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Dragnet (Franchise)

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Dragnet (Franchise)	comment	Archetype of the Police Procedural—being a Dramatic Half-Hour and all—Dragnet followed the exploits of Sgt. Joe Friday (badge number 714) and his partners as they investigated crime in Los Angeles.Dragnet was the brainchild of its star, writer, director and producer Jack Webb, who brought to the screen a level of realism in the Police Procedural that had never been seen before and has only rarely been seen since. This was accomplished via contacts he had in the LAPD, who provided him with both anonymized versions of actual cases and details on contemporary police procedure. In return, the LAPD requested that they be depicted in a reasonably positive light; an editorial choice that the pro-police Webb happily agreed with. As such, while there are precursors like the Dick Tracy comic strip, Dragnet has been credited in seriously cleaning up the public image of the police in popular culture as competent and professional public servants.Unqualified, the title Dragnet usually refers to an entire franchise of series which ran intermittently from 1949 to 1970: Dragnet, the original radio series, which ran from 1949-1957. Dragnet, called Badge 714 in syndication, a black and white (with one exception) TV series running from 1951-1959. There was a theatrical film adaptation in 1954 and print adaptations in the form of paperback books and newspaper strips. Dragnet 1967, a Revival of the original series, which ran (under a different title each year) from 1967 to 1970. This series was launched by a movie, unsurprisingly titled Dragnet 1966. It was made in 1966 but was not broadcast until 1969. While sometimes considered the show's weakest incarnation, and prone to unintentional self-parody, this series is the most familiar one to modern audiences. Being filmed in color, it was more attractive to syndicators, and still being under copyright, it's the only incarnation that has received an official DVD release (in season anthologies, with the pilot movie included in the 1969 collection).Officer Bill Gannon, Friday's partner in the revival series, played by Harry Morgan, was actually a Suspiciously Similar Substitute, the last and best known of several partners Friday had in the course of the show. Barton Yarborough portrayed Friday's original partner, Sgt. Ben Romero, from the start of the radio show until his death in December 1951, just three episodes into the first season of the original TV series. He was briefly succeeded by a number of different partners, until Ben Alexander proved popular enough to be a permanent replacement, playing Detective Frank Smith, from late 1952 to the end of the original TV show's run in 1959. Alexander also played Frank Smith in the 1954 feature film.Unlike just about every other police show, before and since Dragnet's airing, the focus was not always on homicide: Friday and his partners rotated through the various departments from week to week, allowing them to solve not only murders, but also robberies, frauds and scams, drug offenses, and even arson. Each episode ended with an unseen voiceover announcer giving the results of the perp's trial, accompanied in the TV version by his/her mug shot.The show spawned a number of Catch Phrases, such as "The story you are about to hear is true"; "This is the city: Los Angeles, California"; and "My name's Friday. I'm a cop" (eventually, "My name is Friday; I carry a badge"). But the most famous phrase identified with the show — "Just the facts, Ma'am" — is actually a Beam Me Up, Scotty! born from a series of Dragnet parodies created by Stan Freberg.The four note Sting used as a Theme Tune and at commercial breaks is one of the most recognizable musical cues in the history of television and radio. Even today, the sting signifies the forces of law and order as a calm, methodical and relentless force hounding criminals. Listen here (.wav file).Joe Friday's badge, number 714, which appears during the opening titles, is a real LAPD badge, not a reproduction. Joe Friday is the only fictional character ever to be issued an official badge number by a US police department. When Jack Webb died in 1982, he was given full Los Angeles Police Department funeral honors, even though Webb had never actually served on the force, in light of his service to the LAPD through Dragnet. Daryl F. Gates, chief of the LAPD, also announced that badge number 714 would be retired and would never be assigned to anyone else.At the time of Webb's death he was developing yet another revival of Dragnet, in which he would once again star as Friday. As Morgan was starring on MAS*H at the time, his character would have been replaced by yet another new partner, likely played by Kent McCord of sister series Adam-12, though whether he would actually be reprising his role of Officer Jim Reed is unclear. After Webb's death, the franchise continued to grow, with varying degrees of success: A 1987 feature film, a combination homage and Affectionate Parody, features Dan Aykroyd as a new Joe Friday, the nephew of Webb's character, and Tom Hanks as his partner. The duo are assigned to investigate a series of bizarre and (seemingly) unrelated robberies and vandalisms, eventually uncovering a dastardly plot by an underground criminal gang to undermine all authority in Los Angeles. Harry Morgan reprises his role as Bill Gannon, who has since been promoted to Captain of Robbery-Homicide. In 1989, a Dragnet (sometimes The New Dragnet) revival (In Name Only) aired in syndication, alongside a similar revival of Dragnet's companion show, Adam-12. It featured an LAPD cop named Vic Daniels, and the only connection to its namesake was the Framing Device of the opening narration. Dick Wolf attempted a Revival in 2003 with a series which was eventually retitled L.A. Dragnet, staring Ed O'Neill as Joe Friday. It lasted only a season and a half. While the first season was a fairly faithful recreation of the original concept, the show's format moved away from the original Dragnet template to one closer to Wolf's Law & Order, with Friday supervising a group of officers.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1042bae6	type	Limited Advancement Opportunities
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1042bae6	comment	Limited Advancement Opportunities: Despite his years of competent service to the force, Friday is apparently never able to rise above the rank of sergeant. He does make lieutenant toward the end of the original series, but for the revival show he's knocked back down to sergeant without (in-universe) explanation. Jack Webb once explained that this was because in real life a police lieutenant would have more of a Desk Jockey position and wouldn't be involved in the nuts and bolts of an investigation. That wasn't what Webb wanted for the character, and he wanted to keep the show as true-to-life as possible, so... Subverted with Officer Bill Gannon though, who is Captain of Robbery-Homicide in the 1987 movie.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_12476700	type	Locard's Theory
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_12476700	comment	Locard's Theory: Possibly the earliest TV instance, in an early episode.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_12a59731	type	Goodbye, Cruel World!
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_12a59731	comment	Goodbye, Cruel World!: In "The Starlet," the titular runaway leaves a note that says simply "To whom it may concern" before she overdoses on reds. The note explains it all - she didn't think her death would concern anyone.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Several episodes involve cops who are suffering this. "The Big Frustration" involves one where the detective becomes so frustrated at one of his cases being tossed out of court he actually goes AWOL (Friday and Gannon convince him to come back, but he's slapped with a hefty suspension for his behavior).
