It was impossible to turn the show off. It had 2 plotlines running at once. The personal connection between the main characters and the everyday police work they got involved with. I tried turning the show off a couple of times and it didn't work. My thumb kept going over to the on/off button and putting it back on again. I think it's because there was no dead air in that show. It was go, go, go the whole time. Jack Webb was a master of his craft. A maniac in a good way.
When Martin Milner passed away, the LAPD actually broadcast and End of Watch message across the police band. It was a touching tribute to a man whose portrayal of an LAPD officer had influenced many others to join the police force. That broadcast can be found here on RU-vid.
I sure would like to know where to listen to that that broacast. Years ago I read he commited suicide and it put a big crack in my heart trying to understand the "why", which was never revealled.
Adam-12 is like it's own time capsule. If I had kids or grandchildren, I would have them watch it so they would know what the 'old normal' was all about.
I loved Adam-12, it was probably one of my most favorite shows ever. As the wife of a retired deputy sheriff, I lived a lot of the situations at home. Listening on a home scanner, I heard some calls that my husband would probably have preferred that I didn’t hear. I am very proud of my husband and his 40 years of service, he is a wonderful man and a caring and loving husband and father.
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You can't duplicate the "magic" that Milner and McCord had. In real life, they were very good friends, and the compatibility they shared off-screen transferred to well to the show. And yes, they tried to do a reboot back in the 1980s. Um...not so good. It just didn't have that...magic.
@@FactsVerse Hollywood tried to reboot the series in the 1980's called the New Adam-12 staring Ethan Wayne (son of John Wayne) and Peter Perros who started in the last Season of Knight Rider as RC3. the new Adam-12 was not good and as others pointed out it didn't have the magic of the original series.
While I agree that Reed and Malloy (McCord and Milner) had just the stuff for a good show and the 1980s reboot was a bust, if the right people did it, it might work. Hawaii 5-O reboot worked with the right cast. But again, it was the right cast, direction and writers.
The "re-boot" attempted in the 80's was all about "cultural diversity" and "dramatic highlights". NOT realistic enough. Its why "COPS" succeeded when the "New Adam 12" failed.
@@lloyd2032 The reboot of Hawaii 5-O is the only reboot that I like (sampled a couple others, but didn't care for them). I really missed it when it rather abruptly ended, but considering what a societal mess began happening soon afterward, it's a good thing it ended when it did. I don't think anyone could make a good reboot of Adam-12 nowadays because of the current social climate. (Maybe it helps that I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, so the differences between then and now are so glaring.)
One actor not mentioned was William Boyett. He played the Sergeant on Adam 12. He played a cop in most of Jack Webb’s productions as well as others. If he kept a uniform from each role, that would take a very large closet. He was a regular on the original (black and white) Highway Patrol series with Broderick Crawford. Wikipedia shows long lists of films and TV shows.
No to a re-do. I watched the series regularly when running, and now consistently watch the re-runs! Milner and McCord became real buddies in real life.
As a kid, I grew up with Dragnet and Adam 12. My intent for enlisting in the Marines was to do my one tour and then become a LAPD Officer. The Marines became a full career. No regrets. I still watch both show, Emergency included when ever I see them on TV.
Adam 12 was on NBC not CBS. Jack Webb and R.A. Cinader created the series. Sharron Claridge was NOT was the dispatcher on Emergency. The voice of Emergency was the late Sam Lanier, real dispatcher with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. He was selected by Battalion Chief Jim Page, who helped create the County Fire Department paramedic program.
He SAID NBC. As for a reboot, there WAS one that lasted 2 seasons from 1989-91. I TRIED to watch it. I TRIED to like it. And I just couldn't. If they tried again? Yeah, I'd, again, try to watch it. Missed that Kent was in Galactica 1980. Re the division. He IS correct that 1-Adam-12 is wrong since they were NOT part of Central Division (1). But there is a misconception that it was Rampart. Rampart is NEVER mentioned nor EVER seen. The only station that was depicted that showed which one it was was N Hollywood-this would correspond with the actual street location scenes shown in and around the Universal Studios lot where non-location scenes were shot. There was a Dragnet (at the end of its run) crossover with Adam-12. In THAT ep, they were part of Sunset division.
