Today's F.B.I.
| Today's FBI | |
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Logo of Today's FBI
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| Also known as | Today's F.B.I. |
| Genre | Crime drama |
| Written by | Rogers Turrentine |
| Directed by | Harvey S. Laidman Stan Jolley Virgil W. Vogel |
| Starring |
Mike Connors Carol Potter Johnny Seven Rick Hill Harold Sylvester Joseph Cali |
| Opening theme | Elmer Bernstein |
| Composer(s) |
Elmer Bernstein John Cacavas Charles R. Casey |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 18, plus 1 TV-movie |
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| Executive producer(s) | David Gerber |
| Editor(s) | Herbert H. Dow |
| Running time | 60 min. |
| Production company(s) | David Gerber Productions Columbia Pictures Television |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | October 25, 1981 – April 26, 1982 |
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| Related shows | The F.B.I. |
Today's FBI is an American crime drama television series, an updated and revamped version of the earlier series The F.B.I.
Like the original program, this series is based on actual cases from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the F.B.I. was involved in the making of the show. Unlike the original series, which ran for nine seasons, this show ran for only 18 episodes (following a TV-movie pilot) on ABC, during the 1981–82 season.
TV-movie pilot; 2 hours. Mike Connors plays Ben Slater, a veteran G-man who heads an elite unit of agents.Slater and his team move to New York to investigate corruption on the waterfront. The target is Joey D'Amico, national vice president of the Stevedores Association of America, a man with a bad habit of exterminating dissenters. The key informant is Pete Kositchek, the owner of a company on the docks.
According to Michele Malach of Fort Lewis College, the series attempted a more positive portrayal of the FBI by using diverse characters and a "fallacious assumption that its audience still viewed special agents as 'us' rather than 'them'," in contrast to federal agents with "a rigid, dogmatic, inhumane bureaucracy" depicted in later media, like Point Break, Betrayed, and The X-Files. Viewers "did not buy either the image or [the series]," prompting a cancellation. Richard Gib Powers called it "pointless and a cover-up [of] the FBI villany[.]"
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