Dragnet
movie
Only the names have been changed
Released January 27, 1969
Overview
Also known as "Dragnet 1966," this TV movie was originally the pilot for the 1967 relaunch of the original 1950s "Dragnet" radio show and TV show (which also had its own movie in 1954, from the same creative team). However, the pilot wasn't actually aired until 1969. In this feature-length entry, Sgt. Joe Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner, Officer Bill Gannon, on a missing persons case. Two amateur female models and a young war widow have vanished, having been last seen with one J. Johnson. In the course of tracking down Johnson and the young ladies, the detectives wind up with two different descriptions of the suspect, one of which closely resembles a dead body found in a vacant lot. But the dead man, later identified as Charles LeBorg of France, proves not to be J. Johnson, when a third young model disappears.
Cast

Jack Webb
as
Joe Friday

Harry Morgan
as
Bill Gannon

Vic Perrin
as
Don Negler

Virginia Gregg
as
Eve Kruger

Gene Evans
as
Hugh Brown
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John Roseboro
as
Dave Bradford

Bobby Troup
as
George Freeman
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Tom Williams
as
Melvin Gannon
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Jack Ragotzy
as
Carl Rockwell
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Roger Til
as
WIlliam Smith
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Jean-Michel Michenaud
as
Claude LeBorg

Bruce Watson
as
Freddie
Crew

Jack Webb
as
Producer
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Lyn Murray
as
Music
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Walter Strenge
as
Director of Photography
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Richard Belding
as
Editor
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John E. Chilberg II
as
Art Direction
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Richard Kimball
as
Art Direction
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Buck Henshaw
as
Set Decoration
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John McCarthy Jr.
as
Set Decoration

Jack Webb
as
Director

Richard L. Breen
as
Writer