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Dragnet 1950's version (1952-59) $29.99
Dragnet was the most realistic police show ever to appear on television. It was directly responsible for the maturation and realness of other police television shows but it didn't dive into soggy drama stories surrounding the police officers the way soap opera police shows like Hill Street Blues did. Dragnet instead focused on actual police stories and the apprehension of the crooks. On radio, the death of actor Barton Yarborough, who played Friday's first partner, Sgt. Ben Romero, was brought into the story. In a 1953 TV episode, Friday shows regret after killing a man for the first time but that was as far as the drama went. For the most part, Dragnet was engaging nuts-and-bolts police work which was directed plausibly by Jack Webb. Many episodes have a film noir-like quality to them, often making for nail-bitting, high quality television. Jack Webb voluntarily pulled Dragnet off the air in 1959 but it returned once again with new color episodes in 1967. Going for three and a half years, the color episodes were a bit different than the original black-and-white ones but were of very high quality as well. This set includes 26 uncut episodes.

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