This is the city.
All right, you got me. It's a close up of town hall that zooms out.
Not a bad sequence, really.
Joe goes on to tell us about shopping in LA.
Is Olvera Street still a thing?
Yeah, actually! You can still go there. It was even designated a historic landmark in 1953.
(Image from Bing Maps bird's eye view.)
Too many people are looking toward the camera for this to have been shot on a backlot:
Dragnet's impostor Joan Holloway hands out some papers...
(Just not the same.)
Anyway, Hi Joe, Bill.
HOLD THE PHONE SKIPPER
Off we go.
Hey red-haired guy. See you in season two.
"I dig Mustangs. They're really boss," says the guy in white.
That's what he says! That is his real line!
I love how they shot this.
Say Hi to Angie. An alternate name for this blog was going to be "All the waitresses are named Angie".
The film rolls behind the characters in the foreground, making the illusion of being on a location.
The film stock seems to have improved since we were first at Georgia Street on behalf of Blue Boy.
A pretty red Caddy convertible and the exterior of another set house.
It will be recycled, of course. See it again in S1e9, The Fur Burglary.
KNOCK KNOCK
TRICK OR TREAT.
I'm dressed as Friday. I'm dressed as Gannon.
Just kidding. It's really us.
No candy? Just a stolen gun? We'll arrest you.
He's seventeen and married to her:
"I'm only 29. That's not so old."
(That is her real line, too!)
The guys think it's hinky.
(I'll feature that lamp in my forthcoming "table lamps of season one" retrospective.)
Back on our tour of LA's plentiful liquor stores.
Ok, now we are in Burbank.
The drive took twenty minutes.
The office has a neat photo on the sound stage behind the windows.
I am pretty sure that boss shows up as a bad guy later on in the series.
Dang. I just missed the Cutty Sark billboard in the left edge of the above frame.
HELLO GUYS WELCOME BACK TO THE POLICE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
R & I has this really cool card filer:
Life in a pre-computer world. Or, at least, as partially computerized one.
I still wish they had taken these establishing shots when there had been landscaping in front of the sign.
Parker Center opened in 1955 and was used until 2009.
See also: Parker Center on Wikipedia
This looks like backlot:
It's too clean to be a real street.
See how all of the windows back there are lit the same?
No trash in the street, at all.
Hey, hon, you ready to get busted in the soundstage lobby of Royal Palms?
Well, crap on a cracker.
Hold this box, Bill.
You'll remember the night shot of the Police Parking kiosk from when we were trapped in a room with Kent McCord:
Bill's going to eat his sandwich, finally.
It's a relative of "the dagwood" - a sandwich with everything on it.
"Corned beef, imported swiss, lettuce, russian dressing, coleslaw, kosher pickle, slice of tomato..."
More for you, Bill.
Donald Ralph Jones,
Frank Martin
and
James Wilson
Now serving sentences in the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California.
Larry Hubbert
Now undergoing training at the Preston School of Industry, Ione, California.
Starred
Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday
Harry Morgan as Officer Bill Gannon
Ron Russell as Larry Hubbert
Virginia Vincent as Edna Hubbert
S. John Launer as Stanley Auerbach
Robert Brubaker as Al Tucker
Art Gilmore as Captain Mert Howe
Tom Baker as Donald Jones
Dirk Rambo as Fred Tillar
Karen Jensen as Jeannie
Dave Carlile as Officer Jack Edwards, the red-haired guy
Sam Edwards as Bernard Ashton
Tani Seitz as Angie, the car hop waitress.
Art Direction - Russell Kimball
Set Decor - John McCarthy & Ralph Sylos
Written by David H. Vowell
Aired 16 February 1967
Check back on Saturday for S1e6, "The Bank Examiner Swindle".
Check back on Saturday for S1e6, "The Bank Examiner Swindle".
