Dragnet (TV Series)

The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas (1952)

Jack Webb: Sgt. Joe Friday

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  [Smith and Friday have just investigated an accidental shooting death on Christmas Eve] 

  Officer Frank Smith #1 : What's it all prove, Joe?

  Sgt. Joe Friday : You don't give a kid a gun from Christmas.

• [first lines] 

  Sgt. Joe Friday : This is the city. All year around it wears work clothes; on holidays it dresses up. To most people, Christmas brings happiness and prayer; to some it brings heartbreak - then my job gets tougher. I'm a cop.

• Sgt. Joe Friday : It was Thursday, December 22. We were working the night watch out of Homicide Division. My partner's Frank Smith, the boss is Captain Norman. My name's Friday. We'd gotten a call that a nine-year-old boy was missing from his home. The evidence pointed to foul play. We had to check it out.

• Sgt. Joe Friday : You don't give a kid a gun for Christmas.