Dragnet

Movie / Show Details

Dragnet is a crime drama series from the 1950s starring Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday and Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. The show follows these Los Angeles detectives as they methodically work through cases, emphasizing genuine police procedure and investigative technique. Created by Jack Webb, Frank Burt, and James E. Moser, the series became one of the decade’s most influential detective programs, shaping the procedural format for generations of crime shows to follow.

This DVD contains one disc with approximately five hours and fifty minutes of content, rated TV-PG. The episodes included are a theft investigation along Wilshire Boulevard, a hit-and-run case that becomes a homicide, the discovery of an abandoned infant at a bus depot, and the search for missing four-year-old twins. Jack Webb directs the series, which originally aired on NBC. You’ll own a piece of television history with this used copy from us.