Another prescient Dragnet bit was one where some punks tell Joe Friday that he'd better retire ASAP as he represented the fusty old-school and that when the youth of California came of age they would scoff at Friday's laws and morality and make him the criminal, the outcast.
I think it was the episode where a group of punk kids rob stores to gain supplies to form a hippie commune on a coastal island but I'm not sure.
Either way, it came to pass. I find it weird watching this show and realizing that there was a time when California was the place in the USA, when it was still "golden" (and when LA had a professional football team).:grin: