Adam-12
Log 074: Light Duty
TV Flash files “Log 074: Light Duty” as hour 47 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 2, episode 21, aired 1970-03-21, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E21: listed hour 47 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 21 of 26 in season 2. It aired 1970-03-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Log 104: The Bomb” (S02E20). Next is “Log 114: The Hero” (S02E22).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Malloy and Reed are on front desk duty because Malloy has a busted hand. A rally at a college gets rowdy requiring Reed to assist, leaving Malloy at the desk worrying about Reed. Malloy's shift isn't all quiet as he captures two criminals.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Log 074: Light Duty sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S02E21 is listed hour 47 of 174 — hour 21 of 26 in season 2, season 2 episode 21.
When did Adam-12 S02E21 air?
Log 074: Light Duty aired 1970-03-21 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…