"Just the Facts" about Joe Friday

Have you listened to every episode of Dragnet? Here's some quick facts you can draw from the show. Joe Friday ...

lived with his mom
carries a badge
was an avid smoker
takes his coffee black
WWII veteran
liked to date a policewoman (SHE makes the first move), but his mom gives him the third degree... relationship progresses ... unknown
loved talking about weather [its often "cold in Los Angeles"]
was something of a sports fan including baseball and football
gave his Alma mater a speech about how booze and drugs turn kids bad
loves dogs, but has two cats given to him by Ben Romero
asks people to repeat what they just said [maybe he is hard of hearing because or maybe just a slow writer to write down what they said in his notebook?]
familiar with San Francisco and Phoenix
is a total city boy. In a episode where Friday and Romero go to a farmhouse in the Valley one night, they walk behind the house and enter a darkened garage.
A chicken clucks loudly: buck-buck-bug-GAWK.
Friday :"What was that?"
Romero : "A chicken"
had shoes with hard soles that echoed on hallway floors.
never got to finish Ben's spanish omelette: he wasn't sure if green onions and scallions were the same thing.

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