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This page has pretty well every extant episode, in very good quality. Look for the one titled 'Dragnet - Single Episodes - Old Time Radio Researchers Group'. If you go to the top of this page and click the link under 'Keywords' that says 'Dragnet', it will open two pages of links.
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So you go to a better web site like TV by the Numbers. T V.com did this a few years ago and to this day it's a fairly useless web site because it's so difficult to use or find what you're looking for.
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Every time I download a simple zip file it says "invalid file," and it's almost impossible to download individual episodes anymore. I don't like this old-time radio web site re-design, it's very had to use or find or download anything. The stories have their own problems but are tolerable, apparently Jack Webb was a massive control freak and it shows in every minute of his shows, for good or for bad, but in the case of the footstep sounds, after a few episodes it literally becomes unbearable and ruins the show, you just can't listen any more. Yes, there should be some indication that people were walking or running when necessary, but it should not ever be the dominant sound effect on this or any other radio or television show. So what you get on the radio is this constant loud clomping of mens shoes drowning out all the dialog and other sound effects for the show, and to be honest, as listeners, we don't really care. They sounded like they were trying to mimic the sound of cheap dress shoes detectives might have worn back then, though they also sound too slippery to handle many of times they were involved in chasing crooks, mostly on hard waxed surfaces, they would have fallen on their faces.
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It still kind of sounds obsessive but at least I can understand his reasoning.īut what I don't get is, every single episode would start out with this series of loud (and phony-sounding) footsteps walking or running somewhere. I know it's been said he was all about authenticity, if it took 22 steps from one room to another he would use exactly 22 steps on his recordings. It's bad enough having to listen to that very badly played theme song all the time (also loud, and apparently never played the same way twice, which also seemed very unprofessional).Īnd then those mindless commercials telling us how wonderfully safe these certain cigarettes were, I even think it was cigarettes that killed Jack Webb at a very young age (though he always sounded like an old man, even in the beginning).īut I can understand, if you're going to listen to old-time radio you have to take what came with it, and back then that's what they did. Jack Webb must have had some kind of fetish about the sound of footsteps because they are EVERYWHERE on his "Dragnet" radio show, and VERY LOUD!
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It didn't mean I would GET how to use TOMA right away but it was the best piece of advice I ever received about the business so I made sure I always used it when I was hiring people! It would have been GREAT to have had an opportunity to appear on these great shows but I have no regrets about the way things played out for me! Regardless, all of these GREAT shows were a part of the GREATEST ERA IN RADIO!!
Even as a kid I LOVED going to the library and listening to cassette tapes of radio shows from the 40's & 50's, so I understood what he was talking about. Top Of the Mind Awareness and said it was something they used to preach during the Golden, and Greatest, era of Radio. My 1st PD, Program Director, knew I hadn't been in the business long (I lied that I had experience) & kept preaching TOMA to me. I never lost my desire for radio & lied my way into my very first gig.
When I got out at the ripe old age of 21 (don't know if they still offer it but in the late 70's you'd sign on for 6 years and would do 3 active & 3 inactive. I volunteered for the US Army and enjoyed most of my time. The only job I EVER wanted to do was Radio. Most kids when they grow up they dream about "when I grow up I'm gonna be a.
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