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...detectives spend more time locked in combat with blondes than with criminals. Dragnet (alt. Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC), long a radio favorite, has become the best of the TV crime shows by tossing overboard all such TV cliches - from incendiary blondes and comic stooges to roaring gunfights and simple-Simon detection. Last week the TV Dragnet came back to the air after a summer vacation in the first of a new series of 47 filmed episodes. The suspenseful story of a man about to jump from an eighth-floor ledge, it was well acted, filmed and directed and undoubtedly Dragnet...
Webb got his idea for Dragnet while he was playing a typical private eye on radio. A Los Angeles police sergeant named Marty Wynn said disgustedly: "Why don't you do a show about real cops?" and arranged for Webb to use the Los Angeles police files. Webb began building a show based on authentic police methods and backgrounds. After three years on radio (this week, the radio Dragnet was rated No.1 by Nielsen researchers), Webb decided to apply his successful formula ("realism plus entertainment...
...show has paid off to the extent of five-year contract with sponsor Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. This summer, 34 U.S newspapers began running a new comic strip, using Dragnet's characters and atmosphere (but not its plots). By the firs of the year, Webb hopes to have a new show called Pete Kelly's Blues ready for TV. After his long life of crime, Jack Webb will star as a trumpet-blowing musician of the 1920s...
...Dragnet (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). A superior cops & robbers show...
Sound-Off Time (Sun. 7 p.m., NBCTV) alternates three comics (Bob Hope, Jerry Lester, Fred Allen) and one dramatic show (Dragnet) each month. So far, Hope has been noisily funny; Lester, noisily unfunny; and Fred Allen still baffled by the new medium. Allen made his usual acid jokes about admen and television, presided over three skits that didn't quite come off, gloomily croaked a singing commercial for Sponsor Chesterfield, but was unable to approach the comedy highs he reached on radio...