Jack Webb vs. Frank Sinatra, Jr

Dragnet made me feel like even I could be a star. All you had to do was stand there and read your cue cards as fast as you could. But I saw this episode of Adam-12 which seemed to be a pilot for another series. Frank Sinatra, Jr, plays an investigator for the D.A.'s office. He seemed to be a Joe Friday substitute, but he was so bland and lifeless, he made Jack Webb look like---I don't know---Al Pacino or Frank Sinatra, Sr.

Come to think of it, toward the end, Marlon Brando had all his lines on cue cards or pinned to the actor he was speaking to.