Dragnet los angeles

Watch options. Storyline Edit. The classic police drama is updated for the s. No-nonsense Sgt. Law enforcement - '68 style with detective Sgt. Friday Jack Webb. All new dramas based on L. Co-starring Harry Morgan. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Goofs Harry Morgan, the actor cast to play Officer Gannon, stood only 5'6", and would have failed the height requirement for LAPD officers at that time.

Quotes [repeated line] Friday : This is the city. Connections Featured in Dogs in Space User reviews 33 Review. Top review. Television's Potential Fulfilled. Visionary television Renaissance Man, Jack Webb, succeeded in bringing to the small screen a police drama of unprecedented power and stunning realism. Webb broke new ground continually with his use of cameras and his scripts were both timely and cutting edge.

During the incredibly turbulent and chaotic years of revolt, immorality, and rampant drug use, Dragnet served as an anchor, a cultural bulwark for a society under siege. A society threatened by lawlessness and vulgarity was centered by what Jack Webb offered in the format of a half-hour of sanity during insane times. With this production, the 's can now be viewed with a solid perspective that brings viewers the viewpoint of that Silent Majority who trusted the police to protect their way of life from drug crazed criminals masquerading as cultural revolutionaries.

Glavas as Capt. Glavas …. Barney Phillips Sgt. Ed Jacobs as Sgt. Ed Jacobs …. Jack Webb. More like this. Storyline Edit. The show emphasized careful police work and the interweaving of policemen's professional and personal lives. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia Among the many real-life police officers who submitted story ideas for this series was future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.

Quotes Sgt. 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the episodes available on DVD are from syndication copies in which the classic "dumm-da-dum-dum" and theme music have been replaced by other music. User reviews 22 Review. Top review. Just the facts, ma'am. Parker gave Webb extraordinary access to the department and his officers, including, one magazine suggested, crime scene visits. Scripts, which were studded with real jargon and the names of actual LAPD staff, were submitted to Parker or his surrogates twice, once to check for technical accuracy and once for final approval.

Edgar Hoover found disrespectful. For several years, Dragnet was actually filmed inside police headquarters. Dragnet looked like the real deal. It was a huge hit, piled with Emmys and law enforcement awards; some departments used episodes as training films. Finally, they were getting the respect they deserved.

When the show debuted, recent state and federal investigation uncovered serious brutality and corruption problems in agencies across the country including the LAPD. But alongside this public criticism, Dragnet offered a powerful alternative view.

Children regularly called headquarters asking to speak with Friday. But accuracy is not truth. On December 23, , a mob of at least 50 officers, mostly drunk, severely beat seven young Latino men brought into the city jail for booking during an unauthorized Christmas party. The local press covered the scandal extensively. But it received scant attention in the national press, aside from a small handful of wire stories, which were no match for the enormous publicity about Dragnet.

The show had made its television debut just nine days earlier. In the pilot, Joe Friday saves City Hall from a disgruntled would-be bomber. Trutanich likes being the talk of the town, usually for grandstanding on serious crimes that he has no real connection to, and certainly no control. The most recent example was his claim to be prosecuting the Byran Stow beating at Dodger Stadium. Trutanich could be forgiven for not knowing the the facts about rape kits as his office does not prosecute rapes any more than it prosecutes the Bryan Stow beating.

As to the lack of legal knowledge, he of all people should know that financial settlements of cases brought under Business and Professions Code and , have to be used for consumer protection. Apparently, the City Attorney was unaware of the law. The notion that Trutanich does not talk politics at his desk is as laughable as it is unlikely and begs the question, where does he talk politics?

Alongside his desk?