Dragnet - The Grand Father of All Police Drama

Dragnet, created by Jack Webb, perhaps the first successful, most famous and most influential police drama of all time, showing the realism, unpretentious and actual police work and life. The word "Dragnet", an actual police term, means any system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Jack Webb, befriending a Los Angeles policeman, used the actual cases from LAPD and created Dragnet which primarily aims to show the actual police life to make the public more sympathetic to the brave boys about their profession and personal lives.

First ran radio on 1949-1957, Dragnet also appeared on television from 1951-1959 and from 1967-1970 with a trademark opening narration:

"The story you are about to see is true.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent."

The story revolves about two detectives, Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner Ofc. Bill Gannon tracking down criminals, thieves, drug abusers & dealers and investigate criminal cases throughout Los Angeles. The story emphasize the careful attention on realism of the crimes, all the twists and turns before the criminals finally arrested, and describe what happened at the subsequent of the trial and how severe the punishment criminals received. Jack Webb, the creator and producer of Dragnet, also the actor as Sgt. Joe Friday and receive policeman's funeral award by LAPD even he's not police officer.

1967-1970 Dragnet TV series, completed 4 seasons with total of 98 episodes now available on DVD at TVAddicts.tv