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Anecdotal story concerning Jack Webb during a run of Dragnet on TV.

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Webb was a noted police buff, and a stickler for as much accuracy as humanly possible. Actors, for example, carried exact replicas of firearms that Los Angeles detectives did, right down to holsters and reloads. One day on set, he reportedly threw down a prop telephone receiver in a fury, pointed at the device cradle and…