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DRAGNET : ALL DAY - EVERY DAY
Travel along with Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners through
their investigations every day (or night) on KIBM : HQ!

Dragnet Broadcast History :

June 3, 1949 - February 26, 1957, NBC. 30m.

Air time and dates :

Various times in the first four months.
1949-50, Thursdays at 10:30, Fatima Cigarettes.
1950-52, Thursdays at 9, Fatima, 1950-51, then Chesterfield.
1952-53, Sundays at 9:30, Chesterfield.
1953-55, Tuesdays at 9:00, later 8:30, Chesterfield.
1955-57, Tuesdays at 8:30, repeat broadcasts, varied sponsors.

Cast :

Jack Webb as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday
Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero. (Fridays 1st partner.)
Barney Phillips as Ed Jacobs, Fridays 2nd partner created after Yarboroughs death on December 19th, 1951.
Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith, Fridays partner as of the fall of 1952.
Peggy Webber as Ma Friday.
Raymond Burr as Ed Backstrand, chief of detectives.
Herb Butterfield as Lt. Lee Jones, crime lab.

Also featuring :

Sam Edwards, Parley Baer, Vic Perrin, Stacy Harris, Georgia Ellis, Virginia Gregg, various Hollywood radio performers.

Announcers : Hal Gibney and George Fenneman.

Music : Walter Schumann

Creator-Director : Jack Webb

Director : Bill Rousseau (early episodes)

Writer : James E. Moser, Jack Robinson

Sound Effects : Wayne Kenworthy, Jack Robinson, Bud Tollefson

Theme : Dragnet March, by Walter Schumann

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