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| Ed O'Neill | ... |
Lt. Joe Friday
(22 episodes, 2003-2004)
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| Ethan Embry | ... |
Det. Frank Smith
(12 episodes, 2003)
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| Christina Chang | ... |
ADA Sandy Chang
(12 episodes, 2003-2004)
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| Desmond Harrington | ... |
Det. Jimmy McCarron
(10 episodes, 2003-2004)
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| Eva Longoria | ... |
Det. Gloria Duran
(10 episodes, 2003-2004)
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| Evan Parke | ... |
Det. Raymond Cooper
(10 episodes, 2003-2004)
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| Erick Avari | ... |
Sanjay Ramachandran
(9 episodes, 2003)
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"Dum-de-dum-dum!" Those four notes signaled the 2003 return of one of TV's all-time classic police dramas, "Dragnet." This time, Ed O'Neill (in a role worlds different from hapless family man Al Bundy of "Married ...With Children") played the hard-nosed Det. Joe Friday. He and partner Frank Smith investigated crimes in Los Angeles, usually homicides or other forms of corruption. As with the Jack Webb-produced predecesors, careful attention was paid to realism as Friday and Smith investigated and pieced the clues together before they made their arrests of the bad guys. Like the earlier shows, the fate of those charged in conenction with said crime was announced at the end of the show. Written by Brian Rathjen <briguy_52732@yahoo.com>
This is another well-written, tightly-paced crime drama from "Law & Order's" Dick Wolf... but it ain't "Dragnet." It's really a fourth version of "Law & Order" set in LA with Jack Webb's characters plopped into it. This show is all-but unrelated to the classic series. Don't get me wrong, Ed O'Neill does a good job as a hard-nosed cop -- just as he did on "Big Apple" -- but much of what made "Dragnet," "Dragnet" is lost here. One of the founding principles of Jack Webb's series was that the episodes were dramatizations of actual LAPD cases. Here, "inspired by actual events." It looks to be a good cop show, but it's "Dragnet" in name only.