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 today's crime dramas filled screens with complex cases, 'Dragnet' built its stories around police work, questioning suspects and following the facts.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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