Adam-12 also paid attention to the small details. In some scenes you can see that the grips on Malloy's revolver are custom made "Fuzzy" Farrant grips. Farrant was an LAPD officer, was on the pistol team and made custom grips which were very popular with many senior officers, that's why Malloy has the custom grips and Reed just has standard factory grips on his weapon. My dad worked LAPD for 30 years from 1946 to 1976. He had a set of "Fuzzy" Farrant grips on his S&W model 10.
My favorite episode is the one where the dispatcher had to do a Role call because there was a missing officer. She was so professional. I always wondered how that was done. She was my favorite non- main character on the show. I know she was in person in one episode, but she was very important to the series.
My friend Vic was a retired LAPD officer. He retired to a little town in Nevada that was popular with LAPD retirees. One of this neighbors was...wait for it..Shaaron Claridge. They were friends and he regularly interacted with her on the radio when he worked VTD (Valley Traffic Division). That's information you're not going to get anywhere else.
Well you can thank Jack Webb for the authentic production of all three shows although he did not do much writing of emergency his production company still had significant influence. Even today watching episodes of dragnet it still is a program that holds up today..thank you Mr Webb
They used to get story ideas for Dragnet and Adam 12 directly from the officers in the field. My dad worked Narcotics for LAPD back in the 60's and 70's and he submitted the idea for the episode called The Pill Maker. My sister was taking typing class in high school in 1970 and she typed up the outline of the story that was submitted to Dragnet. They decided to make the episode and my dad got to spend a week on the set watching them film the episode. I still have the script with my dad listed as a technical adviser. He was paid $50 but he had to donate the money to the Narcotics division steak fry fund.
@@mgarrahan1 I remember that episode infact it was just on couple of nights ago. I always liked dragnet it gave you an insight to actual police cases not like the typical so called police shows today. Where they have to bump up with music or some unbelievable content. Give me an episode of dragnet Adam 12 anytime.
As the show progressed Maloy grew more fond of his new partner and their commadrie was the best and most authentic part of the show. Definitely NO to a redo.
@@morlokkurak4763 It's easier ( and less risk economically) for studios to do sequels, remakes, and reboots than it is to come up with something new and original. If they redid the show, I have no doubt one of them would be black and the other one would be a woman or transgendered individual.
I retired after 37 years as a metro senior corporal. I only worked patrol division, but I watched Adam 12 all 7 seasons & would have rather been a LAPD uniform officer than FBI, Secret Service, or CIA. My grandfather & father were retired veteran metro cops, as well as my brothers & cousins. It is my favorite show to this day. I wished young cops had honor & integrity like the cops on Adam 12.
@@echobase1648 I only worked patrol division senior corporal for a metro, but I wouldn’t have accepted Secret Service, or CIA, or any other agency than uniform patrol precisely like my father & grandfather & brothers & cousins. I was addicted to 1 Adam 12, and wished police work still had integrity, unfortunately I couldn’t handle seeing boots with facial hair, tattoos, taking video & photos of themselves while on duty?
Really enjoyed this post! I was blessed to work On-Air promotions at NBC the final year of ADAM-12! The irony of working in promotions at NBC Burbank was that year, we also had Police Woman, ( Angie Dickinson ) , Joe Forester (Lloyd Bridges,) Police Story, helmed by (Joseph Wambaugh), Rockford Files (James Garner). These programs proved to be a foreshadowing of my career in Network television when I went onto filming the non-scripted real police of ..."COPS", ending as an associate producer...Then as a Police Chaplain with the local department...I spent 22 years filming COPS for Fox Broadcasting. Wonderful career! PTL!
