Dragnet News

Strange week. There are a dozen spotlight reviews on the list this week, but only one is for a DVD coming out this week.

November 19, 2008, 5:03 p.m. CHUCK GRAHAM Tucson Citizen Fans of the old TV series "Dragnet" will feel right at home watching Live Theatre Workshop's calculating production of "Design For Murder" by George ...

Reviewed by Noel Murray November 12th, 2008 In format, the '50s cop drama M Squad was more or less a clone of its long-running predecessor Dragnet , only set in Chicago instead of Los Angeles.

Thanks to employment numbers that are at a 14-year low, President-elect Barack Obama is proposing yet another stimulus package to solve our nation's problems.

My eminent colleague Peter Hermann invited me the other day to think about posting on crime story cliches - you know, the kind of cop speak argot that creeps into the text because reporters have echolalia.

It's a well-known fact I'm old -fashioned. So old-fashioned that Laurie says I come from a time that's never been.

Judge Ben Saylor says you have the right to remain silent while reading this review.

QUESTION: When I was a kid, I remember watching a Western series with Chad Everett and that ugly character actor with a bad eye -- you know who I mean.

I remember watching these shows as a kid but what I didn't remember was that each episode was only 30 minutes in length; for some reason, I thought that they were an hour long such as shows like "Mannix" and ...

Mysteries on TV , your source for the most complete selection of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and suspense television mystery series now available or coming soon to DVD, is profiling five ...

Primer is The A.V. Club 's ongoing series of beginners' guides to pop culture's most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us - and hopefully you.

Say you are in the United States where a certain thing has been going on, and which, as certain things do, involves victims of it.

Steve Plottner talks about a newspaper carrier and her run-in with the law in Ramblings and Rumblings: 'This is not the opening segment for the television show 'Dragnet.' You will not hear Det.

After 15 years and eight months, day-shift patrol officer Pvt. 1st Class William E. Vogel, 62, of the Howard County Police Department has retired.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is Jack Webb as Jeff Regan , ...

Entertainment highlights during the week of July 6-12: 1935: Jimmy Stewart's first film, "Murder Man," opened.

Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon of the LAPD certainly could. LSD was the scourge of Los Angeles in this 1967 episode of Dragnet wherein Friday and Gannon try to save a young man named "Blue Boy" from himself ...

A4 Such were the famous words of fictional detective Sgt. Joe Friday, played by actor Jack Webb in the popular TV crime drama Dragnet in the 1950s.

Reason Magazine has collected a list of the most unintentionally funny moments of the Drug war.

DVD Features: 12-Disc Set Included 1. Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, The 2. Adventures of Ellery Queen, The 3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents 4. Bulldog Drummond 5. Burke's Law 6. Cases of Eddie Drake, The 7. ... via Tower.com