The "joke books" Marty Milner is selling in the Big Producer, (8/26/54) were 1954's version of pornography. I wonder how they would have compared to what any of us can get on these machines any time we want to in 2015?
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Pretty damned mild by 2015 standards. I've got a few of them...mostly sexual innuendo jokes and a few bare breasts.
shareIf you freeze-frame and enhance the scene where Webb is leafing thru the "joke book" seized from the locker, you can clearly see a photo of a buck naked (and very well endowed) Broderick Crawford on one of the pages. Webb had a great sense of humor and was probably poking fun at his counterpart/ rival from the show "Highway Patrol."
Webb probably snapped the pic himself during a night of drunken revelry at the Brown Derby. These kind of "inside jokes" were common in the pre-VCR era when no one could stop the film long enough to see the dirty bits.
Fairly sure Sgt. Friday would go into vapor lock the second he was exposed to the internet.
"He was running around like a rooster in a barnyard full of ducks."--Pat Novak