Adam-12
Keeping Tabs
TV Flash files “Keeping Tabs” as hour 125 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 5, episode 23, aired 1973-03-14, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E23: listed hour 125 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 23 of 24 in season 5. It aired 1973-03-14 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Anatomy of a 415” (S05E22). Next is “Easy Rap” (S05E24).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Malloy and Reed stop a car full of young men on a midnight joyride. They are surprised when one is Sgt MacDonald's son. Pete wants to help, and quickly finds himself in the middle.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Keeping Tabs sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S05E23 is listed hour 125 of 174 — hour 23 of 24 in season 5, season 5 episode 23.
When did Adam-12 S05E23 air?
Keeping Tabs aired 1973-03-14 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…