In 1987, Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks teamed up to star in Dragnet, an adaptation of the famous TV police procedural TV series.

Actor Herb Ellis, known for collaborating with Jack Webb to create the iconic TV series “Dragnet” died on Dec. 26 at age 97. Deadline reports that Ellis passed away in San Gabriel, California just ...

The police “crime and punishment” TV show Dragnet aired in 1952 and ran for eight years on NBC. One actor who made a guest appearance was future Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy who found the show’s use ...

On this day, June 3, in 1949, crime drama “Dragnet” first broadcast on radio. Sixty years later, elements of “Dragnet” are known to those who have never seen or heard the program. The show was created ...

“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 ...

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 ...

On this day, June 3, in 1949, “Dragnet,” one of the most influential shows ever, was first broadcast on radio. Sixty years later, elements of “Dragnet” are known to those who have never heard of the ...

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 ...

The LAPD worked closely with the television series, which some called a public relations machine for the department. Staff writer Don Page wrote in the March 10, 1967 Los Angeles Times: “Just getting ...

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 ...