The Spirit of Radio Past
DRAGNET Dragnet, the brainchild of Jack Webb, may very well be the most well-remembered, and the best, radio police drama series. From September, 1949 through February 1957, Dragnet’s 30 minute shows, broadcast on NBC, brought to radio true police stories
The Dragnet Radio Series starring Jack Webb started as a radio show in June 1949 and later transferred to television. 314 original Dragnet episodes were broadcast from 1949 through 1957. The series was broadcast on NBC and starred Jack Webb
Sam Spade is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel The Maltese Falcon (1930) and the various films and adaptations based on it, as well as in three lesser known short stories by Hammett. The novel,