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The 1954 theatrical movie is more violent (and more graphically violent) than the radio or TV series.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_184793e2	type	Hospitality for Heroes
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_184793e2	comment	Hospitality for Heroes: In one episode, Friday and Gannon bust a perp just before he can go after a restaurant owner. Immediately afterwards, a line of dialogue reveals that the cops haven't had lunch yet. The restaurant owner immediately offers a free lunch; when they refuse, note California law and LAPD policy requires any police officer to refuse free goods or services for providing their services to the public, to prevent the appearance of bribery or anything else untoward. she tells them to sit down and order anyway, there's nothing controlling the size of the portions she serves them.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: Two — a theatrical release in 1954 and a TV movie made in 1966 which didn't air until 1969 (the network delayed release when they decided to go ahead with a new series).
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: Scrupulously avoided within any given episode, although across the series as a whole, the main characters worked in virtually every police capacity. Different episodes put Friday and his partner in different departments — whichever one is appropriate for the case being investigated, basically — but within each episode jobs are delegated as normal. Whatever department Friday and his partner were in, the two only did the plainclothed work. If they needed something else done, like tracing a license plate or fingerprinting a suspect, they would contact whichever appropriate division was needed for that certain task. They would also work with other divisions and officers if their cases happened to overlap with each other, such as narcotics working with juvenile if the suspect is turns out to be a minor.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1c96f945	type	Wrong-Name Outburst
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1c96f945	comment	Wrong-Name Outburst: At the end of the TV version of "The Big Sorrow", Friday and his new partner Frank Smith capture the two fugitives. Frank says he'll go bring the car around and Friday reflexively replies "Thanks, Ben." Somewhat ashamed he apologizes to Frank, but Frank tells him it's okay: "He would have wanted to be here."
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The opening and closing narrations.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: In "The Bank Jobs," a woman tells the protagonists how criminals forced her at gunpoint to help them rob a bank. At the end, she says, "I had three options: start screaming, faint, or have a drink. This is my fourth."
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Friday is a Knight in Shining Armor who sometimes slips into this, particularly in the 1967 revival when confronting egregious examples of late 1960s societal decay.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_233da103	comment	Cordon Bleugh Chef: Bill Gannon as revealed in the episode "A.I.D. — The Weekend."
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_23a633a8	type	Parental Fashion Veto
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_23a633a8	comment	Parental Fashion Veto: "The Big Kids" has a juvenile delinquent who changes into hippie clothes (which he stole) in a gas station to avoid his parents' disapproval. When he's picked up for shoplifting, he begs Friday to let him change before his mom sees him; Friday refuses. Sure enough, his mom seems as angry about the style of the clothes as the fact that they were stolen.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Two babies die in the '60s series alone, one by drowning in the bathtub when her parents get so high that they forget she's in there, the other by being shaken to death — by his father.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Adam-12, essentially the "patrolman" version of Dragnet, was also produced by Webb. Both stars had already appeared on Dragnet multiple times (indeed, Martin Milner had appeared on the radio version). Webb and Robert Cinader of Adam-12 later did Emergency!, which was Adam-12 WITH PARAMEDICS! L.A. Noire is effectively one big love-letter to Dragnet, albeit set in the postwar 1940s and somewhat Darker and Edgier.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: The sad outcome of a few child abuse cases.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_27f10418	type	Impersonating an Officer
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_27f10418	comment	Impersonating an Officer: Con artists try this occasionally. For example: A pair of phony bank examiners, stealing money from pensioners by claiming they need it to conduct a sting on a bank teller. Gannon poses as a mark and asks the fake inspectors if they're carrying identification. A pair of phony vice cops shakedown out-of-town businessmen by getting a scantily-clad woman into their room somehow, then conducting a phony prostitution arrest. The con comes when the not-cops claim the victim out-of-towner needs to stay in town long enough to testify at the woman's arraignment. note Friday and Gannon point out that saying this makes no sense from a legal standpoint, as at an arraignment, there is no testimony taken - only a plea (guilty or not guilty), sentencing arrangements for any guilty pleas, and a trial date set for not guilty pleas, plus the arraignment is when bail is actually determined. Of course, victims were probably chosen who were least likely to be aware of this. They convince the mark, however, that if he forks over $1000 for bail, the woman will likely disappear, meaning no need to testify, and more importantly, no chance anyone back home will hear the mark had anything to do with a prostitute. A group of con artists with a phony police protection league convince marks to pay for a classified ad in their magazine, which comes with a special card that allows holders to get special privileges from the police, such as getting moving violations discarded. The cards don't work, of course. A more benign version, citizens are calling the department looking for "Officer Gideon C. Dengle" to give him awards for his friendly service. The LAPD does not have an Officer Dengle, so Friday and Gannon go looking for the "cop". Nothing Dengle does is malicious â€” even his tickets direct payment to the LAPD, not him â€” and he reads his own rights when he's caught disguised as a firefighter. Turns out he used to be a police officer.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Joe Friday. His only vice is cigarettes, which can be Hand Waved given the time the TV show was filmed, and that the series was once sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: For the 1960s incarnation of the series, Friday and Gannon both wore grey suits with white shirts and black ties, and only those, for almost every episode (excluding some undercover assignments or off-duty episodes, though even those usually had them in the suits for at least one scene) to save time and money. The one exception was when Jack Webb and Harry Morgan once swapped jackets to see if anyone would notice. No one did.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_2b417e45	type	Scamming the Bereaved
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_2b417e45	comment	Scamming the Bereaved: A gang uses this con in "The Big Betty," albeit with cheap watches and other bits of useless junk rather than Bibles. In "The Big Grifter" a con man pretends to be an old friend of a recently deceased man and asks for money for a medical emergency.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_2d50bb66	type	Perp Sweating
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_2d50bb66	comment	Perp Sweating: A particular talent of Friday and his partner. "The Big Squeeze" is a half-hour of Friday and Gannon slowly, patiently, expertly wearing down a very savvy suspect by bringing out their bits of evidence — which aren't in themselves enough for an indictment — at just the right time to catch him in his various lies, eventually unsettling him enough that he confesses.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Discussed as a trope when Joe Friday mentions having read Aldous Huxley during a television debate.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_2fd5d26d	type	Dramatic Deadpan
