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Old Posted Nov 13, 2020, 4:21 PM
Earl Boebert Earl Boebert is offline
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Originally Posted by Bristolian View Post
Also, if an actor appeared in a number of Dragnet 1967 episodes, there was a really good chance he or she also had roles on Adam-12 and Emergency!, two other Jack Webb series.
I think the repertory company aspect came from the series' origin as a radio show, where having actors share roles was common.

For most of the life of the television phase the show's roots in radio were so strong you could follow the story with just the soundtrack:

"Tuesday, May 13th. It was raining in Los Angeles" [Picture of rain]

"My partner and I were working the day watch out of Bunco" [Picture of Webb and partner in cop shop]

"We received a call from a distraught housewife" [Picture of Webb on phone]

"We proceeded to her residence near downtown" [Picture of Webb and partner in car]

And so on. It was as stylized as Kabuki, and as exciting as a Power Point briefing were the presenter just reads the slides to you. But great radio.

Cheers,

Earl
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