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What Happened on the Final Episode of ‘Dragnet’?
Before Law and Order or NCIS (or any of their gajillion spinoffs, for that matter), there was one crime drama franchise that set the benchmark for excellence on television: Dragnet. First created ...
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‘Dragnet’: The Genesis Of The Influential Police Procedural Franchise
(Photo by Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images) In 1987, a comedy film version of Dragnet was released starring Dan Aykroyd as Joe Friday (the nephew of Webb’s Sergeant Joe Friday), and Tom Hanks ...
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The First TV Show To Be Adapted Into A Movie Might Surprise You
Since then, there have been numerous film and television reboots of Dragnet, including the 1987 movie with Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd and the 2003 TV reboot starring Ed O'Neill as Joe Friday.