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Dragnet is a 1954 American crime film directed by Jack Webb and written by Richard L. Breen. The film stars Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Ann Robinson, Stacy Harris, Virginia Gregg and Vic Perrin. The film was adapted from the radio series of the same name, and is part of the wider Dragnet media franchise.
The Colgate Comedy Hour: 36.2 This Is Your Life: 12: The Red Buttons Show: CBS: 35.3 13: The Life of Riley: NBC: 35.0 14: Our Miss Brooks: CBS: 34.2 15: Treasury Men in Action: NBC: 33.9 16: The Jack Benny Show: CBS: 33.3 17: The Toast of the Town: 33.0 18: Gillette Cavalcade of Sports: NBC: 32.7 19: Philco TV Playhouse: 32.5 20: The George ...
Rank Program Network Rating 1: I Love Lucy: CBS: 49.3 2: The Jackie Gleason Show: 42.4 3: Dragnet: NBC: 42.1 4: You Bet Your Life: 41.0 5: The Toast of the Town: CBS: 39.6
Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural crime drama in American media history. Webb's aims in Dragnet were for unpretentious acting and a realistic depiction of policing. The series portrayed police work as dangerous and heroic, and helped shape public perception of law enforcement in the 20th century, improving the ...
Webb directed every episode of Dragnet, and was also a very occasional writer on the show. John Robinson joined the writing staff in 1953, and by 1955 (after Moser left the show for a time), Robinson became Dragnet's most frequent script contributor. Note that despite some sources claiming that Robinson was a pen-name of Jack Webb, it was not ...
Alexander was popular and remained a cast member until the show's cancellation in 1959. In 1954, a full-length feature-film adaptation of the series was released, starring Webb, Alexander, and Richard Boone. The television version of Dragnet began with this narration by George Fenneman: "Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to see is ...
Joe Friday is a fictional character created and portrayed by Jack Webb as the lead for his series Dragnet.Friday is a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department. [1] The character first appeared on June 3, 1949, in the premiere of the NBC radio drama that launched the series.
The estate of Jack Webb now owns the full rights to the company's library, with the exception of the original 1954 feature film version of Dragnet (originally released by Warner Bros., but now owned by Universal Pictures), and the films Pete Kelly's Blues and The D.I. (which are controlled by original distributor Warner Bros.).