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"Dragnet 1967" Starsky and hutch Dixon of Dock Green
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"Dragnet 1967" The late 60s Dragnet, where the year was part of the tile (Dragnet '68, Dragnet '69) The episode where some crazy kid, doped up like a race horse, gets a lecture from Jack Webb on the evils of pot/acid/whatever. Dragnet just sorta got left behind. It didn't really jump. It never really changed but the world gradually changed around it. By the late 60s, it just wasn't the same anymore. Some of the color episodes are okay so it wasn't that. Perhaps it was when they tried to approach provocative issues that the characters reacted unrealistically to. Maybe. I think by then it was too late. Dragnet was a mainstay for almost two decades. That's pretty good. I would almost say it never jumped, but in this context "never jumped" indicates the show was always great even towards the end. Dragnet was dependable entertainment. American culture just sorta grew out...
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