Adam-12
Log 164: The Poachers
TV Flash files “Log 164: The Poachers” as hour 73 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 3, episode 21, aired 1971-02-25, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E21: listed hour 73 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 21 of 26 in season 3. It aired 1971-02-25 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Log 076: Militants” (S03E20). Next is “Log 016: Child in Danger” (S03E22).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The first call is a police garage employee taking a police car for a "Code 3" ride followed by a young woman trying to cash an Old Age Benefits check she found. Malloy and Reed are accused of poaching Officer Ed Wells' territory when they check some warehouses in Wells' area that has been having a rash of break-ins. They both have a nervous time in a mortuary that has been broken into and the thief is found hiding in a casket. During rounds they finally catch a pair of men high on drugs breaking into a warehouse.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Log 164: The Poachers sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S03E21 is listed hour 73 of 174 — hour 21 of 26 in season 3, season 3 episode 21.
When did Adam-12 S03E21 air?
Log 164: The Poachers aired 1971-02-25 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…