Merry Christmas to all my regular (and irregular) blog readers.

Today’s assignment: take 25 minutes and watch the Dragnet Christmas episode, starring the great Jack Webb.  They did this episode twice – once in 1953 and again in 1967, with a nearly identical script, and many of the same actors.  I watched both last night and I think I like the 1953 version better.  The situation?  It’s Christmas Eve, and the statue of the child Jesus has been stolen from the creche.  Father Rojas calls in Seargent Friday to find the statue; the search begins, and ends at the Old Mission Plaza Church in downtown Los Angeles.  Let’s watch, won’t we?

Act I
Act II
Act III