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Adam-12 Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1973 - 1974
Episode 1
Harbor Division
Wed, Sep 12, 197325 mins
Adam-12's current patrol takes them down by the harbor. Their first call is to mediate a dispute between a marine gar bar operator and a customer, the latter who purports that the gar bar operator has been forging credit card chits. Malloy and Reed will only find out if that is indeed the case if they can get into his cash box. Next, they pull over a man with a color television set box strapped to the roof of his vehicle, the box about ready to fall off the roof. However, they find the man a little suspicious in his behavior, which will lead to the man wishing he hadn't purchased the factory sealed "box". Then, they pursue a car, the driver acting suspiciously. They will find that the driver and his female passenger are heading home... or so they say. Next, they pull over a reckless driver, who states that she couldn't have committed a traffic violation since she's a Libra and the stars, which never lie, say that today is her lucky day. Then, they have to deal with an armed drunk perched in a crow's-nest of a dry-docked boat. Throughout their shift, high on Malloy's mind is selling two tickets to an event he can no longer use. He is however reluctant to tell anyone what they're for for fear of ridicule.
Episode 2
Rampart Division: The Senior Citizens
Wed, Sep 19, 197325 mins
The officers are on patrol in a section of town made up heavily of retired people. As they start patrol, they spot a man who stole a purse being chased by an Asian woman in her car in a cemetery. The man escapes over a wall. George, a retired officer who works in private security, flags them down primarily to talk. While driving, they spot an elderly man trying to break into a car in a church parking lot. The minister wants to let him go, but he has multiple outstanding felony warrants for auto theft. As they stop at a restaurant, they spot a commotion across the street. An elder woman is claiming an elder man made an indecent proposal, but the apartment manager explains the woman is being evicted, and the man says he offered to let her stay at his place. The woman states her son will pick her up, but while eating, the officers see her smashing their windshield with a hammer, so they have to take her in. While patrolling the park, they settle an argument between two men about a five-dollar bill and rescue a baby stroller rolling into the lake. They spot the man they chased in the cemetery at a church. They close out the day with an arrest assisted by George, who admits he is lonely as his friends have passed.
Episode 3
Foothill Division: Mac's Boots
Wed, Sep 26, 197325 mins
At roll call Mac reports that three fishing rods and a custom made one of a kind pair of cowboy boots with green leather detail were stolen from his camper. He offers two steak dinners for their recovery. A report from a horse riding stable leads to Malloy, Reed, and Mac riding horseback to a remote mine shaft after the thieves where Mac hopes to find his boots but to no avail. When they return to the station, Officer Wells is taking up a collection for a man, his daughter and her baby to have gas money to make it to San Franisco for an operation on the baby for a tumor. Back on patrol they spot a man wearing boots that match Mac's one of kind boots but he is another officer who probably bought them from the same man in Mexico. The station comes under sniper fire forcing Mac to have Malloy and Reed set up a command station and take control of the situation. With the aid of the police helicopter they wound and capture the sniper. At the end as Officer Wells tells Mac he is sorry to hear his boots are not unique and he should look out for fakes in the future, Mac tells Wells the man he collected money for is a well known con-artist with a rap sheet everywhere west of the Mississippi River.
Episode 4
West Valley Division
Wed, Oct 3, 197325 mins
During patrol they notice a very nice looking woman walking her Scott Terrier. Air 10 requests Adam-12 help to stop a motorcyclist riding in the dry hills with potential to start a wildfire. Results in pursuit and following Air-10's directions to his house where a discussion with the young man and his mother ensues. A call to a movie theater by a patron who found the manager and ticket saleslady both missing. A search reveals them tied up upstairs. A man on a gray motorcycle had held them up. They stop a gray motorcycle but the rider is a woman. Another patrol car spots the motorcycle and Malloy recognizes they can cut him off at a pedestrian tunnel where they force the man to crash. They notice the woman and Scottie are still out walking and window shopping. At a robbery scene they encounter a guard who has been shot, provides them a description, and then dies. Air-10 spots a possible suspect and with Adam-12 purses the car. It is a couple who thought it would be fun to play chase with the police copter. When they notice the Scottie tied up, further inspection turns up the woman who is stealing furs.
Episode 5
Venice Division
Wed, Oct 10, 197325 mins
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 whom 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.
