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Dragnet is an American crime drama television series starring Jack Webb and Harry Morgan which ran for four seasons, from January 12, 1967, to April 16, 1970. To differentiate it from the earlier 1950s Dragnet television series, the year in which each season ended was made part of the on-screen title—the series started as Dragnet 1967 and ended as Dragnet 1970.
January 12, 1967 () Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon investigate a freaked-out young LSD user, but find themselves unable to do anything to help as, at the time, LSD was not a controlled substance.
December 7, 1967 () When the LAPD receives an angry complaint against a (nonexistent) "Captain Paul G. Fremont", Friday and Gannon investigate a scam involving the Los Angeles branch of the "National Association for Law Enforcement", a phony police organization and magazine, which comes with a courtesy card for subscribers supposedly entitling ...
This episode was originally scheduled to be the final episode of the second season, to be aired on April 4, 1968. However, NBC coverage of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. preempted the program.
Friday and Gannon retrace a 14-year-old investigation to determine whether charges can be brought against a man up for parole, an investigation that takes a decisive turn when a businessman who had employed the suspect makes a startling admission about the original crime.
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Gregg with Edward Binns in Portland Expose (1957). Gregg was a prolific radio actress, heard on such programs as The Adventures of Sam Spade; Dragnet; Dr. Kildare; Gunsmoke; The Jack Benny Program; Let George Do It; Lux Radio Theatre; One Man's Family; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; The Screen Guild Theater; CBS Radio Mystery Theatre; The Zero Hour; and Mutual Radio Theater.
In announcing his vision of Dragnet, Webb said he intended to perform a service for the police by showing them as low-key working-class heroes. Dragnet moved away from earlier portrayals of the police in shows such as Jeff Regan and Pat Novak, which had often shown them as brutal and even corrupt. Dragnet became a successful television show in ...