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		Dragnet was a popular, influential and long-running radio and television police procedural about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Joe Friday, and his partners.
		Dragnet had its origins in Webbs small role as a police forensic scientist in the 1948 film, He Walked by Night, inspired by the actual murder of an LAPD officer.
		Dragnet broke one of the unspoken (and still rarely broached) taboos of popular entertainment when a young child was killed in A Gun For Christmas (aired December 21, 1950).
	www.myspace.com /dragnetradio (1111 words)

	Dragnet
		Dragnet was an instant hit on television, maintaining a top 10 position in the ratings through 1956.
		Dragnet emphasized authentic police jargon, the technical aspects of law enforcement, and the drudgery of such work.
		As the archetypal television police drama Dragnet has remained a staple in reruns and continues to be an object of both parody and reverent homage.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/D/htmlD/dragnet/dragnet.htm (1083 words)

	DRAGNET: THEN AND NOW \| A TELETRONIC CLASSIC TV REVIEW
		"Dragnet" was also unusual for a police drama in that it did not delve deeply into the personal life of its main character, Sgt. Joe Friday, played with determined seriousness by the late Jack Webb.
		Unlike a 1954 "Dragnet" film (which was largely based on the TV series and is seldom seen today), the new "Dragnet" movie was played for laughs.
		The new "Dragnet" is a well-produced, well-written, well-acted police drama.
	www.teletronic.co.uk /dragnet.htm (1734 words)

	Jack Webb's dragnet
		Dragnet the television series was based on a radio show in 1949 called Dragnet.
		You would often hear the Dragnet theme on The Andy Griffith show while Barney Fife was patrolling the streets of Mayberry, but that would not be the only time the Dragnet theme would be heard in the sixties.
		Dragnet had become a part of television history, and and a new Dragnet debuted in 1987 starring Dan Aykroyd as Joe Friday, the nephew of the original Joe Friday.
	www.tvcrazy.net /tvclassics/dragnet (458 words)

	Dragnet TV Show - Dragnet Television Show - TV.com
		Dragnet 1967-1970 was the second run of the Dragnet series.
		The original "Dragnet" was the grandfather of ALL of today's police drama...
		Dragnet (1989) was a syndicated revival of the classic Dragnet (1951) and Dragnet (1967) series, which were based on the 1949 radio drama, all of which starred Jack Webb as LAPD detective Joe...
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	Dragnet Radio
		The story was that he had the fastest boat on the bay—the second fastest belonged to the Coast Guard, and at the end of the day they would be side by side at the dock.
		"Dragnet" was going to feature the San Francisco PD—in fact some of its earliest stories were based on SFPD files—but the Mayor and Chief of Police thought a crime show wouldn't reflect on San Francisco's image as a tourist site.
		Dragnet fan Raul Moreno writes: "It should be noted that Martin Milner, later of ADAM 12, played 'Frank Smith' on radio for six episodes before Jack settled on Ben Alexander.
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	Dragnet 1950s tv series on VCD & DVD
		The original "Dragnet" was the grandfather of ALL of today's police drama shows.
		In late 1965, Universal and NBC hired Webb to revive "Dragnet" as a made-for-TV movie.
		Titled "World Premiere: Dragnet," the well-made film has Friday and Gannon linking the slayings of photographer's models to the disappearance of a war widow, while Gannon prepares to retire.
	www.40smovies.us /dragnet.htm (172 words)

	Dragnet on WCHS-TV8
		Filmed on locations throughout Los Angeles, this updated version of "Dragnet" features two LAPD detectives investigating crimes that could only take place in Los Angeles, one of the world's most glamorous and intriguing cities.
		Against the backdrop of economically and culturally diverse neighborhoods, the detectives come up against a group fo criminals who are just as diverse, from diamond thieves and Hollywood movie moguls to street gangs, copycat serial killers, international terrorists and kidnappers.
		The original "Dragnet" began in 1949 as a radio drama, then moved to the small screen in 1952, running for seven years in its initial incarnation.
	www.wchstv.com /abc/dragnet (390 words)

	Revivals: "Dragnet" and "Dragnet '67" and "Dragnet (1989-1990)"
		Revivals: "Dragnet" and "Dragnet '67" and "Dragnet (1989-1990)"
		Every decade has its "real" cop show: a police drama that seems to get beyond the stereotypes of your average police drama and show you what its really like to be a cop.
		Dragnet was the "real" cop show of the 50's.
	www.poobala.com /dragnet.html (973 words)

