Adam-12
Log 052: Good Cop: Handle with Care
TV Flash files “Log 052: Good Cop: Handle with Care” as hour 29 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 2, episode 3, aired 1969-10-04, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E03: listed hour 29 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 3 of 26 in season 2. It aired 1969-10-04 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Log 153: Find Me a Needle” (S02E02). Next is “Log 023: Pig Is a Three Letter Word” (S02E04).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Two young men are stalking Malloy and Reed while on duty taking pictures and talking to bystanders. They insinuate that the officers are frequently mistreating citizens. They attempt to interfere when the officers are asked to notify a woman that her merchant marine husband has passed away. After picking up a man on drugs and alcohol who injuries himself in the squad car, the men accuse the officers of injuring the man. The officers stop a car with three men wanted in a robbery. The two men appear and interfere with the officers resulting in one of the suspects pulling a gun and shooting an innocent bystander.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Log 052: Good Cop: Handle with Care sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S02E03 is listed hour 29 of 174 — hour 3 of 26 in season 2, season 2 episode 3.
When did Adam-12 S02E03 air?
Log 052: Good Cop: Handle with Care aired 1969-10-04 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…