8 Classic Episodes!
Features: DVD, B&W, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, Dolby Digital Stereo
This is the DVD. Total running time - over 3 hours. That works out to 190 minutes, or 11,400 seconds of pure entertainment. A DVD containing some of the best-loved episodes of the popular and gritty detective series, Dragnet.
Having aired weekly from 1952 to 1959, it starred Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday and Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Using a revolutionary approach to television drama, Webb as director, lifted authentic events from real LAPD cases, exploring the evils of a crime-ridden society.
Like no other series before, Dragnet truly pioneered the docu-drama genre and left its mark on the entertainment psyche forever. Delivering you excitement, grit, and "just the facts," this is one DVD you won't want to miss!
Editor's Note
Television's first and still most famous police procedural, DRAGNET was the brainchild of star Jack Webb. Webb became fascinated with the day-to-day life of regular policemen while he was a character actor in the 1940s, and when the opportunity came to create a television show about the topic, he convinced the LAPD to assist in its making. What resulted was a program that stressed the little things that went into a police officer's investigations and routines, rather than flashy or glamorous moments of violence or confrontation. With near-documentary realism, Joe Friday (Webb) and his partner Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) probed murders, robberies, and vice crimes, many of which were based on actual LAPD case files. This collection features eight episodes: "The Big Phone Call," "The Big Seventeen," ".22 Rifle for Christmas," "The Big Show," "The Big Break," "The Big Frank," "The Big Hands," and "The Bit Betty."
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