WE REMEMBER JACK WEBB

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, April 16, 1983

ESCAPE (3-14-48) “Log of the Evening Star” starring Jack Webb as the First Mate of a South Sea schooner. A chiller, co-starring Alan Reed, Gail Page and Luis Van Rooten. Sustaining, CBS. (14:05; 13:00)

JEFF REGAN, INVESTIGATOR (11-13-48) Jack Webb is a private eye investigating “The Guy From Gower Gulch,” a cowboy named Davy Crockett. Cast features Ed Begley, Herb Ellis. (16:00, 12:50)

PAT NOVAK FOR HIRE (3-27-49) Jack Webb stars as Pat Novak, a private sleuth who operates out of the San Francisco wharf. Raymond Burr is Inspector Helman, Tudor Owen is Jocko Madigan. Novak gets a warning to stay away from prize fighter Rory Malone. AFRS Rebroadcast. (14:15; 13:00)

PETE KELLY’S BLUES (8-29-51) Jack Webb in the role of a cornet player in a Kansas City speakeasy in the 1920s. Pete is forced to marry the girlfriend of a hoodlum. Sustaining, NBC. (14:15; 15:45)

DRAGNET (11-16-52) Jack Webb stars as Joe Friday with Ben Alexander as Frank Smith. Working out of Narcotics, Friday and Smith try to break up an organized gang of heroin dealers. Friday goes undercover. Chesterfield Cigarettes, NBC. (15:00; 10:30)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST will be Nostalgia Newsletter columnist, film buff BOB KOLOSOSKI who will discuss many of the films made by Jack Webb.