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Eleven months after this episode, a Black Police officer and a White Police officer were ambushed by a black militant group in NYC known as the Black Liberation Army. Unlike this episode, Officers Foster and Laurie were shot multiple times and killed on a sidewalk walking their beat. I wonder if the BLA watched Adam-12 and got the idea to ambush two police officers, one black and one white. A made for TV movie was produced in 1975 appropriately titled "Foster & Laurie" and I recommended fans of Adam-12 to view it if possible out of respect to those officers who left young wives and children behind. Even worse, both Foster and Laurie survived combat in Vietnam as Marines just a few years before they were gunned down; to survive that only to be shot and killed in your own country is sickening irony.

Unrealistic cheesy film, but as a former Marine who was once stationed at Camp Pendleton, I enjoyed seeing it along with the real archival combat footage dubbed in this movie. Unmentioned is the short life expectancy of USMC combat photographers. My father led a 14-man USMC combat photography squad in WW II through Saipan, Guam, and Okinawa. They were all KIA except for my father who was WIA on Okinawa having been shot through his shoulder and sent to a field hospital. I wonder if he ever saw this movie but I doubt it; he tried to forget his wartime memories. Because of his experience, when I announced on my 17th birthday that I was joining the Marines, my father exclaimed "congratulations son! You're joining the world's largest suicide squad!" I still have his Purple Heart medal, the only thing he kept after 4 years in the Corps.