text: what t.v. show has a character that says "just the facts mam"? thanks dragnet-1954 it was ,sgt. joe friday played by  jack webb.  in the 1952-59 series, viewers never saw the crime being committed. "dragnet" was a mystery program; sgt. friday and officer smith would be called in to solve a crime, then locate and arrest the guilty party/parties. (as webb put it, "this makes you a cop, and you unwind the story.") "dragnet" (1954) begins with the actual crime, so that we know who's guilty even before the titles appear.