	Dragnet Returns? - DiscussAnything.com -
		Wolf is expected to write the pilot and serve as executive producer of the Studios USA Television project, which wouldn't be ready until sometime in 2003 at the earliest.
		However, it's expected Wolf's show will be more of a revisualization of "Dragnet" as a modern-day Los Angeles cop drama rather than a simple remake of the old series.
		"Dragnet" -- a straight-ahead procedural cop drama starring Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday -- is one of the most recognizable franchises in TV and film.
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	New 'Dragnet' can't get off the ground
		With a glut of cop shows and procedural dramas choking the television schedule, you have to wonder why anyone thought viewers needed another one -- and, worse, one that had been done before.
		With "Dragnet" returning to the airwaves, however, executive producer Dick Wolf ("Law & Order" and all its spin-offs) believes that his personal magic will help invigorate the most famous cop on television and, also, that the target audience has never seen the old "Dragnet" unless they were up smoking pot and watching TV Land.
		In 1990, there was a one-year disaster called "The New Dragnet" that aired as a syndicated series, with no one you'd remember and, most unforgivingly, no Joe Friday.
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	Buyout Footage - Classic Dragnet TV Stock Footage ; Public Domain Stock Footage Library.
		Sgt. Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith #2 hunt down the bandit queen; described as a tall, gorgeous woman with unusually large hands, who is on a robbery and shooting spree.
		Sgt. Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith #2 investigate a case where a woman and her grandson were victims of a hit and run by a bakery truck whose driver appears to have an airtight alibi.
		Sgt. Joe Friday and Officer Sgt. Ben Romero investigate the aquaintances of a murdered secretary where the only physical evidence they have is the pipe she was beaten with.
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	Television Heaven
		The show's literally enormous success was ably attested to by the fact that for the initial seven years of its run, the series continued to exist concurrently in both its radio and TV incarnations.
		The inspirations for Dragnet's stories were drawn from real cases from the files of the Los Angeles police department, which also provided the series' locale.
		Through Dragnet and its central character of Sgt. Joe Friday, Jack Webb bequeathed a dramatic legacy upon which the police drama as we know it today has continued to blossom and flourish.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /dragnet.htm (371 words)

	Large Print Reviews - Dragnet on Radio - A Review
		Dragnet is a perennial television favorite, but what many people do not realize is that Dragnet had its beginning on the radio.
		Interestingly, all of the cases presented on Dragnet were based upon real cases, drawn from the files of the Los Angles Police Department (L.A.P.D.).
		This outstanding collection of old-time, Dragnet on Radio is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of a 64-page booklet detailing the history of the Dragnet show.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /radiodragnet.html (751 words)

	Dragnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This police drama began on radio in 1949, became a long-running televised fl-and-white series on NBC from January 1952 to September 1959, and was revived in January 1967 for four more years in color.
		The presence of Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday was a constant throughout all the "Dragnet" incarnations, as was the famous "Dragnet" theme song composed by Walter Schumann.
		The hallmark of "Dragnet" was the documentary-style realism in its portrayal of procedural police work in Los Angeles, California.
	www.geocities.com /mr2pigs/Dragnet.html (239 words)

	Dragnet (tv) . Austin Chronicle . 02-08-99
		For a few years in the late Sixties, the ominous "dum duh dum dum" meant earnest police drama, the righting of wrongs, the triumph of good over evil.
		Dragnet was about life on the beat for two detectives in Los Angeles.
		His best big-screen role turned out to be Patty Duke's nebbish hubby in Valley of the Dolls.) It began the year after Dragnet and ran from 1968 to 1975, also on NBC, and featured Webb's parade of the usual stereotypes, and juggled humor with drama, albeit awkwardly.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/d/dragnet1.html (952 words)

	The Safe House - Expositions - All About Alias
		The father-and-son archaeological drama "Veritas: The Quest" is still set to air Mondays at 8 p.m.
		Until now, the network had planned to launch an all-new block of dramas on the night -- a risky proposition for any broadcaster, but particularly for ABC, which is just starting to emerge from a Nielsen slump.
		At a meeting Tuesday after the original announcement was made, network executives decided trying to establish three new series on one night would be a dicey proposition, ABC spokesman Kevin Brockman says.
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	Dragnet (1987 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dragnet is a 1987 film starring Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Dabney Coleman, Harry Morgan, and Alexandra Paul.
		Acting as both a parody and homage to the long-running Dragnet television series, Aykroyd plays a very-accurate Joe Friday (nephew of the late Joe Friday from the series) while Hanks plays Pep Streebeck, his brand-new and very unconventional partner.
		The soundtrack is also notable for one of its original songs, "City of Crime." The track features a hip-hop style collaboration between Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks, and played over the film's closing credits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dragnet_(1987_film) (299 words)

