This episode goes back to the "beat" episode where the guys take on several calls. There's a movie star appearance here, Harry Dean Stanton is a low life trying to get arrested to get more welfare for his low life family. Funny now that I think about it but welfare in a family with 5 kids often resulted in NON marriage, people will find a way to scam. Good scene were Reed is telling a college friend who is now an executive type to turn down the noise in his company party. The condescending looks he gets are very true to life. Once again Adam 12 delivers, no guns fired, or burglaries committed, or drug busts happen, but somehow the show stays entertaining based on regular peoples interactions. 8 of 10 episode, 10 of 10 show.
Adam-12 (TV Series)
Log 22:...So This Little Guy Goes Into a Bar, and... (1969)
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Awful Music!
Bronco4624 May 2016
This was an average sort of Adam - 12 episode. The usual collection of calls. But, in this particular episode all the calls are fairly minor and easily dealt with. And in this episode the underlying theme is Reed's attempt at finishing telling a long joke he heard, to Malloy. The radio keeps him from being able to finish his story until later in the episode. And once he does. Malloy and some other are not impressed, and Reed can't understand why. He winds up learning a lesson about superior officers, and their comic abilities. The negative the reappearance of the cheesy rock music that used over and over whenever a party or thoughtless person involves music. This stuff was terrible from the minute it was conceived, and it hasn't gotten any better. It's more of that awful synthesizer music that was all over TV in the late 1960's and all through the 1970's. It was all barely musical and got old very fast. Television shows were loath to pay for real music back in the day for some reason.
...So This Probationary Police Officer Experiences Reality, and...
chashans31 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
A decent enough episode, just a bit "run of the mill". That's too bad, being that this is the season one finale. One thing we learn is that Officer Jim Reed is apparently very easily amused. Other Officer Ed "Snarky" Wells tells Reed a joke. Then, once out on the road on patrol, Reed attempts to repeat the joke for Malloy's amusement. It takes quite a while to get the joke out in full, and when Reed finally does... Malloy is not amused.
Reed however, absolutely loves the joke. After a moment of silence, reflecting upon the joke, Reed bursts out in genuine gaffaws. Malloy meanwhile, is completely unsuccessful at controlling his eyes from rolling. This really is the fun of this episode. The camraderie which has developed between these two characters over the course of the 26 episodes total of this first season, is excellently portrayed by the two stars of the show, Martin Milner and Kent McCord.
Milner gets to have some fun though, beyond his character comicly threatening to apply a coat of paint to his rookie partner. Milner as Officer Malloy, gets to sit at a little card table and destroy pertinent evidence. He also gets to search a refrigerator and hold a frozen long-dead (for decades) animal. Milner looks to be having a lot of fun in this silly - but true! - segment.
Future Hollywood Star Power shows up in the guise of actor Harry Dean Stanton. The character he plays here is just his style. Laid back, criminally inclined and a good sort of creepy. You really believe his character when he regrets he's not going to jail.
It was nice to see Officers Walters and Brinkman making an appearance in this last episode of the season. Brinkman hears Reed's joke and thinks it's hysterical. Walters sides with Malloy. Until, that is, Walters hears the joke again, this time from the Commanding Lieutenant at the Station. Now Walters thinks the jokes terrific! Nice jab there at how the real world works, from the show's writers. Surprisingly, actor William Boyett's Sargeant MacDonald character is abscent. That's a shame.
Reed does get another look at how the real world works when he runs into an old friend from High School. This guy is throwing a party for a bunch of much older people from his place of business. Yet he's entertaining them by blasting awful "hippie-style" so-called rock music. These people look like they'd be more inline with ancient tunes from Lawrence Welk. This batch of actor "extras" clashes a bit too much with the gist of the scene, rendering it all a bit weak. Reed's old friend's sudden turn to the dark side comes off as honest though. Darn those fuzz!
Reed however, absolutely loves the joke. After a moment of silence, reflecting upon the joke, Reed bursts out in genuine gaffaws. Malloy meanwhile, is completely unsuccessful at controlling his eyes from rolling. This really is the fun of this episode. The camraderie which has developed between these two characters over the course of the 26 episodes total of this first season, is excellently portrayed by the two stars of the show, Martin Milner and Kent McCord.
Milner gets to have some fun though, beyond his character comicly threatening to apply a coat of paint to his rookie partner. Milner as Officer Malloy, gets to sit at a little card table and destroy pertinent evidence. He also gets to search a refrigerator and hold a frozen long-dead (for decades) animal. Milner looks to be having a lot of fun in this silly - but true! - segment.
Future Hollywood Star Power shows up in the guise of actor Harry Dean Stanton. The character he plays here is just his style. Laid back, criminally inclined and a good sort of creepy. You really believe his character when he regrets he's not going to jail.
It was nice to see Officers Walters and Brinkman making an appearance in this last episode of the season. Brinkman hears Reed's joke and thinks it's hysterical. Walters sides with Malloy. Until, that is, Walters hears the joke again, this time from the Commanding Lieutenant at the Station. Now Walters thinks the jokes terrific! Nice jab there at how the real world works, from the show's writers. Surprisingly, actor William Boyett's Sargeant MacDonald character is abscent. That's a shame.
Reed does get another look at how the real world works when he runs into an old friend from High School. This guy is throwing a party for a bunch of much older people from his place of business. Yet he's entertaining them by blasting awful "hippie-style" so-called rock music. These people look like they'd be more inline with ancient tunes from Lawrence Welk. This batch of actor "extras" clashes a bit too much with the gist of the scene, rendering it all a bit weak. Reed's old friend's sudden turn to the dark side comes off as honest though. Darn those fuzz!
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