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Your article on Jack (Dragnet) Webb was very interesting, but it should have been entitled "What Makes Jackie...
...want to get into trouble with the law and be held in contempt for questioning Sergeant Joe Friday, but I note his comments about George Rosenberg, Jim Moser and Bill Rousseau, his former associates in Dragnet, i.e., "guys who are experts in riding on your back and putting their hands in your pockets." Those of us who are familiar with such matters are well aware that were it not for George Rosenberg, Sergeant Friday would probably have never achieved his present rank at all ... As Webb's agent he put the program together with the help of the aforementioned...
...Webb, whom you quaintly describe in your recent article as "basically modest," gives the impression that the original radio Dragnet sprang full-blown, like Minerva, from his forehead. Just for the record: the radio audition which sold the original series was produced by William P. Rousseau and directed by Carl Gruener ... I wrote the script . . . You quote Webb as asking of those who ... are no longer with him: "You just show me their track records." He will be happy to learn that at present I am working toward a Ph.D. at Columbia. I consider it to be something...
...devoted almost entirely to TV. Of all the millions of feet of negative sold by Eastman Kodak to the movie industry, nearly 70% goes to television. Though the general quality of IV films is low, the two most popular TV programs in the U.S.-I Love Lucy and Dragnet-are on film...
...director, he is forced to work at a pace and in a catch-as-catch-can manner reminiscent of the early days of silent pictures. Where major studios do well to dub sound on one 1,000-ft. reel of film in one day, Dragnet must finish three reels in a half-day. But Webb refuses to surrender his almost fantastic insistence on accuracy of detail in backgrounds, dialogue and mannerisms...