Public Affairs DR-14 - Community Action!

Oh, no, not the Crime Prevention Episode. Art Director John E. Chilberg, II takes a dialogue-heavy snoozer and gives us some really neat art direction along New York Street in Universal City. It's a tour de force for him.

On to New York Street.

 

The camera is simply pursuing a drain pipe, but all the architectural details are fun up there:

At last, Bill and Joe arrive at Ruby's Bar for some Community Action!

Part of the Ruby's set is reused from our most familiar bar set, but dressed up for a tropical feel.

It's enduring (not unlike our archetypal Chinese restaurant) and even echoes in the pilot episode of Mad Men. ("And for the lady, a special Mai Tai.")

HEY GUYS THANKS

GANNON JUST BROKE MY DOOR JAMB

S3e10

Starred
Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday
Harry Morgan as Officer Bill Gannon
Del Moore as Charles Dalton
Virginia Gregg as Lisa Ruby
John Hudson as Lieutenant Bob Kearney
Herb Vigran as Pete Gulka
Howard Culver as Harold Wilson

Additional Cast
______, ______, ______ as till-tapping miscreants

Additional Notes


Art Direction - John E. Chilberg, II
Set Decor - John McCarthy & John Sturtevant
Costumes - Vincent Dee

Written by Alf Harris

Aired 28 November 1968

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