Dragnet

TV Series
1951–1959
TV-14
30m

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Follows Sergeant Joe Friday of the Los Angels Police Department (LAPD) and his various partners as they methodically investigate a different verity of crimes in Los Angeles, California.Follows Sergeant Joe Friday of the Los Angels Police Department (LAPD) and his various partners as they methodically investigate a different verity of crimes in Los Angeles, California.Follows Sergeant Joe Friday of the Los Angels Police Department (LAPD) and his various partners as they methodically investigate a different verity of crimes in Los Angeles, California.

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

2.5K

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Won 5 Primetime Emmys
- 9 wins & 12 nominations total

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Trivia
Midway through the series' run, a theatrical spin-off was produced (Dragnet (1954)). This event marked two firsts in American TV history: the first time a TV series spawned a movie, and the first time a movie spin-off was released while the original series was still running.

Goofs
The Los Angeles Police Department is famously intolerant of overweight officers. Actor Ben Alexander, who played Officer Frank Smith, was so portly that LAPD would certainly have terminated him or forced him to lose weight.

Quotes
Sgt. Joe Friday: This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm a cop.

Alternate versions
Many of the episodes available on DVD are from syndication copies in which the classic "dumm-da-dum-dum" and theme music have been replaced by other music.

Connections
Featured in TV Guide: The First 25 Years (1979)

Soundtracks
Theme From Dragnet (Danger Ahead)
Composed by Walter Schumann

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Just the facts, ma'am

I'm most familiar with the Harry Morgan period but all versions I've seen of the TV and radio originals are really good. Post-sixties angst is absent from the stories and characterizations, as in Perry Mason and perhaps a few others. Actually, "Ozzie and Harriet" from a different angle gives the same picture of a time with a bit less self-doubt.