Jack Webb left Dragnet to tell REAL stories? The 60s were wild.
Season 1 • Episode 33
LatestAnthology series based on stories from "True" magazine, hosted by Jack Webb.
Production
Webb's obsessive attention to 'authentic' detail that now reads as camp.
Acting
Guest stars before they were famous, delivering wooden lines with conviction.
Creator
Jack Webb
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
General Electric Theater had already proved the corporate anthology model; this was Webb's attempt to out-Serling Serling with documentary gravitas.
Webb reportedly fought CBS over creative control, then watched Ronald Reagan's GE Theater outrate him anyway. The irony stung.
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