Dragnet migrated from radio to TV in 1951, at a time when the dominant style for crime stories was docu-realism with a noir edge. Dragnet writer-producer-star Jack Webb had a foursquare personality ...
DRAGNET — Pictured: (l-r) Harry Morgan as Officer Bill Gannon, Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday (Photo by NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images) "Just the facts, ma'am"... If you ...
Once in a while we like to go back to the past to see if what was predicted actually came true. In this 1967 episode of the original ripped-from-the-headlines series, Dragnet, a smart proto-yuppie ...
In a network TV landscape cluttered with cop shows, it’s easy to forget it all began with the decades-long dominance of “Dragnet” in the 1950s and ’60s. Early TV portrayals of detectives featured ...