Adam-12
Log 174: Loan Sharks
TV Flash files “Log 174: Loan Sharks” as the first listed hour of season 3 — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 3, episode 1, aired 1970-09-19, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 53 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 1970-09-19 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Log 173: Shoplift” (S02E26). Next is “Log 035: Easy Bare Rider” (S03E02).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Malloy and Reed investigate the beatings of several people in a factory parking lot only to reveal a gambling/loan shark operation with the heavies working over those behind on their loan payments. One lone schoolboy stands up to the organization and commits himself to help the police and testify in court. Along their way they arrest an armed robber of a liquor store who out of guilt could only take $2 from the attendant, and was subsequently robbed himself.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Log 174: Loan Sharks sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S03E01 is listed hour 53 of 174 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.
When did Adam-12 S03E01 air?
Log 174: Loan Sharks aired 1970-09-19 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…