Public Affairs: DR-12

Episode aired Nov 14, 1968
TV-G
26m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

145

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Crime Drama Mystery

The LAPD has just been informed that The President of the United States will be making a trip to LA. They have only been given a few hours to prepare. They work with The Secret Service to se... Read allThe LAPD has just been informed that The President of the United States will be making a trip to LA. They have only been given a few hours to prepare. They work with The Secret Service to secure the location at which The President will be holding a press conference.The LAPD has just been informed that The President of the United States will be making a trip to LA. They have only been given a few hours to prepare. They work with The Secret Service to secure the location at which The President will be holding a press conference.

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7planktonrules

The President's a comin'.

This is an unusual episode. The President is coming to L.A. and the Secret Service is naturally very nervous about the visit in light of the recent Kennedy assassinations. Their job is to coordinate things through the local police and one of the people who is very important to this visit if Joe Friday. In fact, he is so efficient and professional, that the man in charge of the Secret Service detail repeatedly offers him a job. But the job requires too much work and stress for the workaholic Sgt. Friday!

Overall, a decent episode and it certainly is unusual. However, the show also is following a trend seen through much of the later part of season 2 and well into season 3--the shows are now rarely about Joe and Bill hitting the streets but are often about the behind the scenes jobs police have (such as public relations and the like). While it's nice that the show points out these aspects of the job that aren't shown on other cop shows, this makes it a tad less exciting as well.

3imdb-25288

BO-RIIIIING!

Too much yapping, nothing happening. Who is the idiot who wrote this There is nothing here just 2 cops yapping away but not in The Prophet's interesting way. Who wants to watch that?! Nothing, absolutely nothing happens here.

And NO, Robert Ulrich is not in this episode. It on right now and I just took a close look 3 times. There's just a vaguely pretty boy with hair 50 shades lighter than Bob's black hair. Skip this one and find something better on a different channel.

Trivia
This was Olan Soule's final appearance as LAPD police scientist Ray Murray. He would return in later episodes of the series, but as a different character in each.

Goofs
Sweeping a golden wings wall decoration with an electronic detector, the cops decide that it is radioactive. Instead of backing away and calling a special unit, they then proceed to unhook the decorative piece with their bare hands and carry it away.

Quotes
Agent Roger Franke: One last thing. I usually recite this to remind myself. Back home I work the White House detail. Before all agents sign in, there's a little deal that hangs in a frame above the sign-in desk. It's required reading by all of us. Its part of an article that appeared in a Washington newspaper sometime back. Short and to the point. Goes something like this: "Last night, a man approached the Presidential Box and confronted the guard outside. The visitor was well dressed, and his demeanor appeared normal. Said he had a message for the President. For one brief moment, the guard relaxed his vigil and permitted the man to enter the box without proper clearance. Thirty seconds later, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, lay dying of a pistol ball shot in the head."