In 1987, Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks teamed up to star in Dragnet, an adaptation of the famous TV police procedural TV series.

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 ...

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 ...

Before Law and Order or NCIS (or any of their gajillion spinoffs, for that matter), there was one crime drama franchise that set the benchmark for excellence on television: Dragnet. First created by ...

Television is the enemy of the people. It broadcasts Fake News. It suppresses thought. We can’t let it dominate us. These media lessons originated with Jack Webb, one of the pioneers of television ...

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 ...