DRAGNET — Pictured: (l-r) Harry Morgan as Officer Bill Gannon, Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday (Photo by NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images) "Just the facts, ma'am"... If you ...
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 ...
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 ...
The police “crime and punishment” TV show Dragnet aired in 1952 and ran for eight years on NBC. One actor who made a guest appearance was future Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy who found the show’s use ...
To understand how much commerce has changed in recent years, consider a simple trip to the grocery store. When you drive to the store now, your movements are recorded by your cellphone provider, your ...
ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- In "Dragnet" days, police profiles were built by knocking on doors - gumshoe cops requesting "just the facts ma'am." The New Dragnet has Chicago-area police harnessing social ...