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Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Adam-12 Season 1 Episode 7 - Log 071: I Feel Like a Fool, Malloy
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    #1 - Log 071: I Feel Like a Fool, Malloy

    S1:E7

    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.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writer:Robert I. Holt

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  2. Adam-12 Season 1 Episode 11 - Log 111: Snake In The Trunk
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    #2 - Log 111: Snake In The Trunk

    S1:E11

    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:Phil Rawlins
    Writer:Noel Nosseck

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  3. Adam-12 Season 1 Episode 21 - Log 102: We Can't Just Walk Away From It
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    #3 - Log 102: We Can't Just Walk Away From It

    S1:E21

    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

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  4. Adam-12 Season 1 Episode 22 - Log 152: A Dead Cop Can't Help Anyone
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    #4 - Log 152: A Dead Cop Can't Help Anyone

    S1:E22

    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

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  5. Adam-12 Season 2 Episode 3 - Log 052: Good Cop: Handle with Care
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    #5 - Log 052: Good Cop: Handle with Care

    S2:E3

    Malloy and Reed see a man passed out in an alley and stop to lend assistance, deliver bad news to a young wife, apprehend a mentally ill man who then becomes uncontrollably violent in their patrol car, and respond to a robbery that needlessly becomes a tragedy. All along the way the officers have their every move second guessed by a pair of young, unethical freelance journalists who are determined to document police brutality.

    Director:Robert Douglas
    Writer:Preston Wood

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  6. Adam-12 Season 2 Episode 6 - Log 103: A Sound Like Thunder
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    #6 - Log 103: A Sound Like Thunder

    S2:E6

    Malloy and Reed double date on their day off to a ghost town only to be confronted by a motor cycle gang. It takes their quick police instincts to save the day as Mrs Reed gets too close to delivering the baby.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:James Doherty

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  7. Adam-12 Season 2 Episode 8 - Log 093: Once a Junkie
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    #7 - Log 093: Once a Junkie

    S2:E8

    A former convict and informant who Malloy helped give a second chance is accused of assaulting a priest, dealing drugs and stealing a gun after being fired from his dish-washing job at Duke's Longhorn Café. Malloy and Reed set out to determine if his story, which is full of suspicious coincidences, is actually true.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Jack Hawn

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  8. Adam-12 Season 2 Episode 12 - Log 043: Hostage
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    #8 - Log 043: Hostage

    S2:E12

    Two armed convicts holding up a diner shoot Malloy who entered innocently, and hold him and other civilians hostage.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Robert Hamner

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  9. Adam-12 Season 2 Episode 14 - Log 014: S.W.A.T.
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    #9 - Log 014: S.W.A.T.

    S2:E14

    Malloy and Reed are the first to respond to a downtown rooftop sniper who has been indiscriminately shooting at anyone he can find with his scoped rifle. After risking their lives to get civilians out of his line of sight, they become lead participants in the S.W.A.T. team's attempt to neutralize the suspect.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writer:Michael Donovan

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  10. Adam-12 Season 2 Episode 15 - Log 064: Bottom of the Bottle
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    #10 - Log 064: Bottom of the Bottle

    S2:E15

    Malloy and Reed see the same drunk twice in one night, respond to a bar fight and engage in a high-speed pursuit with good samaritans who make a bad decision. They also search for a biker who tries to coerce a woman to repay a debt by riddling her apartment with buckshot.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writer:Robert I. Holt

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  11. Adam-12 Season 2 Episode 16 - Log 054: Impersonation
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    #11 - Log 054: Impersonation

    S2:E16

    Malloy and Reed hope to find an impostor as they investigate a boxing promoter's accusation that a police detective stole $350 from him. In the meantime, they deal with a disgruntled wife who is in the process of destroying her own car in the middle of a downtown street, investigate a gun theft from a pawn shop, drive up on a home burglary in progress and obtain critical information while interrogating a suspected car thief.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Robert I. Holt

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  12. Adam-12 Season 2 Episode 17 - Log 024: A Rare Occasion
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    #12 - Log 024: A Rare Occasion

    S2:E17

    Malloy spends a weekend afternoon attending a barbecue at Reed's home, where Reed lets him hold his newborn son for the first time and tries to set him up with his wife's friend. However, their relaxation is interrupted when they have to deal with a young neighbor who overdoses on drugs and becomes the target of his dealer.

    Director:Robert Douglas
    Writer:Robert I. Holt

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  13. Adam-12 Season 2 Episode 21 - Log 074: Light Duty
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    #13 - Log 074: Light Duty

    S2:E21

    Malloy and Reed spend a night shift on desk duty after Malloy breaks his wrist and another office worker calls in sick. With the assistance of a new female recruit, they deal with a homesick elderly woman who refuses to identify herself, help a lenient father bail out his son and become suspicious of a man who walks in looking for a wanted fugitive.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writer:Guerdon Trueblood

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  14. Adam-12 Season 2 Episode 22 - Log 114: The Hero
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    #14 - Log 114: The Hero

    S2:E22

    Malloy and Reed respond to a fire where a young man, Lauro, saves a man trapped inside. But Lauro seems reluctant to receive any praise or attention much to everyone's surprise. Meanwhile, a concerned landlord reports suspicious in-activity from a tenant with heart trouble where Malloy and Reed arrive in time to give him CPR and save his life. Malloy attempts to keep his new hat clean, but finds it an impossibility.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Don Ingalls

