Adam-12
Log 012: He Was Trying to Kill Me
TV Flash files “Log 012: He Was Trying to Kill Me” as hour 23 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 1, episode 23, aired 1969-03-15, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E23: listed hour 23 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 23 of 26 in season 1. It aired 1969-03-15 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Log 152: A Dead Cop Can't Help Anyone” (S01E22). Next is “Log 172: Boy, the Things You Do for the Job” (S01E24).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A call regarding stolen milk turns into a call about child neglect. When the officers knock on the door to question a suspect, they find a 6 year old girl Charlie alone. She says she doesn't know where her mother is and her dad no longer lives there. When the officers tell her they are removing her, she tells them she can't leave Sissy an infant in the bathtub. A man arrives she calls daddy but he is only a friend of the mother. He is arrested on outstanding traffic warrants and juvenile finds the kids have been beaten. Charlie says daddy did it. They are called back to the apartment to find the father beating the mother and they learn the mother is beating the kids.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Log 012: He Was Trying to Kill Me sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S01E23 is listed hour 23 of 174 — hour 23 of 26 in season 1, season 1 episode 23.
When did Adam-12 S01E23 air?
Log 012: He Was Trying to Kill Me aired 1969-03-15 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…