Episode 6
Hot Shot
Wed, Oct 24, 197325 mins
The officers spot a car failing to yield to another car; the driver is a cat burglar Reno West that Malloy arrested and recently released from prison. They spot an abandoned and stolen car and call to have it removed. Reed spots a robbery in a store. The owner is shot and killed and they pursue the suspect into a pedestrian tunnel where Malloy wounds him and Reed is forced to kill him. A call to a library about stolen books turns up West checking out books on several costly items he is looking to steal. They receive a call about a domestic disturbance that turns into a shots fired call. A distraught man is in his house with his daughter. Reed and Malloy are able to rescue the girl even though the man had Reed in his sights. The girl is able to talk her dad out.
Episode 7
Van Nuys Division: Pete's Mustache
Wed, Oct 31, 197325 mins
Malloy returns from vacation sporting a mustache bringing forth jokes from the coworkers. The officers spot a light plane on a glide path to crashing. With the help of Air 10 they locate the plane and pull the drunk pilot away before he lights a cigarette as gas leaks from the plane. They discover the pilot's son in the plane injured requiring CPR. A robbery report about three missing stamps appears to have the marks of Reno West who the officers know is back on the street. The officers receive unexpected help at the scene of a jewelry store robbery. A customer is a costuming specialist in the film industry. She provides two sketches of the robbery. One as he looked and one without the fake facial hair leading to comments on men's facial hair directed at Pete. The officers hear a honking horn which is a woman driving a car with a man captured in the passenger window. He tried to steal her purse and she grabbed him and intended to walk him to the nearest police station: four miles away. Another pair of officers arrest the jewelry store robber during a traffic stop and Pete shaves his mustache after trouble trimming it.
Episode 8
Training Division: The Rookie
Wed, Nov 7, 197325 mins
The opening scene shows a traffic stop of two suspected armed robbers gone tragically wrong; pull back to see that it is actually a training exercise at the police academy. Later, one of the rookie officers who was at the demonstration - Officer George Barrett - bungles the arrest of an elderly man suspected of robbing the bank. Malloy and Wells are upset with Barrett for his reluctance to go through the proper procedures in arresting the man, even though he appeared harmless (the suspect did not display a weapon and merely presented a note requesting $1 million). Later, Mac, Malloy and Reed talk about what happened, with Mac noting that this is another in a growing series of Barrett's serious mistakes and that he seems unwilling to learn or take good advice. Later, the officers are called to a grocery store, where a madman has planted an explosive device inside a cereal box, and the bomb will detonate within the hour. The officers eventually corner the suspect, who holds another man at gunpoint. Tracking the suspect and hostage into a storeroom and disabling the suspect, Reed (who noticed that the suspect wasn't paying attention to his prisoner) orders Barrett to arrest the hostage, but Barrett hesitates to do so. Malloy completes the arrest before the "hostage" can do anything. In the closing tag, Mac informs Reed and Malloy that "Barrett's through" (i.e., the process to fire him for his repeated mistakes has been started). He then reiterates the purpose of probation: a proving period to determine whether a new officer will perform well under pressure and has the skills needed to be a good policeman.
Episode 9
Capture
Wed, Nov 14, 197325 mins
At roll call Mac tells the men that Reno West is making the division look bad due to the high cost of thefts in their area. They take a call from a visiting practical nurse where the 70 year old diabetic has passed out and is being protected by a Doberman. Malloy traps the dog in a room with a long board he uses to close the door to the room via a window. They spot Reno West at a gas station and stop to talk to him. He is riding with a female friend in her car and for a change he is brusque with the officers about the police watching him. A theft report is made by a man who had an expensive Chinese jade statue stolen. A call about a domestic disturbance results in the arrest of the husband on an outstanding warrant. The wife claims he abuses her but she appears to be the real abuser. They pick up a burglary attempt in progress and notice the car owned by Reno's friend out front with changed plates. When Officer Wells drives into the middle of the investigation alerting the burglar, Malloy recognizes a possible decoy maneuver and catches Reno West.
Episode 10
Hollywood Division
Wed, Nov 21, 197325 mins
A new dispatcher with a sexy voice has Pete's interest. A hit and run accident has a little girl seriously injured, however, her brother caught the license of the car that hit her. A synagogue reports a typewriter with a Hebrew typeface and money stolen. The third call is a drunk woman sitting on a lawn. They take her to her daughter's nearby house but the daughter refuses to deal with her. During a stop for a meal at TJ's lunch wagon, he tells them he heard a man make threats about being fired as a painter at a studio. When they arrive at the studio, gunshots are heard and they find two painters have been shot. They work with SWAT to rescue one painter and capture the sniper. At the end of the shift they meet the dispatcher but to Pete's dismay, she is married to the SWAT lieutenant.
