Dragnet: Old Time Radio - 380 Episodes

Now over on Audible.com They have all 380 Dragnet Radio shows for download in one package 137 hours and 57 minutes

 of legendary radio show.

Dragnet was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history. The series gave millions of audience members a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real-life police work.

Actor and producer Jack Webb's aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting. He achieved both goals, and Dragnet remains a key influence on subsequent police dramas in many media. The show's cultural impact is such that even after five decades, elements of Dragnet are known to those who have never seen or heard the program - including the famous four-note introduction to the theme music and the opening narration, "Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent."

The original Dragnet starring Jack Webb as Sgt. Friday ran from from June 3, 1949, to February 26, 1957 on NBC radio. Webb insisted on realism in every aspect of the show. The dialogue was clipped, understated and sparse, influenced by the hardboiled school of crime fiction. Scripts were fast moving but didn’t seem rushed. Every aspect of police work was chronicled, step by step: From patrols and paperwork, to crime scene investigation, lab work and questioning witnesses or suspects. The detectives' personal lives were mentioned but rarely took center stage. "Underplaying is still acting", Webb told Time. "We try to make it as real as a guy pouring a cup of coffee."

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PlayStation 4 Pre-Order now at Amazon 

You can now Pre-order the new PlayStation 4 Launch Edition
at Amazon and get it delivered to your door on release date no need to stand in lines.

• PlayStation 4 redefines rich and immersive gameplay with powerful graphics and speed, intelligent personalization, deeply integrated social capabilities, and innovative second-screen features
• "Suspend mode" eliminates the load time on your saved game and allows you to immediately return to where you left off by pressing the power button.
• Background downloading and updating capability also allows you to immediately play digital titles as they download, or update the system when the hardware is powered off.
• PlayStation 4 lets you instantly share images and videos of your favorite gameplay moments on Facebook with a single press of the "share" button on the Dualshock 4 controller.
• Broadcast while you play in real-time through Ustream, allowing friends to comment or jump into your game in new ways.
• Games already announced for the PlayStation 4 include first party titles Killzone: Shadow Fall, inFamous Second Son, Driveclub and Knack as well as partner titles Destiny, Diablo III, Deep Down and Watch Dogs.

Prologue Books BIG June sale .99 cents each 

Yes Prologue Books for the month of June on the Kindle all of their ebooks are only .99 cents each. Some excellent reads for the summer.

Just follow the BIG SALE link below to take you to their library on Amazon 

BIG SALE

Highway Patrol Season 2-4 now on DVD

Finally the season 2 through 4 of Highway Patrol are now on DVD and at a very great price of $12.99 each as of this posting. The video on the DVD is very crisp black and white very good quality considering the age of the show.

Each season comes in a box that holds two DVD cases, the box fits nicely on the shelf with other DVDs my only concern is that the first case holds three of the DVDs and it is a case where they are stacked on top of each other on the spindle where case two only has two DVDs with their own holding spindle.

Other than the packaging of the first three DVDs this is a must have set for anyone who digs cop shows and wants to see where it all started. Every story seems very fresh compared to cop dramas today a different formula. That and seeing a bunch of sweet cars and locations that are now just part of history.

  At $12.99 you get 975 minutes of entertainment and 39 episodes each season they didn't waste time back then they hammered them out.

Review of Todd Robinson The Hard Bounce

5.0 out of 5 stars Take two shots of Jim Beam & call me in the morning

You ever wonder whats it is like to be a bouncer? and what if that bouncer is also doing security duties that fall under PI work well this book covers it in a Hard Boiled bourbon soaked romp that leaves you wanting more from 4DC "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap".

Two misfits from what they call The Home grow up together and bond a friendship and business, and their first case almost ends up being their last. Filled with crocked cops and other misfits with special talents they find a way to get their own street justice.

Throw in a bit of romance, violence,rock trivia, and druggies you have a book full of lines i could not stop highlighting and laughing over.

This is the New Pulp this is entertainment I hope to read more about 4DC I will purchase the book the day it comes out.

Highway Patrol Complete Series coming to DVD

Yes the complete series is finally becoming available on DVD one of the best police shows is resurrected and coming to you on DVD box sets.

The first season is available right now through Amazon on DVD video on demand service but season 2-4 are being commercially released 

Packed with fast motorcycles, powerful patrol cars, helicopters and two-way radios, Highway Patrol screamed onto the scene destined to be one of the most popular syndicated television series of all time. This action packed show filled with harrowing roadway adventures sped its way from the TV screen into pop culture with the catch phrase "10-4".

Ann Rule A Fever In The Heart Review

 More like a four and a half

Yes this is a great book, one of those book you open up just to get a taste of it and then you find yourself completely engrossed in the story. Then when the first story was over you just could not still put it down. The first story is the main meat of the book taking up at least 70% of the book and the 5 bonus stories are just as good but not as detailed but glad to have them included.

Ann Rule really knows how to write True Crime, she hooks you and unfolds it to you in a mystery making you follow the case like it is unfolding in front of you.

I just want to say i'm thrilled to see these Case File books are coming to the Kindle even though i have most of them also in paperback I find reading on a Kindle is so much more engrossing, but with that said I have One complaint. Yes this ebook has some of the photos included in the original release but the point is SOME OF THEM. The paperback includes photos not in the ebook and one of the photos was a key photo to include because it was a piece of artwork even mentioned in the txt of the story.

I know ebooks are still coming to age but come on put the effort into giving us what we pay for this is an actual publisher putting this out, you can even do more with ebooks than you can with print why scrimp?

Is this book worth having on Kindle? Yes but please publishers take the time and give the book in the best presentation.