Adam-12
Log 103: A Sound Like Thunder
TV Flash files “Log 103: A Sound Like Thunder” as hour 32 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 2, episode 6, aired 1969-11-01, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E06: listed hour 32 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 6 of 26 in season 2. It aired 1969-11-01 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Log 083: A Different Thing” (S02E05). Next is “Log 063: Baby” (S02E07).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Malloy and Reed bring an elderly man into Central Receiving for treatment. While there Malloy confirms his date with nurse Sally Fisher to join him and Reed plus Jim's pregnant wife the next morning on a visit to a remote ghost town. After arriving they hear "thunder" which Malloy recognizes as motorcycles. A gang of several men and women search Reed's car. They learn the men are police officers with women and decide to have fun. The officers and women hold up in an old saloon. They capture the leader of the gang while he is searching for them and shoot another in the leg then capture two more. The rest are scared off and Jim rides a captured cycle for help as they destroyed his car.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Log 103: A Sound Like Thunder sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S02E06 is listed hour 32 of 174 — hour 6 of 26 in season 2, season 2 episode 6.
When did Adam-12 S02E06 air?
Log 103: A Sound Like Thunder aired 1969-11-01 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…