Episode 11
Northwest Division
Wed, Dec 5, 197325 mins
Reed's scout friend with a merit badge in electronics comes in to pick up Reed's TV to repair it but unexpectedly takes it apart at the station. The other officers are skeptical he can repair it. On patrol they receive a call about motorcycle racing on the streets. It is a juvenile on a souped up minibike who forces them to pursue him. He is living with an aunt after his parents were killed and has no friends. A neighbor calls and reports he overheard his neighbors arguing and saw the wife digging in her backyard the night before and the husband is now missing. The woman is raising chickens in the house and one named after her husband who has left died and she buried the chicken. A radio call reports a tall blonde woman with a big purse held up a store. Reed spots her at a bus stop minus wig and high-heeled shoes. Picketing at a store is resolved when the lead picketer learns she met the store manager on a computer date the previous night. He said he was a test pilot and she stalks off ending the issue. Malloy and Reed take a report on a robbery at a restaurant where two men were shot. They quickly recognize that the people making the report are the actual robbers. Reed's TV is fixed but the scout had to call a TV repairman for some minor help.
Episode 12
If the Shoe Fits
Wed, Dec 12, 197325 mins
While his old shoes are being repaired, Reed is wearing a new pair which squeak and drive Malloy crazy. A neighbor reports a break-in but it is the owner breaking up his furniture due to his wife leaving him and the country. A near accident causes them to pull over a van for no brake lights and the driver is very anti-police. Mac sends them to a demolition site where a young boy with bad eyesight has hidden. Malloy is hoisted by crane to pluck down the boy frozen on a beam. While the officers stop at the shoe repair store to retrieve Reed's shoes, Reed notices a bank robbery going down across the street. After a couple of shots followed by a hostage situation, Malloy provides the robbers a car but the doors are locked.
Episode 13
Southwest Division
Wed, Dec 19, 197325 mins
As patrol begins, Malloy and Reed take a call about a disturbance in a park. An artist is being accosted by an elderly woman who believes one of his paintings is indecent. She eventually leaves, but Malloy decides to buy the painting after realizing the artist needs a new permit to sell in the park, and is short on money. While patrolling, they notice a fight in front of a store. A man is trying to retrieve an expensive coin his son put into a nickel toy dispenser, but the store owner thought he was trying to steal the money in it. A woman reports a peeping Tom--a person using a telescope in the neighborhood to look at homes. The officers determine the person is a woman herself, reading meters using a telescope to avoid dogs, etc., and she is a very liberated woman. A call about a disturbance reveals a man trying to widen the door to a house to repossess furniture he sold on a payment plan, but he is despised by the neighborhood. A call about an unsuccessful robbery at a bar reveals an ex-football player drinking and pulling holdups. A second call indicates he has pulled a robbery at the Coliseum where they have a shootout before capturing him.
Episode 14
The Sweet Smell
Wed, Jan 9, 197425 mins
Malloy returns from a Sunday off with Woods fishing. A call at the start of patrol is about an elderly lady with poor memory who frequents a store but says her poltergeist is the one who creates accidents. The owner knows her but cannot reach her daughter to pick her up and pay for damages. The officers take her in but "her poltergeist" spills a large bottle of perfume in the back seat of the squad car. They must put up with the smell for the entire shift despite numerous trips to the garage to see Tony the mechanic. While on patrol they notice a woman who can't speak trying to ask for help. She writes that a man entered the church via a window and they spot a man emptying the safe. Officer Jerry Woods is the backup and identifies the man as the pastor who forgot his id and keys. The pastor is glad to see Gerard and says they have missed him on Sundays. Gerard states he had to work Sundays and Malloy backs him up saying "they were in the same boat yesterday". A kidnapping call turns out to be a man picking up the daughter of a neighbor who is a drunk to take her to her grandmother. A young boy flags them down to report a big boy stole his bike and his friends are chasing him. They patrol the neighborhood until they spot the person being held down by the young boy's friends.
Episode 15
Trouble in the Bank
Tue, Jan 15, 197425 mins
While on patrol, Reed stops into the local bank to pay a loan - and walks right into a bank robbery. Two hardened criminals with nothing to lose learn that Reed is a police officer and decide to take him hostage as a bargaining tool. Malloy and Mac are forced to come up with a drastic way to save Reed's life and foil the criminals.
