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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Ed O'Neill stars as Detective Sgt. Joe Friday, the role Dragnet creator Jack Webb made a TV institution. Wolf has been boasting that after you see O'Neill as Friday, you'll never think of O'Neill ...

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.

Jack Webb last appeared as Sergeant Joe Friday on the Jack Benny Second Farewell Special which aired on January 24, 1974. Webb and Dragnet co-star, Harry Morgan as Officer Bill Gannon performed a ...