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 ...
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 ...
Intelligence officials today released top secret internal briefings they had provided to members of Congress that outline the dragnet phone call metadata surveillance program lawmakers secretly knew ...
We now know that the NSA has a dragnet that collects data on virtually all Americans--not just foreigners, and not just people who can be reasonably suspected of being involved in terrorism or other ...
The police “crime and punishment” TV show Dragnet aired in 1952 and ran for eight years on NBC. One actor who made a guest appearance was future Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy who found the show’s use ...
Christopher Dorner could face death penalty if caught and convicted. Feb. 11, 2013— -- The dragnet for suspected cop killer Christopher Dorner has been extended as far south as the Mexican border ...