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"Dragnet" (2003): Season 2: Episode 10 -- A routine arrest leads to a horrible discovery of a serial killer who tortured and cremated his victims.
"Dragnet" (2003): Season 2: Episode 9 -- A toxic batch of narcotics is responsible for a series of drug-related deaths, and the dealer is an unlikely suspect.
"Dragnet" (2003): Season 2: Episode 8 -- A priest is decapitated and what seems like a senseless killing is actually related to the priest's secret past in Bosnia.
"Dragnet" (2003): Season 2: Episode 7 -- It's tough trying to solve apparently random murders, until there's a through line that connects them - an online porn actress.
"Dragnet" (2003): Season 2: Episode 6 -- A Malibu teenager is abducted and killed, and his parents' alternative lifestyle is questioned.

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2 February 2003 (USA) more
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An updated edition of the classic police drama, featuring Ed O'Neill as the 2000 version of Joe Friday. full summary
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Sgt. Joe Friday For The 21st Century more (37 total)

Cast

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Ed O'Neill ... Lt. Joe Friday (22 episodes, 2003-2004)

Ethan Embry ... Det. Frank Smith (12 episodes, 2003)

Christina Chang ... ADA Sandy Chang (12 episodes, 2003-2004)

Desmond Harrington ... Det. Jimmy McCarron / ... (10 episodes, 2003-2004)

Eva Longoria Parker ... Det. Gloria Duran (10 episodes, 2003-2004)

Evan Parke ... Det. Raymond Cooper / ... (10 episodes, 2003-2004)

Erick Avari ... Sanjay Ramachandran (9 episodes, 2003)
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L.A. Dragnet (USA) (new title)
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USA:60 min (including commercials) (22 episodes)
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Ed O'Neill and Ethan Embry first starred together in the film Dutch (1991) when Embry was only 13 years old. more
Quotes:
Det. Frank Smith: No, you're not A suspect, you're THE suspect. more
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Follows "Dragnet 1967" (1967) more
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Danger Ahead more

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Sgt. Joe Friday For The 21st Century, 14 April 2003
Author: Michael Daly (fanstp43@aol.com) from United States

It may seem unimaginable that an iconic television series such as Jack Webb's Dragnet could be updated and still do justice to the original's charm and quality, but Dick Wolf and others behind the gripping Law & Order television series apply the strengths of their previous efforts into a superb updating of Webb's immortal series on the most famous working detective in the annuls of the LAPD.

Ed O'Neill is still most famous for his role of Al Bundy in Married.....With Children, but few remembered how he tackled the role of Popeye Doyle in the eponymous 1986 TV film sequel to The French Connection, and though not as gripping as Gene Hackman he nonetheless did a commendable job in a very difficult role. O'Neill really flexes dramatic muscle as Detective Joe Friday, in a much-faster-paced version of the classic series that at times reads like a real documentary, a goal Webb strove to achieve throughout the original run of Dragnet but which Dick Wolf and company have the resources to pull off.

While this new version of Dragnet is more keyed toward crime-solving and has a much greater intensity as a result, it nonetheless leaves some room for levity, such as in the recently-aired Bel Air kidnapping episode where the perp makes a deal with the LAPD to rat out his boss, but is arrested anyway because the FBI wants him. "We're local, they're federal," deadpans Ed O'Neill's Joe Friday, a line more fit for Ben Alexander's Frank Smith or Harry Morgan's Bill Gannon than Joe himself.

Ed O'Neill has thus succeeded in keeping an iconic character in TV history "alive and working," and TV land's LAPD knows that its most famous working detective is still on the job in the 21st century.

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