Straker

I read Stuart Galbraith IV's DVD review of Adam 12 - Season Three at http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=38264 and...Jack Webb is often described as a conservative (or even a reactionary) and there's plenty of evidence to support that, but I've always found it interesting that in both Dragnet and Adam-12, the wealthy are almost invariably portrayed as moral degenerates. Quite an odd point of view for a conservative, at least in light of the direction that conservatism would take over the ensuing few decades. I don't know anything about Webb personally except that he loved jazz and was at one time married to Julie London. I wonder if he was one of those people who considered themselves liberals in the 50's but were so shocked by the rapidity of social change in the 60's that they retreated into a kind of growling cynicism toward anything that smacked of "youth culture."

Anyway, you've gotta give credit to a guy who would hire not only his ex-wife, but his ex-wife's new husband (Bobby Troup) to star in one of his own TV shows (Emergency).

JimRochester

I remember watching this as a kid. It was a pretty cool show for its time.

S Galbraith IV

Webb was quite a contradiction. One of the highlights of the '50s version of DRAGNET was the justly famous, grim and bitter ".22 Rifle for Christmas" episode, one of the most compelling arguments for gun control (or at least restricting access to guns) ever done, and a show that probably would never be filmed today.