The Bank Jobs

I thought a review was a person's opinion on how they liked/disliked a show, not to tell people every detail of it from start to finish... Including spoilers. That's not a review.

I've watched almost every episode. Each one you can be grossed out by Gannon's liverwurst and onion, pickle, horseradish and peanut butter on garlic bread sandwiches... even Friday rolls his eyes. At the beginning of this episode, you watch him put 6 cubes of sugar (96 calories! 2 tablespoons! Want some coffee with that?) into his cup.

If it weren't for him, this show would have been a very boring cop show. Harry Morgan (Future Col. Potter/M*A*S*H) is awesome as Friday's comedic half.

I guess they weren't too worried about diabetes and halitosis..... Neither one seems to walk like normal people. Arms to the side, very robotic.

It's what makes it so nostalgic.

....it really works!"

This episode is pretty great in its own insane way.

Lots of red herrings with redheads and pool boys.

And the climax. It's crazy hilarious.

Even Friday gets a chuckle in.

The case is not that straightforward.

A bank is robbed and officers Joe Friday and Bill Gannon investigate. They find the getaway car deserted, and they trace it back to the woman from whom it was stolen. However, when they talk to the woman whose car was stolen, she matches the description of the woman who was with the robber and they notice she has an envelope with parole documents on her kitchen table.

They take the woman to headquarters where she changes her story and says she was kidnapped by the bank robber and made to help in the bank robbery. She also says that her run in with the law in Oklahoma was because of her husband's criminal activity. So here we have a woman who only tells the truth when forced, who has a criminal ex-husband, and claims she was forced to participate in a bank robbery when that would only greatly complicate matters for said bank robber.

So they release the woman and follow her to see if she meets up with the robber. Instead the case takes a startling turn, but of course our two protagonists never look startled. There is even a finale involving karate. I almost expected to see BAM! POW! CRASH! ZAP! On the TV screen.

Not just another episode of Dragnet. One of the stranger turns is every time the suspected woman is on the screen there is sirenish/romantic music playing, even though she is not romantically interested in anybody and is respectably dressed. The 60s were such a transitional era.

The episode begins with Friday and Gannon responding to a call about a bank robbery (note the weird police light used by the team). When they arrive, the robbers are long gone. The pair consisted of a man and a younger woman in a yellow dress. Eventually, the trail leads to the woman and her story about how she got involved with the robbery is unusual, to say the least. She was apparently kidnapped and forced to participate, but it sure is hard to believe--especially since when police first question her, she lies about everything. And, when she finally does come clean about the robbery, she STILL lies and holds back information--and it's hard for the police to believe anything she said. However, when another woman participates in a robbery...with exactly the same story as the first, then it becomes apparent that the women were, in fact, innocent.

Overall, this is a completely average episode except for the ending. How the robber is caught is actually pretty funny...and oddly, the Friday and Gannon had nothing to do with it! Worth seeing just for the ending. Plus, Friday's comment to the crook is priceless.