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1949 radio drama (1949 – 1957) Original music. "Dragnet". Dragnet is an American media franchise created by actor and producer Jack Webb, following Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Detective Joe Friday and his partners as they conduct by-the-book police work and solve crimes in Los Angeles. Originating as a radio drama on NBC in 1949 ...
Dragnet is an American crime drama television series starring Jack Webb and Harry Morgan which ran for four seasons, from January 12, 1967, to April 16, 1970. To differentiate it from the earlier 1950s Dragnet television series, the year in which each season ended was made part of the on-screen title—the series started as Dragnet 1967 and ended as Dragnet 1970.
Los Angeles police officer. Rank. Sergeant. Lieutenant. Joe Friday is a fictional character created and portrayed by Jack Webb as the lead for his series Dragnet. Friday is a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department. [1] The character first appeared on June 3, 1949, in the premiere of the NBC radio drama that launched the series.
Dragnet is a 1987 American buddy cop comedy film directed and co-written by Tom Mankiewicz in his directorial debut. Starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks, the film is based on the radio and television crime drama of the same name. The screenplay, both a parody of and homage to the long-running television series, was written by Aykroyd, Mankiewicz ...
October 3, 1968. ( 1968-10-03) Friday and Gannon attempt to recruit minority candidates from a community-centered sponsored job development group. They seek African-American Officer Dave Evans to help them, as many of the group members know and respect him. But when Evans' house is attacked for his job and race, he considers retirement, citing ...
Dragnet (1951 TV series) Dragnet. (1951 TV series) Dragnet – later syndicated as Badge 714 [3] – is an American crime television series, based on the radio series of the same name, both created by their star, Jack Webb. The shows take their name from the police term dragnet, a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or ...
Robert C. Dennis. January 19, 1967. ( 1967-01-19) Two men rob a construction site of multiple cases of extremely powerful dynamite. When Friday and Gannon track down the primary thief, a fervent neo-Nazi, they find he has planted a bomb somewhere in Los Angeles. A prolonged interrogation goes nowhere until Friday is able to use his incessant ...
Dragnet. (1951 TV series) episodes. This is an episode list for the 1951 American television crime drama series Dragnet. The series pilot premiered on NBC on December 14, 1951. A total of 276 episodes aired between December 14, 1951, and August 23, 1959. [1] Dragnet was on both radio and television from December 1951 through February 1957. [2]