Editing Dragnet (franchise) (section)

==Related works==
===Music===
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The theme from ''Dragnet'' has been recorded by many artists, achieving popular success. Artists who charted with it include [[Ray Anthony]] (1953) and [[The Art of Noise]] (1987).

===Nonfiction===
* In 1958, Webb authored ''The Badge'', a book containing chapters of true stories told from the view of a patrolman, sergeant, lieutenant, and others. It had a number of photographs and recently was reissued with a foreword by [[James Ellroy]], author of ''[[L.A. Confidential]]'', which features a fictional show, ''Badge of Honor'', modeled after ''Dragnet''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Webb |first1=Jack |author-link=Jack Webb|title=The Badge: True and Terrifying Crime Stories That Could Not Be Presented on TV, from the Creator and Star of Dragnet |date=1958 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=978-1560256885 |edition=Reprint}}</ref>
* In 2001, Michael J. Hayde wrote ''My Name's Friday: The Unauthorized But True Story of "Dragnet" and the Films of Jack Webb'', with a foreword by Harry Morgan (Bill Gannon).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hayde |first1=Michael J. |title=My Name's Friday: The Unauthorized But True Story of Dragnet and the Films of Jack Webb |date=1 June 2001 |publisher=Cumberland House Publishing |isbn=978-1581821901}}</ref>

