Adam-12 Season 6

Adam-12 Season 6 :
This is a list of episodes from the sixth season of Adam-12.

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 1

Episode 1 - [Harbor Division]
Details : Malloy has to sell two ballet tickets after his date cancels on him and gets needled by the squad. The officers are patrolling the Harbor Division and handle calls for a boat owner overcharged for fuel by a dealer pull over a driver with a suspicious box on top of his car investigate a suspicious young couple pull over an astrologer for reckless driving and a drunk shooting from the crows nest of a ship.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Dennis Donnelly |
Air Date : Sep. 12, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 2

Episode 2 - [Rampart Division]
Details : Malloy and Reed patrol an area of Los Angeles inhabited by a large retirement population. Calls include a purse snatching during which the suspect eluded capture but was later found during routine patrol a retired policeman turned security guard named George who wants to talk shop an elderly man with multiple warrants for auto theft trying to break into a car in a church parking lot a dispute between and elderly woman and man over her eviction and his offer to take her in then arrest the woman when she begins smashing a car with a baseball bat handle another dispute over $5 prevent a baby stroller from rolling into a lake and a robbery during which George assisted in the capture of the suspects then laments to the officers about being lonely due to all of his friends passing on.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Lawrence Doheny |
Air Date : Sep. 19, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 3

Episode 3 - [Foothill Division]
Details : Sgt. MacDonald reported his camper was broken into with three fishing rods and a pair of custom-made cowboy boots missing and offers two free steak dinners for their return. The officers come across another man with the same one of a kind boots that Mac lost. Cases include Malloy Reed and Mac riding horseback to locate three suspects in a break-in at a stable later the station is under sniper fire Malloy Reed and Air Ten assist in capturing the sniper and Officer Wells (showing his rarely-seen compassionate side) takes up a collection for a couple and their cancer-stricken daughter to get to San Francisco later Wells finds out he's been had as the couple were well-known con artists with a long rap sheet.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Christian I. Nyby II |
Air Date : Sep. 26, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 4

Episode 4 - [West Valley Division]
Details : Malloy and Reed notice an attractive woman walking her scottie when they get a call from Air Ten to assist with a motorcyclist who is also a potential firebug. They track the young man to his mother's house and the officers warn him about the pitfalls of arson. While the woman continues to walk her dog the officers investigate a robbery at a movie theater where the manager and ticket taker are tied up; she lets them know a man on a gray motorcycle committed the crime Malloy and Reed stop a gray motorcycle but the rider is a woman they locate another motorcycle and catch the suspect after pursuit and the motorcycle crashing. The officers respond to another robbery at a department store where the security guard was shot and provides a dying declaration of who shot him then Air Ten locates a possible suspect vehicle; the pursuit ends with two people just wanting to experience the thrill of a police chase. The Scottie dog is found tied up and the officers discover the woman is in reality a fur thief and is arrested.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Christian I. Nyby II |
Air Date : Oct. 03, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 5

Episode 5 - [Venice Division]
Details : The officers investigate a woman nude sunbathing on the beach with her agent begging for her arrest later Reed arrests a man trying to steal coins from a phone booth assist a motorcycle policeman in catching a dune buggy thief a leotard-wearing woman who fears for her life after receiving obscene phone calls later is attacked by the caller and the officers locate and arrest him a wino that dies after eating dinner and a low-speed pursuit of a jack-o-lantern.
Guest Cast and Crew : Edy Williams | Director : Lawrence Doheny |
Air Date : Oct. 10, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 6

Episode 6 - [Hot Shot]
Details : The officers pull over a car on a traffic violation and find the driver is Reno West a cat burglar Malloy sent to prison four years previous and Malloy is suspicious that West will resume his career as he is found later at the library looking up likely articles to steal while investigating stolen books. Other cases include removal of an abandoned car a robbery which turns to murder as the shopowner is killed the suspect is chased into a tunnel where Reed is forced to kill him after a standoff and a hostage situation involving a distraught man and his daughter; the officers are able to end the situation peaceably despite the man having a bead on Reed with his gun.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Christian I. Nyby II |
Air Date : Oct. 24, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 7

Episode 7 - [Van Nuys Division]
Details : Malloy returns from vacation sporting a mustache prompting chuckles and guffaws from the squad. The officers then assist Air Ten in an airplane operated by a drunk pilot which crash-landed and the police have to get the pilot out before he lights a cigarette which would have ignited the leaking gas coming from the plane and rescue the pilot's son who required CPR. Reno West is suspected in the theft of some stamps from a mansion a witness provides excellent descriptions of suspects involved in a jewelry store robbery who is apprehended during a routine traffic stop and a woman taking an alleged purse snatcher to the police station in her car rather than walk four miles to do so. Malloy shaves off the mustache when he has trouble trimming it.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Dennis Donnelly |
Air Date : Oct. 31, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 8

