# Dragnet 2002 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragnet-2002/111467 "2002-05-30T00:04:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragnet-2002/111467/1 "2002-05-30T00:04:58Z")
Apparently, Dick Wolf of Law & Order fame is booked to produce [a new Dragnet series](http://tv.yahoo.com/news/va/20020510/102103435800.html). What usually comes to mind when Dragnet is discussed is the 1968-70 series in which Joe Friday went around giving speeches to hippies, but I’m hoping Wolf will produce something more like the earlier TV program, which was a hard-boiled police procedural. I’m anxious to find out how it’s going to go, in any case. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragnet-2002/111467/2 "2002-05-30T00:27:28Z")
This is the city. Los Angeles, California. When Dick told me that this was gonna be “a millennium treatment of a cop show,” I was worried. Though I wasn’t alive for the original _Dragnet_, I was interested in how it would turn out. In a year, the results of the trial. _CLANG!_ A MOBO LXXXV PRODUCTION [sub]Sorry for my bad _Dragnet_ cliche impersonation, folks.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragnet-2002/111467/3 "2002-05-30T00:49:39Z")
I haven’t seen any of the other Dick Wolf productions, but Law & Order invites comparison to Dragnet in terms of style, punchiness of dialogue and efficiency of story development. ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragnet-2002/111467/4 "2002-05-30T02:04:18Z")
That guy is reading my mind, I swear it. A few years back, I swear I had the idea for Special Victims Unit. And just a few months back, I had an idea for a remake of Dragnet where it was serious, like the first half of Law and Order. I thought the guy who did Law and Order would be perfect for that show. I’ve never seen the original Dragnet, so I only know the silly version. If they hire Chris Noth for the show, then I will be certain he’s reading my mind. Time to put on my tin foil hat again.