The Big Problem

Episode aired Mar 28, 1968
TV-G
30m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

150

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Georg Stanford Brown in Dragnet 1967 (1967)

Crime Drama Mystery

Friday & Gannon talk to community members to improve relations between police and public. They suggest people call them to find the truth of incidents instead of spreading rumors. A couple c... Read allFriday & Gannon talk to community members to improve relations between police and public. They suggest people call them to find the truth of incidents instead of spreading rumors. A couple complains they were stopped because of their race.Friday & Gannon talk to community members to improve relations between police and public. They suggest people call them to find the truth of incidents instead of spreading rumors. A couple complains they were stopped because of their race.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

150

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UNOhwen

It's a black thing....

When Jack Webb was getting divorced from the GORGEOUS Julie London, he asked for ONE thing; his jazz records.

I LOVE Jack Webb, and, the starkness of the 60's episodes.

Every problem is black & white, and Jack's always ready - in a dead-pan monotone to explain EVERYTHING.

This episode , THE BIG PROBLEM (there are a LOT of episodes with the word 'big' in them) is about the racial issues.

Jack 'gets down' with the brothers, and explains that policing isn't a racial thing, but, is strictly driven by protecting people of every colour.

If you're a fan of Mr. Webb - and, I am - then, the simplistic script, the cue-card reading (and the ever-present angry Mr. Webb) will be no stranger to you, and, as always, you'll just groove along.

Compared to the legendary 'BLUE BOY,' and the 'Im sure you're mother had a loud bark' episodes - and the parents smoking pot, while their kid drowns in the tup, THE BIG PROBLEM doesn't equal the hysteria of those brilliant episodes, but, for sheer all-out Webb-isms, Incan NEVER argue with badge 714.

Trivia
The driver's license belonging to the character "Billy Jones," played by Georg Stanford Brown, shows his date of birth as June 24, 1943. This is Brown's actual birth date.

Goofs
Sgt. Friday has, on a few other occasions, suggested that the officers not call someone "boy" as it inflates tensions. Yet here, he calls Officer Ron Braven "boy". Though it is NOT meant as a racial comment here, it does conflict with his instructions to his fellow officers in other scripts. Seems like a script continuity error has occurred.