A program that collected Americans' international call records for decades, predating and apparently inspiring the National Security Agency’s more comprehensive post-9/11 dragnet, now faces a lawsuit.

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The badge is back. Or so goes the ABC slogan touting its new series version of the touchstone ...

In a network TV landscape cluttered with cop shows, it’s easy to forget it all began with the decades-long dominance of “Dragnet” in the 1950s and ’60s. Early TV portrayals of detectives featured ...

Once in a while we like to go back to the past to see if what was predicted actually came true. In this 1967 episode of the original ripped-from-the-headlines series, Dragnet, a smart proto-yuppie ...

Recycling is everything in television, it seems. A workable concept can disappear for decades but eventually it comes around again. Most often it's throwaway fare like Joe Millionaire and The ...

HOLLYWOOD — Danny Huston (“Ivans XTC”) has signed on as the star of Dick Wolf’s new version of the classic crime drama “Dragnet” for ABC. Huston will play the lead, one of the two police detectives ...