The program's heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over (still during the WilcoxAutolite run). Here the material reached new levels of.br br The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police.br br Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police.