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In announcing his vision of Dragnet, Webb said he intended to perform a service for the police by showing them as low-key working-class heroes. Dragnet moved away from earlier portrayals of the police in shows such as Jeff Regan and Pat Novak, which had often shown them as brutal and even corrupt. Dragnet became a successful television show in ...
Dragnet is a 1987 American buddy cop comedy film directed and co-written by Tom Mankiewicz in his directorial debut. Starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks , the film is based on the radio and television crime drama of the same name .
Dragnet is an American media franchise created by actor and producer Jack Webb and owned by his company Mark VII Limited and Universal Pictures.It follows Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Detective Joe Friday and his partners as they conduct by-the-book police work and solve crimes in Los Angeles.
Two men rob a construction site of multiple cases of extremely powerful dynamite. When Friday and Gannon track down the primary thief, a fervent neo-Nazi, they find he has planted a bomb somewhere in Los Angeles.
Dragnet is an American crime drama television series starring Jack Webb and Harry Morgan which ran for four seasons, from January 12, 1967, to April 16, 1970. To differentiate it from the earlier 1950s Dragnet television series, the year in which each season ended was made part of the on-screen title—the series started as Dragnet 1967 and ended as Dragnet 1970.
Dragnet, also known as The New Dragnet, see Dragnet (franchise)#1989 series: The New Dragnet; Dragnet (2003 TV series), also known as L.A. Dragnet, see Dragnet (franchise)#2003 series: L.A. Dragnet "Dragnet" (theme music), from the various series; The Drag Net, a 1928 American silent film; Dragnet, a 1947 American film starring Henry Wilco
Dragnet was an American radio series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show took its name from the police term " dragnet ", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
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