Episode 16
North Hollywood Division
Tue, Jan 22, 197425 mins
While on patrol, Malloy and Reed hear gunshots fired at a service station followed by a car speeding out of the station. In pursuit, they are able to stop the vehicle and apprehend the driver. He, however, feigns innocence in the shooting. Taking him back to the service station, they find that this situation ends up being somewhat of a victimless crime. Next, they are called to a residential noise complaint, the noise from a lion. Upon their arrival, they find that the "lion" is somewhat harmless, except as a noise issue, and that another tactic instead of a lion may better serve its "owner". They are then called to a domestic dispute, one that only a divorce lawyer can handle. However, the wife, who wants her husband arrested in the meantime, decides to take matters into her own hands, her action which doesn't have quite the effect she was hoping. While on patrol, they encounter a speeding vehicle, the driver of which they learn was involved in an armed robbery at a liquor store. The robber is able to barricade himself inside a garage of a house. Reed comes across a way to get in to apprehend the robber. Through all these calls, what is first and foremost on both Reed and Malloy's mind is what was supposed to be Reed's top secret task for Mac: to write a profile article about Malloy for "Police Beat" magazine to celebrate his tenth anniversary on the job.
Episode 17
Taking It Easy
Tue, Jan 29, 197425 mins
Reed's sprained wrist puts him on office duty while Malloy has a new partner on his first day on the job. Malloy trains the rookie in the basics of the job to make him more effective. Reed is handling miscellaneous questions on the phone and people coming in in person. He receives a call about a bomb threat at the station forcing a search of the entire facility. Officer Brinkman adds excitement by accidentally discharging a shotgun outside - twice. A young man wants to report possible misconduct by an officer while an elderly man brings in a shotgun to leave causing excitement until the officers determine what he is doing. Malloy brings in children abandoned by their mother and must tell the oldest son what has happened. Malloy and his new partner go into pursuit of a car they spot. They lose the car when it turns into the police parking lot and the occupants are arrested.
Episode 18
Krash
Tue, Feb 5, 197425 mins
Malloy returns to duty with a new car. He lets Reed drive it to work. Reed leaves the car parked in the street when they chase a purse snatcher and catch him in a dumpster. On their return they find someone scraped the right front fender. At roll call, they fill Mac in on what happened and he suggests his brother's body shop in Beverly Hills. Reed agrees to pay half but Malloy is worried about the cost. They receive a call from a woman whose drunk boyfriend is playing Indian and shooting arrows. They catch him at a newsstand in a fight. A store is held up and the owner suffers a heart attack in front of his wife as the officers question him. They try CPR but at the hospital he is pronounced dead. The last call is a robbery in progress at a pharmacy. The thief jumps through the window and is chased by the officers. A couple of shots are fired but the man gets away in the back of a pickup. A witness trails the pickup and alerts a motorcycle officer who notifies Malloy and Reed. They are able to take the wounded man in the house. Mac's brother's estimate is high ($120) but says he will do it for the materials costs of $20.
Episode 19
Routine Patrol: The Drug Store Cowboys
Tue, Feb 12, 197425 mins
Much of Malloy and Reed's current on-patrol social chat centers around Malloy's latest date with a flight attendant, and when the Reeds will be able to meet her. Their first call takes them to a bar, where a woman is wielding a gun. When they arrive, they learn that this time is not the first the woman, a regular customer, has pulled the gun before, but why this time is the first the the police have been notified. At their next call, they meet a man who was ambushed in his car by four young men, who stole his car. Malloy and Reed hope to get enough information from the victim, who is more belligerent about police not doing enough to protect him. He is eventually able to provide some information, including that the men were wearing urban cowboy gear and their car was out of state. Malloy has a theory that the perpetrators targeted the victim for what they knew was in his trunk: guns. Not before the perpetrators are able to strike again, this time armed, Malloy and Reed are able to follow more evidence, including the fact the the perpetrators seem to be more concerned with themselves than being smart. They decide to play a hunch to see if it will lead to finding the men before they actually use the guns to kill. One other call they attend to is the electrocution death of a man in his bathtub. The ambulance driver on the scene believes that the victim's grieving widow knows more than she lets on.