===Parodies===
* ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'', a 1960 cult classic comedy horror film by [[Roger Corman]], features a parody of the traditional ''Dragnet'' dry, hard-boiled voiceover narration throughout, and in the second half of the film, an onscreen parody of ''Dragnet'' and Joe Friday's robotic stoicism, a police detective named Joe Fink who says in voiceover "My name is Fink. Joe Fink... I'm a fink".
* "[[St. George and the Dragonet]]", a 1953 short audio satire by [[Stan Freberg]], was a smash hit reaching number one on both the ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'' and the ''[[Cash Box magazine|Cash Box]]'' record charts. In this satire, Freberg used the line "{{vanchor|Just the facts, ma'am}}", which entered popular lexicography as an actual catchphrase from ''Dragnet'', despite the line never being used on the show,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sharrett |first1=Christopher |title=Jack Webb and the Vagaries of Right-Wing TV Entertainment |journal=Cinema Journal |date=Summer 2012 |volume=51 |issue=4 |pages=165–171 |doi=10.1353/cj.2012.0087 |jstor=23253590 |s2cid=191632779 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23253590 |access-date=2 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Mikkelson |first1=David |title=Dragnet: 'Just the Facts. Ma'am' |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/just-the-facts/ |website=Snopes |access-date=2 February 2022 |date=29 March 2002}}</ref> except for Season Two, Episode Eight ("Big Lease"). Freberg followed "St. George..." with "Little Blue Riding Hood" and "Christmas Dragnet".
* The 1954 [[Woody Woodpecker]] cartoon ''[[Under the Counter Spy]]'' was a parody of ''Dragnet''. At the beginning, a narrator says, "The story you are about to see is a big fat lie. No names have been changed to protect anybody!" At the end, a hammer and stamp make the words "THE END", and the hammerer hits his thumb.
* The 1955, [[Three Stooges]] short ''[[Blunder Boys]]'' parodies ''Dragnet''. In place of the familiar "Dragnet" theme, the first four notes of "[[The Song of the Volga Boatmen]]", which is in the public domain, is used. At the end of the film, Moe stamps Larry's head with a hammer; Larry's forehead then reads, "VII 1/2 The End".
* A 1956 [[Looney Tunes]] short, ''[[Rocket Squad]]'', starred [[Daffy Duck]] and [[Porky Pig]] as Sgt. Joe Monday and Det. Schmoe Tuesday, respectively. Daffy narrated, giving a running timeline in the manner of Sgt. Friday. This police adventure ends with both officers convicted and imprisoned for [[false arrest]]. The opening title reads: "Ladies and Gentlemen, the story you are about to see is true. The drawings have been changed to protect the innocent". Another short, ''[[Tree Cornered Tweety]]'', featured [[Tweety]] imitating the narrator of ''Dragnet'' as he is being pursued by [[Sylvester (Looney Tunes)|Sylvester]] again.
* A segment of the ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' cartoon show called "Bullwinkle's Corner", which featured Bullwinkle Moose in a poetry reading of "Tom, Tom the Piper's Son," parodied ''Dragnet'', as Bullwinkle is apprehended in the act of stealing a pig by two detectives who interrogate Bullwinkle using a terse, clipped monotone similar in style to Joe Friday and Frank Smith ("You got a name?" "I'm Tom, Tom the Piper's Son." "All right, Piperson, what were you going to do with the pig?").
* A 1968 sketch entitled the "Copper Clapper Caper" during Jack Webb's appearance on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]''. Webb reprised Friday interviewing the equally deadpan victim of a robbery (played by [[Johnny Carson|Carson]]). The details of the crime started with the [[alliterative]] "k" or "kl" [[consonant]] sound, such as "Claude Cooper, the kleptomaniac from Cleveland."<ref name=clappers>{{cite AV media |url=  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRfuTTd09vo| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211118/CRfuTTd09vo| archive-date=2021-11-18 | url-status=live|title=Funniest Moments: Copper Clapper Caper On Johnny Carson's Tonight Show|website=YouTube (official channel)|date=August 27, 2012|access-date=October 19, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* A ''[[Sesame Street]]'' [[The Muppets|Muppet]] skit from the early 1970s, "Dragnet" featured Sgt. Thursday and his partner, Ben, searching for a fugitive letter ”W” using a drawing Ben carries with him of the letter; when they do encounter the letter W it disguises itself turning upside down into a letter “M”.
* The final segment of each episode of PBS's ''[[Square One Television|Square One]]'' was titled "[[Mathnet]]" and opened with the ''Dragnet'' theme and an arrangement of the lines "The story you're about to see is a fib—but it's short. The names are made up, but the problems are real." Each story arc of the show's five-season run lasted five daily episodes (one week) and featured detectives Kate Monday (seasons 1–3) or Pat Tuesday (seasons 4–5) and George Ernest Frankly (all five seasons), of the LAPD in the first two of the show's five seasons and the New York Police Department in the last three seasons, using mathematics to solve crimes.
* Isaac Air Freight, a Christian sketch comedy troupe, parodied ''Dragnet'' twice: on their 1978 album ''Fun in the Son'' (track 11, "Jerusalem Dragnet") and 1980 album ''Foolish Guy to Confound the Wise'' (track 8, "Jerusalem Dragnet II").<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2Wtu8hy7I | title=Jerusalem Dragnet | website=[[YouTube]] | date=November 8, 2014 }}</ref>
* In 1983, "Prog #310" of UK sci-fi comic ''[[2000 AD (comics)|2000AD]]'' featured a time-travelling parody of ''Dragnet'' in the story "Chrono Cops", written by [[Alan Moore]] and illustrated by [[Dave Gibbons]]. In five pages, "Joe Saturday" and "Ed Thursday" encounter several time-travel "tropes", including a character attempting to kill his own great-grandfather.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.againwiththecomics.com/2007/11/forgotten-alan-moore-chronocops.html |title=Againwiththecomics.com |access-date=November 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102205615/http://www.againwiththecomics.com/2007/11/forgotten-alan-moore-chronocops.html |archive-date=November 2, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* The season-five episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' titled "[[Marge on the Lam]]" centers around [[Marge Simpson]] and neighbor Ruth Powers being pursued by police while illegally driving Ruth's ex-husband's car; the episode ends with a ''Dragnet''-style epilogue detailing the characters' fates, as narrated by original series announcer George Fenneman, then the end credits run over a graphic of a police badge while a version of ''The Simpsons'' theme done in the style of the famous "Dragnet March" plays. Also, the season-seven episode "[[Mother Simpson]]" <!-- 7/8 --> has [[Homer Simpson]]'s mother, Mona Simpson, as a fugitive from [[Charles Montgomery Burns]], who is about to be captured after 27 years. Burns is helped by officers Joe Friday and Bill Gannon (voiced by Harry Morgan).
* ''Dragnet'' is parodied at the end of the episode of ''[[The New Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' titled: "Sorry, Wrong Slusher". Winnie-the-Pooh performs a closing narration as a mug shot of Christopher Robin is shown on screen, in the style of ''Dragnet''.
* The Amazon original series ''[[The Man in the High Castle (TV series)|The Man in the High Castle]]'' features a show in the fictional universe where Germany won the Second World War called "American Reich", shot in the style of ''Dragnet''. The show's title crawl music is similar to Dragnet, and the title card contains a police badge with a [[swastika]] in the center. In keeping with the alternate history, the character equivalent of Friday is a straight-laced [[Nazi]], with catchphrases including "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein phone call" ("One people, one empire, one phone call.").<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.facebook.com/HighCastleAmazon/videos/1634726726786713/| website=[[Facebook]]| title=Don't miss American Reich, the Fall's most anticipated TV show. #HighCastle #WhatIfWeLost| date=September 25, 2015| access-date=March 3, 2020| archive-date=October 14, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211014060647/https://www.facebook.com/HighCastleAmazon/videos/1634726726786713/| url-status=live}}</ref>
* In the [[U.S. Acres]] segment of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' season six episode "How Now, Stolen Cow?" featuring Orson Pig and Bo Sheep doing their send up of the series right down to the end featuring the results of the trial...!