The dragnet Christmas episodes

All those fans of dragnet out there probably only know of one episode that they did for Christmas, The Big Little Jesus or The Christmas Story where they (Joe Friday and his partner) try to track down a possibly stolen statue of the baby Jesus from a nativity scene in a Catholic Church. This episode has even been adapted for the show macgyver. Look it up... Anyway there is a less famous, but no less impactful story that they made for Christmas, The Big .22 rifle for Christmas. It's a story more about gun safety more than Christmas, but the story is also good. A child accidentally kills his friend with his Christmas gift, a new .22 rifle. This episode has never been shown after the 50s dragnet series, probably because it doesn't really talk about Christmas. I like both these holiday episodes of the famous police procedural, but the best is The Big Little Jesus because it's about the holiday, not murder. What's your opinion?

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My thoughts on Mr. Stephen King

Say what you will about Stephen King and his quality of books and movies over the years (rose red and his version of the shining being among my favorite horror movies) he is a great writer.   Many call him the Master of horror, and they aren't wrong.   The majority of his books and stories are horror based, but I think another title can be given to him.   The Master of the modern adult fairy tale.  Before you do a triple take and think I've lost my mind, hear me out.   Many of us don't know the unabridged versions of those fairy tales we grew up with.   Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella in their original forms were as gruesome as any Stephen King story about a demon clown or a killer virus.   If you read a lot of Stephen Kings stories, if they aren't an ongoing series like the dark tower series, have a happy ending.   The monster or evil is defeated, but at a great cost to the heroes.   Heck, in Stephen kings classic novel, IT, two of the children who were the heroes die one by suicide and the other in battle.   The heroes leave scarred, but triumphant.   So in a way Stephen King is like the brothers Grimm for the modern age, and maybe someday he'll be just as immortal as the fairy tale writers that we all grew up with.

Would that I could.

Would that I could bury my heart fifty fathoms deep.
So that no one could hear my heart weep.
Would that the river grant me eternal rest
From the pain caused by she whom I loved best.
But the great good has not seen fit to salve my tortured soul
So onwards I cry, onwards I go
Into the the remainder of my life, my life's winter blow.
To walk the lonely winding road forever alone.