![]() 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 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. #DRAGNET EPISODES FROM 50S LOST TO TIME SERIES# 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. 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. 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. 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. I don't like this old-time radio web site re-design, it's very had to use or find or download anything. ![]() #DRAGNET EPISODES FROM 50S LOST TO TIME ZIP FILE#Įvery time I download a simple zip file it says "invalid file," and it's almost impossible to download individual episodes anymore. ![]() 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. So you go to a better web site like TV by the Numbers. #DRAGNET EPISODES FROM 50S LOST TO TIME TV# 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. Look for the one titled 'Dragnet - Single Episodes - Old Time Radio Researchers Group'. This page has pretty well every extant episode, in very good quality.
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