Adam-12
Log 091: You're Not the First Guy's Had the Problem
TV Flash files “Log 091: You're Not the First Guy's Had the Problem” as hour 5 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 1, episode 5, aired 1968-10-19, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E05: listed hour 5 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 5 of 26 in season 1. It aired 1968-10-19 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Log 131: Reed, the Dicks Have Their Job and We Have Ours” (S01E04). Next is “Log 161: And You Want Me to Get Married!” (S01E06).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Reed and a friend from the academy plan a fishing trip for the weekend before their shift. Malloy and Reed receive a Code 3 call as backup at a shooting. When they arrive Reed's friend is critically wounded and a suspect is dead. On patrol they arrest a man for DUI. Malloy allows Reed to test the man as part of his training. A call to a pool hall reveals a couple of men took a man to the hospital after hitting him with a pool cue. Reed continues to worry his wounded friend, Reed's wife who he can't reach, and her attitude. They spot two suspicious men in a convertible with a bicycle in the trunk. They pull it over and the two men run when Reed starts to run their IDs. At the end they learn Reed's friend has died.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Log 091: You're Not the First Guy's Had the Problem sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S01E05 is listed hour 5 of 174 — hour 5 of 26 in season 1, season 1 episode 5.
When did Adam-12 S01E05 air?
Log 091: You're Not the First Guy's Had the Problem aired 1968-10-19 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…