POLICE STORY was one of my favorite. I was a big Wambaugh fan, reading The Onion Field when it first came out, the Choir Boys, then The New Centurions. Maybe not in that order though, that was almost 1/2 a century ago.
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One distinctive memory of this show was the fact that 25 minutes into the show, everything seemingly wrapped up, and they'd have ONE last call and plotline to explore. Never a second wasted.
No tent cities was nice ……I remember Highway Patrol did a lot of rural filming where the future Dodger stadium was to be built . Cool to see all those places before LA become a cesspool
Great show! Loved it when they popped up on Emergency! As far as a reboot, I think you don't fix what's not broken. Let us relive our memories with the original! 😊 You said "wonky!" One of my favorite fun words! Love it 😂
There was a sequel series that lasted one year split into to two seasons from 1990 to 1991 titled _The New Adam-12_ that starred Ethan Wayne as Matt Doyle and Peter Parros as Gus Grant. In the 1st season Martin Milner reprised his role as Captain Malloy and Kent McCord reprised his role as Lieutenant Reed, but both in separate episodes.
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Adam-12 and Emergency were intertwined into a universe long before it became the norm in serialized dramas. I wish there were more crossovers between those two shows.
One of my all-time favorites. I still tune in almost every afternoon on MeTV. As for guest stars, let us not forget Robert Conrad, Frank Sinatra, Jr, (who made several appearances), and Gary Crosby, a semi-regular as Officer Ed Wells. Another actor who I really liked was Fred Stromsoe. He played a few bad guys in the middle years of the series before winning a recurring role as Officer Jerry Woods during the last three seasons. He seemed to fit in nicely and naturally with Malloy and Reed and often proved an excellent comic foil.
@@ashleighburroughs3581 Watch it on MeTV too every night at 5 and 5:30 EST. Does anyone know if MeTV has access to all of the entire shows of Adam-12 or just most of them? For some reason I can't remember some of the scenes from the video here like the car going in the water. Does anyone know too which episode and scene shows the camera crew's reflection in the window before they removed it? By the way, love the show as it brings back memories watching it as a kid.
@@jwalach1650 I have seen the episode where the car goes into the water, but I don't think I ever have seen anything with the reflection of the camera in the window. They show all the episode on MeTV but I wish you could buy like the whole series on DVD but you can't buy it all together you have to buy the seasons separately, unless you buy it on eBay for over $100. I also love watching Emergency.
Also Edd Byrnes and Mickey Dolenz -- in the same episode! (Byrnes plays a motorcycle gang leader who challenges Malloy to a dirt bike race and later helps to catch a pair of thieves. Dolenz played one of the gang members.)
@@ashleighburroughs3581 Thank you for the reply and love Emergency too. I actually have a few seasons on Emergency on dvd and watch it sometimes when I can on Cozi tv which I can get on my satellite and over the air antenna. If not for MeTV I would not be able to watch Adam-12 unless buying it on dvd. Be nice too if you could get the whole series of Adam-12 in one set. I also have a few Dragnet dvds. I got these in a store called Ollies where they sell you a few episodes for around 2 dollars so I could not resist.
Love all the Jack Webb shows, Dragnet, Adam 12 and Emergency. All were very realistic , felt authentic.Webb's former wife played the nurse Dixie in Emergency. Law and Order also seems realistic, it's a good show but a lot more dramatic not nearly as cut and dry as Webb's productions. Kent McCord is so clean cut like Ward Clever or Jim Anderson on Father Knows Best.
No! Dixie McCall/ Joan London wasarried to Webb and during emergency was married to dr Early sp?/ last name Troup also a musician. Joan recorded the famous song Cry me A River. I also noticed scenes in Emergency and Adam 12 and dragnet where the same blue patterned coffee cups were used.
In the first season of Emergency, Officers Reed and Malloy can be seen taking a Prisoner into Rampart to be treated and are called Reed and Malloy. Then I think in Episode 3, Gage is trying to find out what happened at the end of Adam-12. So Adam-12 went from being in the Emergency Universe to being a tv show the guys at the station watch.
