Adam-12
Log 046: Pilgrimage
TV Flash files “Log 046: Pilgrimage” as hour 63 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 3, episode 11, aired 1970-12-19, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E11: listed hour 63 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 11 of 26 in season 3. It aired 1970-12-19 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Log 135: Arson” (S03E10). Next is “Log 085: Sign of the Twins” (S03E12).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In this Christmas themed show Malloy and Reed confront a man who robbed a bell ringing Santa Claus followed by a pregnant woman caught shop lifting. She tells the store manager and the officers she wanted to be caught so her kids would be taken some place for Christmas since her husband deserted her. The store manager has a change of heart and she is taken to social services for help. They also encounter a Native American couple with a young daughter from New Mexico who are unaccustomed to city life. Later they are found sleeping in the hills and their daughter has walked away requiring a search party.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Log 046: Pilgrimage sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S03E11 is listed hour 63 of 174 — hour 11 of 26 in season 3, season 3 episode 11.
When did Adam-12 S03E11 air?
Log 046: Pilgrimage aired 1970-12-19 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…