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Genre
  
Crime drama

Opening theme
  
Elmer Bernstein

Final episode date
  
26 April 1982

Number of episodes
  
18

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Also known as
  
Today's F.B.I.

Written by
  
Rogers Turrentine

First episode date
  
25 October 1981

Number of seasons
  
1

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Directed by
  
Harvey S. Laidman Stan Jolley Virgil W. Vogel

Starring
  
Mike Connors Carol Potter Johnny Seven Rick Hill Harold Sylvester Joseph Cali

Network
  
American Broadcasting Company

Cast
  
Mike Connors, Carol Potter, Harold Sylvester, Joseph Cali, Johnny Seven

Similar
  
The FBI, Riptide, McClain's Law, Houston Knights, T J Hooker

Today's FBI is an American crime drama television series, an updated and revamped version of the earlier series The F.B.I.

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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.

Cast

  • Mike Connors as Ben Slater, a veteran "G-Man" who is the chief and mentor of an elite unit of agents.
  • Joseph Cali as Nick Frazier, the one "ethnic" member of the team, a young and determined agent.
  • Carol Potter as Maggie Clinton, the one female member.
  • Rick Hill as Al Gordean, a "country boy" and strongman of the group, is often partnered with Nick.
  • Harold Sylvester as Dwayne Thompson, the one African American on the show, often acts as the member who keeps the others focused.

    • Reception

    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[.]"

    References

    Today's FBI Wikipedia
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