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Arthur L. Annecharico

Annecharico also produced 26 half-hour episodes of Dragnet, and Adam-12.

Barton Yarborough

Yarborough was probably best known for his roles as Doc Long in the West Coast cast of Carlton E. Morse's I Love a Mystery and Sergeant Ben Romero, Joe Friday's original partner, on Dragnet.

Bondage cover

The peak era for these was the era from roughly 1959 until 1986, when, due to the Meese Commission (a contribution by Park Dietz), and the end of a few of the publishers of Detective (or "True Crime") magazines, the main era of the bondage cover ended, though there were a few issues of Detective Dragnet in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and a brief revival from about 1994 until 2000, though even then few and far between (unlike the late 1960s, when at least 2 such covers could be seen monthly.

Clemence B. Horrall

That tradition continued with W. A. Worton and continued throughout the various spin offs of Dragnet.

Crossroads of the World

It has been used for location shooting in many films, including L.A. Confidential and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, in TV shows, including Dragnet and Remington Steele, and in commercials by McDonald's, Ford, and Mattel.

Helen Giddings

The State of Texas ordered a political police dragnet across the Federal Interstate Highways of Texas in an attempt to stop Democratic legislators from reaching sanctuary in another state or inside of Texas on property solely operated by the US Federal Government like Big Bend National Park on the Rio Grande.

Hughes/Thrall

Hughes and Thrall did team up again in 1987 to record a track for the Tom Hanks-Dan Aykroyd comedy Dragnet.

Jay Lawrence

A well in demand television actor in Hollywood, Lawrence's acting career spanned from 1950 to 1979, and he would appear in both dramatic, variety show and sitcom projects such as The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950), the original TV Dragnet program in 2 appearances in 1995 and 1959, Get Smart (1968), and Mayberry R.F.D. (1968).

John Edward Chilberg II

John is mostly known as the art director in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock at Paramount Pictures, and his work in television series like Dragnet, Dynasty, The Colbys, and miniseries as Rich Man, Poor Man.

John Randolph

Jack Webb (John Randolph Webb, 1920–1982), actor and star of Dragnet, who used John Randolph as a pseudonym

Kathryn Minner

Making her first acting appearance at the age of 65 in a 1957 episode of Dragnet, Minner was best known for her appearances in a series of ten television commercials for Chrysler Corporation's Dodge Division which aired in Southern California from 1964 to 1969, and as the red shawl wearing little old lady on the cover of the 1964 Jan and Dean album "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena".

Marjorie Stapp

Throughout the 1950s - 1990s, she appeared in both films and television, including Cheyenne, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Dragnet, Elmer Gantry, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, 77 Sunset Strip, The Brady Bunch, Quantum Leap and Columbo.

Myrna Dell

She later became a household name in television appearing on such programs as Gang Busters, Lux Video Theatre, Crusader, Dragnet, The Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Maverick, Pete and Gladys, Batman, Hazel, The Donna Reed Show, and The Texan.

Nicole DeHuff

After Meet the Parents, DeHuff had a regular role in the 2002 TV series The Court and appeared in CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Dragnet, The Practice, and Monk.

Noreen Nash

Some of the television series that she’s appeared in includes Hopalong Cassidy, The Abbott and Costello Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, 77 Sunset Strip and The Dick Powell Show.

Operation Falcon

Operation FALCON, a number of 2006 dragnet operations by the United States Marshals Service

Parker Center

Parker Center appears in many episodes of the television drama Dragnet, beginning with the fifth season in 1955.

Ravi Shankaran

Shankaran was a London based NRI business man and is the only one to have escaped the dragnet of the Income Tax, CBI and Interpol for his role in masterminding now what is known as the Navy War Room Leak Case.

Rocky Fortune

Rocky Fortune aired Tuesday nights on NBC at 9:35pm Eastern, immediately following Dragnet (and a five-minute John Cameron Swayze newscast).

Sally Todd

Her television appearances are in episodes of Flight, Dragnet (1958–1959), M Squad (1959), Johnny Ringo (1960), The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1960), 77 Sunset Strip (1960), and The Tab Hunter Show (1960)

St. George and the Dragonet

The B side was another Dragnet spoof, "Little Blue Riding Hood," based on the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood".

The Simpsons Theme

For example, several police or law-related episodes have ended with homages to the themes from Dragnet, and Hill Street Blues.

Tyler Bensinger

Bensinger moved from features to TV in the late nineties and has written on numerous shows including The Pretender, Beverly Hills, 90210, Titans, "Going to California", Dragnet, Cold Case, "Justice", "Viva Laughlin", Harper's Island, "Parenthood", "Prime Suspect", "Masters of Sex" and "Nashville".

Walter Schumann

By 1955, Schumann was busy composing and conducting the score to the classic Robert Mitchum film The Night of the Hunter and won an Emmy for his wildly popular "Dragnet" theme.


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