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So why did I like it so much? Well, aside from its realism, I think that Jack Webb's interpretation of Joe Friday was probably the coolest square guy I have ever seen. Plus, in this series, Detective Smith has been replaced by Detective Gannon (played by Harry Morgan). The earlier show was more important just for entertainment. And, the show was meant to be more entertainment AND public service work to build support for our cops.
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Unlike the earlier incarnation of the TV show that Jack Webb produced and starred in from the 1950s, this version is less violent and more subdued-showing a lot of the more mundane aspects of police work. For the time it was made, this was one of the very best cop shows on TV-if not the very best.
#Dragnet episodes from 50s lost to time movie#
Also, too many people have discounted this show because they have been warped by seeing crap like the DRAGNET movie starring Dan Aykroyd. Unfortunately, it does appear a little dated today-almost 40 years later. (Note: I Love Lucy, The Fugitive, and East Side/West Side episodes are not currently available to stream.This was a great show. Orange Is the New Black, “Looks Blue, Tastes Red”:Īpple TV, Google Play, iTunes, Netflix, Prime Video, Vudu, or YouTube Twin Peaks, “Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer”:Īpple TV, iTunes, Prime Video, Vudu, or YouTubeĪpple TV, DirecTV, HBO Go, or Prime VideoĪpple TV, CBS All Access, Hulu, or Prime VideoĪpple TV, HBO Now, iTunes, Prime Video, Vudu, or YouTubeĪmerican Horror Story, “Welcome to Briarcliff”:Īpple TV, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, Prime Video, Vudu, or YouTube Hill Street Blues, “Hill Street Station”:Īpple TV, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Prime Video, Vudu, or YouTubeĪpple TV, CBS All Access, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, Prime Video, Vudu, or YouTube The Mary Tyler Moore Show, “The Last Show”:Īpple TV, Hulu, iTunes, Prime Video, or VuduĪpple TV, Google Play, iTunes, Prime Video, Vudu, or YouTube Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, season two premiere:Īpple TV, CBS All Access, Hulu, or Netflix The Beverly Hillbillies, “The Giant Jackrabbit”: It marked territory that both the show - and streaming television more generally - would come to explore thoroughly. In “Looks Blue,” Orange ditched Piper for an hour and turned the story over to the supporting players.
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Where the show’s first season was built around Piper, an upper-class white woman sent to prison, many of the show’s breakout characters were part of its supporting cast, which was almost casually diverse in everything from race to sexuality to body type. “Looks Blue, Tastes Red,” the second episode of the second season, is a perfect showcase for why.
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But Orange was the first show to truly demonstrate just how much more daring streaming TV could be.
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Orange Is the New Black wasn’t Netflix’s first original series - that distinction belongs either to the 2012 series Lilyhammer (which it acquired from Norway) or 2013’s House of Cards (Netflix’s first original production and the show it considers its first original). Lucy Ricardo’s pregnancy and the eventual birth of her child (which aired the same night Ball gave birth) were so hugely successful that they kicked off TV’s slow trudge toward reflecting American lives as they were actually lived, not just as they were idealized.Ģ014 Orange Is the New Black “Looks Blue, Tastes Red” The network balked, not wanting to alienate its most valuable stars, while forbidding them from using the word “pregnant” “expecting” became the euphemism of choice.
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The networks believed audiences would find the merest hint of sex just that scandalous!) But Ball and Arnaz - a married couple both onscreen and off - wanted the show to reflect all of their life, which meant an onscreen pregnancy. (Even a decade later, TV was still regularly refusing to depict married couples sharing a bed. CBS didn’t want Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz to write Ball’s real-life pregnancy into the show, believing it would offend viewers. That I Love Lucy had to use the French word for “pregnant” in the title of “Lucy Is Enceinte” reveals the episode’s influence in microcosm.