Word: dragonet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freberg--who at 73 is living in Los Angeles and still does a syndicated radio show--likes to recall that St. George and the Dragonet, his chart-topping parody of Dragnet, was a big hit in Australia even before the TV show was seen there. Later, when it finally arrived, an Aussie fan came up to Freberg and marveled, "Somebody has gone and built a whole TV show around your record!" For a satirist, that's the Academy Award...