On this day, June 3, in 1949, crime drama “Dragnet” first broadcast on radio. Sixty years later, elements of “Dragnet” are known to those who have never seen or heard the program. The show was created ...

Dragnet migrated from radio to TV in 1951, at a time when the dominant style for crime stories was docu-realism with a noir edge. Dragnet writer-producer-star Jack Webb had a foursquare personality ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Herb Ellis, an actor and director known for helping Jack Webb create the iconic TV series Dragnet, died Dec. 26 in San Gabriel, Calif. He was 97. Born Herbert Siegel in Cleveland, Ohio on Jan. 7, 1921 ...