 Filmed in the flat, matter-of-fact style of fellow Jack Webb series as "Dragnet" and "Adam-12", "The D.A." starred Robert Conrad as Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Paul Ryan, who spent the first half of every episode gathering evidence against the accused party and the second half presenting it in court, where he would often be opposed by Katherine Benson of the Public Defender s Office. Stafford was Ryan s boss, and Ramirez was Ryan s "legman" who did much of the out-of-office detective work.