who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet. He was also the founder of his own production company, Mark VII Limited. Born in Santa Monica ...

‘Dragnet’ was released in 1987 and it was ... 60s with Harry Morgan as Officer Bill Gannon and Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday. The series ended in 1970 after four seasons but went on to ...

‘Dragnet' is directed by Tom Mankiewicz ... 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 who ...

Although the idea of returning to a long dormant property in hopes of coasting off of nostalgia has been more common within ...

Sgt. Joe Friday and his sidekick detective ... Jack Webb realized that when he created “Dragnet.” Webb wanted everything about “Dragnet” to be “as authentic as possible,” even down ...

Dragnet originally aired from 1967 to 1970. It stars Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday (whose catchphrase was “Just the facts, ma’am”) and Harry Morgan as Officer Bill Gannon. Set in Los Angeles, episodes ...

While Sgt. Joe Friday never actually said, “Just the facts, ma’am,” that could have been the ethos of this influential procedural. “Dragnet” started as a radio drama before creator Jack ...

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 ...

Each episode of Dragnet is “the documented drama of an actual crime” taken from the files of the Los Angeles police. Webb, who also plays matter-of-fact Police Sergeant Joe Friday, says ...

Whatever happened to the truth-finding philosophy attributed to Sgt. Joe Friday in “Dragnet”: Just the facts, Ma’am.

For those of us old enough to remember the TV show “Dragnet,” as Sgt. Joe Friday always said, “Just the facts.” This reminds me of the bad old “blacklist” days of the 1950s when ...

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 ...