Adam-12
Log 153: Find Me a Needle
TV Flash files “Log 153: Find Me a Needle” as hour 28 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 2, episode 2, aired 1969-09-27, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E02: listed hour 28 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 2 of 26 in season 2. It aired 1969-09-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Log 015: Exactly One Hundred Yards” (S02E01). Next is “Log 052: Good Cop: Handle with Care” (S02E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A break in the "Mulholland Mauler" case when a victim survives provides details about the car, etc. Adam-12 is asked to patrol the area to look for suspects. They ticket a young girl for hitchhiking and warn a young couple parked in the hills to leave. A car pulled over over matches the description but there is no conclusive evidence. He is the most likely suspect of the several men picked up. They find an empty car owned by a young woman and locate her friend at a nearby service station. They persuade the suspect to show them where the missing girl was dumped and find her alive.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Log 153: Find Me a Needle sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S02E02 is listed hour 28 of 174 — hour 2 of 26 in season 2, season 2 episode 2.
When did Adam-12 S02E02 air?
Log 153: Find Me a Needle aired 1969-09-27 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…