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_2fd5d26d	comment	Dramatic Deadpan: Joe Friday, usually. Bill Gannon, occasionally.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_30cffab7	type	Illegal Gambling Den
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_30cffab7	comment	Illegal Gambling Den: Showed up in a few episodes, usually as an illegal bookmaking operation or a "floating" poker game that Friday and Gannon had to bust while working in Administrative Vice.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: In "The Big Make," the officers identify and arrest a good suspect, an ex-con who lied about his alibi and whom the victims identify as their attacker. They figure that the case is just about cleared up... when an anonymous letter arrives in which someone else claims responsibility for the crime and adds enough details to make the claim believable. The detectives scrap everything and start over.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Many villains of the week do this.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_37a6a66a	type	Instrumental Theme Tune
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_37a6a66a	comment	Instrumental Theme Tune: By Walter Schumann. The famous "dum-da-DUM-dum" sting was actually swiped (unintentionally) from Miklos Rozsa's score to the 1946 noir film The Killers, which is why RÃ³zsa is co-credited in print if not on screen. (Ironically, he never did any work in television himself.) Later arranged as a swingin' big-band number by Ray Anthony (which became a hit single), and a rather excellent four-part fugue by Stephen Malinowski.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: Seemingly prevalent in especially the 1960s revival, but several 1950s episodes were known for this as well. One example: "The Big Rod," a 1954 episode where a teenaged hot rodder is coldly indifferent to having struck (and killed) a woman who was seven months pregnant; he had been speeding well above the speed limit and was likely drunk as well.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: "The story you are about to hear/see is true." And some of the crimes are horrific.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_3ff57e4b	type	Required Spinoff Crossover
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_3ff57e4b	comment	Required Spinoff Crossover: Kent McCord and occasionally Martin Milner appearing as their Adam-12 characters Reed and Malloy.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: In one episode, ".22 Rifle for Christmas", the two investigate the shooting of a child near Christmas. They learn it was done accidentally by the boy's best friend when they were playing with the boy's Christmas gift, a rifle. The dead boy's father storms over to the friend's house, but when he sees how hurt the boy is over the loss of his friend, gives the boy all the dead child's Christmas toys. Lesson learned: kill your friend and you get all their toys. However, it is also made pretty clear the victim's friend is deeply remorseful, and that both families have been, perhaps, permanently damaged by the shooting.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_402a598d	type	Standard Police Motto
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_402a598d	comment	Standard Police Motto: This was the Trope Maker, bringing the LAPD's now-famous motto into the public eye.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_405f6f52	type	Recycled Soundtrack
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_405f6f52	comment	Recycled Soundtrack: Averted - as Webb was a big music fan, he insisted that every episode of both the radio and television versions have an original score (supplied on the original show by theme composer Walter Schumann for the most part, although Schumann's orchestrator Nathan Scott did several as well; Frank Comstock and Lyn Murray handled the revival).
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_40d6724	type	Sound-to-Screen Adaptation
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_40d6724	comment	Sound-to-Screen Adaptation: From radio to both the small screen and the silver one.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal! Friday's rejoinder to a committed neo-Nazi: "You keep harping about minorities. Well, mister, you're a psycho. And they're a minority, too." After arresting a husband who solicited an undercover Friday to kill his wife:
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_41f3b3a2	type	Generic Cop Badges
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_41f3b3a2	comment	Generic Cop Badges: Averted. Joe Friday's badge is a real LAPD badge, and its badge number (714) is officially assigned to the fictional detective. The badge number was retired when his actor, Jack Webb died, and he was buried with a replica of it. A minor law enforcement officer character in one episode has generic "POLICE DEPT." patches on his arms.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_438ed383	type	The Name Is Bond, James Bond
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_438ed383	comment	The Name Is Bond, James Bond: Friday almost always introduced himself by his last name, then occasionally giving his full name afterward.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_4435aa66	type	Attractive Bent-Gender
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_4435aa66	comment	Attractive Bent-Gender/Disguised in Drag: A 1950 radio episode, "The Big Girl," (adapted for the television show in 1954) told the story of a series of increasingly-brutal robberies, committed on men by a beautiful, tall woman, with the descriptions given varying only in hair color and style. By the end of the episode, Friday and Smith had tracked down the perp - a man who convincingly disguised himself as a woman. (Unfortunately, the TV version didn't have the man shown in disguise - on the other hand, the actor cast in the role didn't look like he would have pulled it off.)
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_4503f7d4	type	Who Watches the Watchmen?
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_4503f7d4	comment	Who Watches the Watchmen?: The Internal Affairs Division does, and they're presented as just another aspect of the job rather than as Knight Templar people out to railroad good cops.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_45f63263	type	Mistaken for Quake
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_45f63263	comment	Mistaken for Quake: Friday and Gannon stay in a hotel posing as orange growers to infiltrate a high-stakes gambling game and the room is right next to the elevator shaft. Friday mistakes the rumbling and shaking for an earthquake the first time it happens.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: The neo-Nazi in "The Big Explosion", the hippie separatists in "The Big Departure", and the Right Wing Militia Fanatics in "Intelligence (DR-34)" think so. Friday will have none of it.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_4789f57e	type	Syndication Title
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_4789f57e	comment	Syndication Title: Badge 714 for the original TV series.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_49b1fe0	type	Beige Prose
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_49b1fe0	comment	Beige Prose: Friday's deadpan narration often included elements of this (including variants on: "This is the city. I work here. I'm a cop.")
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: In The Big High, we don't see the dead child. But from the fact that Bill Gannon, who is made of such stern stuff that he hasn't once lost his lunch in seventeen years on the job, is now going to, we know it's a seriously disturbing sight.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: A frequent staple.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Mister Daniel Lumis, from the '60s series. Heck, it's even Lampshaded by his grandmother-in law that he stole from.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: Usually instigated by Ben Romero (in the radio series), Frank Smith or Bill Gannon (in the television series).
