7.6/10263 votes#1 - Log 001: The Impossible Mission
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1968
Pilot Episode: Working out of a patrol car designated "Adam-12," Officers Malloy and Reed perform a typical day's work, which includes a high speed auto-chase, the capture of two robbers, and an emergency call to save a suffocating baby. Malloy decides to turn in his badge after his young partner was killed a few weeks earlier. But at the end of the shift, he comes around and decides that he can't let inexperienced Jim Reed loose on another officer, so he decides not to leave the force.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: John Randolph
7.5/10190 votes#2 - Log 141: The Color TV Bandit
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1968
Malloy and Reed learn of a serial home burglar stealing color TVs. They stumble upon the suspect's car with unusual results. Also, Reed must come to terms with his anger over a drug using mother that endangered her children to score dope.
Director: Phil Rawlins
Writer: Richard Morgan
7.4/10166 votes#3 - Log 011: It's Just A Little Dent, Isn't It?
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1968
Officers Malloy and Reed are involved in a high speed chase, a murder case and a family dispute as they work the P.M. watch. Reed worries all evening that the small dent in the fender he caused while backing the car up for fuel might lead to termination, since he is still on probation.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Preston Wood
7.4/10148 votes#4 - Log 131: Reed, The Dicks Have Their Job And We Have Ours
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1968
Officers Malloy and Reed assist a young mother whose baby is threatened by a deranged man and they help a woman being harassed by a spiteful neighbor.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Preston Wood
7.6/10157 votes#5 - Log 091: You're Not The First Guy's Had The Problem
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1968
Officer Reed learns that a professional officer has to keep their emotions under control; even when confronted with an abusive drunk-driver, right after clearing an "officer down" call & finding his close friend from the Academy critically wounded.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Preston Wood
7.2/10143 votes#6 - Log 161: And You Want Me to Get Married!
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1968
Officers Malloy and Reed look for a robbery suspect, help a woman pinned under her crashed car and settle a family dispute, among other duties.
Director: Phil Rawlins
Writer: Preston Wood
7.4/10150 votes#7 - Log 071: I Feel Like a Fool, Malloy
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1968
In an episode where Reed learns to keep his wits under control, the officers deal with a loud noise complaint where an elderly woman refuses to answer, much less acknowledge, a teenaged girl's desperate pleas for help after the woman learns she was at a house where loud party music is being played, and it leads to a tragic drowning of a 4-year-old girl in a backyard swimming pool. Other calls include a brawl at a pop-spirituality temple on the verge of a schism over meditation styles, and a misused silent alarm at a liquor store.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Robert I. Holt
7.0/10140 votes#8 - Log 072: El Presidente
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1968
Malloy teases Reed about calculating the cost of a new house while their first baby is still 6 months away. In the meantime they settle a domestic dispute between arguing neighbors, help a taxi driver that was just robbed, and a local man mistaken as the President by a group of rural Mexicans. Finally, they must arrest a psychotic shooter holed up in his house.
Director: Phil Rawlins
Writer: Robert Forward
7.5/10131 votes#9 - Log 101: Someone Stole My Lawn
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1968
Reed gets Malloy to agree to an early dinner when his wife puts him on a low-cal diet. However, one after another event prevents them from going code 7 all night long. Events include the theft of a man's sod, stolen credit cards, and a suspected car theft.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Tim Dunphy
7.3/10154 votes#10 - Log 132: The Producer
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1968
Reed tries to pawn off his new litter of puppies to co-workers, strangers, even victims. The officers work a silent alarm, rescue a boy with his head stuck in a fence, and track down a prowler.
Director: Phil Rawlins
Writer: Richard Morgan
7.6/10147 votes#11 - Log 61: The Runaway
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1968
Walters and Brinkman are on a roll lately and like to brag, much to the irritation of Reed. He and Malloy help them out by finishing one of their calls, then rescue a sick teenage girl and arrest the young man who took her in. Back on patrol, they meet an informant who gives them a tip on a big drug buy scheduled for 11 PM. They give the info to Sgt. Miller who asks them to help in the bust.
Director: Phil Rawlins
Writer: Noel Nosseck
7.2/10137 votes#12 - Log 111: Snake In The Trunk
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1968
A ditzy young woman reports her 1958 Ford convertible stolen while she went into a liquor store. She left the keys in the car, has no paperwork, doesn't know the license number or other details but she needs it by 6 PM for a date. She finally tells the officers that her eight-foot boa constrictor is in the trunk as she was coming from the vet.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Preston Wood
7.8/10154 votes#13 - Log 122: Christmas: The Yellow Dump Truck
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1968
On Christmas eve Reed and Malloy make rounds distributing police department donation packages to needy families, and pull many heartstrings.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Preston Wood
7.8/10138 votes#14 - Log 081: The Long Walk
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1969
After roll call, Reed and Malloy provide backup at a robbery, help a lost man return home, handle a call about a prowler, then respond to a silent alarm. Malloy demonstrates for Reed the importance of "officer presence".
