Who’s Still Alive From ‘Dragnet’?

In the early days of 1950s television, crime dramas helped define the medium, and none was more influential than Dragnet, which brought a no-nonsense realism to audiences through its famous “just the facts” approach. A decade later, a Dragnet revival series — which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1970 — brought the show back in color while retaining the procedural style that made it so popular in the past.

Each episode followed Sergeant Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Officer Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) as they worked cases step by step, focusing on the details of police work rather than dramatic twists. It was one of the earliest examples of a show successfully revived years after its original run, and it helped reinforce the blueprint for police procedurals that followed.