Season 2 of Adam-12 is out on DVD and it includes a ringtone to download for your cell phone. "1 Adam-12, 1 Adam-12." A really good way to get people to stare at you when your phone rings. See the man!
We have the first season and it's entertaining to watch this 40-year-old television show again. You get Jack Webb's take on hippies and 60s home decor, not to mention the mini-skirts, the bouffant hairdos, the pink lipstick. There were some at the time who criticized the show for containing so many vignettes in a 30-minute program, but it's not as though they were detectives handling one case through to its resolution. Reed and Malloy were street cops and a credit to their badges. Code 7, anyone?
In the episode "Log 141: The color TV bandit," Cloris Leachman played a mother of two young sons. A neighbor became concerned when the boys hadn't been seen for some time and their apartment was deathly quiet. Reed and Malloy broke in and found the youngsters. The mother (Cloris Leachman) came home just then and she was upset, not because her boys were unconscious, but because her drug stash had been exposed to the police.
It's a tame program and bears little resemblance to the reality programs like COPS. The one thing that seems really dated to me is the light bar on the squad car.
We have the first season and it's entertaining to watch this 40-year-old television show again. You get Jack Webb's take on hippies and 60s home decor, not to mention the mini-skirts, the bouffant hairdos, the pink lipstick. There were some at the time who criticized the show for containing so many vignettes in a 30-minute program, but it's not as though they were detectives handling one case through to its resolution. Reed and Malloy were street cops and a credit to their badges. Code 7, anyone?
In the episode "Log 141: The color TV bandit," Cloris Leachman played a mother of two young sons. A neighbor became concerned when the boys hadn't been seen for some time and their apartment was deathly quiet. Reed and Malloy broke in and found the youngsters. The mother (Cloris Leachman) came home just then and she was upset, not because her boys were unconscious, but because her drug stash had been exposed to the police.
It's a tame program and bears little resemblance to the reality programs like COPS. The one thing that seems really dated to me is the light bar on the squad car.