“The story you are about to see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” And so began each episode of “Dragnet,” which premiered on NBC on this day in 1952 after a pilot ...

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 ...

In a network TV landscape cluttered with cop shows, it’s easy to forget it all began with the decades-long dominance of “Dragnet” in the 1950s and ’60s. Early TV portrayals of detectives featured ...

Every episode of “Dragnet,” the godfather of TV police procedurals that ran in the 1950s, began with these words. They were a promise that what viewers were about to see was a faithful re-creation of ...

The badge is back. Or so goes the ABC slogan touting its new series version of the touchstone 1950s cop staple “Dragnet.” And who to do such a thing other than the very person who has taken NBC ...

A stamp commemorating the 1950s TV show “Dragnet,” which dramatized the Los Angeles Police Department, will be issued Tuesday during a ceremony at the LAPD Academy in Elysian park. The stamp is one of ...

A stamp commemorating the 1950s TV show “Dragnet,” which dramatized the Los Angeles Police Department, will be issued Tuesday during a ceremony at the LAPD Academy in Elysian Park. The stamp is one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.” Every episode of “Dragnet,” the ...