by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Kip King, a future member of the Groundlings comedy troupe (and the father of comedian Chris Kattan), here essays a serious role as 17-year-old drug addict John Colter. Though he is willing to turn himself in and go "cold turkey", John refuses to rat on his supplier. While trying to get the boy to cooperate with the authorities, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) become painfully aware that the real source of John's emotional turmoil is his selfish, insenstive mother Nora (Gloria Ann Simpson). And yes, the actor playing the drug supplier is Jonathan Haze, aka "Seymour Krelboin" in the original 1960 version of Little Shop of Horrors. This episode was adapted from the Dragnet radio broadcast of August 10, 1954.
