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.
Directed by Jack Webb
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Jack Webb
Joe Friday

Harry Morgan
Bill Gannon

Vic Perrin
Don Negler

Virginia Gregg
Eve Kruger

Gene Evans
Hugh Brown
John Roseboro
Dave Bradford

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

Bruce Watson
Freddie

Herbert Ellis
Rico 'Ricky' Markell

Eddie Firestone
Max Shelton
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