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6.1/10 TV Genre Crime drama Final episode date 26 April 1982 Number of episodes 18 | 6.9/10 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. LaidmanStan JolleyVirgil W. Vogel Starring Mike ConnorsCarol PotterJohnny SevenRick HillHarold SylvesterJoseph Cali Network American Broadcasting Company Cast 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.
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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[.]"