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 ...

Nearly 50 years ago, the NBC show Dragnet, the most influential police procedural ever, broadcast an episode that called for its hero, Sergeant Joe Friday, to debate fictionalized 1960s critics of ...

Just as it's difficult for anyone who didn't experience the early days of television to realize now that Arthur Godfrey was one of America's premier entertainers during the 1950s, so is it difficult ...

A ceremony is scheduled at the Los Angeles Police Academy Athletic Field for a stamp that honors the TV show "Dragnet." The stamp's first day of sale is Tuesday, more than 50 years after "Dragnet" ...

Every episode of “Dragnet,” the godfather of TV police procedurals that ran in the 1950s, began with these words. They were a promise that what viewers were about to see was a faithful re-creation of ...

“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 ...