	Dragnet DVD : TV Shows on DVD from TVDVDPlanet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Dragnet DVD is a collection of 15 DVDs in a 3 box set as shown above, all 100% in chronological order from the pilot to the finale.
		The Dragnet DVD collection also includes custom artwork and episode guides so you can find your favorite episode at anytime.
		The Dragnet DVD collection are formatted region free so they will play on any DVD player, DVD-ROM X-Box or PS2 Worldwide.
	www.tvdvdplanet.com /movie/mystery/Dragnet.html (265 words)

	Dragnet 1967: Season 1
		From the ‘Da da dum dum, da da dum dum DA’ opening notes of the theme song this show went from radio to fifties television and was resurrected in the mid sixties.
		Webb, who also produced and directed the series, like to show that sometimes there, was drama to be found in the more mundane cases.
		After a long career in film he was in the 1954 hit "December Bride" as well as one of the first television spin off series "Pete and Gladys".
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /dragnet_1967_season_1.htm (1116 words)

	Dragnet - Synopsis - Moviefone
		Dan Aykroyd must have practiced for months to perfect his Jack Webb inflections for Dragnet.
		Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz's directorial debut (also written by Mankiewicz, along with Aykroyd, and Alan Zweibel) is a gentle spoof of the legendary '50s television police drama -- pitting '50s conservatism smack up against the attitudes of the '80s.
		So much so that even after his superior Captain Gannon (Harry Morgan, reprising his role from the '60s revival of the Dragnet program) orders him off the case, Friday continues on, with the requisite car chases and crashes that usually climax any '80s cop movie or comedy.
	movies.aol.com /movie/dragnet/1009955/synopsis (246 words)

	Dragnet (series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Webb and Wynn became friends, and both thought that the day-to-day activities of police officers could be realistically depicted, and could make for compelling drama without the forced sense of melodrama then so common in radio programming.
		After Webb's death, the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department announced that badge number 714--Webb’s number on the television show--had been retired, and Los Angeles city offices lowered their flags to half-staff.
		For a Tums commercial, Dragnet's famous four-note-plus-five-note opening theme was used as a jingle ("Tum-Tum-TUM-Tum...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dragnet_(drama) (3629 words)

	AMCTV.com MEMBER REVIEWS: Dragnet 1969 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Although I have this one on tape, I always love watching the shows and the Dragnet movies when placed on the old TV screen.
		It has all the strengths of the Dragnet TV series and builds on them into a fantastic 90-minute drama.
		It's interesting how many elements from this film were "borrowed" for the pilot episode of the revived DRAGNET series currently on ABC with Ed O'Neill taking over as Joe Friday.
	www.amctv.com /show/review?CID=60511-MST (499 words)

	Dragnet (1952) - Zap2it - TV Show
		For the majority of the show's 1950s run, he was partnered with Ben Alexander's Officer Smith, but when the show was brought back in 1967, he had Harry Morgan's Officer Gannon as a partner.
		Jack Webb created, starred in, produced and directed most of the episodes of Dragnet.
		The series was resurrected as a syndicated drama in 1989 and Dick Wolf made two attempts to jump-start the franchise, but both "Dragnet" and "LA Dragnet" failed for ABC.
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	Show Guide: L.A. Dragnet--AllYourTV.com
		Synopsis: Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf's modern-day take on the classic procedural police drama, "Dragnet," continues for a second season with new faces and new cases.
		Through the voiceovers that are a "Dragnet" trademark, Friday will continue to express his viewpoint about cops, criminals, witnesses and justice, as well as about his new role as a (sometimes reluctant) mentor.
		One of the individuals that Friday oversees is Detective Jimmy McCarron, a hot-tempered character originally from the Bronx and one of the youngest detectives in the RHD.
	www.allyourtv.com /shows/l/showguideladragnet.html (649 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Dragnet' covers wide area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Any TV viewer of a certain age will recognize that catchphrase from Dragnet, TV's classic police-detective drama and the precursor of Law and Order and countless other modern cop series.
		It is a key component of ABC's midseason rebuilding plan, parts of which are being unveiled for TV critics Wednesday in Los Angeles.
		Though the network has had moderate success with new comedies, all four of its new fall dramas have been canceled.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2003-01-13-dragnet_x.htm (542 words)

	Dragnet (2003) - Pazsaz Entertainment Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The ABC Television Network has ordered 13 episodes of a new version of the classic drama Dragnet from Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf, one of television's most successful creators and architect of the long-running "Law & Order" franchise, and Universal Television.
		"Dragnet is one of the preeminent brands in the history of television, and I am honored to be able to bring it back to life in a contemporary style that will re-introduce the franchise to a new generation of viewers," said Mr.
		Dragnet originated on NBC in 1949 as a radio drama, then moved to the small screen in 1952, running for seven years in its initial incarnation.
	www.pazsaz.com /dragnet4.html (249 words)

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