Dragnet

Dragnet

100 mins | Crime, TV Movie | Jan. 27, 1969

Also known as "Dragnet 1966," this TV movie was originally the pilot for the 1967 relaunch of the original 1950s "Dragnet" radio show and TV show (which also had it's own movie in 1954, from the same creative team). However, the pilot wasn't actually aired until 1969. In this feature-length entry, Sgt. Joe Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner, Officer Bill Gannon, on a missing persons case. Two amateur female models and a young war widow have vanished, having been last seen with one J. Johnson. In the course of tracking down Johnson and the young ladies, the detectives wind up with two different descriptions of the suspect, one of which closely resembles a dead body found in a vacant lot. But the dead man, later identified as Charles LeBorg of France, proves not to be J. Johnson, when a third young model disappears.

Dragnet

100 mins | Crime, TV Movie | Jan. 27, 1969

Dragnet
Also known as "Dragnet 1966," this TV movie was originally the pilot for the 1967 relaunch of the original 1950s "Dragnet" radio show and TV show (which also had it's own movie in 1954, from the same creative team). However, the pilot wasn't actually aired until 1969. In this feature-length entry, Sgt. Joe Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner, Officer Bill Gannon, on a missing persons case. Two amateur female models and a young war widow have vanished, having been last seen with one J. Johnson. In the course of tracking down Johnson and the young ladies, the detectives wind up with two different descriptions of the suspect, one of which closely resembles a dead body found in a vacant lot. But the dead man, later identified as Charles LeBorg of France, proves not to be J. Johnson, when a third young model disappears.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Mark VII Ltd., Universal Television
Original title Dragnet
Directors Jack Webb
Writers Richard L. Breen

Cast

Jack Webb

as Joe Friday

Harry Morgan

as Bill Gannon

Vic Perrin

as Don Negler

Virginia Gregg

as Eve Kruger

Gene Evans

as Hugh Brown

John Roseboro

as Dave Bradford

Bobby Troup

as George Freeman

Tom Williams

as Melvin Gannon

Jack Ragotzy

as Carl Rockwell

Roger Til

as WIlliam Smith

Jean-Michel Michenaud

as Claude LeBorg

Bruce Watson

as Freddie

Eddie Firestone

as Max Shelton

Elizabeth Rogers

as Eve Sorenson

Kent McCord

as Brewster, Desk Clerk

Harry Bartell

as Jim Murdoch

Thordis Brandt

as Carol Freeman

Sam Edwards

as Rodman

Jimmie Horan

as Bob

Jess Kirkpatrick

as Watson

Ralph Manza

as Eddie Garcia, Police Sketch Artist

John Sebastian

as Sgt. Danny Mendez

Olan Soule

as Wayne, Forensics Officer