Dragnet/Awesome

Radio

In #7, "Attempted City Hall Bombing", the final plan for Romero to get the bomb away from the terrorist.
In #61, "The Big Actor", when Friday and Romero are Perp Sweating their lead suspect on the set of a film crew doing a cop movie.
In #72, "The Big Meet", when Friday manages to smuggle a gun into the meet without breaking cover, and thereby get the drop on the suppliers.

In the 1980s movie remake of Dragnet, Joe Friday is for the most part presented as a figure of fun; a hopelessly out-of-touch and out-of-date humourless killjoy whose only real purpose is to be mocked. And then, confronted with a street gang filled with psychotic kids and armed with various weapons (including one with nunchucks), he single-handedly hands every single of them their asses without breaking into a sweat. And then, once they've fled in complete terror, he merely shakes his head and sadly mutters "...And on a school night, too."
- And then, at the final fight, he provides a one-man cavalry charging to the rescue of the cops storming the bad guys' headquarters by bursting through the gates of their mansion. In a tank.
  - 'Thank God! It's Friday!'
- And then at the end, it seems that the bad guy has gotten away with it, having kidnapped his girlfriend and managed to board a private jet to somewhere with no extradition treaty. Until Joe Friday pulls up next to them in an LAPD T-38 jet. And gestures for them to pull over.
- And at the very end, when he tells his partner he had a very nice evening with said girlfriend, Connie Swale, Streebek says "Don't you mean the virgin Connie Swale?". Friday merely raises one eyebrow, and Streebek reacts in shock. Bum-da-bumbum!