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 its 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.

Jack Webb

Joe Friday

Harry Morgan

Bill Gannon

Vic Perrin

Don Negler

Virginia Gregg

Eve Kruger

Gene Evans

Hugh Brown

John Roseboro

Dave Bradford

Bobby Troup

George Freeman

Tom Williams

Melvin Gannon

Jack Ragotzy

Carl Rockwell

Roger Til

WIlliam Smith

Jean-Michel Michenaud

Claude LeBorg

Bruce Watson

Freddie

Herbert Ellis

Rico 'Ricky' Markell

Eddie Firestone

Max Shelton

Elizabeth Rogers

Eve Sorenson

Kent McCord

Brewster, Desk Clerk

• Jack WebbProducer · Director
• Richard L. BreenWriter
• Walter StrengeDirector of Photography
• Richard BeldingEditor

Release date

January 27, 1969

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Crime, TV Movie