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 ...

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 ...

Officer Joe Gannon on Dragnet and Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H are only two of the many memorable roles that actor Harry Morgan played in a career that spanned nearly 60 years, encompassing ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The badge is back. Or so goes the ABC slogan touting its new series version of the touchstone ...

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 ...

“This is not the 1950s anymore,” Kamala Harris informed earlier this week. Those words broadcast on a podcast called Call Her Daddy served as what radio Dragnet Joe Friday might call a “clue.” The, er ...

This is the city — Los Angeles, California. But it ain’t no city of angels, Mister. That’s why police Detective Joe Friday, the nephew of his late namesake, carries a badge. Dan Aykroyd provides a ...

ABC has wrapped up a deal for uberproducer Dick Wolf’s new take on “Dragnet,” ordering 13 episodes of the project for a January launch. Deal for the skein came together in near-record time, with just ...