Episode 8 - [Training Division]
Details : A rookie cop with a know-it-all attitude Officer Barrett presents problems for the officers on the force including Officer Wells Malloy and Reed. At the start of the episode -- after an academy demonstration of an arrest gone tragically wrong -- Barrett bungles the arrest of an elderly man suspected of holding up a bank. Officers Malloy and Wells verbally reprimand Barrett (who has apparently made similar mistakes before) about his latest mistakes even though the old gent did not display a weapon (he simply presented a note to a teller requesting $1 million) and had a few screws loose. Near the end of the show the officers must deal with a bomber who has planted an explosive device inside a cereal box at a local grocery store with the bomb set to go off within the hour. After the officers corner the suspect (who holds another man at gunpoint) Barrett chokes when Reed orders the hot-dog rookie to arrest the suspect; Malloy eventually takes the man into custody. In the wrap-up
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Kenneth Johnson | Writer : Michael Donovan |
Air Date : Nov. 07, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 9

Episode 9 - [Capture]
Details : Reno West's burglary reign continues and the Captain orders it stopped at all costs. Malloy and Reed find the veteran burglar at a gas station with a female companion and West is not too happy to see the police following him. Later West's friend's car is spotted at the scene of another burglary and despite Officer Wells blowing the stakeout Malloy re-captures his old nemesis. Other cases include having to divert a vicious guard dog so the officers can save a 70 year old man in a diabetic coma investigate a theft of a rare jade statue from a mansion and a domestic dispute between a couple where it appears the wife is the abuser.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Lawrence Doheny |
Air Date : Nov. 14, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 10

Episode 10 - [Hollywood Division]
Details : Malloy really likes the voice of the new dispatcher but when he meets her in person is dismayed to find she is married to the SWAT lieutenant. Cases handled include a hit-and-run which seriously injured a young girl a synagogue who had their Hebrew-based typewriter and money stolen a drunk woman sitting on a lawn who is spurned by her daughter when the officers take the drunk there and while visiting T.J.'s wagon T.J. clues them in on a disgruntled former painter who is planning revenge and when the officers arrive at the studio shots are fired two painters are injured; the SWAT team is brought in to rescue another painter and capture the shooter.
Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Donner | Director : Dennis Donnelly |
Air Date : Nov. 21, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 11

Episode 11 - [Northeast Division]
Details : Reed needs his TV repaired and brings in his Boy Scout neighbor with a merit badge in electronics to work on it but takes the entire TV apart and the squad is skeptical he can put it back together again. He does fix it--with a little help from a TV repairman. Cases involve pursuing a juvenile on a souped-up minibike only to find he lives with his aunt after being orphaned and has no friends a woman whom a neighbor thought had killed her husband after overhearing an argument and the woman digging in the backyard only to find she was burying a dead chicken; a robbery committed by a long haired woman in high heels whom Reed spots at a bus stop with shorter hair and no heels; a picket line at a store resolved when the lead picketer found out she went on a computer date with the store manager and he lied about his occupation; and a report made on a robbery turned out to be made by the actual robbers.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Dennis Donnelly |
Air Date : Dec. 05, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 12

Episode 12 - [If The Shoe Fits]
Details : Reed's shoes are being fixed and the replacements have a squeak that drives Malloy crazy. When he later returns to the shop to pick the shoes up he notices a bank robbery which turns into a hostage situation. Malloy gives in by providing a car--with the doors locked and the robbers are apprehended. Other cases include a BAndE that was actually a husband destroying his furniture due to his wife leaving him and the country a van pulled over for no brake lights and a driver with a negative attitude towards police and Sgt. MacDonald sends the officers to a demolition site where a visually-impaired boy is hiding out. Malloy takes a crane to pluck the boy out of danger.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jim Carlson | Director : Lawrence Doheny |
Air Date : Dec. 12, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 13

Episode 13 - [Southwest Division]
Details : Responding to a dispute in a park an elderly woman tries to stop a painter from selling a painting that she considers indecent. To resolve the issue (due to the seller needing a new permit and being short on money) Malloy buys the painting in question. Other calls include a man trying to retrieve a valuable nickel from a toy dispenser his son put in inadverently (and making the shop owner think he was trying to steal all the money); a potential peeping tom who is actually a liberated woman using a telescope to check meters to avoid dogs a repo man trying to widen a door in a house he is trying to repossess furniture from and an ex-football star who turned to robbery is captured in the very location he made his name--the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Dennis Donnelly |
Air Date : Dec. 19, 1973

