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

Multi Awarded Drama - Joan of Arcadia

Millions of people speak to God, what if God spoke back?

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home

Joan Osborne's song "One of Us" is the opening song of the drama TV series Joan of Arcadia. The story about an average 16 year old teenage girl, Joan Girardi living with just a typical ups and down of life and family in a fictional town Arcadia, but having special communication with strange people appeared as young children, teenage boys, elderly ladies, transients or just a passers by introducing themselves as God. God talks to Joan and give specific directions to do things and perform special tasks to correct situations, making her act strange to others and try to keep a normal teenage existence.

The show handled religion impressively by being never preachy, authors' personal view is not flaunted and not offensive in the presence of religious themes. The series show the interest in raising questions of faith, do what we believe right and our choices to make a difference in this world.

Joan of Arcadia won many awards and many nominations from Emmy, Humanitaz Prize, People's Choice Award, special the "Best Dramatic Series" for the first season (only few for many TV shows). Completed 2 seasons with 45 episodes, aired from 2003 to 2005 on CBS.

Joan on Arcadia now available on DVD at TVAddicts.tv