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TELEVISION PROGRAM LISTING
NO, in no Way, Shape or Form is this listing complete or even anywhere near close to it.   It was put together by the museum simply because there was nothing out there on the subject.   And should be seen at best as a “simple attempt” to put something together for our own internal use.   It is placed here (again there is nothing else on the subject out there), as a tool for scholars doing research on the subject.

It consists solely of the various listings (Newspaper, Magazine, etc.), and other odds and ends, that we have been able to locate.   As such it is really more of a hodgepodge of what we have been able to locate.   Frustrating to the scholar but again, there seems to be nothing else out there on the subject of Television and the Reefer Madness Era.

---- WARNING: --  The museum has NOT actually seen many of these programs, thus cannot state for sure if they even had anything to do with the Reefer Madness Era.   But they do sound about right.


TELEVISION NEWSPAPER REFERENCES:

CHICAGO TRIBUNE:
  • Dec 5, 1959 pg C14 --- TV - Border Patrol -- Drama -- A half smoked marihuana cigaret saves Deputy Chief Jagger from certain death at the hands of a Mexican wetback smuggler”
  • Chicago Tribune Jan 5, 1968 pg. B15 - Evanston Cop chief Raps CBS ‘Pot’ Film - Pot Party at a University shown Nov 1, and 2

    CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE:
  • Dec 5, 1959 pg. C14 - Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1959 - Border Patrol -- A half smoked Marihuana Cigaret saves Deputy Chief Jagger from certain death at the hands of a Mexican wetback smuggler.

    CHICAGO DEFENDER:
  • - Oct 1, 1955 pg 5 -- “TV Show Leads Girl to Finger Dope Dens” [NWR]

    CHICAGO DAILY DEFENDER:
  • Chicago Daily Defender Feb 24, 1962 pg. 10 - Teenage Drug Addict Story Told On CBS-TV Wed. Feb 28, - "Armstrong circle Theatre” - “Assignment Teen-Age Junkies”
  • Chicago Daily Tribune Oct 20, 1962 pg. C10 - Sea Hunt An underwater marijuana farm provides an unusual adventure for Mike Nelson (Rerun) Lloyd Bridges for Oct. 23, 1962
  • Chicago Daily Defender - July 31, 1963 pg. A17 “TV Program Guide” 9:00 Armstrong Circle Theater --- Three reporters on Assignment: Teen-Age Junkies” comb New York in search of material. In hospitals, at marijuana parties and in police stations they encounter addicts, pushers and racketeers.
  • Chicago Daily Tribune Mar 26, 1962 pg. B6 - “Arrest Billy Gray of ‘Father Knows Best’
  • Chicago Daily Tribune - July 14, 1962 pg 5 - “Young TV Star Gets 60 Days”
  • Chicago Daily Tribune - Nov 2, 1967 pg. 17 - Two-Hour Probe Set on Hazards of ‘Pot’. “Pot In America: Today Show two-hour special Friday Nov 3, 1967 NBC TV.

    NEW YORK TIMES:
  • New York times March 30, 1965 pg. 95 - The Losers - Teenage drug addiction--the most shocking and most heartbreaking of today’s headlines. Just how prevalent is it? And what can we do about it? Tonight WCBS-TV reveals how some youngsters are getting their “kicks”--from glue-sniffing to pep pills and goof balls, to marijuana and heroin--and exposes some of the causes that drive them to addiction. Narrated by Jim Jenson. Produced by WCBS-TV Tonight, 7:30-7:30.
  • New York Times - Dec 31, 1960 pg. - Sea Hunt: Mike Nelson discovers marijuana plant on ocean floor. With Lloyd Bridges
  • New York Times - Feb 26, 1965 pg 59 - WCBS Will Show Marijuana Party.

    WALL STREET JOURNAL:
  • Wall Street Journal March 22, 1968 pg 30 - “Marijuana Party, Telecast By CBS, Gets FCC Airing”

    LOS ANGELES TIMES:
  • Los Angeles Times - March 14, 1960 pg. 2 - Perry Mason’s DA Jailed in Hollywood Party Raid.

    CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR:
  • Senate Dope Probe Goes To Public on Television; Jun 26, 1951; pg. 10

    TV GUIDE MAGAZINE:

  • SEA HUNT 8/27/1960: Underwater Narcotics Season 3, Episode 34 Episode Detail: Underwater Narcotics - Sea Hunt Mike (Lloyd Bridges) discovers a vast bed of marijuana-like plants growing on the ocean floor. Watson: Robert Knapp. Dr. Madison: William Schallert.

  • THE DUKES OF HAZZARD "Mason Dixon's Girls" Bo and Luke accidentally pick up a crate of marijuana at the bus depot and end up on the run - But Mason Dixon, a private detective and his two sexy associates are on to the Dukes but end up working together to stop a drug-smuggling ring. - Feb 29, 1980

  • HAZARDS OF POT -1967 - Today Show - TV Chicago Daily Tribune - Nov 2, 1967 pg. 17 - Two-Hour Probe Set on Hazards of ‘Pot’. “Pot in America: Today Show two-hour special - Friday Nov 3, 1967 NBC TV.


