If the show has any fatal flaw, it's in its pacing. Even in its half hour format, Webb's Dragnet could be excessively deliberate. But at an hour there were moments when even the refs to premature ejaculation, semen traces & sado-masochism finery didn't suffice. Yet just when I'd start to mentally drift, Friday would do something like persuade the uncooperative serial killer groupie by threatening to report her pets to Animal Control. Don't recall Jack Webb threatening a hutch of bunny rabbits, though I bet he could have . . .

UPDATE: Cartoonist & encyclopedic comics fan Fred Hembeck has a new blog, and he discusses the new Dragnet, mentioning the one important aspect of the show that I missed above: its four-note theme song. It's a lot less ubiquitous than it was on the old show (they don't use it to punctuate every li'l dramatic point), but as arranged by ol' pro Mike Post, the theme's been inoffensively updated without losing its original flavor. In any event, it definitely beats the lame rap song they used to cap the Aykroyd flick. . .