How many of you know the Dragnet series and love it?
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I have been binge watching this since age 14 or so and still do today occasionally, I like most that was my age at the time they started started with the color Dragnet 1967-1970 series, However back when I worked for Sam's Club I bought a DVD set they had of Dragnet there, Thinking it was that same series I poped it in and was amazed, This was a black&white series from the 1950's vs what I was used to watching
. This got my curiosity sparked so I looked into it on Wikipedia, I discovered it started as a radio show in 1949 and that ran til 1957, The DVDs I'd picked up was the FIRST TV series of Dragnet from 1951-1957.
Fast forward many,many years into the future and I got to thinking it would be great to put these cars the main characters used in my favorite PC game I mod, After much searching I finally found a suitable car to make the gold Ford Fairlane 500 4 door used in the color TV series, It would indeed be the ultimate test of the Veg patch as this was a GTA 4 car at topped out at 80 thousand plus polys
. While all went fine with ZModeler 1 (just slowed it loading a bit) it crashed my other editing programs
So like it or not I had to cut this down..ALOT!,
Finally I got it knocked way down, I haven't took a final count yet now that it's done (was just too happy to bother) but I'd say around 15000-16000 or so maybe less..
Anywho..I found out there was 2 diffrent cars used, One was the 1967 Ford Fairlane we all know and love.:
But few knew there was a inital Dragnet movie from 1966 which was the pilot of what became Dragnet 1967-1970. In this movie they used the 1966 Fairlane which has some minor diffrences from the 1967 as you xcan see.: