Dragnet (1987) on Netflix
Sergeant Joe Friday, nephew of the original Joe Friday, gets a streetwise new partner, Pep Streebek. Their cases are odd: animals taken from a zoo, a stolen magazine print run, chemicals.
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Plot summary
LAPD robbery-homicide sergeant Joe Friday, nephew and namesake of the famous Joe Friday, keeps to his late uncle's old-fashioned ways. His partner of twelve years, Frank Smith, quits the department without notice to buy a goat farm in Ukiah, so Friday is handed a new one: the cocky, streetwise Pep Streebek, whose hair, wardrobe and attitude Friday criticizes. Their assignment is a run of bizarre thefts. A bat, a thirty-foot snake and a lion's mane are taken from a zoo, along with the whole print run of the anniversary issue of Bait, a magazine that the Reverend Jonathan Whirley has led a moral crusade against. Cards bearing the word PAGAN are left at the scenes, and chemicals that mix into a poisonous gas are among the goods taken.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dragnet (1987)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Albert Brooks was offered the role of wisecracking detective Pep Streebek in Dragnet but turned it down; Dan Aykroyd's first choice, Jim Belushi, was then unavailable, so Tom Hanks got the part instead.
- For Dragnet's title sequence, the electronic group Art of Noise reworked the show's original theme into an electronic breakbeat track layered with soundbites of Joe Friday's catchphrases, including "Just the facts, ma'am" and "I carry a badge."
- Stars Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks recorded the closing-credits song "City of Crime" with bassist Glenn Hughes and guitarist Pat Thrall, and its promotional music video was choreographed by pop singer Paula Abdul.
