7.0/10139 votesLoading...#1 - 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
7.0/10137 votesLoading...#2 - Log 015: Exactly One Hundred Yards
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1969
On their day off, Malloy and Reed agree to give a talk to a group of fifth grade students, and then offer to let the kids watch them train for the California Police Olympics. But when the tires of their patrol car are slashed and a stopwatch goes missing out of reed's car, the two officers start to suspect one of the children.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Jack Hawn
7.1/10118 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.1/10117 votesLoading...#4 - Who Won?
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1972
Malloy and Reed work to curtail the rise in illegal street racing by working with the leaders of rival racing clubs and obtaining the legitimate use of a drag strip through a race promoter. Their work is threatened, along with an anticipated race between Reed and Officer Wells, when one of the racers resorts to sabotage.
Director: James Neilson
Writer: Michael Donovan
7.1/10134 votesLoading...#5 - Clinic on 18th Street
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 3/19/1974
Malloy and Reed investigate the death of an old man wearing an unusual belt, which leads to the case being turned over to Frauds Division, who finds that Dr. Gantman, running a clinic, is treating a blind seven-year-old patient with a pituitary gland condition but his "treatment" is worthless and preventing a real treatment (removal of the gland). Later, a TV repairman who makes oscillator belts for Gantman is busted for bookmaking and agrees to testify against the doctor, but Gantman demonstrates his "treatment" in open court and fails miserably. Note: This episode, in which Reed and Malloy appear only briefly, was intended to be the pilot for a new Mark VII series focusing on the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, and was directed by Webb himself. However, no such series came to be.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Joseph Calvelli
7.2/10142 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10136 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.2/10122 votesLoading...#8 - 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
7.2/10115 votesLoading...#9 - Log 022: So This Little Guy Goes Into This Bar
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/5/1969
Reed hears a joke from Ed Wells before roll call, and then spends the shift retelling it to Malloy. The partners solve a mystery for a little old lady. Later, Reed needs to break up a noisy party hosted by an old school chum.
Director: Phil Rawlins
Writer: Preston Wood
7.3/10153 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10140 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.3/10102 votesLoading...#12 - Log 025: Indians
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1970
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
7.3/1094 votesLoading...#13 - Log 115: Gang War
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/1971
Officer Reed loses a robbery suspect while in foot pursuit. Afterward, he and Malloy try to help a priest prevent bloodshed between rival hispanic gangs, and then respond to a battered wife whose husband is very familiar to the officers.
Director: James Neilson
Writer: John T. Dugan
7.4/10165 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.4/10147 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.4/10149 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.4/10134 votesLoading...#17 - Dirt Duel
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1972
A series of purse snatchings involving motorcyclists frustrates the LAPD, as they cannot follow them down the off-road trails they take. Reed holds a community meeting with the various motorcycle clubs, and the leader of one club challenges Malloy to a dirt bike race. Reed teaches Malloy how to ride a dirt bike, and while Malloy loses the race, he gains the respect of the club's leader, who helps them apprehend the suspects by blocking their escape route.
Director: Carl Barth
Writer: Michael Donovan
7.5/10189 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.5/10130 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.5/10149 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.5/10127 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10134 votesLoading...#22 - Log 024: A Rare Occasion
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1970
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
7.5/1097 votesLoading...#23 - Log 124: Airport
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/1970
Malloy and Reed are rendered powerless when a drunken man with no flight experience decides to take a solo flight in a stolen airplane at a busy airport. Later, they try to locate a 17-year-old runaway living in a condemned home with a much older man, engage in a shootout with a convenience store robber and search for a booby-trapped bank safe that has been stolen with a tow truck.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: James Doherty
7.5/1097 votesLoading...#24 - Log 173: Shoplift
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 5/9/1970
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.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Robert I. Holt
7.5/10107 votesLoading...#25 - The Dinosaur
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1971
Officer Art McCall returns from eight years on disability and rides with Malloy and Reed to see how much has changed in law enforcement. McCall soon learns exactly how much has changed when he tries illegal techniques to help a young woman with her ex-con husband, fails to Mirandize a boy after arresting him for robbery, and screws up an arrest of a gun-carrying man who later plants a bomb in his ex-wife's car, which requires Malloy to dress down the veteran officer on his use of antiquated (and illegal) police procedures.
Director: Ozzie Nelson
Writer: Michael Donovan
The Worst Episodes of Adam-12
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Log 072: El Presidente" is the worst rated episode of "Adam-12". It scored 7/10 based on 139 votes. Directed by Phil Rawlins and written by Robert Forward, it aired on 11/9/1968. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Log 015: Exactly One Hundred Yards".