cult film freak: INFAMOUS CRIMSON CRUSADER EPISODE FROM 'DRAGNET 1969'

Written by James M. Tate / 12/25/2023 / No comments / comic book , cop , crime , dragnet , exploitation , harry morgan , jack webb , sixties , tv series

INFAMOUS CRIMSON CRUSADER EPISODE FROM 'DRAGNET 1969'

12/25/2023 | No comment

DRAGNET 1969: BULGLARY: DR-31 Rating: ***1/2

Here's proof that young people worshiping comic book movies is nothing new: from one of the silliest yet entertaining episodes of the 1950's-born DRAGNET rebooted into the late-1960's... titled DRAGNET 1969: BULGLARY: DR-31 where Jack Webb's Joe Friday and Harry Morgan as partner Bill Gannon traipse from one movie theater to another, investigating stolen/looted movie posters and lobby cards advertising a brand new comic book adaptation...

Turns out being the most bizarre and surreal of the show's villains in a pudgy, mustached, monotone twenty-something donning a cape and costume, deeming himself The Crimson Crusader played by a frumpy, drowsy, future EMERGENCY actor Tim Donnelly who, in one soft-interrogation sequence, provides a dirge-like, melancholy monologue about being fat and bullied in school, and how this drove him headlong into a fantastical world to find a safe place within it... thus making this eclectic fan-favorite episode practically all his own.

Tim Donnelly as Stanley Stover on DRAGNET 1969

Regular cast member Don Ross on DRAGNET 1969

Tim Donnelly as Stanley Stover on DRAGNET 1969

From DRAGNET 1969

Tim Donnelly as Stanley Stover on DRAGNET 1969

Harry Morgan on DRAGNET 1969

Jack Webb on DRAGNET 1969

Jack Webb and Harry Morgan on DRAGNET 1969

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