| DUM-DE-DUM-DUM DAY - Saturday, July 7, 2007 |
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Saturday, July 7, 2007
DUM-DE-DUM-DUM DAY
program was the first to dramatize cases from actual police files.
you are about to hear (see) is true; the names have been changed to
to the criminal.
Dragnet went to television in January 1952 after a successful TV
preview on Chesterfield Sound-Off Time a few weeks earlier. The show
actually ran simultaneously on radio and TV from 1952 - 1956,
continuing on television through 1959. After a seven-year hiatus, it
This first major real-life police drama series was so successful that
it remains in syndication some 30 to 40 years later.
The show went to the movies in a 1980s spoof with Dan Aykroyd in the
lead role of Sgt. Joe Friday -- the role Webb played on both radio and
television.
The original sponsor of the radio series was Fatima Cigarettes and,
later, Chesterfield Cigarettes. The composer of the original Dragnet
on radio and TV. His untimely death shortly after the first TV
telecast opened up the role to Barney Philips. Herb Ellis picked up
the part in the first fall season, followed by Ben Alexander, who
sidekick in the 1967-1970 series as Officer Bill Gannon.
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