The Dragnet Collection, Vol. 1
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Actor: Ben Alexander, Jack WebbDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 493 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Pop Flix
Movie Reviews of The Dragnet Collection, Vol. 1
Movie Review: Roots of Law & Order
Summary: 5 Stars
NYPD Blue, Law & Order, The Wire ... it all started here. While the literary police procedural got launched in 1945 by Lawrence Treat's pulp novel "H is for Homicide," Webb's creation leapfrogged over film and connected this new subgenre, offspring of Raymond Chandler's and Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled detective fiction, with the even-newer medium of television. When Dragnet first aired in 1952, TV had penetrated fewer than 10% of US households; when its first run ended in 1959, the percentage was almost ten times that. Add in the commercial tie-ins (look online for clips of Jack Webb, in character [when was he ever OUT of it?] hawking Chesterfield cigarettes) and you've got the one of the main roots of television as a short-form combination of commerce and art, the other roots being westerns and variety shows.
Curiously, these earliest episodes do not yet incorporate the familiar "dum ... dee-DUMP-dum" theme, but otherwise they're vintage Dragnet, reproducing with stark (for the time) accuracy the routines of a city police department. And no wonder -- creator/writer/producer/director/star Webb hired real cops as technical advisors, and offered a $25 reward to any officer submitting a story idea -- the LAPD reportedly used episodes as training films.
Quality of these DVDs is just fine considering they're digitized from who knows what obsolete technology.
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