Adam-12
Venice Division
TV Flash files “Venice Division” as hour 131 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 6, episode 5, aired 1973-10-10, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E05: listed hour 131 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 5 of 24 in season 6. It aired 1973-10-10 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “West Valley Division” (S06E04). Next is “Hot Shot” (S06E06).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Venice Division begins their patrol with a case of a nude sunbather on the public beach with her publicity agent hoping in vain for her arrest. Reed spots a man in a phone booth who they arrest. They help a motorcycle officer stop a man in a stolen dune buggy. A young woman who likes to exercise in her apartment in leotards is receiving obscene phone calls. A call about a drunk passed out in a diner turns out to be a drunk who died. Malloy and Reed have a hot 10 mph pursuit of a pumpkin down an alley but the motorcycle officer comes to their aid in stopping the pumpkin. They have a return call to the girl in the leotard location and find she has been attacked. They track the man to the roof.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Venice Division sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S06E05 is listed hour 131 of 174 — hour 5 of 24 in season 6, season 6 episode 5.
When did Adam-12 S06E05 air?
Venice Division aired 1973-10-10 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…