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===1967–1970 revival===
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[[File:Jack Webb Harry Morgan Dragnet 1968.JPG|thumb|200px|Webb and Morgan in 1968]]

Webb relaunched ''Dragnet'' in 1966, with NBC once again chosen to air the series. He tried to persuade [[Ben Alexander (actor)|Ben Alexander]] to rejoin him as Frank Smith. Alexander was then committed to an [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] police series, ''[[Felony Squad]]'', and the producers would not release him. Webb reluctantly came up with a new character to take the role of Joe Friday's partner, calling upon his longtime friend [[Harry Morgan]] to play Officer Bill Gannon. Morgan had previously portrayed rooming-house proprietor Luther Gage in the 1949 radio series episode "James Vickers". [[George Fenneman]] returned as the show's primary announcer, with [[John Stephenson (actor)|John Stephenson]] replacing [[Hal Gibney]] in the role of announcing the trial dates and subsequent punishments for the offenders. Fenneman replaced Stephenson in that role during the fourth season. Unlike the previous ''Dragnet'' series, the revival was produced and aired in color.

Webb produced a [[TV movie]] [[television pilot|pilot]] for the new version of the show for Universal Television, although the pilot was not aired until January 1969. NBC bought the show on the strength of the movie, and it debuted as a midseason replacement for the sitcom ''The Hero'' on Thursday nights in January 1967. To distinguish it from the original, the year was included in the title of the show (i.e., ''Dragnet 1967''). Although Friday had been promoted to lieutenant in the final episode of the 1950s production, Webb chose to have Friday revert to sergeant with his familiar badge, "714".<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Snauffer | first1 = Douglas | title = Crime Television, The Praeger television collection | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-0275988074}}<!--| access-date = November 13, 2012 --></ref>

When real-life LAPD Sergeant Dan Cooke, Webb's contact in the department during production of the revived ''Dragnet'' series, was promoted to lieutenant, he arranged to carry the same lieutenant's badge, number 714, as worn by Joe Friday. Cooke was technical advisor to the KNBC documentary ''Police Unit 2A-26'', directed by John Orland. He brought that to the attention of Webb, who hired Orland to direct and film ''This is the City'', a series of minidocumentaries about Los Angeles that preceded most TV episodes during the 1969 and 1970 seasons.{{citation needed|date=June 2012}} The show had good ratings on NBC's schedule for four seasons (although its popularity at that time did not exceed that of the 1950s version), but the show was canceled after the completion of the 1969-1970 season.

Much as was done 11 years earlier, Webb decided voluntarily to discontinue ''Dragnet'' after its fourth season to focus on producing and directing his other projects through Mark VII Limited. The first of these projects was titled ''[[Adam-12]]'', a 30-minute police procedural similar to ''Dragnet'', but focusing on patrol officers rather than detectives. The series premiered in the fall of 1968, while ''Dragnet 1969'' was in production, and ran for seven seasons, coming to an end in 1975. In 1971, with producer [[Robert A. Cinader]], Webb developed another pilot originally intended to be centered around the staff of a Los Angeles–area medical center's emergency room. When researching for the pilot, Webb and Cinader were introduced to the [[Los Angeles County Fire Department]]'s fledgling [[paramedic]] program, and the premise was reworked to include the Los Angeles County Fire Department, and ''[[Emergency!]]'' was born; running as a weekly series until 1977, and as a series of made-for-television movies for two years after that. ''Emergency!'' was centered on the then-fictitious Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedic rescue unit, Squad 51.

During the early 1970s, reruns of this version of ''Dragnet'' were popular on local stations, usually broadcast during the late afternoon or early evenings. From 1991 to 1995, ''Dragnet''  was shown on [[Nick at Nite]], then moved to its sister cable channel [[TV Land]]. From October 1, 2011, to April 26, 2013, the series ran daily on the digital cable channel [[Antenna TV]], and before that, the show aired on the [[Retro Television Network]].

''Dragnet'' was broadcast Monday through Friday on [[Me-TV]]. The show was part of the "CriMe TV" morning block with ''[[Perry Mason (1957 TV series)|Perry Mason]]'' and ''[[The Rockford Files]]'', with ''Dragnet'' shown back-to-back from 11:00 am until 12:00 pm. In December 2014, Me-TV added a third airing of ''Dragnet'' to its late-night lineup; the series airs at 12:30 am following a second episode of ''Perry Mason''. Me-TV ended the run of Dragnet on January 1, 2015, whereupon it became part of [[Cozi TV]]'s regular lineup. In January 2020, ''Dragnet'' returned to MeTV along with its sibling series ''[[Adam-12]]'' after Cozi dropped both series. ''Dragnet'' currently broadcasts 2 episodes Sundays through Fridays at 5am & 5:30am EST.<ref>https://www.metv.com/shows/dragnet</ref>