Adam-12
Log 141: The Color TV Bandit
TV Flash files “Log 141: The Color TV Bandit” as hour 2 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 1, episode 2, aired 1968-09-28, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E02: listed hour 2 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 2 of 26 in season 1. It aired 1968-09-28 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Log 001: The Impossible Mission” (S01E01). Next is “Log 011: It's Just A Little Dent, Isn't It?” (S01E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Malloy and Reed return from vacation to learn a burglar is still stealing color TV sets. They receive a call about two endangered boys. After breaking into their apartment, they find the boys comatose and their mother's drug stash laying on the floor. The mother arrives and tries to act as if nothing is wrong. When Reed tells her she is under arrest, he becomes very irritated with her forcing Malloy to tell him later he must stay professional. Malloy gives a beautiful but spoiled young woman a ticket for an unsafe left turn while she berates him for harassment. They spot a car with a TV in the back seat and a man who runs forcing them to chase him. He and Reed end up in a pool but he denies stealing the TV. After running him at the station, they learn he stole jewelry while posing as a gas repairman. Still no TV thief.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Log 141: The Color TV Bandit sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S01E02 is listed hour 2 of 174 — hour 2 of 26 in season 1, season 1 episode 2.
When did Adam-12 S01E02 air?
Log 141: The Color TV Bandit aired 1968-09-28 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I need Dragnet first?
No. Mark VII sister spirit, not a sequel. Adam-12 is two-man patrol television: Malloy, Reed, and the next call.
In the series
Why this series still plays
One-Adam-12: Malloy and Reed on patrol in a black-and-white unit while Jack Webb keeps the moral grammar tight. Ride-along procedural before every badge show learned the radio-code poetry. Two officers closing the shift, case by case, with the calm of a training film that became a hit.
The black-and-white unit arrives before the siren. NBC, 1968–1975: Martin Milner's Officer Pete Malloy and Kent McCord's Officer Jim Reed in a patrol car that defined the two-man format, Jack Webb and R.A. Cinader's Mark VII shop keeping the moral grammar tight. Adam-12 is sister spirit to Dragnet: real LAPD consultation, radio-code poetry, shift-by-shift calls with by-the-book ethics. *Black-and-white paint as a silhouette, radio as jewelry, training-film calm as a press strategy.* Style is the plot. One-Adam-12…
Filed against
- Martin Milner as Officer Pete Malloy
Martin Milner’s Tod Stiles put a Corvette on actual American pavement in Route 66 — location drama when most series never left the lot — then patrolled Adam-12 as Malloy with Jack Webb’s moral grammar tight. Highway as character;…
- Kent McCord as Officer Jim Reed
Kent McCord's Officer Jim Reed made Adam-12 a ride-along before every badge show learned radio-code poetry — Malloy and Reed in a black-and-white unit, Jack Webb's moral grammar, case by case, shift by shift. TV Flash files him as 1970s…