In 1987, Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks teamed up to star in Dragnet, an adaptation of the famous TV police procedural TV series.

On this day, June 3, in 1949, crime drama “Dragnet” first broadcast on radio. Sixty years later, elements of “Dragnet” are known to those who have never seen or heard the program. The show was created ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dick Wolf is adding some new muscle to the “LA Dragnet” production team as the ABC skein prepares for its second season. Scribe-siblings Josh and Jonas Pate (“G vs. E”) have been tapped to serve as ...

ABC has wrapped up a deal for uberproducer Dick Wolf’s new take on “Dragnet,” ordering 13 episodes of the project for a January launch. Deal for the skein came together in near-record time, with just ...

LOS ANGELES - Television's Al Bundy is returning to prime time as Sgt. Joe Friday. Ed O'Neill, the actor best known as the chauvinistic head of household on the long-running Fox comedy Married ...

Officer Joe Gannon on Dragnet and Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H are only two of the many memorable roles that actor Harry Morgan played in a career that spanned nearly 60 years, encompassing ...