Talk:Dragnet (radio series)

Created page - need help

I created this initial page but could use help with everything. Would like to have somebody double check the information, fix grammer, spelling, punctuation, etc. for the entire article, There are links in the Reference section to the places where I gathered the information. - 64.40.62.65 (talk) 23:35, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

True Cases

If "Dragnet" was based on actual crimes, is there any record of the actual crimes that inspired the different episodes? I know some other 'true crime' radio program, such as "The Black Museum" with Orson Welles's page has the actual crime that many of the episodes were based on.Jtyroler (talk) 10:42, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

James E. Moser, Dragnet's real author

Moser was the writer who developed Dragnet from the beginning. Many of the early TV shows were simply Moser's radio scripts, shot word for word, even if Webb's narrative had to be run over a static shot of a room. When the Mystery Writers of America honored Moser with the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Jack Webb took the unusual and gracious step of having Moser accept the award on the air, at the end of The Big Gamble, widely available online. Webb then made a speech of thanks, honoring Moser, saying that the actor was only as good as the speech he was reading. We're caught in a WikiCatch22 here. Moser is forgotten, and the only way to post this material is Original Research. I'll leave it here until somebody figures out a correct way to add it to the article. There ought to be a Moser article, by the way. He was the writer of a number of successful highbrow TV shows, like Medic and Ben Casey. Profhum (talk) 08:07, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

inaccurate information?

In the article, it claims that "the old radio programs ended each week with a remembrance of fallen officers who died on the job. The remembrance would be read over somber organ music, and (sic) would be officers from all over the country." I've been spending a great spring and summer binge-listening to Dragnet radio now that I've gone through all the Mad Men. I'm up to episode 189 on the archive.org site, which includes commercials, end announcements ("A great new weapon in the fight against polio... gamma globulin... need blood donations....") and even the NBC chime tones. I've yet to hear this "remembrance." If I never do, I'll delete it. Profhum (talk) 04:44, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Missing word?

"Dragnet debuted inauspiciously. The early months were bumpy, as the program was sustaining (as yet unable to attract a sponsor) and the budget was limited, forcing Webb to employ relatively few radio actors per episode."

Sustaining losses? Ni'jluuseger (talk) 08:55, 27 May 2022 (UTC)