My wife and I have drawn much amusement from this we have made it our joke that Reed and Malloy are real cops in universe that have a show about them mostly though I tip the hat to Webb for sneaking in a little promo that we still talk about!
The funniest part about that was Dixie McCoy gently but firmly verbally slaming Malloy when he tried to ask her out. Ther was also an episode of Emergency! which centered around Mark Harmon playing an animal control officer, which appears to have been a back-door pilot for a fourth series in the Jack Webb Emergency Services Universe.
@@danielwendlick784 It was called 905-Wild. There was also another show called Sierra, which would have been an Emergency but with the Forrest Service. It actually starred James G Richardson, who would later play Craig Brice in Emergency.
Had the pleasure of being a kid when this show aired in the 70s, and still enjoy watching the reruns. As to the question of whether I'd fancy watching a re-make? Hell no! If recent "re-makes" are any indication, like Hawaii 5-0, the script would be horrible. Moreover, in today's age of absurd wokeism, the brainwashed diversity freaks (AKA anti-white Christian heterosexual man) would totally destroy this show, shoving every non-white, non-hetero, interracial couple, and indeed anti-police freak down our throats, like they do nowadays with every other show, which explains why Hollywood is only a shell of its former self, and the ratings for the Emmy's (etc.), where liberals drivel with anti-American political venom turn the would-be-viewers' stomachs. Sorry about the run-on sentence.
At the 3:03 mark, real life police dispatcher Shaaron (yes there is a double a in her name) Claridge was the police dispatcher in 166 of 174 episodes of ADAM 12. She is only seen in one of those episodes strangely playing a different police clerical employee.
Milner’s Malloy was a big influence on me as a kid watching it first-run. Although I never did become a cop as I hoped then, I was involved in literally thousands of arrests/surveillance situations in the retail security field. Malloy’s attitude and professional ethos was a partial guide to how I made moral choices in my life. It wasn’t perfect (unlike Jesus who later made the greatest changes in me) but his character was largely a beacon of integrity. And it’s still a fun watch. Very nostalgic. My one regret is that I never wrote a note to Milner to thank him for his portrayal of a good and honest person.
Nice story. One of the things I liked about the show was that they were not afraid to tackle the subject of a bad cop. Several episodes depicted a bad cop being found out and fired or the officer quit.
There was a reboot 1989-1991 called the new Adam-12. Starring Peter Parros and Ethan Wayne. Officers Gus Grant and Matt Doyle were the characters names instead of Reed and Malloy. Really wasn’t a bad reboot.
I didn't know of the reboot when it was on the air. From what I've read, Malloy & Reed did make individual appearances in two different episodes. By that time, Malloy was a Sargeant, and Reed was a Lieutenant.
I remember it as a kid long long ago, and now when I watch it I get an appreciation for how it depicts police work. It isn't as gritty as it is believable, which makes it good. Just as often the two cops don't come across hardened criminals as much as they do regular people, and often the people they run into are just having an argument or are just plain batty. It shows how police officers can just as often be peacekeepers rather than just arrest suspects.
My Brother and I loved Adam-12. It lead both of us into Law Enforcement careers. I always laughed when the same guy played a Captain in one episode would appear a few episodes later as a different boss. Same with the victims, concerned citizens and bad guys. There seemed to be a "regular" cast of actors that played those parts. The same with Dragnet and Emergency! Same actors there too. They also kept the Police Cars current with what real life Police were using. The squarish late 60's Plymouths switched to the rounded early 70's Plymouths and then the AMC Matadors. Also, pay attention to some of the response scenes. Reed and Malloy would start out in one type of car then switch to a different car while enroute and back to the car they started in.
