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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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
February 20, 1969. ( 1969-02-20) A computer puts Sgt. Friday and Officer Gannon on the trail of an embezzlement ring that involves master disguise Paul Nichols (John Gilgreen) and his girlfriend Peggy Sue Thompson. Landlady Elvira Norton ( Florence Lake) helps capture the culprits.
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 ...
September 28, 1967. ( 1967-09-28) Three con artists ( Harry Lauter, Stacy Harris, Indus Arthur) have been swindling businessmen from out of town by posing as a prostitute and two vice detectives, tricking victims into paying the woman's "bail". Friday and Gannon go undercover in a hotel, with Gannon pretending to be a manufacturer from Lincoln ...
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 ...