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?/Dirty Cop: Or perhaps "Et Tu, Christophore?"note The vocative form of Christophorus, Latin for Christopher In an episode of the third season in the Sixties, one of the best cops on the force has turned crooked.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_505a1021	type	The Farmer and the Viper
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_505a1021	comment	The Farmer and the Viper: In the backstory to "Burglary: Mister", Chester Albertson had posted Mister Daniel Lumis' bail on a check-forging charge. How does Lumis repay him? By skipping out on bail and swiping Albertson's camera, stereo rig, TV, three good suits, and bowling trophies in the process.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_518de95b	type	Always Murder
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_518de95b	comment	Always Murder: Averted. Though Friday and his partners handled their fair share of homicides, they also chased down armed robbers, burglars, con men, shoplifters and drug peddlers. They even had occasional duty in the administrative offices handling paperwork and walk-in complaints from the public. Jack Webb believed part of Dragnet's purpose was to show more of the police than just homicide.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: Friday himself.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_54804ea9	type	Always on Duty
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_54804ea9	comment	Always on Duty: Webb did his best to avert this. It is made clear that our main characters are one team out of many working one shift out of many and that just as much happens off-camera as on. In the episode "D. H. Q. â€” Night School", however, Friday flat out states "I'm a police officer, I have to be on duty 24 hours of the day"note Which is partially true. Cops are expected to intervene in a crime even if they're technically off the clock. The infamous incident in "The Shooting Board" occurred off-the-clock.. Also subverted slightly in episodes in which one of the partners invites the other for dinner and neighbors come out of the woodwork, looking for help.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: A subplot in the 1966 pilot movie involved Gannon being forcibly retired because he couldn't pass the Department physical. At the end of the case, he turns in his badge and tells Joe he's going up to Pismo Beach to take a job as a security guard. The movie ends eight months later, when Gannon shows up at the hospital while Joe's having his physical and tells him that the time away helped improved his health enough to pass and he's being reinstated both to the force and to being Joe's partner.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_56725578	type	Driving a Desk
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_56725578	comment	Driving a Desk: Averted in the times when they're actually driving while filming, played straight whenever Bill waggles the steering wheel despite driving down straight city roads.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_58154a14	type	Bribe Backfire
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_58154a14	comment	Bribe Backfire: Repeatedly, because Joe Friday was notoriously non-bribeable. In "Administrative Vice - DR-29" (1969) a Dirty Cop tried to bribe him to protect his bookmaking... so Joe went to the captain and worked with him to get evidence for arrest—and at the end, makes the Dirty Cop read himself his own Miranda rights. "The Big Clan" (1968) involved Gypsy fortune tellers who tried it... Joe went along long enough to get evidence, then busted them.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: In the episode "D. H. Q. — Night School", the fellow classmate in Friday's night class that forces the Professor to keep Friday in the classâ€”he's actually a lawyer.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Bill Gannon. Or perhaps more accurately Weird Eater. As part of his comic relief role, when Gannon wasn't trying to make an honest man of Joe he was usually telling Joe about recipes like his secret bbq sauce ("here's the secret, Joe...add a quart of vanilla ice cream"), bringing his "lunch box" (a fishing tackle box holding everything from extra bread to jars of pickled quail eggs) to work, buying chili and cupcakes when the two do policework in restaurants and bakeries, and offering Friday a bite of sandwiches combining such things as pastrami pickle and peanut butter. And as he'd say — the topper ("are you listening, Joe?") would be his favorite and most famous sandwich: The Garlic Nut-Butter Sandwich. (See Your Favorite, below).
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_60c96f24	type	Portmantitle
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_60c96f24	comment	Portmantitle: As a fusion of "Drag" and "Net". "Dragnet" is a real police term - it's a systematic method of capturing suspects within an area by closing off possible escape routes, then searching the area from the outside inward.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_62700738	type	Ear Trumpet
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_62700738	comment	Ear Trumpet: Appears in one episode as Joe Friday and his partner attempt to question a hard-of-hearing witness.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: At least once a season during the revival series, there would be an "Interrogation" episode - one where everything would happen entirely within one location, and would be concerned almost exclusively with interrogating or debating a single person: The aforementioned three minute rant occurs in an episode called "The Big Interrogation" (1967) in which the only characters are Friday, Gannon, and the guy they're questioning (a cop named Paul Culver, played by Kent McCord aka Jim Reed of Adam-12 fame). It's just the three of them in a room in Internal Affairs for the half hour. "The Big Prophet" features only Friday, Gannon and a self styled Prophet who helps people "find their way" through drugs in a half-hour debate with only one set — the interior and exterior of the Prophet's "church". "The Big Squeeze" features only Friday, Gannon, a syndicate man named George Fox, and a tape recorder full of evidence. An original series episode called "The Big Phone Call" has a very similar plot to "The Big Squeeze," this time involving a robbery. "A.I.D. — The Weekend" focuses on Friday being a guest at Gannon's house for a weekend. It plays much more like a sitcom than a typical episode and the actual crime doesn't become part of the plot until the last six minutes. Multiple episodes in the 1969 and 1970 seasons are Bottle Episodes, taking place in specific departments or locations (see "A Day in the Life" below). The episodes completely take place at these locations, with any action being indirectly told through radio or telephone calls or brought into the scene by the public or other officers.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: In "Personnel - The Shooting", Officer Frank Miller is fatally wounded trying to save civilians and his wounded partner during a liquor store holdup. He is awarded the Medal of Valor posthumously.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_688afa6a	type	Evil Uncle
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_688afa6a	comment	Evil Uncle: In "The Big Shooting", one of the two Villains Of The Week has statutory rape of his niece on his past record.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: The suspect in "Forgery - The Ranger" ended up being a person who applied for the U.S. Forest Service, but was rejected because of a bad heart. He had a friend in the USFS who died suddenly, so the suspect stole his identity and pretended to be him so that he could live out his dream.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: The series did at least two. One was ".22 Rifle for Christmas", which lives up to its ominous title (see the TearJerker page for more details). Then there was "The Big Little Jesus", about a baby Jesus statue being stolen from a nativity creche. The culprit turned out to be a little boy who "borrowed" the statue to give it a ride in his wagon. An early radio episode had Friday and Romero tracking down a missing woman for her worried out-of-state mother as Christmas approached.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_6fdd991c	type	Overt Operative
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_6fdd991c	comment	Overt Operative: When Joe Friday has to go undercover and pretend to be anything other than a cop. In-Universe, he's good at it, but it can be awfully tough for the audience to buy, since everything about Jack Webb's demeanor just screams "cop," even when he uses the alias "Joe Fraser."
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Many characters are seen puffing away, particularly Friday, both because it was an accepted habit at the time and because the show was sponsored by cigarette companies. The plot of "The Shooting Board" is kicked off when an off-duty Friday runs out of cigarettes late at night, and tries to buy a pack from a laundromat's vending machine. When the detectives investigating the shooting finally find the evidence that clears Friday of any wrongdoing, they tease/congratulate him with a gift: a whole carton of cigarettes.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_71598ac8	type	Internal Affairs
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_71598ac8	comment	Internal Affairs: Friday has both served in this capacity investigating a cop and being the subject of one by IA. Either way, no one disputes the role and there is pure professionalism in the tasks.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_722d0026	type	Vanity Plate
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_722d0026	comment	Vanity Plate: According to Wikipedia, those sweaty hands banging out Mark VII are none other than Jack Webb's himself. IMDb, on the other hand, states that the hands actually belong to Harold Nyby, Webb's construction foreman, who was chosen because his hands equaled the size of former boxing champion Sonny Liston.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_72757e0d	type	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_72757e0d	comment	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: The series is famous for its tagline, "The story you are about to hear/see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent." Every Dragnet story comes from actual police officers so the events seen actually happened at some point in the past.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: A robber made it his MO to hitch rides with women on whom he then draws a gun—help him rob a bank or die. The fourth time around, however, he picks a karate instructor. As they're leaving, as soon as she recovers her wits she decks and disarms him.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_757d244e	type	Schiff One-Liner
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_757d244e	comment	Schiff One-Liner: Friday usually made some wryly trenchant comment at the end of the main part of the episode, leading to the four-note Sting and the results of the trial.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_7921ad77	type	Actually, I Am Him
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_7921ad77	comment	Actually, I Am Him: In "The Big Test", a young man comes into the station and claims his friend Kevin Bradley was murdered by bandits while they were prospecting in Mexico. After his story starts to unravel, he breaks down and admits he is Kevin Bradley - he'd hoped to fake his death because he felt his parents were too restrictive.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: Although there was a comic strip, there was surprisingly no US comic book released of either the original TV series or the 1960s version. Several issues of a Dragnet comic based on the show were published in Australia, however.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: By Friday. In the 1966 revival, his opening narrations often included facts and statistics about the city of Los Angeles relating somehow to that episode's case. By the time of Dragnet 1970, however, Webb more often than not just opened with a standard "This is the City — Los Angeles, California. I work here...I carry a badge", before the opening credits. The openings of the original 1950s TV series were similar but often ended with "I'm a cop" instead of "I carry a badge."
