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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“The story you are about to see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” And so began each episode of “Dragnet,” which premiered on NBC on this day in 1952 after a pilot ...
HOLLYWOOD — ABC has pulled the plug on Dick Wolf’s “L.A. Dragnet,” NBC is giving “The Tracy Morgan Show” a shot on Tuesdays and CBS has figured out how to replace “The Reagans.” Here are the latest ...
HOLLYWOOD — ABC has pulled the plug on Dick Wolf’s “L.A. Dragnet,” NBC is giving “The Tracy Morgan Show” a shot on Tuesdays and CBS has figured out how to replace “The Reagans.” Here are the latest ...