Let's get one thing straight right now: Joe Friday is resolutely anti-hippie. Even before this series, that was the case. So, let's jump off into a new series. What's the subject? Hippies! This is the famous/infamous "Blue Boy" episode.In the '80s when this series was syndicated, there was a call-in contest to suggest which episodes to show. This one was the winner. Second place was "The Baby in the bathtub." Dragnet fans know which one that was...
This one stars Michael Burns (formerly of "Wagon Train", Bill Hawks' "son") who plays a Jack Webb imagined acid head during the time (yes!) when LSD was not illegal. By the way, contrary to other posters here, LSD is not a "narcotic" and is resolutely not "addictive", and I speak as one who took pharmaceitical LSD in the 60's. Anyway, "Blueboy" fulfills all of Jack Webbs' fantasies of drug use, even though none of them are even remotely correct or true.
It is, however, one of the inadvertenly hilarious episodes of any cop show of the era. Anybody who had real experience with LSD will howl with laughter all through this. The sad thing is that so many people consumed this episode whole and believed it, when it had no basis in fact or practice. And do so today.
By the way, without knowing it, Jack Webb created an icon with "Blue Boy". He was everything no "acid head" ever was. Thanks, Jack.
This one stars Michael Burns (formerly of "Wagon Train", Bill Hawks' "son") who plays a Jack Webb imagined acid head during the time (yes!) when LSD was not illegal. By the way, contrary to other posters here, LSD is not a "narcotic" and is resolutely not "addictive", and I speak as one who took pharmaceitical LSD in the 60's. Anyway, "Blueboy" fulfills all of Jack Webbs' fantasies of drug use, even though none of them are even remotely correct or true.
It is, however, one of the inadvertenly hilarious episodes of any cop show of the era. Anybody who had real experience with LSD will howl with laughter all through this. The sad thing is that so many people consumed this episode whole and believed it, when it had no basis in fact or practice. And do so today.
By the way, without knowing it, Jack Webb created an icon with "Blue Boy". He was everything no "acid head" ever was. Thanks, Jack.