Jack Webb’s portrayal of Sergeant Joe Friday on the classic TV police show Dragnet was stoic and cool, not too far off from Webb himself, according to renowned actor Harry Morgan. Morgan ...

And Webb’s Sgt. Joe Friday is better known in communities everywhere that his real life counterparts. But the LAPD doesn’t mind a bit. The department considers Dragnet as an accurate ...

Set in Los Angeles, Webb cast himself as Sgt. Joe Friday and Harry Morgan was his ... And this cycle of Dragnet only made 98 shows (there were also versions of Dragnet in 1989 and 2003 in addition ...

elements of “Dragnet” are known to those who have never heard of the program. The show was created by its star, Jack Webb, who played Los Angeles police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday. The show ...

Jack Webb was not yet 30 when he came up with the radio show “Dragnet” in 1949 ... The plot had Sgt. Joe Friday trying to solve the killing of a mob figure with the help of an informant ...

Starting out as a radio show in the 1940s, Dragnet aired with Webb in the lead role of Sergeant Joe Friday. The show began each episode with Webb proclaiming, “My name’s Friday,” followed by ...

"Dragnet" is one series that has legs. King of all cops, Sgt. Joe Friday actually started on radio in 1949. The show first went on television in Dec. 1951 and became an institution, lasting until ...

One of the big TV hits of the 1950s was the police procedural Dragnet, which hailed from creator/actor Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday, with stories taken from actual case files of the Los Angeles ...

Webb and Harry Morgan, partners in the '60s version of "Dragnet ... sergeant again. * Friday and Gannon drove a 1966 Ford Fairlane. * Raymond Burr, later to become famous as Perry Mason, played ...

Working out of Intelligence Division, Sgt. Joe Friday and Off. Frank Smith piece together what little evidence they have, interview acquaintances, intimidate witnesses, interrogate suspects to the ...

Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon encounter a freaked-out young LSD user calling himself "Blue Boy"; before long, Blue Boy is "turning on" schoolchildren with the mysterious new drug.

his daughter, Karen, told The Hollywood Reporter. Webb starred as LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet, which began on the radio in June 1949. He got the idea for the police procedural after working as ...