Your Response to Jack Webb Editorial

I am pleased that so many of you enjoyed the editorial on Jack Webb. He was quite a guy; we could have made it a mini novel. Well here are a few more facts that have been sent in by some friends of RUSC:

Glad you are showcasing Jack Webb. He was a very talented man. To me he did his very finest work in a screen film called The D.I. where he played a marine drill instructor. He was one of those guys that when he spoke you listened.

Clint Mitchell

I liked what you said about Jack...only you forgot a couple of things. First that he was the driving force behind two other cult favorites of 1970s television Adam-12, and Emergency. Secondly, that he played the best friend of William Holden's character in the classic film Sunset Boulevard and thirdly, that his classic film The D.I. (1957) about a Drill Instructor in the United States Marine Corps pretty well defined the way a whole generation of kids viewed the Marines...there are many actual Marines in the film.

I almost forgot this one...but I am listening to an episode of Dragnet right now and it hit me again. In almost every episode Friday and his partner interact with a fellow called "Lee" who works in the Crime Lab (CSI 1940s style) well, this is the name of the character that Jack Webb played in He Walked By Night and he did, in fact, work in the Crime Lab.

Cass

Further to your mini-bio on Jack Webb, I understand that when he died, the flags on LA public buildings and/or LAPD buildings flew at half-mast in respect for the program that Dragnet created.

Kindest regards...keep up the good work!

John Koenig, Banbury

Thanks for the nice bio on Jack Webb. I'm proud to be a member of RUSC. Thanks for the good work.

Alfred Leonardi

I am planning to dig out some more Dragnet episodes and will get them added to RUSC over the coming weeks. Meanwhile from Joy and myself we wish you a very Happy Easter Holiday.

Happy listening my friends,

Ned Norris