LOS ANGELES - Television's Al Bundy is returning to prime time as Sgt. Joe Friday. Ed O'Neill, the actor best known as the chauvinistic head of household on the long-running Fox comedy Married ...

Herb Ellis, a veteran character actor who helped Jack Webb create the legendary cop show 'Dragnet,' has died. He was 97. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Herb Ellis, a veteran character actor who helped ...

The LAPD worked closely with the television series, which some called a public relations machine for the department. Staff writer Don Page wrote in the March 10, 1967 Los Angeles Times: “Just getting ...

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 ...

Dragnet migrated from radio to TV in 1951, at a time when the dominant style for crime stories was docu-realism with a noir edge. Dragnet writer-producer-star Jack Webb had a foursquare personality ...

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, ...