The 'Dragnet' Quiz

The show started on the radio, premiering on June 3, 1949, with Jack Webb as Joe Friday.

"Dragnet" premiered on television on Dec. 16, 1951, and ran for 276 episodes through 1959.

Like any good detective show, "Dragnet" revealed the dark underworld of Los Angeles.

While Friday was big on facts, this often-repeated phrase was never uttered throughout the course of the show.

Friday's 714 badge served as a logo for the show.

After Joe Friday actor Jack Webb died, the LAPD retired the badge number to honor the fictional officer.

Alexander starred as Officer Frank Smith on 66 episodes of "Dragnet."

"Dragnet 1967" premiered on July 12, 1970, and ran through 1970.

In its second go-round, the show ran for 102 episodes over four seasons.

Often referred to as the "blue boy" episode, the pilot episode of "Dragnet 1967" featured a boy who painted his face blue after using LSD.

Officer Bill Gannon, played by Harry Morgan, is Joe Friday's partner on the show.

Culver is accused of robbing a liquor store and undergoes a tough interrogation by Joe Friday before being cleared of the crime.

Joe Friday is subject to scrutiny after shooting a burglar at a laundromat during season two.

Bates runs a swindle known as Dollar-Wise, in which hopeful investors pay $200 to join and recruit new members.

"Dragnet" tackled racial profiling by the police head on with a season two episode, in which Friday and Gannon work to improve police relations within the community.

After Culver witnesses a robbery, he throws a bottle of wine at the criminal, who shoots Howard.

Football star O.J. Simpson had a cameo as a new police recruit in the 1968 episode "Community Relations: DR-10."

The Tom Mankiewicz-directed buddy comedy came out in 1987.

Dan Aykroyd plays Joe Friday, nephew of the original Friday, who is just as straitlaced as his uncle.

Tom Hanks co-stars in the film as Friday's new partner, Pep Streebek.

Friday and Streebek find themselves tangled up with PAGAN, People Against Goodness and Normalcy.

After the success of the "Dragnet" film, the show was brought back as "The New Dragnet" in 1989 and lasted two seasons.

In the 1989 version of "Dragnet," Friday and Gannon were replaced by Vic Daniels and Carl Molina.

Joe Friday was back when the show returned for its fourth TV run in 2003, with Ed O'Neill playing the legendary detective.

The 2003 version of the show ran for just 22 episodes and never made it past the first season.

Embry played Detective Frank Smith, with Eva Longoria starring as Detective Gloria Duran.

Police show "Adam-12" is nominally seen as a "Dragnet" spinoff.

Minor "Dragnet" characters Pete Malloy and Jim Reed took the lead on "Adam-12."

The original '50s series won five Emmys, but the show never earned another Emmy after it went color.

In the 1995 episode "Mother Simpson," Homer's mother is captured by officers Joe Friday and Bill Gannon. Original Gannon actor Harry Morgan provided the voice for the animated detective.