Infamous Dragnet “Blue Boy” LSD episode

Posted by Adam Stanhope in Media, Video Clips on June 26, 2008 at 10:51 am



Wow, man - groovy! Can you dig it? Sgt. Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon of the LAPD certainly could. LSD was the scourge of Los Angeles in this 1967 episode of Dragnet wherein Friday and Gannon try to save a young man named “Blue Boy” from himself - and those sugar cubes he’s been carrying around. A deliciously camp bit of 1960s television drug fare. YouTube.



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19 comments to "Infamous Dragnet “Blue Boy” LSD episode"

  1. roger
    June 26th, 2008 at 11:30 am

    Was that one cat eating paint? Lead paint ain’t groovy man

  2. kjhkjh
    June 26th, 2008 at 11:54 am

    The investigators seem more out of this world than the yellow & blue guy.

  3. Jake D.
    June 26th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    I love when they turn on the light and the girl keeps saying, “Merry Christmas”.

  4. rainbow
    June 26th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    I like the film noir style.

  5. Polx
    June 26th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    that was surreal.

    I’ve taken a fair old buch of Acid in my time but I’ve yet to see anything that twisted on it.

  6. Lasse
    June 26th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    Gene Hunt would kick their asses.

  7. dougrogers
    June 26th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Good old Joe and Bill manage to arrest the drug addled resisting Blue Boy without a TASER.

  8. seekshelter
    June 26th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    hhaha.. awesome.. this reminds me of that Quincy punk episode…

  9. Adam Stanhope
    June 26th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    ha - seekshelter - awesome memory!

    Another one I thought of - but couldn’t find - was the Hawaii Five-Oh episode where hippy surfers and beach-bums were doing amphetamines, and there was one dude who was high on speed while driving a motorcycle, but started having an acid-like trip…

    Book ‘em, Dano!

  10. CamilleR
    June 26th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    The whole episode is available on Hulu. Coming across that the other night was the best thing to happen for me all week.

  11. kid_icarus
    June 26th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    that was saaaweeeeet!

  12. ted
    June 26th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    “Looks like he’s been dropping that acid we’ve been hearing about…”

    Looks like those half-black, half-white face dudes from Star Trek.

  13. Leon
    June 26th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    Michael Burns, the actor that played Blue Boy, went on to get his Ph.D in history became a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College and retired in 2002 as Professor Emeritus.

    All that acid didn’t seem to hurt.

    I’m on the bus.

  14. Celeste
    June 26th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

    We watched this in my 5th grade DARE program, but I had forgotten about it.

  15. Tim Giachetti
    June 27th, 2008 at 4:15 am

    heheheh good find Adam. I just watched this episode, again, about 2 weeks ago. It’s as funny now as it was when i was a “blueboy” myself.
    Man if we acted like that then they would have entire wings of medical facilities filled with us back then.
    Thnks Adam

  16. Adam Stanhope
    June 27th, 2008 at 7:00 am

    Agreed, Tim.

    I remember doing a few wacky things back in my old Berkeley/LSD days, but nothing like old Blue Boy there.

  17. MoonCake
    June 27th, 2008 at 7:45 am

    i’ve never dropped, but i’m pretty sure it’s crap depicted like this that prevents me from doing so. just the FAKE description makes me say “wow.. that looks REALLY stupid.” also, i’m not a fan of intoxicants that cause damage. but great episode! i loved watching dragnet when i was little.

  18. earbox
    June 28th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    This episode totally freaked me out when I was ten.

  19. Blue Boy
    July 1st, 2008 at 11:43 am

    Those narc bitches! Never trust a square man. Love the deserteed Lynchian drug house, reminds me of the original batman series.


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