    TELEVISION PROGRAMS LOCATED:

  • DRAGNET - 1952 - Dragnet - Episode #18 The Big Seventeen w/commercials (11/06/1952)   Sergeant Friday investigates the destruction of a movie theater by a gang a teenagers!   The cops find a small box containing marijuana and put two-and-two together the reefer is making the kids go wild!   Turns out that teenage Johnny is pushing weed, yellow jackets, goof balls and "H."   His friend tells the police ”but it's too late...Johnny takes a hot shot and ODs.

  • DRAGNET - A Juvenile delinquent picked up with marijuana in his possession tells authorities that his brother plans to hold up a loan company.   Jack Webb and Ben Alexander star.   Nov 8, 1956 [Washington Post and Times Herald - Nov. 8, 1956 pg. B10]

  • MONITOR- WCBS will show Marijuana Party - Documentary on teen-Age Addiction Completed - How do teen-age get their Kicks?   Some try glue-sniffing. Others go for pep pills and goof balls.  Television viewers who don’t smoke anything stronger than filter-tip cigarettes will have an opportunity to see next month a teen-age POT or marijuana party. Jack Landau, producer for WCBS-TV, completed his filming yesterday for an hour-long documentary on addiction among teen-agers. His program will attempt to show the traffic in marijuana that goes on at schools and colleges. [New York Times Feb 26, 1965 pg. 59]

  • CALENDAR -1962 - Television Program - Jan. 3, 1962 - Anslinger proposes fundamentals in fighting the drug problem and promote new book, Murderers, written by Anslinger and Oursler. --Program located at PennState University.

    THE LINE UP - 1955 (Television)
  • 2.09 [048] THE YAEGER CASE Copyright Date 15 Nov 1955 - Lt Guthrie and Insp Greb are faced with a difficult problem when they are called in to investigate a narcotics robbery.   -- note, this episode maybe a TV program with the same name:
  • 4.10 [123] The Reluctant Addict case - Copyright Date 28 Nov 1957 Ed Maxcy Feb 2002

  • MONITOR - 1959 - Television Program - July 1959 NBC, Anslinger and Rufus King speak on drug enforcement issues.   Also, March 1992 - Program located at PennState.

  • MRS. ROOSEVELT MEETS THE PUBLIC - 1951 - [ Library of Congress has as copy]
    Date Broadcast : 07/01/1951 - Time 3:30 p.m. - Medium Television audio - Source NBC Duplicated from an NBC television audio recording of July 1, 1951; 3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.   Summary Eleanor Roosevelt talks with Harry J. Anslinger, Kenneth W. Chapman, and Max G. Rubinstein about narcotics abuse. - Genre(s) Talk shows--Television Name(s) Roosevelt, Eleanor. Anslinger, Harry J. Chapman, Kenneth W. Rubinstein, Max G. Physical Item RWC 5844 A1-2. 1 sound reel : 7.5ips, double-track ; 10-inch, 1/4-inch (polyester). Recording Laboratory 1991. Duration: 003000. NBC Radio Collection.

  • BOARDER PATROL - Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1959 - Boarder Patrol -- A half smoked Marihuana Cigaret saves Deputy Chief Jagger from certain death at the hands of a Mexican wetback smuggler.

    ARMSTRONG CIRCLE THEATER
  • July 31, 1963 pg. A17   Armstrong Circle Theater --- Three reporters on Assignment:   Teen-Age Junkies” comb New York in search of material.   In hospitals, at marijuana parties and in police stations they encounter addicts, pushers and racketeers.
  • Chicago Daily Defender Feb 24, 1962 pg. 10 - Teenage Drug Addict Story Told On CBS-TV Wed. Feb 28, - Armstrong Circle Theatre” - “Assignment Teen-Age Junkies” 1 hour - marijuana mentioned.
  • Chicago Daily Defender - July 31, 1963 pg. A17   “TV Program Guide” 9:00 Armstrong Circle Theater --- Three reporters on Assignment: Teen-Age Junkies” comb New York in search of material.   In hospitals, at marijuana parties and in police stations they encounter addicts, pushers and racketeers.

    SEA HUNT
  • Chicago Daily Tribune Oct 20, 1962 pg. C10 - Sea Hunt An underwater marijuana farm provides an unusual adventure for Mike Nelson (Rerun) Lloyd Bridges for Oct. 23, 1962
  • Sea Hunt: Mike Nelson discovers marijuana plant on ocean floor.   With Lloyd Bridges 30 minutes, Dec 31, 1960 - N.Y. Times Dec. 31, 1960 pg. 33.

