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''Dragnet'' was revived by Webb and debuted in mid-season on NBC on January 12, 1967 and became a respectable hit for the network.  To distinguish it from the earlier black-and-white series, the color ''Dragnet'' revival had the year in which each season ended added to the show's title with each new season (e.g. ''Dragnet 1967'', etc.).

''Dragnet'' was revived by Webb and debuted in mid-season on NBC on January 12, 1967 and became a respectable hit for the network.  To distinguish it from the earlier black-and-white series, the color ''Dragnet'' revival had the year in which each season ended added to the show's title with each new season (e.g. ''Dragnet 1967'', etc.).

The 1967 revival followed the same direction as its predecessor as Sgt. Friday and his new partner, Officer Bill Gannon, investigated various cases for the LAPD's varied divisions.  It also included more contemporary themes for the new decade, such as increased drug use in society due to the rise of the [[counterculture]], along with [[hippie]]s, [[leftist]] and [[racism|racist]] revolutionaries and other products of the counterculture and its influence openly displaying their contempt for the law and those who enforce it, although such characters invariably pay the price by the end of each episode for their bad choices.

The 1967 revival followed the same direction as its predecessor as Sgt. Friday and his new partner, Officer Bill Gannon, investigated various cases for the LAPD's varied divisions.  It also included more contemporary themes for the new decade, such as increased drug use in society due to the rise of the [[counterculture]], along with [[hippie]]s, [[leftist]] and [[racism|racist]] revolutionaries and other products of the counterculture and its influence openly displaying their contempt for the law and those who enforce it, although such characters invariably pay the price by the end of each episode for their bad choices; for example, in the Season Two episode "The Big High", Friday and Gannon, on assignment with the Narcotics division, deal with a young couple who have begun using [[marijuana]], who dismissively make excuses for their use of the drug to the detectives, only to end up paying tragic consequences when the couple's infant daughter dies by drowning in a bathtub, unsupervised, while her parents are too busy getting high on pot to realize what has happened until it is too late.

During this series' run, a made-for-TV movie, ''Dragnet 1966'' (the original pilot movie which convinced NBC to buy the series), debuted on the network on January 27, 1969, about three years after it was originally produced in 1966.  As with the previous series, Webb voluntarily ended production on the still-popular ''Dragnet'' revival in 1970 to concentrate on other projects for Mark VII Limited (including his then-running ''Dragnet'' spinoff ''[[Adam-12]]'' and that show's spinoff, ''[[Emergency!]]'').  All four seasons of the 1967 series have been released on DVD.

During this series' run, a made-for-TV movie, ''Dragnet 1966'' (the original pilot movie which convinced NBC to buy the series), debuted on the network on January 27, 1969, about three years after it was originally produced in 1966.  As with the previous series, Webb voluntarily ended production on the still-popular ''Dragnet'' revival in 1970 to concentrate on other projects for Mark VII Limited (including his then-running ''Dragnet'' spinoff ''[[Adam-12]]'' and that show's spinoff, ''[[Emergency!]]'').  All four seasons of the 1967 series have been released on DVD.