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 story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.” Every episode of “Dragnet,” the godfather of TV police procedurals that ran in the 1950s, began with ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The badge is back. Or so goes the ABC slogan touting its new series version of the touchstone ...

In a network TV landscape cluttered with cop shows, it’s easy to forget it all began with the decades-long dominance of “Dragnet” in the 1950s and ’60s. Early TV portrayals of detectives featured ...

A stamp commemorating the 1950s TV show “Dragnet,” which dramatized the Los Angeles Police Department, will be issued Tuesday during a ceremony at the LAPD Academy in Elysian Park. The stamp is one of ...

This is the city — Los Angeles, California. But it ain’t no city of angels, Mister. That’s why police Detective Joe Friday, the nephew of his late namesake, carries a badge. Dan Aykroyd provides a ...