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 14

Episode 14 - [The Sweet Smell]
Details : Malloy and Officer Woods return from a day of fishing and the car smells like fish...which is aggravated when a disoriented woman who caused a lot of damage to a shop is put into 1-Adam-12 and she spills perfume in the back seat; she blames both her accidents in the shop and in the car on her poltergeist. Numerous trips to the police garage fail to get the smells out. Other incidents include a mute woman informing the officers someone had broken into a church and investigation shows the pastor got into the church because he forgot his keys and ID and Woods (backing up Malloy and Reed) has to explain why he's missed church services a kidnapping call that turns out to be a man picking up a drunk woman to take her home and a boy whose bike was stolen by a big boy and was recovered when the boy's friends caught and held the big boy until the police arrived.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jim Carlson | Director : Dennis Donnelly |
Air Date : Jan. 09, 1974

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 15

Episode 15 - [Trouble In The Bank]
Details : On patrol Reed stops at his bank to do some personal banking and walks into an armed robbery in progress. The two robbers are experienced and take steps to make sure other officers won't storm the bank. A suggestion by Malloy allows the suspects what they want: a getaway car with the provision that the robbers let all hostages go except Reed. Malloy hides in getaway car's trunk with a portable radio to advise fellow officers of his position. The suspects drive to a remote location to switch to another vehicle. Thinking that they had accomplished in getting away unnoticed the suspects order Reed out of the car with the intention of killing him. Malloy calls Mac advising he has to act and kills one gunman while the other gives up saving Reed's life.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Dennis Donnelly |
Air Date : Jan. 15, 1974

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 16

Episode 16 - [North Hollywood Division]
Details : Reed is assigned to write an article about Malloy for Police Beat magazine for his partner's 10th anniversary in the LAPD and is having trouble with the content. Calls include a gas station robbery with an unusual outcome a domestic dispute involving a barking poodle a woman tries to get her husband arrested and the plan backfires and a pursuit with a liquor store robber ends with the suspect barricading himself in a garage.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Leonard B. Kaufman | Director : Lawrence Doheny |
Air Date : Jan. 22, 1974

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 17

Episode 17 - [Taking It Easy]
Details : Reed is suffering from a wrist injury which puts him on desk duty while Malloy has to break in a new rookie partner. Reed's day is far from routine as he has to handle a bomb threat that results in the evacuation of the station and Officer Brinkman accidentally discharges his shotgun twice outside the station adding more tension a young man wants to report misconduct by a police officer an elderly man brings a shotgun into the station to drop off Malloy brings in a group of children abandoned by their mother and Malloy and his partner pursue a car into the police parking lot where the suspects are arrested.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Robert Schlitt | Director : Dennis Donnelly |
Air Date : Jan. 29, 1974

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 18

Episode 18 - [Krash]
Details : Malloy gets a new car and Reed gets to drive it but the car is damaged while the officers chase and capture a purse snatcher. Sgt. MacDonald refers Malloy to his brother's autobody shop for repairs with Malloy concerned about the cost (which turned out to be $20)--despite Reed's offer of covering 1 2 the price. Calls include a drunk man shooting arrows a shop is held up and the shop owner suffers a heart attack and dies while the officers question him and a robbery at a pharmacy where the suspect gets away in the back of a truck which is tracked by a motorcycle officer and alerts Malloy and Reed who apprehend the suspect.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Lawrence Doheny |
Air Date : Feb. 05, 1974

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 19

Episode 19 - [Routine Patrol]
Details : Adam-12 on a typical patrol day.
Air Date : Feb. 12, 1974

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 20

Episode 20 - [Sunburn]
Details : Patrol begins with a drunk woman threatening a group of bar patrons with a gun investigate the death of a mentally-impaired man which looks suspicious and a group of carjackers who capture a cache of guns and go on a robbery spree.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Hollingsworth Morse |
Air Date : Feb. 18, 1974

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 21

Episode 21 - [Skywatch Part 1]
Details : Reed returns from an off-day with a uncomfortable full-body sunburn which causes him problems throughout the watch. Calls include responding to a traffic accident acting on a tip from an informant the officers bust a drug dealer working out of abandoned homes search for a robbery suspect based on a vehicle description and assist in the rescue of two boys when their boat capsizes.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Dennis Donnelly |
Air Date : Feb. 25, 1974

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 22

Episode 22 - [Skywatch Part 2]
Details : Malloy and Reed are chosen to ride in Air-70 to observe how the LAPD's air patrol works. The chopper's cases include searching for two robbery suspects inside a high-rise building and tracking an escaping murder suspect.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Dennis Donnelly |
Air Date : Mar. 04, 1974

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 23

Episode 23 - [L aInternational]
Details : Malloy and Reed take to separate helicopter units to continue their observations. The choppers assist in a stolen light plane from LAX by a distraught man track two robbery suspects fleeing in separate cars and assist in a nighttime house fire.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Dennis Donnelly |
Air Date : Mar. 12, 1974

Adam-12 Season 6 Episode 24

Episode 24 - [Clinic On 18th Street]
Details : 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
Air Date : Mar. 19, 1974