Adam-12
Log 085: Sign of the Twins
TV Flash files “Log 085: Sign of the Twins” as hour 64 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 3, episode 12, aired 1970-12-26, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E12: listed hour 64 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 12 of 26 in season 3. It aired 1970-12-26 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Log 046: Pilgrimage” (S03E11). Next is “Log 175: Con Artists” (S03E13).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Malloy and Reed start the shift with a call to a liquor store robbery where a fellow officer was shot but the owner of the store appears to be lying. Further investigation pushes the owner to admit one of the thieves was his brother and he was trying to protect him. In the meantime, they have a zoning issue with an elderly lady who does astrology readings out of her apartment followed by the report of a young boy asking a pharmacist questions about Seconal pills he had. When they confront his mother, she is not very cooperative. They end with a shoot-out with the liquor store thieves at a stake-out.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Log 085: Sign of the Twins sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S03E12 is listed hour 64 of 174 — hour 12 of 26 in season 3, season 3 episode 12.
When did Adam-12 S03E12 air?
Log 085: Sign of the Twins aired 1970-12-26 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…