I know what you mean. As a kid, my father was a state Trooper in Ohio. His duty vehicle, originally, was a black Crown Vic. His assigned weapon was a S&W model 10. In the early 70s, he was permanently assigned a white Crown Vic which was kept at home. We lived in a small town (population 1,000) and Dad was well known. Many times he left during dinner to respond to traffic fatalities and felony crimes. Subsequently, my brother and I became federal agents furthering the family business.
I would often see Jack Webb with many of the actors that he worked with in restaurants and coffee shops around Sherman Oaks. William Conrad was always one of the guys that hung around with him. He was well recognized, but people pretty much let him be to go about his day. Always had a smoke in his hand, which may have attributed to his early demise. He was actually a pretty humorous guy!
@@richardclifford003 Hmmm, well since the original LTD Crown Vic wasn't introduced till 79, then became it's own modern Crown Vic, ur story is suspect!! Will you consent to a lie detector test?
No reboot could ever be as good as the real thing. The people in charge in Hollywood would wreck it. I can’t even watch Law and Order any more. It’s full of politics and just absolute garbage. Every episode has to make some kind of a statement. We just want to see crimes be solved not watch an hour of political posturing and virtue signaling. I can’t think of any actors who could be Reed and Malloy. They were just too iconic for me. A new Adam 12 in the 21st century would be crap.
I watched Adam-12 when I was a young’in. Now some considerable years later I still catch the show on MeTV; and I work in Law Enforcement. I saw Malloy nonchalantly roll through a stop sign during one episode.
@@bbb462cid that’s what all pedophiles deserve! Actually the stop sign was in one of those background screens that is rolling to make appearances of Malloy driving. I saw the front of the stop sign over Malloy’s left shoulder at an intersection. But he was having a conversation with Reed while driving soooo….😅
ONLY if it were done according to Jack Webb's requirements. as true to life as is possible, with no made-up dramas, no overwrought romances, just use station logs and true-to-life stories. but they can't do that now, they have to have "drama" and "turmoil" and romances. bah.
I grew up watching the show, along with _'Dragnet'_ and I have the box sets of the DVDs. So, yes. I would indeed watch a reboot if it was done with Webb's insistence on accuracy, pulled from the files of actual cases, not saddled with contrived romances between the officers and "dramatic conflict" between the officers as a constant theme. So, ignore the last reboot & conventional Hollywood's ideas of how to make a police show. :-)
But you know it wouldn't be done the same way. You'd have plot twists and turns for their own sake and Officer Jasmine Reed's on the bottle and Pete Malloy beats his girlfriends and is on the take...or is he? And is Reed just acting like that to trap Malloy? And is Reed really the shadowy Valley Vigilante? Sgt MacDonald is a woman of course, nothing susrprising about that and she does an excellent job. She happens to run a dominatrix parlor on the side is all, and wears leather underwear with her blues on top of that. Hilarity ensues when she sees Malloy bring in her best client...and former common-law husband, Derek Jeeter.
@@bbb462cid It is likely they would ruin a resurrected series. Hence the reason I stated an adherence to the original show's core methods & foundation as necessary ingredients for me to be a fan of a revived show.
The late great Stephen J Cannell, creator of The Rockford Files, The Greatest American Hero and The A-Team (among so many others) pretty much started his career as Story Editor for Adam 12. It was his first steady job in the business and he only got it because he was able to turn in his freelance script within a three day deadline. Both Milner and McCord were so impressed with Cannell's dialogue that they both said so to the producer who was already thinking of hiring Stephen as story editor because of his talent and speed. Cannell stayed with the show for two or three seasons as such. Since Adam 12 didn't have a "writer's room", Cannell's job was to buy scripts from other freelance writers and to do any production rewrites necessary. He also wrote a bunch of episodes himself.
Back in the 70's Universal Studios' theme park had an attraction that showed how they filmed the car-conversation scenes in Adam-12. They had a mock up of the car and some fans got to sit in the car and recite some lines as they were filmed.