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_7f6a54f2	type	Miranda Rights
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_7f6a54f2	comment	Miranda Rights: Said almost once an episode in the 1960s version of the show. However, the 1950s show did not have this, as it wasn't required until the 1966 Supreme Court decision in Miranda v. Arizona.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_8124e7a6	type	Sudden Downer Ending
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_8124e7a6	comment	Sudden Downer Ending: In "The Little Victim," the abusive father is jailed, and the mother gets a divorce so she and her infant son can live in safety. That is, until a year later, when the husband gets out of jail and pays his ex-wife a visit. The mother is so lonely that she lets him in, and he beats his son to death.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_815db542	type	Phony Veteran
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_815db542	comment	Phony Veteran: One of the suspects in "The Subscription Racket" claims that he's a United States Marine, and even has a genuine Congressional Medal of Honor to back it up. The Medal is indeed the real thing, but it was earned by the suspect's father posthumously for his actions in The Vietnam War.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_83902d45	type	Ambiguously Christian
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_83902d45	comment	Ambiguously Christian: Gannon hints at his religious beliefs once, in Episode 25, Season 3, of the 1967 revival. When he and Friday are at a hospital, checking on a baby who wasn't expected to survive, Gannon and the Doctor have this exchange.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_8470aa73	type	Roman Ã Clef
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_8470aa73	comment	Roman Ã Clef: As it says on The Other Wiki, "Webb was a stickler for accurate details, and Dragnet used many authentic touches, such as the LAPD's actual radio call sign (KMA367), and the names of many real department officials, such as Ray Pinker and Lee Jones of the crime lab or Chief of Detectives Thad Brown." The then-Chief of Police was always credited at the end of every episode.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_85537320	type	Police Procedural
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_85537320	comment	Police Procedural: Didn't invent the genre, but solidified it and practically ruled it for two decades.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: If the story you were about to see weren't true, Willing Suspension of Disbelief would sometimes be impossible. Lampshaded in Mister.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_8947140b	type	Significant Reference Date
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_8947140b	comment	Significant Reference Date: In the third season episode "Community Relations — DR-10", the comic relief subplot has Gannon bothering Friday about Friday's horoscope. Joe tells Bill that his birthday is April 2 — the same date that his actor Jack Webb was born. (In a similar Adam-12 episode scene Pete Malloy's birthday is not the same as Martin Milner's).
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: George Fox does this a few times in "The Big Squeeze".
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_8cb4ea46	comment	By-the-Book Cop: Friday and his partners. This is presented as a positive trait, too — standard procedure is standard for a reason, and on this show, trying to second-guess that usually makes things worse.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Friday fulfills this role. If the showrunners want the audience to know something about law, crime, or the police, then Friday is usually the one who explains it.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_94721d54	type	Your Favorite
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_94721d54	comment	Your Favorite: For Bill Gannon, his Garlic Nut-Butter Sandwich.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_97b4c1fd	type	Cut Himself Shaving
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: In "The Little Victim," the titular infant is beaten by his father. His mother claims he escaped from the apartment and fell downstairs. No one at the hospital is convinced, especially after the doctors see the X-rays showing his bones have been broken before.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Middle-aged bachelor Friday still lives with his mother during the early seasons of the original series. In the 1960s series, this would seem even more bizarre for someone of Friday's age, so he was given his own bachelor apartment.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_99244825	type	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_99244825	comment	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation: In 1954, an official "Dragnet" stage play was written by James Reach, adapting the story described above in Locked Room Mystery.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_9e09fbd7	type	New-Age Retro Hippie
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_9e09fbd7	comment	New-Age Retro Hippie: Although not actually "new" during the late 1960s, hippies appeared in several episodes, and were almost never shown in a positive way.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_9ed6761e	type	Death by Woman Scorned
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_9ed6761e	comment	Death by Woman Scorned: Implied in one episode where Friday and Gannon are posted in the hospital. A mortally wounded man (who had evidently been cheating on his wife) is brought in, tries to make a dying declaration, but dies before he can say for sure whether his wife, the prime suspect, is the one who shot him.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_9f279a3e	type	You Make Me Sick
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_9f279a3e	comment	You Make Me Sick: Or rather, two guys make bowling alley owner Chester Albertson sick in "Burglary—Mister":
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Happens somewhat often. Several (though not all) suspects throughout the series are shown to be guilt-ridden about their crimes. When Friday uses lethal force against a suspect for the first time, he is very shaken up about it. In "The Big High", the suspects are horrified and break down sobbing when they learn that their heavy marijuana use has resulted in them neglecting their young child, causing her death. It even shakes Gannon. The culprit in "The Big Crime". The only thing he's glad of was that he forgot the pocketknife—he'd have killed the kids had he remembered it. In the shot after Friday and Smith take him away, we see his pocketknife on the floor next to the chair he'd been sitting in.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a32dcd7f	type	Desk Jockey
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a32dcd7f	comment	Despite his years of competent service to the force, Friday is apparently never able to rise above the rank of sergeant. He does make lieutenant toward the end of the original series, but for the revival show he's knocked back down to sergeant without (in-universe) explanation. Jack Webb once explained that this was because in real life a police lieutenant would have more of a Desk Jockey position and wouldn't be involved in the nuts and bolts of an investigation. That wasn't what Webb wanted for the character, and he wanted to keep the show as true-to-life as possible, so...
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a3eea2ea	type	Cop Killer
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a3eea2ea	comment	Cop Killer: Discussed in an episode each of the radio show and the '60s TV series. Friday monologues that the reason the department goes all-out to catch cop killers isn't just because they killed a friend of theirs. To paraphrase, if a suspect is willing to kill an armed police officer, would they hesitate to kill a civilian? In one episode of the '60s series two officers, a rookie and his training officer, are shot trying to stop a pair of liquor store robbers, one of whom escapes. The older officer dies shortly after coming out of surgery and, according to the end of the episode, while the captured robber was sentenced to death, the other one was "still at large".
