Sam is a Senior Writer for Collider. His love for movies, TV shows, and books stretches back to his early childhood and has grown exponentially with every passing year. Lucky for him, this love grew ...

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, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- I don't know why I keep track of these things, but I'll bet Sunday night's premiere of ABC's new "Dragnet" series set a record for the number of times the word "semen" has ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

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 ...

Just finished watching the series premiere of the new show Dragnet. Not a bad show really, kinda reminded me a bit of Law and Order, with the investigating. Now the thing that I found odd was the ...

NUMBER OF FILMS DIRECTED: 5. NUMBER OF SERIES CREATED / PRODUCED: 14+. BIOGRAPHY: Jack Webb was one of the innovators in the field of television and film. The first producer to base a film on a ...