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.

Film

 * 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movie remake of Dragnet, Joe Friday is for the most part presented as a figure of fun; a hopelessly out-of-touch and out-of-date humourless killjoy whose only real purpose is to be mocked.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!