Showing 1 - 3 of 3 articles tagged "Jack Webb"

• Posted Saturday 6/06/20 at 5:40AM EDT

  Shut down cop shows!: Hollywood is addicted to portraying police as more effective than they are in real life

  "For a century, Hollywood has been collaborating with police departments, telling stories that whitewash police shootings and valorizing an action-hero...

• Posted Saturday 9/21/19 at 12:54AM EDT

  Check out Dragnet star Jack Webb's wall containing 9 TV sets

  The former house of the late Dragnet creator and star, who died in 1982, is hosting an estate sale this...

• Posted Thursday 1/03/19 at 5:07AM EST

  Herb Ellis dies at 97: Dragnet actor helped Jack Webb create the iconic cop show

  Ellis and Webb wrote a pilot together titled Joe Friday, Room Five, which became the inspiration for Webb's 1950s Dragnet...