Adam 12

Proceed with caution on these 12 questions 10-4?

Adam-12 was a popular police drama that ran for seven years. It was hailed as a realistic depiction of Los Angeles Police Department officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) as they protected and served the residents of Los Angeles. Each episode concentrated on the events of one shift and included heartwarming…

Webb was committed to telling the truth in his shows.

Just The Facts, Ma’am: Everything You Want To Know About Adam-12 - The “one” in “One Adam-12” represented the area of the division they were stationed in. “Adam” was cop slang for a two-man patrol car, and “12” stood for the area they patrolled. Since the unit was shown working in Rampart Division, the actual call sign should have been 2-Adam-12; “one” was the code for the Central Division in downtown L.A.

Did the Adam-12 star sneak into this scene with Sheriff Andy?

Episode 100!!!!! Woo hoo! I'm really excited to have reached the 100th episode of Adam-12! It seems like the LAPD was really excited when this episode was filmed, too. After shooting wrapped in December, 1971, Martin Milner and Kent McCord were presented with certificates of excellence from the LAPD. Aren't they cute? (Many thanks to Diana Downing for the picture.) Milner was also presented with a trophy for wearing his "cover" during the filming of all one hundred episodes, quite an…

Episode 10 Before we get into this episode, I have to comment on the title. Why is this episode called "The Producer"? Who is "the producer" in this? The only producer I see in this episode is Reed's dog, Queenie, who has produced a litter of puppies. But why name the episode after her? Anyway, on a slightly unrelated note, there was a 1954 Dragnet episode called The Big Producer, Martin Milner played a high school student in it. Peter Malloy when he was a juvenile delinquent. Log 132: The…

Do you know the fellow officers, informants, wives and girlfriends in the show?

Episode 60 Here we are at "Elegy for a Pig", a special Adam-12 episode, one that is unlike any other episode from beginning to end. The differences between this one and other Adam-12 installments are not just in the way the credits are presented or the lack of theme music, but in the way the story itself is told. Other Adam-12 episodes can be likened to a dramatization of a police procedural manual. But the story of Tom Porter is like poetry, a work of art created with the words of Malloy's…