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The Interrogation

Episode aired Feb 9, 1967
TV-14
30m

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Friday and Gannon question Officer Paul Culver, on the job only 114 days and currently working undercover out of the narcotics division, about the armed robbery of a liquor store in Hollywoo... Read allFriday and Gannon question Officer Paul Culver, on the job only 114 days and currently working undercover out of the narcotics division, about the armed robbery of a liquor store in Hollywood. Despite a positive identification in the line-up and thinking he failed the lie-detecto... Read allFriday and Gannon question Officer Paul Culver, on the job only 114 days and currently working undercover out of the narcotics division, about the armed robbery of a liquor store in Hollywood. Despite a positive identification in the line-up and thinking he failed the lie-detector tests, Culver swears he is innocent.

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Jack Webb

Sgt. Joe Friday

Harry Morgan

Officer Bill Gannon

Kent McCord

Officer Paul Culver

George Fenneman

Main Title Announcer
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(uncredited)

John Stephenson

Narrator
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(uncredited)

Director
- Jack Webb
Writers
- Preston Wood
- Jack Webb
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Trivia
This episode convinced Jack Webb to hire Kent McCord as the second lead in his new series "Adam-12".

Goofs
Just before the title card (Dragnet 1967), Friday says it was Wednesday, November 16th. In 1967, November 16th was a Thursday.

Quotes
Friday: There are over five thousand men in this city who know that being a policeman is an endless, glamorless, thankless job that's gotta be done. I know it, too. And I'm damned glad to be one of them.

Crazy credits
Instead of the famous Dragnet fanfare, the music playing over the credits consists of the slow beat of a single tympani drum--symbolic, perhaps, of an officer being "brought to the drumhead" to answer charges of wrongdoing while on duty.

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10/10

Kent McCord makes quite an impression in "The Interrogation" ep of "Dragnet 1967"

A sign this may be a different type of "Dragnet" ep is that the theme song is only played with a percussion drum. Then the only characters appearing is Friday, Gannon, and a rookie cop played by Kent McCord. McCord is in the interrogation room with Joe and Bill because he's been ID'd as the suspect of a liquor store robbery. Kent keeps denying he was the one who did it but the constant questions of especially Friday wear him down. Then he gets questioned about his off-duty life and that has Joe doing a speech about how unglamorous being a cop is but despite that, he's very proud to be one, that's for sure! I'll just now say this was a most excellent ep of this revived version of this classic cop show. And yes, this was the same Kent McCord who went on to star in Jack Webb's later series as producer, "Adam-12".