Adam-12
Follow Up
TV Flash files “Follow Up” as hour 168 of 174 in the TV Flash guide — Adam-12 (1968–1975) on NBC, season 7, episode 18, aired 1975-03-11, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E18: listed hour 168 of 174 in the Adam-12 guide, hour 18 of 24 in season 7. It aired 1975-03-11 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Citizen with Gun” (S07E17). Next is “Suicide” (S07E19).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Reed and Malloy handle a call about a stolen horse that someone is trying to sell to a horse stable. Also, after a call from a wealthy woman, she accuses them of stealing one of her valuable rings. Reed thinks Malloy should buy a used boat.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Follow Up sit in the Adam-12 guide?
S07E18 is listed hour 168 of 174 — hour 18 of 24 in season 7, season 7 episode 18.
When did Adam-12 S07E18 air?
Follow Up aired 1975-03-11 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…