L.A. Dragnet

LA Dragnet is the best show from Law & Order producer Dick Wolf, ever. Such a shame that it didn't get a chance to find its audience. The first season was especially good. It seemed like Wolf tried to 'save' the show by doing his big trick: putting busty female cops and lawyers in scoop-neck tank tops on camera. And even then, O'Neill shone through. It's hard to take on a role with so much baggage. The original 50's show was so iconic. The more amiable and sometimes downright goofy 60s show was so beloved in that funny kind of way reserved for crusty but lovable older relations.And yet -- Ed O'Neill brought so much of the original Joe Friday's character to the little screen but did it with so much genuineness -- an extraordinary job. O'Neill's work on LA Dragnet was something he could really be proud of, it seems to me. If you ever read this, Ed, damn, man, you did a FINE job!

If you're thinking of the show I believe you are, sometimes that is necessary to get to the HEAD LEADER of a crime ring to dismantle the ring.It happens in YOUR town, although you don't always zsee it in the paper headlines or on the nightly news. There's a reason, and it's to make sure they don't give any info to the crime ring or give them any rest or hope. That hels to STOP the crime ring from committing more atrocities. Besides, a man who committs the crimes like the one 'm thinking you mean, USALLY doesn't make it in prison in the U.S. UNLESS there are a LOT of them in there.Plus he won'tr be paroled when eligable, and he WILL have to pull EVERY SINGLE MOMENT, HOUR, and DAY OF HIS SENTENCE and usually, unless it's a very oung person who makes it out by age 40, he's going to be too old to chance having to go back and die in prison.   See 1 other reply

They DO change some parts of the stories to make them not really recognizable to LA residents and to those who follow crime there.Like the ORIGINAL DRAGNET, the story you see is true. The names are changed to protect the innocent. NOW, what I'd really like to say is, not ONLY is this an EXCELLENT show, but Ed O'Neill shows just how good an actor he really is! To go from "married with children" and playing "Al Bundy" to playing Joe Friday, even BETTER in MY opinion, than the ORIGINAL JOE FRIDAY who's name I forget at the moment, shows that Ed can play ANY role. He would be great in any acting role and can REALLY MAKE the charactor seem real. He's a very versitile actor and it's too bad he wasn't dicovered until "married with children" but he MADE that TV show, as he makes "LA DRAGNET"."   See 1 other reply