From The Sopranos to Breaking Bad to the very first police procedural, Dragnet, some crime TV shows are so great that they revolutionized the genre.

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Every episode of “Dragnet,” the godfather of TV police procedurals that ran in the 1950s, began with these words. They were a promise that what viewers were about to see was a faithful re ...

One of the big TV hits of the 1950s was the police procedural Dragnet, which hailed from creator/actor Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday, with stories taken from actual case files of the Los Angeles ...

The badge is back. Or so goes the ABC slogan touting its new series version of the touchstone 1950s cop staple “Dragnet.” And who to do such a thing other than the very person who has taken NBC ...

The original 1950s Dragnet never used the iconic catchphrase; it would be used in several revivals. In 1987, the movie version had Dan Aykroyd’s Friday uttering the line during an investigation.

Dragnet was already a radio hit when Parker, head of the LAPD’s Internal Affairs division, was promoted to chief of police and took over the scandal-plagued department in August 1950.