"Just the Facts" about Joe Friday

By Old Time Radio

 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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