Dragnet (1969)

Also known as Dragnet 1966 this TV movie was originally the pilot for the 1967 relaunch of the original 1950s Dragnet radio show and TV show which also had its own movie in 1954 from the same creative team However the pilot wasnt actually aired until 1969 In this featurelength entry Sgt Joe Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner Officer Bill Gannon on a missing persons case Two amateur female models and a young war widow have vanished having been last seen with one J Johnson In the course of tracking down Johnson and the young ladies the detectives wind up with two different descriptions of the suspect one of which closely resembles a dead body found in a vacant lot But the dead man later identified as Charles LeBorg of France proves not to be J Johnson when a third young model disappears