Why be a tourist? We lived in North Hollywood as kids and not only snuck into the exterior sets wathcing some of the old great TV shows being filmed, but had our own special police car. It was North Hollywood Divisions sergeant Bobby Baker who would constantly patrol the area where we hopped the lot fence....and calling us out by name .. Gordon, Gene, it's me Bobby .... time to go to school. He would escort us back to Reed Junior High School in the back of his patrol unit. He was never annoyed nor authoritarian and actually a nice guy. Hat's off to Bobby Baker, the REAL LAPD.
I loved the show. I remember watching it as a kid and now on MeTV. Kent McCord is still alive. It would be interesting now to see who they would cast as the stars in a remake!! The narrator did not mention that in several episodes of Adam-12 the main characters went into an ER where the actors were all seen later in a new show called "Emergency!"? Wasn't the RN in the ER Webb's ex-wife? Mantooth was one of the firemen.
Emergency was my second favorite show, the characters used to cross over a bit back then. So much more realistic action packed into one show back then. Loved Emergency ❤️
Interesting to see who they'd cast today? Not hard. One would be a black male homosexual with dreads who is a reformist snitch and the other a tatted Asian cross-dressing transexual cisgender lesbian female.
After _Lost In Space_ was cancelled _Adam 12_ became my favorite show. There was quite a few cop shows during that era but they were either detectives (Dragnet) or undercover hippies, (The Mod Squad) I believe _Adam 12_ was the first television drama about police officers. I was ten at the time and _Adam 12_ was very exciting. I always liked Malloy. He was always the calm and cool experienced cop. Reed seemed a bit robotic. Almost like that cop in _Terminator 2._
@@robertwalker2052 I _knew_ someone was going to bring up _Car 54, Where Are You?_ It's a hilarious show but its a comedy. Charlotte Rae of _The Facts Of Life_ was so funny in Car 54. I may be wrong but I still think Adam 12 is the first cop on patrol drama. Other cop dramas soon followed like _The Rookies_ and _S.W.A.T._
@@ldchappell1 , The Rookie is also a pretty underrated cop show as well. Blue Bloods, I think, is one of the most underrated cop shows of all time as well.
@@robertwalker2052 I remember "Car 54!" A police comedy, it wasn't meant to be authentic. But it WAS hilarious! Great comic characters and great comic acting!
@@ldchappell1 Charlotte Rae as Sylvia Schnauzer! Stole every scene she was in! My God, that woman was FUNNY, God rest her soul! The next funniest woman on "Car 54?" Remember Pretzel Mary?
The show Adam-12 was the main reason that I became a police officer...I never missed an episode and even have recorded many shows and still watch them.
I remember there was a reboot in 1990 called the new Adam 12. It was not too good as just about every episode had a sad ending. No way a production company would touch a remake today since the original showed just how hard being an officer is.
I have this series on DVD....it brings such fond Childhood memories....I lived in California when it first aired on TV...I remember I was playing outside when my mom looked out the Window and told me Adam-12 was about to start...I told my friends the baseball game we were playing on the street just ended...They also went inside as well ..We all talked about it the next morning walking to school..The first episode was when Pete Malloy was going to quit because his partner was,killed and Jim Reed was a Probationary Officer... I EVEN WATCH RERUNS ON ME-TV...Such a,Great Show
@@FactsVerse I liked O'Brien Last Stand..Where Malloy's Landlord was picketing outside the Police Station... Elegy for a Pig...The episode taking of Pete Mallory's friends death...The First Episode...So many to remember....Liked LOG 122-- Christmas: The Yellow Dump Truck...from Season One Episode #13...I will watch it on DVD as part of my Christmas Tradition..this Episode first aired on 21 December 1968...this was the last year Christmas that I lived in California...So much of that shows reminds me where I once lived..and I recognize some of the landmarks when they're driving around.. Thank you for the Memories
@@arthurbrumagem3844 So post the new episodes here on YT. A redo with current issues would give the young of today a new respect for the PD since they would see how and why things are done the way they are.
