Adam-12
Log 175: Con Artists
TV Flash files “Log 175: Con Artists” as hour 65 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 3, episode 13, aired 1971-01-02, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E13: listed hour 65 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 13 of 26 in season 3. It aired 1971-01-02 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Log 085: Sign of the Twins” (S03E12). Next is “Log 115: Gang War” (S03E14).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Malloy and Reed are busying tracking the exploits of the con artist Johnson family making their annual pilgrimage through Los Angles ripping off people. They involve false delivery of wood, bogus roof repair, and finally catching rattlesnakes for a couple of elderly sisters. Mixed in is the capture of a two men trying to burn a plant where one of them had been fired as a security guard for drinking on the job.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Log 175: Con Artists sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S03E13 is listed hour 65 of 174 — hour 13 of 26 in season 3, season 3 episode 13.
When did Adam-12 S03E13 air?
Log 175: Con Artists aired 1971-01-02 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…