Dragnet

Dragnet (1969)

CrimeTV Movie

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.

Director: Jack Webb

Casts

	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
	Herbert Ellis as Rico 'Ricky' Markell
	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

Crew