Adam 12 was politically correct, they covered many topics and ideas going on at the time, like when the older officer tries to return to working but can't jive with the modern rules like Miranda rights or illegal search and seizures and the episodes portraying Black Panther type militants and the struggle for seeing both sides.
One of my all time favorite shows along with Emergency. When I was 12 years old (now 61) I got a autographed Happy 12th Birthday Mike 8x10 pics of Reed and Malloy at car show in Albany N.Y. unfortunately after moving so many times, They got lost. If I remember right that the lady dispatcher was there along with them. I do catch the show from time to time I think on Retro TV
Look at this, the history, the interpersonal stories of the peoples' lives' that contributed so much to their craft of entertainment, in stark contrast to today. It's not even close.
I remember looking forward to watch this weeks 1 Adam !2 and would love to bring back memories watching re-runs. That's something us surviving Old Times do. Thanks for your way-too-short presentations..
I knew most of these facts but a couple I didn't. You didn't mention the original Jean Reed. But thanks for this. I loved this show growing up, watching it with my dad.
In the first three seasons, if you look carefully when Malloy & Reed are driving inside their patrol car, you'll notice that the entire center section of the windshield is notched out. There is a glass panel seen on each end. Fun fact. During the beginning of the opening sequence during seasons one through three, there are two churches seen. A large church tower is in the background, while a narrower tower is seen up on top of a hill/ledge. The large tower in the background is the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles (540 S Commonwealth Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90020). The tower up on the hill/ledge is the Precious Blood Church of Los Angeles (435 S Occidental Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057). I wonder how many of the parishioners of these churches realize that their church's towers are seen on television quite regularly. 🙂
There is a great episode where the officers pull over a suspected drunk driver, the guy got out of the car, obviously hammered, and it was none other than Hal Smith, the same actor (and pretty much the same character) who played Otis, the town drunk on the Andy Griffith show. I about died laughing over that one. Adam-12 is a great show and such a time capsule, and one of the many fun things about it is watching the cars in the background. A reboot that was a serious as something Jack Webb would do could be good, showing what life is actually like for police officers these days. But knowing Hollywood it would probably be all woke and bomb.
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There's already been a reboot of Adam-12 ('91-'92). It ran for 52 episodes, and was paired with a reboot of Dragnet. Several Mark VII series took place in the same universe: Adam-12, Dragnet, The D.A., and Emergency!
Actress Jo Ann Phlug played Ofc. Dana Hall, who was partnered with Reed for one episode near the series end. It was also one of the few times Jim Reed drove the patrol car. It was also around the time of Mark Harmon’s guest appearance. Near the end of the 7th and what would be final season, we see the progression of Malloy as Acting Watch NCO and Reed becomes a training officer for Hall.
There was a reboot "New" Adam-12 in 1990-1991 lasting 52 episodes with Ethan Wayne (John Wayne's son) as Officer Matt Doyle and Peter Parros as Officer Gus Grant.
There was a syndicated Reboot of Adam 12 Awhile back It followed a team of a black and white Officer's Also at the Same time There was a remake of Dragnet
What I love about this and just about all the old great TV shows from previous decades is that every now and then you get a glimpse of what life was like in those certain time frames, maybe a little exaggerated, but you get a pretty good idea of what people were like and that things are pretty much the same, in an episode where Malloy goes back to school only to get a lot of hate from the students looks like a scene that could play out today. Watching old TV shows I see every young generation thinking and acting the same way, hopefully in a few more years the present day know-it-alls will grow up and mature and get headaches of their own from the next generation.
When I went through the police academy in 1982, they used some snippets of Adam 12 episodes during training. They represented the ideal of police work, in my opinion.
I absolutely love this show! Have every episode on my DVR. It did seem to go down hill the last season as Jim changed his look and attitude as a street cop.
One fact that wasn't mentioned is that in the early 80s Webb was going to do a third version of Dragnet, and Kent McCord was going to play Sergeant Friday's new partner [Reed getting promoted to detective], but Webb died of a heart attack before any episodes could be filmed.
