Changes

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.  During the show's pre-credit cold open, Jack Webb, in character as Sgt. Friday, would do a brief narration giving a description of some aspect of Los Angeles, such as this example from the episode "The LSD Story":

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.  During the show's pre-credit cold open, Jack Webb, in character as Sgt. Friday, would do a brief narration giving a description of some aspect of Los Angeles, such as this example from the episode "The LSD Story":

{{cquote|This is the city — Los Angeles, California.  It's a fine place to enjoy life.  There are places reserved just for kids... when they're young and feel young.  Places they go when they're young and feel old... beginning the big search for something that often doesn't exist in the places they look for it.  They might find it here (''image of a church''), or here (''image of a synagogue''), or maybe here (''image of another church''). They could try looking here (''image of Griffith Observatory'')... their search might end with a college degree.  One thing sure — whatever they're looking for cannot be found inside a number five capsule.  When they try, that's where I come in.  I carry a badge.}}

{{cquote|This is the city — Los Angeles, California.  It's a fine place to enjoy life.  There are places reserved just for kids... when they're young and feel young.  Places they go when they're young and feel old... beginning the big search for something that often doesn't exist in the places they look for it.  They might find it here (''image of a church''), or here (''image of a synagogue''), or maybe here (''image of another church''). They could try looking here (''image of Griffith Observatory'')... their search might end with a college degree.  One thing's sure — whatever they're looking for cannot be found inside a number five capsule.  When they try, that's where I come in.  I carry a badge.}}

The ''Dragnet'' revival 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 and justifications 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.

The ''Dragnet'' revival 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 and justifications 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.