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a4be7043	comment	Subverted with Officer Bill Gannon though, who is Captain of Robbery-Homicide in the 1987 movie.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Zig-Zagged with Friday - In the original radio/TV series, Friday lived with his mother, despite being in his twenties and thirties. In the '60s series, this would seem even more unusual for a man of Friday's age, so he went to living in his own bachelor apartment, despite a few brief references that his mother was still alive. Gannon is frequently making mention that Friday, at his age, is still unmarried, rarely dating, and lives alone eating canned soup, a big thing during the time period the show was on. That said, Joe is not seen to be a slouch with flirting with attractive women, particularly if it's needed to gain access to a criminal enterprise (like, say, an illegal card-game) and a few episodes imply he does have a girlfriend. Taken altogether, the best explanation for Friday is that he's Married to the Job.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: The detectives may have worked out of a different division every week, but very little else changed.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a8593e70	type	Real Time
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a8593e70	comment	Real Time: The radio episode "Attempted City Hall Bombing" takes place over half an hour, in-universe and out of it. This format is preserved, with slight modifications to allow for commercial breaks, both in the second radio version produced for the series ("The Big Bomb") and in the version filmed for television ("The Human Bomb").
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: See the page quote.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: In "The Big Shipment," a drug smuggler pretends to be deaf and dumb so he can't be interrogated. He gives up the act when Friday looks in his wallet and finds a receipt for two phonograph records.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Many children and teenagers appear on the show, either as victims or suspects. The writers do their best to incorporate modern slang into their dialogue, with... varying success. Especially in the revival series.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: Mostly overlaps with Author Filibuster, as Joe Friday (whose views are indistinguishable from Jack Webb's) gets the vast majority of the big speeches. "The Big Prophet" is an exception. The discussion between Friday and Gannon and a Timothy Leary Expy/suspect is, almost literally, an episode-length formal debate over "Resolved: Drug use is harmless." The Leary character, while a Strawman Political whose arguments are demolished by the detectives, actually gets a pretty good opportunity to state his case, and about as much time to do so as the cops get. And the suspect actually gets one right. At the time, possession of marijuana was a felony. The suspect says, "One day marijuana will be perfectly legal, and people will be able to buy it openly." Flash forward about 30 years to when medical marijuana was approved in California, with recreational use becoming legal there 10 years later.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Most episodes of the original radio/TV series were titled "The Big (something)". The 1969 season's episodes are named "(Division): DR (number)".
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: In the 1954 movie, Friday and Smith finally get the evidence to put Starkey's two killers away. Unfortunately, by the time they get it, one has been rubbed out by his fellow crooks, and the other has died during a cancer operation. In the 1967 series, season 2, there was an episode called "The Big High", in which a concerned grandfather tries to save his granddaughter from her parents, who experiment on marijuana. The parents are stopped, but not before the daughter drowns in the bathtub while the parents are getting stoned. In the episode "The Big Starlet" of the same season, Friday and Gannon try to rescue a young woman of 16 who got involved with adult motion pictures. They find her, but not before she commits suicide from drug overdose. Later that season, "The Little Victim" featured a baby in danger of child abuse by her father. Unfortunately, the child dies as a result of the abuse.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Friday, occasionally. The Strawman Political hippie activist he debates in one episode is a more pronounced version of this trope.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_af5edbff	type	Myopic Architecture
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_af5edbff	comment	Myopic Architecture: During a security check of a business during one of the 1960s episodes, Gannon manages to open a locked door by pulling it open and breaking the door frame in the process, then explains to the shocked business owner that a fancy new lock means nothing if the door it's attached to has a frame that's rotting away.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Several examples frequently used or parodied, including, "My name is Friday. I carry a badge."
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: The series was actually intentionally done as an homage this style, with gritty hard-boiled detectives, mean streets, and a jazz score.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_b275df3d	type	Asian Babymama
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_b275df3d	comment	Asian Babymama: A rare inversion of the trope - Friday and Gannon are assigned to investigate a four-day-old baby left overnight in a trash can. The culprit turns out to be the (Caucasian) fiance of a soldier currently in Vietnam who had been impregnated before he left. A few days before giving birth, she got a letter back telling her he was staying in Vietnam and marrying a Vietnamese woman.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: The 1967 series was quite fond of this as Joe Friday has had his fair share of long-winded lectures about the moral of the episode. In "The Interrogation," a policeman (Kent McCord, pre-Adam-12) is accused of robbing a liquor store. He says that whether or not he's found guilty he'll leave the force. Friday gives him an epic three-minute rant about how tough police officers have it. A subversion in "The Grenade" — Gannon takes the floor to deliver the filibuster, on how teens were growing up too fast.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_b6e1d40b	comment	Acceptable Breaks from Reality: The detectives move from division to division much more frequently than they would in real life. Jack Webb, normally a stickler for realism, did this to show audiences different facets of police work.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Virtually every episode ended with "X was convicted of Y and sentenced to Z".
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Most of the criminals feel this way, but Mister Daniel Lumis takes the cake, feeling that even the cops should accept his my-wants-trump-all attitude and apologize for daring to interrupt his three-game bowling series with handcuffs.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_bcb4f1f1	type	You Just Told Me
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_bcb4f1f1	comment	You Just Told Me: Friday and Smith tell one murder suspect that the dead man's daughter saw him. The suspect's reply? "She can't have. The lights were out."
