The police “crime and punishment” TV show Dragnet aired in 1952 and ran for eight years on NBC. One actor who made a guest appearance was future Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy who found the show’s use ...

Nearly 50 years ago, the NBC show Dragnet, the most influential police procedural ever, broadcast an episode that called for its hero, Sergeant Joe Friday, to debate fictionalized 1960s critics of ...

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 ...

The story you are about to read is true. The names weren’t changed so you know who we are talking about. Today, we will talk about one of my favorite TV characters and producers, Jack Webb. The ...

Webb was born in 1920 in Santa Monica, California. Raised by a single mother, the future television producer and writer was asthmatic. His mother and grandmother relied greatly on public assistance ...

Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon encounter a freaked-out young LSD user calling himself "Blue Boy"; before long, Blue Boy is "turning on" schoolchildren with the mysterious new drug.

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 ...

Jack Webb wasn’t Joe Friday. Joe Friday was Jack Webb. That indelible bonding of character and actor is the biggest obstacle to acceptance of the latest incarnation of Dragnet, TV’s first classic cop ...