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 ...

Nearly 50 years ago, the NBC show Dragnet, the most influential police procedural ever, broadcast an episode that called for its hero, Sergeant Joe Friday, to debate fictionalized 1960s critics of ...

A ceremony is scheduled at the Los Angeles Police Academy Athletic Field for a stamp that honors the TV show "Dragnet." The stamp's first day of sale is Tuesday, more than 50 years after "Dragnet" ...

Okay, that may not be the best sound transcription ever, but surely y’all recognize that TV theme song from back in the day. How about the voice-over? “This is the city — Los Angeles, California,” ...

Yes, you can find episodes of this pioneering police procedural on the Internet, but what classic-TV fan wouldn’t like to ride along with Sgt. Friday and Officer Gannon on disc, without the ...

While serving in the L.A.P.D., he began delivering scripts for series like “Dragnet” and “Adam-12.” After retiring, he was a ...

Kindergarten-through-fourth-grade students will soon have an arts charter school in Downtown Easton, right next to the city's new police station. And it may not have happened without a late-night ...

Herb Ellis, an actor and director known for helping Jack Webb create the iconic TV series Dragnet, died Dec. 26 in San Gabriel, Calif. He was 97. Born Herbert Siegel in Cleveland, Ohio on Jan. 7, 1921 ...

The Hollywood, Health, & Society report looks at firearm trends in film and TV over the last 20 years, offering resources and approaches for how entertainment and news media can provide ...