Jack Webb, who played the by-the-book “Dragnet” detective Joe Friday, promised to help smooth things over with LAPD brass if he liked the book. The manuscript came back laced with hundreds of paper ...

Dragnet is directed by Tom Mankiewicz (Diamonds ... Aykroyd is at his comedic best as the namesake nephew of Detective Sgt. Joe Friday. Like his uncle, he’s a blue suited, by-the-rules cop ...