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John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia
When plans were made to put Dragnet on television, Webb ignored the wisdom of the time and prepared to use radio people, including Yarborough, in key roles. The question of the day, whenever radio people were considered for TV roles, was often cruelly blunt-will he look right? Webb answered it bluntly for Radio Life: "I'll take the actor and he'll look right." One Dragnet TV show was shot with Yarborough as Romero, a preseries special, aired on NBC's Chesterfield Sound-Off Time Dec. 16, 1951. Then Yarborough died suddenly, leaving a void on both Dragnets that was impossible to fill.
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