Dragnet

...thinking "The FBI" was lame even when I was kid. I bet it's really hilarious now. As is, "Dragnet," for the same reason. Although I used to think "Dragnet" was hilarious even when I was a kid. Dramas that hold up: Hill Street Blues...

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...Siegel's toughie The Lineup (1958; the future Dirty Harry director crisply spins off the TV cop show that was CBS' answer to NBC's Dragnet); and Murder By Contract (1958; the narrative dissection of a pro killer played by a pre-Ben Casey Vince...

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...juicy trials. Long road trips are enlivened by spicy, sexy advice on Cosmo or advice from Martha Stewart. Radio Classics soothes with Dragnet, The Green Hornet and other campy old dramas. And while I've never been near a...

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...free. To receive the UI's OSR or to learn more, click HERE IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Remember Seargant Joe Friday from the television series, "Dragnet?" One his signature lines was a simple, "Just the facts ma'am. Just the facts." Well,...

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...in a radio and TV series, and for roughly its first third, it feels stolid and TV-ish, not too far removed from the average episode of Dragnet. But then Stirling Silliphant's punchy script (about cops tracking heroin smugglers to San...

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EL PASO -- FBI Special Agent Samantha Mikeska grew up admiring the police characters she saw on TV shows such as "Hawaii Five-0" and "Dragnet." But her path to becoming a member of the world's elite law enforcement agency took all...

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...a TD was Deuce McAllister in 1999 against Arkansas. World wide Webb UAB quarterback Joe Webb may throw like Jack Webb from the old "Dragnet" series, but he is a dazzling runner. "He did what he was supposed to, got in, got out and...

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...town - and by the film noir of that period. The three-movement symphony begins, as Jack Webb might have said on the LAPD radio series "Dragnet," with a big stew. The first movement, titled "The City and Its Double," is a swirling panoply of...

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...featuring Sgt. Joe Friday (played by actor Jack Webb) marks the 50th anniversary of the cop drama "Dragnet." Stamp of approval for TV's 'Dragnet' A new postage stamp featuring Sgt. Joe Friday (played by actor Jack Webb) marks the 50th...

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...to read is true. The names have not been changed to protect the innocent. The United States Postal Service will begin selling a new "Dragnet" postage stamp on Tuesday, officials say. Actor Jack Webb played LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday on the...

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