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  15. Adam-12 Season 2 Episode 23 - Log 134: Child Stealer
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    #15 - Log 134: Child Stealer

    S2:E23

    Reed has to deal with the consequences of forgetting to roll up the window on the patrol car before he left it. Back on patrol, Malloy and Reed search for an estranged husband who kidnaps his own child, deal with an elderly man who tries to pay for a meal with trading stamps, engage in a shootout with an escaped prisoner caught napping on a city bus and pull over a hijacked delivery van full of booze.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writer:James Doherty

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  16. Adam-12 Season 2 Episode 26 - Log 173: Shoplift
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    #16 - Log 173: Shoplift

    S2:E26

    Malloy and Reed track down a kooky female shoplifter involved in a cult-type relationship with a ego-maniacal spiritualist weirdo. Malloy gets help tracking her down from an old girlfriend.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writer:Robert I. Holt

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  17. Adam-12 Season 3 Episode 1 - Log 174: Loan Sharks
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    #17 - Log 174: Loan Sharks

    S3:E1

    Malloy and Reed try to investigate a series of beatings at a plant resulting from a loan shark operation, but the employees refuse to talk until the son of one employee stands up to testify. The officers arrest an armed robber who could only bring himself to steal $2, then was robbed himself.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Michael Donovan

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  18. Adam-12 Season 3 Episode 2 - Log 035: Easy Bare Rider
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    #18 - Log 035: Easy Bare Rider

    S3:E2

    Malloy and Reed investigate the mysterious source behind a boy's suspicious spending spree, wield a blanket instead of gun during a disrobed driver's DUI arrest and bust up a car parts theft ring.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Norman Katkov

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  19. Adam-12 Season 3 Episode 4 - Log 045: Bright Boy
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    #19 - Log 045: Bright Boy

    S3:E4

    Reed and Malloy report to a burglary call that was witnessed by a boy with a photographic memory. Afterward, they are called to the scene of two drunk men shooting at a box of dynamite at close range in a residential area.

    Director:James Neilson
    Writer:John T. Dugan

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  20. Adam-12 Season 3 Episode 5 - Log 065: Cigarettes, Cars and Wild, Wild Women
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    #20 - Log 065: Cigarettes, Cars and Wild, Wild Women

    S3:E5

    The officers bring down an auto-theft ring where young girls get rides with the victims, steal their cars, and take them to a "chop shop". Other calls include an elderly woman who ran a red light and whose license lists her in her 30s, a would-be motorcycle thief stopped by a feisty woman, a shut-in woman who thinks she is hallucinating while her nephew is hosting a marijuana party, and two men moving a safe down the street.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Norman Katkov

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  21. Adam-12 Season 3 Episode 6 - Log 055: Missing Child
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    #21 - Log 055: Missing Child

    S3:E6

    Malloy and Reed investigate a missing child with a Band-Aid on her leg. Other calls include rescuing a cat and birds from a woman who was trying to get rid of them using gas, apprehending a man who stole a disability check from his uncle, and responding to an auto burglary turned homicide with a Hispanic family more concerned with how the officers would treat them.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:William P. McGivern

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  22. Adam-12 Season 3 Episode 7 - Log 075: Have a Nice Weekend
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    #22 - Log 075: Have a Nice Weekend

    S3:E7

    The shift starts with Reed being taken hostage by a woman out of her mind. Malloy and Reed are faced with multiple reports of burglaries and the thieves appear to be young boys. After a couple interviews, Malloy picks up on the fact that the victims are all supposed to be playing bridge and it points to one family.

    Director:Oscar Rudolph
    Writer:Robert I. Holt

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  23. Adam-12 Season 3 Episode 9 - Log 025: Indians
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    #23 - Log 025: Indians

    S3:E9

    Malloy and reed hunt down a suspect who has been bombing downtown storefronts. Then they report to a scuffle between two native americans at a bar that the bartender thinks may be a prelude to something a lot more serious.

    Director:Oscar Rudolph
    Writer:Robert I. Holt

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  24. Adam-12 Season 3 Episode 10 - Log 135: Arson
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    #24 - Log 135: Arson

    S3:E10

    Malloy and Reed search for a serial arsonist who spawns a copycat, settle a domestic dispute that results from a love triangle, rescue a man who wandered onto the ledge of a high rise and deal with a mentally ill man who is holding his wife at knife-point.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Howard Dimsdale

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  25. Adam-12 Season 3 Episode 11 - Log 096: Pilgrimage
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    #25 - Log 096: Pilgrimage

    S3:E11

    It's Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, and Malloy and Reed track down a suspect who beat and mugged a rescue mission Santa, who later gets arrested himself. They also respond to an alcohol-related traffic accident that resulted in a fatality, help a penniless widow who has been detained for shoplifting and take part in the search for a young Native American child who wandered off into a mountainous area while her parents were asleep.

    Director:Oscar Rudolph
    Writer:John T. Dugan

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Log 071: I Feel Like a Fool, Malloy" is the worst rated episode of "Adam-12". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Alan Crosland, Jr. and written by Robert I. Holt, it aired on 11/2/1968. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Log 111: Snake In The Trunk".