Old time radio show series available at RUSC Old Time Radio
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FIRST BROADCAST: June 3rd 1949
LAST BROADCAST: February 26th 1957
SPONSORS: Fatima Cigarettes, Chesterfield Cigarettes
CAST: Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough
ANNOUNCERS: George Fenneman, Hal Gibney
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Bill Rousseau
WRITERS: James E Moser, John Robinson, Frank Burt
SOUND EFFECTS: Bud Tollefson, Wayne Kenworthy
THEME: ‘Dragnet March’ by Walter Schumann
Dragnet – 1949-1956
Dragnet was a thirty-minute police drama featuring actual cases taken from the files of the Los Angeles Police Department. Jack Webb directed Dragnet and also played Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, the star of the show, who had remained a bachelor and still lived at home with his mother. It was one of the first radio shows to break the silence against dramatising sex crimes and child murders.
RUSC Old Time Radio (or RU Sitting Comfortably to give the site its full title) is a web site specializing in the wonderful world of old time radio. It is run by a crazy guy (that's me) who has nothing better to do than listen to old radio shows all day. To find out more visit the web site at www.rusc.com. All the old time radio shows on RUSC are understood to be in the public domain. RUSC has been on the web since January 1999 and is run on a not-for-profit basis.