On the early Dragnets you never knew if Friday was going to be going after murderers or loiterers in any given week, which was kind of cool, and of course he pursued them both with equal intensity. In the late Sixties version you got the sense that Jack Webb was just befuddled at the way the world had turned out and wanted to burn it down.
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Date: 2008-08-20 02:10 am (UTC)