Old Time Radio: Dragnet (1949)

Mention the name Jack Webb, and you'll find he's synonymous with one word----Dragnet.

After two earlier series---Pat Novak For Hire & Jeff Regan, Investigator (aka The Lyon's Eye) had come & gone, Webb developed Dragnet for the NBC radio network in 1949. The familiar Walter Schumann theme heard in the following track is the same one used in the initial TV series that followed a few years later, also on NBC. As we've previously reviewed three of the four TV versions of Dragnet, all that's needed here is that the grandfather of procedural crime dramas got its start here, and as with so many other series, made the transition from radio to television in short order.

The Theatre of the Mind uploaded the episode, "The Big Impossible":



Rating: A.