Thanks to Jack Webb, Sergeant Joe Friday is the most popular police character in television history. Webb began in film and appeared in Billy Wilder's 1950 classic, Sunset Boulevard, but it was Dragnet that brought him popular and critical acclaim. After Dragnet, Webb returned to feature films as a director and an actor, and for a time was head of Warner Television. He died in 1982.
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Those first four notes of its theme tune were instantly recognised and announced the start of perhaps the most famous police procedural in history. Set in Los Angeles and headed by police detective Sergeant Joe Friday the show has influenced all the many... SEE MORE