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 ...

The LAPD worked closely with the television series, which some called a public relations machine for the department. Staff writer Don Page wrote in the March 10, 1967 Los Angeles Times: “Just getting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eric Palicki%27s %27Red Angel Dragnet%27 stars a bookseller fighting demons Self-published project is on Kickstarter Idea stemmed from the biblical tome called the %27Key of Solomon%27 Red Angel ...