Funny how unfolding events become clearer in retrospect. More than anyone, it seems to me, police procedural television auteur Jack Webb is father of the “partners” trope, which he employed on his shows Dragnet and Adam-12 almost as a reductio ad absurdum…a pair of all-business police officers who banter in between busts, usually in clipped, world-weary, laconic tones, that is, [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:52PM on January 2, 2013