Dragnet (2003–2004)

An updated edition of the classic police drama, featuring Ed O'Neill as the 2000 version of Joe Friday.

Creator:

Dick Wolf

Stars:

Ed O'Neill, Ethan Embry, Christina Chang

1 nomination.

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
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	...	Det. Gloria Duran (10 episodes, 2003-2004)
Evan Parke	...	Det. Raymond Cooper (10 episodes, 2003-2004)
Erick Avari	...	Sanjay Ramachandran (9 episodes, 2003)

Storyline

"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.

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Plot Keywords:

police | police detective | remake | criminal investigation | detective | 

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Taglines:

The badge is back.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 February 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

L.A. Dragnet

Filming Locations:

City Hall - 200 N. Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Wolf Films, Universal Network Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min 60 min (22 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Danny Huston was originally cast in the lead role of Joe Friday but was replaced by Ed O'Neill after completing the first episode, entitled "Three Blondes", and his scenes were re-shot.

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Quotes

Det. Frank Smith: Fine, we'll get warrants. But that's gonna take time and really piss us off.

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Crazy Credits

Jack Webb, creator of the series, does not receive screen credit.

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Connections

Follows Dragnet (1989)

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Soundtracks

"Danger Ahead"
(Theme From Dragnet)
Composed by 'Walter Schumann' (I)

User Reviews

Drag-not quite

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.