Director: Phil Rawlins
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
7.2/10123 votes#15 - Log 036: Jimmy Eisley's Dealing Smack
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1969
Reed volunteers to line up entertainment for the department party, just as Malloy needs to serve a subpoena on a famous singer. The team learns of a drug den from their informant and are handed the bust when detectives are too busy to look into it.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Preston Wood
7.5/10150 votes#16 - Log 062: Grand Theft Horse?
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1969
Reed and Malloy assist park rangers in catching a horse thief, a homesick Texan who was high on drugs at the time. The officers then chase two gunmen in a high speed pursuit.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Richard Morgan
8.5/10158 votes#17 - Log 033: It All Happened So Fast
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1969
It's been a long night of patrol for Malloy and Reed. Just as the two tired officers are headed to the station to turn in for the night, shots are fired at the patrol car. In the blink of an eye, Reed kills whom he believes was the gunman. Back at the station, Reed undergoes a night of intensive questioning from the captain and lieutenant, as part of the superior officers' investigation into the incident. In the end, the captain confides in Reed that his story is credible and the rookie officer will likely be allowed back on patrol upon the completion of the investigation.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Preston Wood
7.6/10123 votes#18 - Log 112: You Blew It
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1969
Reed and Malloy make a routine traffic stop on a motorist. Before the NCIC check is completed, the dispatcher broadcasts a domestic dispute call in the two officers' patrol area; Reed and Malloy take the call and let the motorist go. Bad choice; the lieutenant soon calls the two errant officers in to scold them. Turns out the motorist had warrants out for his arrest on robbery and weapons charges. Malloy and Reed then come up with and carry out an ultimately successful plan to nab the wanted criminal.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Michael Donovan
7.1/10119 votes#19 - Log 051: A Jumper - Code Two
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1969
Not long after an elderly woman insists that Reed and Malloy help adjust her television antenna, the officers are called to a high-rise hotel, where a suicidal man is determined to jump. Malloy incorrectly handles the situation and Mac harshly reprimands him the follow-up investigation.
Director: Harry Morgan
Writer: Richard Morgan
7.3/10141 votes#20 - Log 073: I'm Still A Cop
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1969
While Malloy is attending college, radicals learn he is a cop. They reject him and antagonize him on the job. After helping arrest demonstrators, his new car is vandalized. When a timer is found missing, he locates and disarms a bomb using it.
Director: Phil Rawlins
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom
7.5/10128 votes#21 - Log 102: We Can't Just Walk Away From It
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/1/1969
Malloy and Reed respond to a call about a drug overdose and track the drugs to a 17-year-old who has barricaded himself in his room with a gun and threatens kill himself. They contend with a distraught mother and an overbearing father.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Michael Donovan
8.0/10146 votes#22 - Log 152: A Dead Cop Can't Help Anyone
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/8/1969
An impressionable Reed is taken in by the "cowboy cop" antics of fellow Officer Ed Wells (Gary Crosby), a wise guy who takes unnecessary and reckless risks to arrest suspects. At the station, Malloy loses his cool while talking to Wells because Wells' tactics endanger his life and others. Wells tries to play it down until his recklessness nearly catches up with him when he is shot in the shoulder by a psychotic sniper, and because of Wells' disobedience and foolishness Reed is also almost shot. Malloy and Reed are forced to rescue Wells and mastermind a way to end the standoff peacefully.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Michael Donovan
8.3/10181 votes#23 - Log 012: He Was Trying to Kill Me
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/15/1969
A "child-left-alone" call turns up a horrifying case of child neglect. A 6-year-old girl is left home with her baby brother and both parents are unable to provide for their children.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Robert I. Holt
7.7/10179 votes#24 - Log 172: Boy, The Things You Do For The Job
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/22/1969
Malloy writes a young woman a traffic ticket and then is bombarded with attention and affection, all of which he doesn't want.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Michael Donovan
7.7/10140 votes#25 - Log 092: Tell Him He Pushed Back a Little Too Hard
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/29/1969
A couple of neighbors co-own a boat and continually fight over it so Malloy and Reed do their best to mediate this latest rift.
Director: Phil Rawlins
Writer: Preston Wood
The Best Episodes of Adam-12 Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Log 001: The Impossible Mission" is the best rated episode of "Adam-12" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 263 votes. Directed by Jack Webb and written by John Randolph, it aired on 9/21/1968. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Log 141: The Color TV Bandit".