights were still fairly new.

Hell, Miranda rights became law in mid '66, and this episode aired in early January '67, so the whole Miranda warning would have just begun being used when this was filmed. Would the law have been that clarified at that point?

FirstNationalBastard: Don't forget Colonel Potter having to go throw up because the Debbil's weed made good parents turn bad and let their baby drown.

Heh...that episode was on last night! We had a good laugh when Joe Friday was explaining how much a joint cost on the street...50 to 75 cents a piece!

Antenna TV has been replaying old episodes of Dragnet. All I can say is that is one preachy show. Some of the anti drug messages are laughable. I mean along the lines of the old D.A.R.E. programs.

They also replay old Adam-12 and S.W.A.T episodes, which were two of my favorite shows when I was growing up. Last week they I heard the familiar tone out for Emergency! and was pleasantly surprised to see they are going to start showing it this fall.

All they need to do is replay C.H.i.P.s and I'll probably never change the channel.

in one Dragnet episode the duo is doing a monologue with a 'Church of Scientology' building / sign in the background that couldn't be missed. that struck me as so odd it comes to mind when Dragnet is brought up.

there are a lot of CA acid scene / hippie movement drive-in movies from the Dragnet days that have that Dragnet feel all over them, as if they are 90 minute episodes. love movies that are filled with cheezy goodness.

P.A.G.A.N. calls shenanigans.

I've seen people on acid that weren't too awful far from Blue Boy. Come to think of it, I've seen drunks that were less coherent.

/whatever

This is why we have hyper-militarized police departments, to stop this sort of thing.

A SWAT team in an armored vehicle would have rounded those hippies up right quick.

/pilgrim

Dialectic: ...and now, the acid heads are now TEA baggers in their old age!

and now, the acid heads are Obama voters!

EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!! UNICORNS!!!! RAINBOWS!!!!

He realy hated those hippies.

A lot of those second generation Dragnets were Joe Friday versus the hippies.

oryx: A lot of those second generation Dragnets were Joe Friday versus the hippies.

Yeah, Jack Webb took the whole culture clash thing pretty badly, and used that show to demonstrate his contempt for the youth culture of the time.

ClavellBCMI: oryx: A lot of those second generation Dragnets were Joe Friday versus the hippies.

Yeah, Jack Webb took the whole culture clash thing pretty badly, and used that show to demonstrate his contempt for the youth culture of the time.

Honestly, Adam-12 holds up a hell of a lot better than Dragnet 6X. Adam-12 didn't have as much of Jack Webb preaching, it was just a solid cop show.

/and Steven Bochco was writing and producing the show in the middle seasons.

PacManDreaming: I grew up on Emergency! and Adam-12...when it was still first run.

/yes, I'm old

But not alone.

/Met Kent McCord a few years ago at a sci-fi convention (he was on a few episodes of Farscape). Told him I loved him on Adam-12. I think it took HIM a second or two to remember he was on that show!

That was disturbing. I thought Captain Kirk put him in a black hole or something with a dude that was his mirror image to keep the universe from blowing up.

it's a fake..........his pupils we're wayyyyy to small for LSD

Bong Hits For Mohammed: That was disturbing. I thought Captain Kirk put him in a black hole or something with a dude that was his mirror image to keep the universe from blowing up.

Captain Kirk knows a thing or two about LSD. (NSFW)

Gramma: I haven't seen that since it first aired. The hippies were too nicely dressed and nowhere near dirty enough.

They had to clean it up for 1960s network television. The dirty and smelly was implied, just look at Joe and Franks faces. To all the people calling this comp. Dragnet was well written, well acted, superbly directed and mostly accurate in its portrayals of the dregs of humanity. It just had a shoe string budget resulting in low production values. Shows and movies of today could learn a lot from Jack Webb.

I love the wrap up "OD'ed ON LSD!!!1!!1!! ...and a bunch of barbiturates..."

I remember seeing this episode as a little kid. I was very confused.

I thought Six Feet Under did a better job
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Huh. Tough break. That kid was young, could have applied himself. Could have settled down, started a family, seen the year 1970 and beyond. Guess when you're hypnotized by Lady J or her psychedelic cousins, you forget about the long-term and everything is about chasing that next high, the next rush from the neighborhood candyman. What happened to when we were kids, and life was about who was gonna win the big baseball game, or maybe getting that plum paper route? Now it's all hippy-dippy freakout time, and tripping your way to the big rock and roll concert. It just makes you realize; winning our freedom in The Big One wasn't enough. We've got to teach the upcoming generation that freedom isn't so free. Eternal vigilance... that's the price we pay. Come on; I'll buy you a scotch and soda.