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_bd29e069	comment	Precious Puppies: Ginger, a drug sniffing dog. The closing narration tells us she did her job so well the Underworld paid her their highest compliment: they put a price on her head. It then goes on to note this was the story of the first drug-sniffing dog; many more would follow. One episode has Friday and Gannon on the trail of a purse-stealing canine.note Turns out the man had four of them.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_bdd7fd6b	comment	These Hands Have Killed: The first time Friday had to use lethal force, he was visibly shaken afterwards.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_be85ff22	type	Contract on the Hitman
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_be85ff22	comment	Contract on the Hitman: One episode has Friday and Gannon going undercover to investigate a solicitation to murder. It turns out that the husband who wants his alcoholic wife eliminated plans to shoot the hit man and make it look like self-defense.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Bill and his wife Eileen. So much so he can tell what she's gonna say over the telephone before she has a chance to say it
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_bf95550c	comment	Tie-In Novel: Several paperbacks based on the series appeared in the 1950s, along with a daily newspaper strip.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_bffb777a	comment	Sawed-Off Shotgun: One is the center of attention in the 1967 episode The Big Shooting. Having already been used to shoot a patrolling officer, and hearing from an informant that the gunman kept it close at hand, Friday took the threat seriously, going in with a police shotgun at the ready and picking a time when he can get the drop on the perp in bed.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: In the final case in the final episode, the robbery and shooting at the corner grocery store. The grocer implored the robber not to take all the money; he had bills to pay.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_c1901748	comment	Healthcare Motivation: In the 1967 episode "The Bookie," a man takes illegal bets to pay for surgery for his ten-year-old daughter with a heart defect. Not only is he caught and arrested, his daughter dies a few hours after surgery.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Bill and Joe in the 60's revival. Despite their once-an-ep banter they are best friends on and off the clock, they're an excellent team (Bill even tells a Secret Service agent trying to offer Joe a job that of he wants one of them, he has to take both), they have each other's backs no matter what, and Bill even mentions in an ep that he and Eileen consider Joe a member of their family.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_c396fef9	type	Ponzi
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_c396fef9	comment	Ponzi: The aptly titled "The Pyramid Swindle" has a televangelist-esque woman running a "give me money, recruit other people to give you money" scheme. People who buy in gain access to a catalogue of items sold cheaper than in stores, as well as a $19.99 recruitment tape. At her trial, a statistician demonstrates how, in order to reach the twelfth level, her scheme would need to recruit over 300 million people; at the time, the population of the United States was around 200 million.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The "this is the city" intros of most 1960s episodes are more or less shoutouts to the entire city of Los Angeles, practically advertising its history, buildings, features, and amenities. Little of the few negative things said in the intros are specific or unique to the city, and are mostly just general criminal activities or framed as having happened long ago. A popular myth states that Friday's badge number (714) commemorated Babe Ruth's career home run total.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error Frank Smith is introduced at the beginning of the original TV series' second season, but 20 episodes later it's stated that he and Friday have been partners for years. When Friday faces a police board over shooting a robber, Gannon testifies that he and Friday had been partners for five years. A few episodes later in the episode "The Big Neighbor" Friday mentions they've been partners for eight years. In the first episode of the 1960s revival, Bill states he has two sons. But every time his kids are mentioned later, it's four sons. It's true they could have been born during the series, but when Joe visits Bill's home in two episodes, it doesn't look like there are any babies or very young children living there. During season one of the 1960s revival, there is a pair of episodes involving frauds. In the first episode, Friday and Gannon are working on a case involving phony bank examiners. Later they are working on a magazine subscription racket with a different pair of detectives working on the bank examiners case. In a 1970 episode, Friday says he's been working with Gannon in the police hospital detail for three years. While the show had been running for three years, the previous three seasons very obviously prove Friday wasn't working the hospital detail for three years. Even if Friday's claim is applied solely to his time partnered with Gannon, it's still technically incorrect, as they were partners in the 1966 movie, making it four years, not three. Joe is promoted to Lieutenant in the end of the 1950s run but in the revival, he's back to Sergeantnote Jack Webb realized that lieutenants in the LAPD act primarily as supervisors and do little work in the field so he made Joe Friday a sergeant once again so that the character could work on the streets.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: The hippie florist in "The Big Dog".
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: It's named for the police term "dragnet", defining any systematic method of trying to catch wanted people.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_d259fea2	comment	Speak Ill of the Dead: Justified, as sometimes you have to speak ill of a murder victim to get to the truth. Also, roughly half the murderers were executed.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_d72164e9	type	Must Have Nicotine
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_d72164e9	comment	Must Have Nicotine: Joe Friday smokes regularly. Both because Jack Webb was a heavy smoker and because the series was sponsored by Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. This was a plot point in one episode, as Joe gets involved in an off-duty shooting because he stopped by a laundromat looking for a cigarette vending machine. The machine was out of order anyways.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_d73e0f7f	type	"Ray of Hope" Ending
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_d73e0f7f	comment	"Ray of Hope" Ending: Episode 20, Season 3, in the 1967 revival featured an ending like this. Friday arrested a woman for beating her son so savagely that the boy needed to go to the hospital. Unfortunately the criminal court didn't sent her to prison, the judge let her keep custody of her son, and while she was ordered to visit a psychiatrist for a year she was totally remorseless and scolded Friday outside the courtroom for embarrassing her. However, Friday coldly stated that he'll personally arrest her if she ever abuses her child again. Finally, when she and her son leave the courtroom, the boy stops to look back at Friday and waves at him, showing he knows he can seek help the next time his mother beats him.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_d78d5f96	type	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_d78d5f96	comment	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence: One episode has an unintentional example when an off-duty Joe Friday is shot at by a teenager attempting to rob a vending machine. Joe returns fire and fatally wounds the suspect, but then has trouble proving the other guy shot first when the crime scene investigators can't find the corresponding bullet. The bullet shot at Joe was fired just right to lift a shelf off of its supports before embedding in the wall. The shelf then came back down into place, hiding the hole.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_dae0cfd5	type	Something Else Also Rises
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_dae0cfd5	comment	Something Else Also Rises: A Nightmare Fuel variant appears in the intro to the 1966 TV movie, when the (as yet unnamed) murderer in the A plot is shown watching footage of himself about to strangle victim #3, and excitedly snapping the cord he used.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_db9940c4	type	Famed In-Story
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed In-Story: In "The Trial Board", Friday assumes that the officer who asked for Friday as his advocate just picked a name at random off the department roster. The man insists that he picked Friday because the other officers in the division say that Sergeant Friday's one of the best, and that he'll go all the way to defend a cop who's in the right.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_dcaa8b35	type	Locked Room Mystery
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_dcaa8b35	comment	Locked Room Mystery: "The Big Bullet" - a man is found dead inside a room from a gunshot wound. The door was locked and barricaded from the inside, and the window was locked and the curtains drawn. A recently-fired .38 revolver was next to the body. Initially, suicide was suspected until the coroner dug out the bullet and the crime lab found that it could not have been fired by the only weapon in the room (the slug was a 9mm fired from an automatic). The victim's mother-in-law shot him outside the room after he shot the bible she was holding. The victim then entered the room where he was found, locked it, and died.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Emphasized repeatedly, especially in the '60s revival as it was taking place in a period when drug use was rising dramatically. The very first 1967 episode was titled "The LSD Story."
