Funny that you mention Jack Webb as “conservative”. I recently came across a privately written “history” of the neighborhood in Palm Springs where he once lived. His ex wife, Julie London, the singer, bought a house there after their divorce. Webb promptly bought the house next door and moved in to “keep and eye on her”. Some might construe that he was a stalker — unless he was just overly concerned about her well being on her own. Who’s to know? Except it seems a little creepy.
Well if I was married to Julie London I probably would have been jealous too.
Webb later gave his ex-wife a tv series, “Emergency!”, and was also on friendly terms with the man she married, as he popped up on Dragnet 1967 episodes and would co-star with London on the aforementioned series. If he was as creepy as all that, it’s unlikely either she or the new husband would have had anything to do with him.
Webb liked his ex-wife well enough to cast London and her second husband, Bobby Troup, in “Emergency”