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 ...

If any television series past or present could be called a tribute to the Los Angeles Police Department, it would be Jack Webb’s Dragnet. Dragnet ran on television in the 1950s and then several years ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- I don't know why I keep track of these things, but I'll bet Sunday night's premiere of ABC's new "Dragnet" series set a record for the number of times the word "semen" has ...

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 ...

Question: As I remember, Dragnet was based on real police cases. But didn't Don Meredith star in a 1970s Dragnet-type show that was based on real police cases, too? Thank you for your help. — ...

Just finished watching the series premiere of the new show Dragnet. Not a bad show really, kinda reminded me a bit of Law and Order, with the investigating. Now the thing that I found odd was the ...

Herb Ellis, an actor and director known for helping Jack Webb create the iconic TV series Dragnet, died Dec. 26 in San Gabriel, Calif. He was 97. Born Herbert Siegel in Cleveland, Ohio on Jan. 7, 1921 ...

Recycling is everything in television, it seems. A workable concept can disappear for decades but eventually it comes around again. Most often it's throwaway fare like Joe Millionaire and The ...

The ominous first four notes of "Danger Ahead" will fill Auburn Public Theater Wednesday, April 22, when WRVO screens 1954's "Dragnet" in the next installment of Tuned to Yesterday's "At the Movies" ...