--- JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Under his pseudonym of "David Knight," Prather
wrote
> the first of a three-novel trilogy based on
the
> popular, pioneering police procedural TV
show
> *Dragnet* for Pocket Books (the other two
novels
> were
> written by Richard Deming). The book,
entitled
> *Case
> 561*, had Joe Friday and his partner tracking a
cop
> killer. The real-life case from which
Prather
> derived
> his plot, by the way, was the same one used for
the
> pre-*Dragnet* movie *He Walked by Night*,
which
> featured a young radio actor named Jack Webb in
a
> supporting role, and which gave that young actor
the
> idea for a radio show that authentically
depicted
> police work.
I've seen this movie and it's quite fine, a bare-bones,
no-nonsense account of a murder investigation.
People my age, when they think of Dragnet at all, usually
think of the often-dreadful late-Sixties television show,
which is (or at least used to be) rerun to death on cable.
But in it's earlier incarnations it was quite good.
doug
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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