Detective Sergeant Joe Friday was a fictional character created and played by American actor, television producer, and writer Jack Webb 1920-1982) on the the radio and television series Dragnet. His last partner (on the TV seriew Dragnet 67) was Detective Bill Gannon, played by actor Harry Morgan.
Jack Webb in his Joe Friday character made famous the lines "My name is Friday - I'm a cop," and "Just the facts, Ma'am." The Dragnet series used Joe Friday's badge on its logo. When Jack Webb died in 1982, the Los Angeles Police Department retired Joe Friday's badge number, which was 714.
In 1987, actor Dan Aykroyd starred as Joe Friday, supposedly the original Joe Friday's nephew, in the comedy Dragnet: The Movie.
Ed O'Neill starred as Joe Friday in Wolf Films ' revival of Dragnet early in the 2000s.
