If you're a sucker for a good police procedural, then you've got yourself a wide array of options. You could go with the vast universe of Law & Order, the drop-dead gorgeous vibes of Miami Vice, or ...

Jack Webb spent years working in radio and television. In fact, he worked up until the moment he died in December 1982 and left a project unfinished. Even with a variety of works under his belt, Webb ...

DRAGNET: Drama, 10 p.m. Sundays on ABC. With a glut of cop shows and procedural dramas choking the television schedule, you have to wonder why anyone thought viewers needed another one -- and, worse, ...

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 program that collected Americans' international call records for decades, predating and apparently inspiring the National Security Agency’s more comprehensive post-9/11 dragnet, now faces a lawsuit.

Just as it's difficult for anyone who didn't experience the early days of television to realize now that Arthur Godfrey was one of America's premier entertainers during the 1950s, so is it difficult ...