  • ASSIGNMENT UNDERWATER -1960 - Target / Liberty Enterprises, Inc. ; executive producer, Frank De Felitta ; producer-director, Bernard Glasser ; associate producer, Mort Zarcoff ; writer, Edward Bernds. Note Syndicated program.   Copyright notice on film: c1960 by National Telefilm Associates, Inc.   Note "On assignment for the Bureau of Narcotics, Greer is directed to act as a target to force bad guys into the open"--Archivist's notes.   UC Los Angeles - FilmTV T26078 - SRLF

  • TODAY SHOW - 1967 - Today Show Chicago Daily Tribune - Nov 2, 1967 pg. 17 - Two-Hour Probe Set on Hazards of ‘Pot’.   “Pot in America: Today Show two-hour special   Friday Nov 3, 1967 NBC TV.

  • THE LOSERS - 1965 New York times March 30, 1965 pg. 95 - The Losers - Teenage drug addiction--the most shocking and most heartbreaking of today’s headlines.   Just how prevalent is it? And what can we do about it?   Tonight WCBS-TV reveals how some youngsters are getting their “kicks”--from glue-sniffing to pep pills and goof balls, to marijuana and heroin--and exposes some of the causes that drive them to addiction Narrated by Jim Jenson.   Produced by WCBS-TV Tonight, 7:30-7:30.  OR   In Database: A-V Online 2007/01 -- Accession Number: 0072270   Title: The Losers   Abstract: Illustrates the mental and physical damage caused by glue -sniffing and the use of marijuana, heroin, goof balls and pep pills. Concludes that the habitual user of drugs is eventually a loser. Includes ---- experiences of teenagers from slums and from 'NICE HOMES.'. Descriptors: Home-; Poverty-Economics; Housing-; Drawing-; Heroin-; Herbal-medicine; Illegal-drug-use; Marijuana-; Adolescence-Age-groups; Adolescent-developmental-psychology   Publication Year: 1965 - Media Type: 16 mm film, optical sound   Producer Name: WCBS-TV; 51 W 42nd St; New York; NY; 10019; USA: B&W - Length: 31 Minutes

  • DECOY - "Saturday Was Lost"
    https://archive.org/details/DecoySaturdayWasLost
    Casey (Beverly Garland) needs to help a teenage girl remember what happened while she was in a drug induced stupor. Season 1, episode 24.  Original air date: 1957.  Cast: Beverly Garland (Casey Jones), Barbara Lord (Beth Wilson), Simom Oakland (Sgt. Steve Necclo), Larry Hagman (Kenneth Davidson), Bill Hickey (Billy), Louis Guss (Hotel Manager) and Charles Rae King (Detective 1). First television role for Larry Hagman.

    A LISTING OF ODDS AND ENDS:

  • TV PUBLIC DIS-SERIVCE AD - Marijuana PSA Dad - MODERN-DAY TELEVISION   [PSA] Public Service Ad:   Dad leaves note to son (marijuana) Wording taken from: http://www.archive.org

  • TV PUBLIC DIS-SERIVCE AD - Marijuana PSA Mom - MODERN-DAY TELEVISION   [PSA] Public Service Ad:   Mom leaves a note to son. (marijuana) - Creative Commons license: Public Domain

  • TV PUBLIC DIS-SERIVCE AD - 1995 - Jerry White Jr. Don't Smoke Pot!   - MODERN-DAY TELEVISION [PSA] Public Service Ad:   -- Loner Bobby gets picked on by the cool kids and they tempt him to smoke pot. Will Bobby's little secret help him resist?   -- Subject: Don't smoke pot!   - I think this short is an excellent run, it shows peer pressure at its finest and has anyone ever seen the bullies of peer pressure get crushed like this? A great tale of irony, I wish I had more to do with this one, I am happy to have made the music, I am glad the 30 mom crew made this one without me, I would have fucked it up.   It is a very innocent, yet hard-core view on peer pressure and teeny-bopper sillyness.   [Can be download for free at -- http://www.archive.org]

  • DEA COP SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THE FOOT, while teaching gun safety.   [Can be downloaded for free at]
    http://www.archive.org/details/deacopshootself

  • -http://www.archives.gov/
    The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001 Telephone: 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272
    Television Interviews, 1951-1955
    A Catalog of Longines Chronoscope Interviews in the National Archives Published for the National Archives and Records Administration By the National Archives Trust Fund Board 1990 Chronoscope, which was broadcast on CBS-affiliated television stations from 1951 to 1955. This publication, "Television Interviews, 1951-1955
    APRIL 18, 1954 Participants: Harry J. Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, Department of the Treasury, interviewed by Larry Lesueur and Robert Manning. Topics: Drug situation in the United States, control over drug traffic, the People's Republic of China as a source for drugs, and federal efforts to resolve problems of drug addiction. (200LW524)


    ONCE MORE this list is far, far from being anywhere near complete.   In addition (as we have not actually seen most of these programs), some of them might not even contain a Reefer Madness content. BUT it is a least a start and we hope it helps somewhat.


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