If any television series past or present could be called a tribute to the Los Angeles Police Department, it would be Jack Webb’s Dragnet. Dragnet ran on television in the 1950s and then several years ...

Webb was born in 1920 in Santa Monica, California. Raised by a single mother, the future television producer and writer was asthmatic. His mother and grandmother relied greatly on public assistance ...

Herb Ellis, an actor and director known for helping Jack Webb create the iconic TV series Dragnet, died Dec. 26 in San Gabriel, Calif. He was 97. Born Herbert Siegel in Cleveland, Ohio on Jan. 7, 1921 ...

Friday marks the opening of “Noir City: Chicago,” the weeklong festival of film noir presented by Music Box and the Film Noir Foundation. This is the ninth annual edition, which should give you some ...

The LAPD worked closely with the television series, which some called a public relations machine for the department. Staff writer Don Page wrote in the March 10, 1967 Los Angeles Times: “Just getting ...

Television is the enemy of the people. It broadcasts Fake News. It suppresses thought. We can’t let it dominate us. These media lessons originated with Jack Webb, one of the pioneers of television ...

NUMBER OF FILMS DIRECTED: 5. NUMBER OF SERIES CREATED / PRODUCED: 14+. BIOGRAPHY: Jack Webb was one of the innovators in the field of television and film. The first producer to base a film on a ...

Directed by Webb, this ”Dragnet” is an amazing cultural artifact, a film that exudes pure essence of `50s while burrowing so deeply into its maker`s eccentricities that it emerges as something beyond ...

DRAGNET: Drama, 10 p.m. Sundays on ABC. With a glut of cop shows and procedural dramas choking the television schedule, you have to wonder why anyone thought viewers needed another one -- and, worse, ...

The first time Robin Mininni saw the 1960s Palm Springs home, she hated the décor: the black-and-white giant floral prints on curtains and bedspreads, uncomfortable-looking ‘50s furniture set against ...