Skip to Navigation
TV Video Library: Interviews and Video Clips – Archive of American Television
  • A program of the Television Academy Foundation

Capturing Television History, One Voice At A Time

Home › Shows

Adam 12

Cop/Detective/Mystery Series

About This Show

Adam-12 is an American television drama which originally aired from September 21, 1968 to August 26, 1975 on NBC for 175 episodes. The show was produced by Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited, which also produced Dragnet and Emergency!. The series was nominally considered a spin-off of Webb's Dragnet 1967–70, and the Reed and Malloy characters appeared on episodes of the parent program (though the actors did appear as different characters on some of the Dragnet episodes).

The program followed the daily activities of a pair of LAPD patrol officers – seven-year veteran officer Peter 'Pete' Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie officer James 'Jim' Reed (Kent McCord) – and to a lesser extent Sergeant William "Mac" MacDonald (William Boyett). As Los Angeles Police Officers, their noble duty, as identified in writing on their squad car doors was "to Protect and to Serve." Much like Dragnet, the episodes were based on true incidents culled from LAPD case files.

Created by Jack Webb

Starring

Martin Milner

Kent McCord

Country of origin United States

Language(s) English

No. of seasons 7

No. of episodes 175

Production

Executive producer(s) Jack Webb

Running time 30 minutes

Broadcast

Original channel NBC

Picture format NTSC

Audio format Monaural sound

Original run September 21, 1968 – May 20, 1975

 

More from Wikipedia...

People Who Talked About This Show

  • Stephen J. Cannell

Resources

Adam-12 DVD

DVD: Adam-12 - Season One

You need Flash player 8+ and JavaScript enabled to view this video.

People Talking About This Show

  • Stephen J. Cannell
    • Stephen J. Cannell on being a writer for Adam-12 (11m 00s)
SHARE THIS PAGE Bookmark and Share
Tweet

From the Collection

  • Cop / Detective / Mystery Series Link - FTC

    For more Cop/Detective/Mystery show pages, visit the Archive's genre reference page.

Be the first to comment!

Post new comment

  • Home
  • Interviews
    • People
    • Shows
    • Topics
    • Professions
    • All Interviewees
    • Featured Playlists
  • About The Archive
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • Search
Academy of American Television
  • Home
  • The Interviews
  • Advanced Search
  • Blog
  • License Our Clips
  • Terms of Service
  • Transcripts
  • Copyright Policy
  • Emmys.com
  • Emmysfoundation.org
  • About The Archive
© 1995-2012 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation All Rights Reserved Emmy and The Emmy Statuette are the trademark property of ATAS/NATAS
Site developed by FivePaths