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: Some of the episodes didn't take place on the job and involved incidents at one of the officer's residences. In the 1969 and 1970 seasons, several episodes were dedicated less to specific cases and more to specific roles: such as the Business Office or the Robbery Desk. Other times, the case doesn't involve pursuing a specific criminal. In "Management Services - DR-11", the focus was the Emergency Control Center which helped maintain order in the wake of the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, and in "Public Affairs - DR-12", the case involved planning guard detail for a visit from the President.note No actual name was given; the filming took place in the end of Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, and it was unknown at the time who would succeed him. In such cases, there may not be a criminal epilogue, so if there was a narration, it focused instead on the role displayed in the episode. Most of the above also tended to be Bottle Episodes.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: Officers Malloy and Reed, from the Webb-produced Adam-12, appear in a 1968-69 season episode, "Internal Affairs: DR 20". There are cases of Kent McCord in earlier episodes appearing as other officers, including ones named Reed. However, it's not certain if the character's name is Jim Reed since those episodes aired before the first episode of Adam-12 did.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: In one episode, a septuagenarian Villain of the Week boasts of being "the world's oldest cat burglar".
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_ed84457a	type	Consummate Professional
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_ed84457a	comment	Consummate Professional: Friday, in spades. Even when he's not on duty, he's on duty. Gannon repeatedly tries, in vain, to loosen him up.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f21d434a	type	New Job as the Plot Demands
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f21d434a	comment	New Job as the Plot Demands: Friday and Gannon would be on detail to many different police divisions — from Homicide to Bunco to Community Relations — for the current episode's case. While Webb was a stickler for details, he opted for less realism here to allow for a wider variety of stories. By comparison, in the 2003 revival, Friday was always assigned to Homicide.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Joe Friday was known to smoke first Fatima, then Chesterfield cigarettes during the radio and original TV series. Both brands were owned by L&M. A good part of the first 3 1/2 minutes of the 1954 episode "The Big False Make" looks a lot like a commercial for Poland Spring water, even with a close-up shot of the label in Officer Smith's hands and another of him opening the bottle. The pretense is that Smith offers the water to Friday to drink instead of the water out of the fountain. In the 1960s series, Friday and Gannon drive a custom beige 1967 Ford Fairlane, featuring some custom additions only found on the Fairlane 500. In-universe, it's Gannon's cruiser, but in reality, the car was built specifically for Jack Webb by Ford.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Averted with Frank Smith, who wasn't much like Ben Romero, then played straight with Bill Gannon, who was quite the Frank Smith clone at first.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f6cdc27	comment	Out Sick: When Bill Gannon is sick, Sgt. Friday is paired with a temporary partner, who turns out to have been taking bribes.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f88600be	type	Higher Understanding Through Drugs
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f88600be	comment	Higher Understanding Through Drugs: This trope is invoked in the late '60s series, where at least one criminal of the week espouses it. In a different episode, Friday recommends that a teenage boy try the local library instead.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f98356f	type	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f98356f	comment	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: Frank Barker, the villain of "Intelligence (DR-34)" is a right-wing millionaire who tries recruiting policemen for his private militia. Joe, who infiltrates the group and discovers that they're stockpiling stolen military weapons, makes clear his disgust with Barker's attempts to co-opt police grievances for his own ends.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f9a3fedc	type	Vignette Episode
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_f9a3fedc	comment	Vignette Episode: Occasionally happened during the '60s series, particularly in later seasons, when Friday and Gannon were assigned to work covering a special desk, like Juvenile on the night shift, or the Business Office (front desk of the Parker Center), where several different people with unrelated cases would ask for help. At least one of those cases would result in an arrest, allowing for the Once per Episode trial result epilogue.
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: A non-sexual example. In the episode "The Prophet", Friday states "Marijuana is the flame, heroin is the fuse, LSD is the bomb." In 1993, a techno song was released, entitled "LSD is the Bomb," which quoted Friday's line. A recovering addict in the episode "Narco: Missing Hypo" from the '60s version says that another addict "tried to turn [him] on."
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Dragnet (Franchise) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Dragnet (Franchise) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Webb took accuracy and research very seriously, and it shows in the scripts. Webb was very concerned about the minutiae of police work and oversaw everything down to things like a scrap of paper left hanging on a thumbtack in the background because he felt that including every possible bit of realism meant that the viewer would believe in the show all the more. There's a story about how Webb was shooting a scene where he picked up the phone only for him to angrily throw down the receiver and start yelling because the extension number on the phone was for the wrong department. Let that sink in for a moment: not only was Webb angry about an element that wouldn't even have been visible had the prop been facing the camera, he knew the proper extension number to a real department in the LAPD by heart.
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Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Dream-Crushing Handicap / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Ear Trumpet / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Erudite Stoner / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Every Episode Ending / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Fake Crossover / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Fauxlosophic Narration / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Food and Animal Attraction / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Generic Cop Badges / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Genius Bonus / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Genre Turning Point / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Ghost Town / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Goodbye, Cruel World! / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Healthcare Motivation / int_29516906
HecRamsey	seeAlso	Dragnet (Franchise)
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Hollywood Cop Uniform / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Hospitality for Heroes / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	I Call It "Vera" / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	I Just Want to Have Friends / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Ignore the Fanservice / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Impersonating an Officer / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Incorruptible Pure Pureness / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Insurance Fraud / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Internal Affairs / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Junkie Prophet / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Knight in Sour Armor / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Locard's Theory / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Locked Room Mystery / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Loony Fan / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Lying to the Perp / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Mad Libs Catchphrase / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Miranda Rights / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Mistaken for Quake / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Nature Abhors a Virgin / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	New Job as the Plot Demands / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	New Season, New Name / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	One of Our Own / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Overt Operative / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Phone-Trace Race / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Pineapple Surprise / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Ponzi / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Private Detective / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Public Domain Character / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Quip to Black / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Rearrange the Song / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Revival / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Roman Ã Clef / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Sawed-Off Shotgun / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Scamming the Bereaved / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Schiff One-Liner / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Series of the 1950s / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Shared Universe / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Shoot the Television / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Shot-for-Shot Remake / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Significant Reference Date / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Smoking Is Cool / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Sound-to-Screen Adaptation / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Spin-Offspring / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Spy Speak / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Syndication Title / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Tank Goodness / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	The '50s / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	The Character Died with Him / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	The Conspiracy / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	The Finicky One / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	The Gambling Addict / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	The Remake / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	The Stakeout / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	They Fight Crime! / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	This Is a Work of Fiction / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Torture for Fun and Information / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Verbal Business Card / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Very Loosely Based on a True Story / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Virgin in a White Dress / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Virgin Tension / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Vomit Discretion Shot / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Vomiting Cop / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Weather Report Opening / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Western Terrorists / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wicked Cultured / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wife-Basher Basher / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	You Just Told Me / int_29516906
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	You Wanna Get Sued? / int_29516906
Dragnet (Radio)	seeAlso	Dragnet (Franchise)
Dragnet	seeAlso	Dragnet (Franchise)
dragnet	sameAs	Dragnet (Franchise)
Dragnet (Franchise)	hasFeature	Dramatic Deadpan / int_29516906

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