This thick silver, gold and blue metal badge was worn by Jack Webb, the plain-talking cyborg-like police officer on the 1960s television series “Dragnet.” Sure, Sherrard – who carried a gun ...

Once Webb had recorded the pilot episode of Dragnet, he ran it by the Los Angeles ... After Webb’s death the LAPD retired his badge number, 714, and ordered flags at its headquarters to be ...

Eventually, “Dragnet” inspired Parker to keep using ... Whenever you see cop shows use badges of real-life police departments, those shows paid a fee to have them appear on the show.

also known as the “Dragnet” Webb site. Get it? Joe Friday wore badge number 714. By some accounts, its significance was the fact that Webb was a big Babe Ruth fan, and Ruth hit 714 homers in ...

Sixty years later, elements of “Dragnet” are known to those who have ... When Webb died in 1982, the LAPD retired Friday’s badge, No. 714.

Before Law and Order or NCIS (or any of their gajillion spinoffs, for that matter), there was one crime drama franchise that set the benchmark for excellence on television: Dragnet. First created ...

From “Dragnet” to “NYPD Blue” to “FBI ... Too often victims are forgettable and laws optional when you carry a badge and a gun. A January report by advocacy group Color of Change ...