Episode 20
Sunburn
Tue, Feb 19, 197425 mins
After a weekend break during an Indian summer, Reed returns to work with a problem: he has a sunburn, even on the tops of his feet, as he fell asleep outside. While Reed, who decides to do regular patrol rather than request desk duty, does whatever he can to avoid sun exposure, Malloy, being the good partner that he is, tries to accommodate Reed whenever he can without compromising their work. While on patrol, they are alerted to a fender bender where one of the vehicles is on fire. They are most concerned with the personal safety of the two drivers involved, one who is unconscious behind the wheel. After their lunch break which Reed uses to recuperate from the burn, they pull over a driver whose turn cut off a pedestrian in a crosswalk. The discussion with the driver doesn't do Reed any good with regard to forgetting about his burn. Next, they are clandestinely flagged down by Charlie, one of their snitches, who tells them about what he believes is excessive drug use in an abandoned house, which leads them to believe there is a drug dealer in the neighborhood. Charlie keeping his ears and eyes open may provide information about where the dealer is located. They are then notified about a jewelry store hold-up, where the perpetrator got away but whose getaway vehicle was identified. They and the other patrol units go looking for that car. And while patrolling through the park, they are flagged down by a woman who tells them of a capsized boat in the lake. She believes there were two boys aboard who have not surfaced. Beyond the seriousness of the situation, Reed takes the opportunity to assist in his own burn situation by being the one to go swimming for the boys.
Episode 21
Skywatch: Part 1
Tue, Feb 26, 197425 mins
On Reed's suggestion, Mac arranges for him and Malloy to spend a few days on air patrol so that they can get a feel for what air patrol can or cannot do in assisting ground patrol. If this pilot test is successful, other ground units may also take shifts up in the air, much to some officers' chagrin. Upon their arrival at the helicopter station, they learn that they will be in the air with an old ground patrol friend, Officer Lou Walters, and Officer Chet Mills. Their first call is a heist at a wholesale jewelers located in a high rise complex downtown, the perpetrators still somewhere in the building. Malloy wonders if they can not only patrol the exterior of the building, such as the roof, but also do visual checks in windows. He soon gets his answer. They are then asked to assist in a ground patrol call in an apparent homicide, where the perpetrator left the scene in an identified vehicle. Air patrol takes up the search for that car, based partly on some past information Malloy is able to provide. Just as they land for their meal break, they are called back up into the air, this time in two 'copters, to pursue a stolen light plane that almost collided mid air with an incoming Boeing 727 at Burbank Airport. However, before the two units can pursue the stolen plane, they first have to locate the stolen plane, with only the vector from air traffic control providing a general direction. The rest has to be done visually.
Episode 22
Skywatch: Part 2
Tue, Mar 5, 197425 mins
Continuing with their air patrol shift, Reed with Mills and Malloy with Walters, they are still pursuing the light plane that was stolen from Burbank Airport. They have to coerce the pilot, who had a few drinks prior to stealing the plane and is suicidal over a failing long term marriage, to land the plane safely without injuring anyone. Next, the two air units pursue two different vehicles that were involved in a robbery. Malloy and Reed learn that more than one 'copter per pursuit may cause problems. On what is supposed to be their second and final air shift, Malloy is called back to ground patrol leaving Reed to cover the air, this time with Walters. Late into that shift in the evening, Reed and Walters can smell a fire, which they have to locate. They can use their position in the air for mass evacuation purposes if the fire gets out of hand. By the end of the shift, Reed will have a lengthy report of what measures can be taken to improve not only cooperation between air and ground, but also to assist air in doing their own job more effectively.
Episode 23
L.A. International
Tue, Mar 12, 197425 mins
The officers along with Officer Woods are filling in at LAX Airport for officers on vacation. Since their last duty there, the airport has added closed circuit TV allowing them to see a burglary in the parking lot and giving them time to stop and arrest the burglars as they leave the airport. While on patrol they see two men argue over a suitcase. When it is opened, they find a large amount of drugs. A fight between a man in an Army uniform and a civilian is a con man who stole money from the soldier and it happened to be Japanese Yen. A beautiful ticketing clerk who has Malloy's interest points out a man buying tickets using a different name than the previous week. A chase ensues and the man is part of a pair who steal new cards at the Post Office and buy tickets with them. Last job is to escort a runaway back to security until his mother arrives. A silent alarm indicates a parking toll gate being robbed. The officers pursue the man and catch him in a van with the driver as a hostage. At the end Malloy is invited by the clerk to join her for dinner at the credit card company's expense. Reed is invited but Malloy convinces Reed he doesn't want to attend - at the price of a week's lunches.
Episode 24
A Clinic on 18th Street
Tue, Mar 19, 197425 mins
When an old man wearing a strange-looking belt is found dead of natural causes, fraud is suspected and the case is turned over to major frauds division. Investigation leads to a Dr. Gantman, whose useless treatment of a blind seven-year-old girl with a pituitary tumor is preventing its timely surgical removal. A break comes when a television repairman, who makes "electro-charged oscillator belts" for the doctor, is arrested for bookmaking and is willing to testify against him. The bookie isn't needed after a courtroom demonstration by the doctor, and participation by the prosecution, results in the doctor's undoing.
