DRAGNET {1967 REVIVAL}: I.A.D.: THE RECEIPT (TV)
Summary
One in the second incarnation of this series of police dramas. As narrated by the laconic Sgt. Joe Friday, the cases are culled from the files of the Los Angeles Police Department.
In this episode, Friday and Gannon are summoned to the Internal Affairs Bureau and forced to investigate two of their own, Sergeant Norman Bivins and Officer Earl Malone, who have been accused of stealing $800 "from a dead man." The cops' commanding officer, Captain McTighe, vouches for their innocence, and both are determined to have clean records, apart from one complaint of excessive force from a hostage-taking criminal. The accuser, Agnes Emerson, explains that she managed the personal and financial business of her late friend, bachelor Elroy Brown, and gave the two cops his entire life savings, -- $1,000 in ten $100 bills -- plus a wristwatch and two rings, to pay for his funeral, and signed a receipt – but that they turned in only $200.
Bivins and Malone arrive for questioning and seem shocked to be accused of grand theft. Both men offer identical stories of receiving the jewelry and two $100 bills. Bivins describes hand-writing two receipts, one for himself and one for Agnes, though admits that he has lost his, thus rendering his claim unprovable. Matters are further complicated when Agnes submits to a polygraph test and registers "no response" in either direction. Determined to uncover the truth, Friday searches Bivins' car again and finds that his notebook had slipped into the defroster. Friday and Gannon challenge Agnes' story again, reminding her that perjury can carry a prison sentence; she sticks to her story and signs her official police statement – at which point Friday and Gannon reveal Bivins' handwritten receipt and the photostatic copy of the receipt given to her, both of which reveal that she signed for two $100. Caught, Agnes stubbornly declares that Brown's money was "rightfully hers," as she spent many years caring for him, and Bivins and Malone are cleared of all charges. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: November 30, 1999 9:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:25:08
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:05964
- GENRE: Drama, police/detective
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, police/detective; Crime and criminals; Money
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1952-1959; 1967-1970
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Jack Webb … Producer, Director
- William Stark … Associate Producer
- Michael Donovan … Writer
- Frank Comstock … Music by
- Walter Schumann … Theme Music by
- Jack Webb … Cast, Sergeant Joe Friday
- Harry Morgan … Cast, Officer Bill Gannon
- Virginia Gregg … Cast, Agnes Emerson
- Marshall Reed … Cast, Sergeant Norman Bivins
- Len Wayland … Cast, Officer Earl Malone
- Art Balinger … Cast, Captain McTighe
- Don Ross … Cast, Lieutenant Cal Beeson
- Marco Antonio … Cast, Garage Attendant