Dragnet's Anti Gay Episode

[+ Avalon]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0565660/

 

The Big Kids

 

I've been a fan of the show since I was a teenager. I now watch it 50 years later. I think this is the only episode that mentions homosexuality. But just in passing. The captain talks about the problems facing modern youth (1960s).

[+ sync]

I also regularly watched Dragnet. I was attracted to Joe Friday's clinical detachment.

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

[+ WilliamM]

Jack Webb played essentially the same character in the 1950s film Pete Kelly's Blues, but with jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee. Lee may have been nominated for a best Supporting Actress that year. She steals the movie from Webb.

[+ Avalon]

Jack Webb played essentially the same character in the 1950s film Pete Kelly's Blues, but with jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee. Lee may have been nominated for a best Supporting Actress that year. She steals the movie from Webb.

 

I've not seen that movie.

 

I remember him from Sunset Boulevard.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard_(film)