I WOULD WATCH A NEW SERIES OF ADAM 12. I GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL IN 1968 AND JOINED THE L.A.P.D JAN. 2 1969. LOVED MY CAREER WITH THE DEPT. I LEFT IN 1972 AS I MOVED OUT OF STATE AT THAT TIME, BUT MY YEARS WITH THE DEPT. WERE SOME OF THE BEST OF MY LIFE.
A real interesting thing I discovered watching old reruns of Dragnet was that quite often when a place or address was mentioned, they actually filmed at that very location. I can't recall exactly what episode it was, but they were chasing a car near Toluca Lake and as Webb called out cross streets, I paused the video and pulled up Google Street View. Sure enough, the show matched the real streets.
Webb was a REAL stickler. In an episode of the Dragnet radio show they had an officer walking across the floor in a specific room at a specific police station, and Webb had someone actually walking across that room and recorded the sound. There was another episode where Friday had to make a long distance call and we heard each step of the process... it was amazing all the steps necessary to make a long distance call in those days, and it wasn't until I heard that I realized why it used to be such a big deal to get a long distance call.
They tried a reboot of Dragnet several years ago. I think it went only two seasons. Somehow, I think "they" would mess up both reboots of Adam-12 and Emergency!.
I loved the show and would definitely watch a reboot of it since unlike so many cop shows this one gave people a realistic view of their days as Police officers and also allowed viewers to experience them as people, as personalities as opposed to any of the stereotypes people maintain. I've no idea who would best portray the officers in a reboot but I can hardly wait for it.
I loved this show. I thought it was made for me, as I was named Adam and 12 years old when it was on. But no to the reboot! I'd it were remade today, it would be just another cop show.
I was one of those people who became a law enforcement officer influenced by Adam 12. I emulated Malloy's style many times in my police personality and the public would respond favorably in risky situations. Adam 12 is one of a kind, there can be no remake to ever match it.
I am old enough to remember the original run of Dragnet. I enjoyed Adam 12 and Emergency. Thank you for showing Marty's Corvette from Route 66. Fun fact: The original song "Route 66" that Nat King Cole sang was written by Bobby Troup, Dr. Early on Emergency.
I loved the original, but I would likely not watch a reboot. Reboots today are 99% garbage. Very few even come close to what the original was, tending to come off more as outright parodies, or soulless garbage that have none of the charm that made the originals classics.
We're happy to know that you love the original Adam-12! We also agree that most of the reboots can't do the magic nowadays. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
All the old tv shows, like this one in the 70’s and early 80’s were the best shows on tv… Like Chips, Emergency, and TJ Hooker were just a few of my favorites watching as a kid growing up. I wish they had more shows like these nowadays.
The New Adam-12 TV Series 1989-1991 30m A remake of the popular and long-running late 60s-70's police drama of the same name. Officers Doyle and Grant patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in squad car 1-Adam-12, trying to keep the city safe for everyone
NO to any re-boot. A good show like that would get the "Hollywood Treatment " . Lots of special effects, and little substance. (..."Maloy and Reed bobble heads...four easy payments of $49.95...but wait, there's more "...) Watch the original.
I think the description of the shooting medals is slightly off. It’s been a while but I think the gold-colored medal with two bars is a Distinguished Expert. If memory serves, that means he scored Expert in his shooting qualifications at least 10 times. Also, police officers have to qualify with their firearms more like once a month or every other month. Again it’s been a long time since I was around that stuff but it’s way more frequent that once a year or every other year like they say in this video.
Not sure about the exact number of times a policeman has to shoot "Expert," but yes, the "Distinguished Expert" medal was only given to those who consistently shot "Expert" over time.
Adam-12 Is My Favorite Television (Police) Show. Unfortunately I Hardly Watched The Show When It Aired . I Rediscovered It Many Years Latter And Watch It On,Me TV Yes Please Bring It Back.