Michael J. Hayde
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My Name's Friday: The Unauthorized but True Story of Dragnet and the Films of Jack Webb
Michael J. Hayde
Jack Webb’s Dragnet was more than the crisp, campy color television series that played from 1966 to 1970. First there was the successful radio series of 1949 to 1957 and then the black-and-white television series of 1951 to 1959, which became the best-known, longest-running, and most-acclaimed police drama in television history. My Name’s Friday tells the true stories of all these versions of Dragnet and its creator, director, star, and producer, Jack Webb, as the show and the man defined each other.
From the beginning Webb had an idea of what…
