A nice variety of situations in this episode. Malloy and Reed cruise all over Los Angeles looking for bad guys and bad girls. Well, supposedly they always stay in their usual patrol area within the Central Division. Although sometimes it seems their patrol is within the Rampart Division.
Whichever Division it actually is, it apparently includes the Van Nuys Airport. M & R haul it out there because somebody has stolen a single engine airplane. Convienently for the Officers and for the guy who owns the plane, the thief, who is drunk mind you, decides to just circle the airport and come back for a landing. That was very nice of him. He could have headed for Hawaii. We get to see a very old fire engine. Old even by 1960's standards. There's also some fun camera shots here as well. Following alongside the plane as it comes in for a landing, and then too, following the fire truck and Adam-12 as the two vehicles drive back and forth along the runway. An interesting happenstance - during one of the shots of the plane landing, facing away from camera, a huge tree can be seen traveling down the roadway in the far distance. It's being hauled by a truck. Just a weird oddity, is all.
Also in the mix is a search for a missing teenage girl. This brings Malloy and Reed to a rundown, seedier side of town. We get to meet a nasty hippie who is harboring his 17 year old "fiance". It doesn't take long for him to turn on her. Darn hippies.
Then there's a silent alarm at a small market. I myself was fooled for a moment as Malloy sees the "store clerk" counting the cash that apparently wasn't stolen by the bad guy(s). That clerk gives Malloy a cherry wave hello and then a bullet or two from his gun. Well, wasn't that a surprise! Moments later, Malloy really "mops up" the two bad guys.
A highlight of the episode is a nice view we're given of a beautiful Blue Lincoln Continental with a White Convertible top. An absolute classic. The Connie seems to belong to a businessman who for some reason keeps a huge safe right smack in the front window of his shop. He also keeps Ten Thousand Dollars in it as well as some Dynamite. Those are quite a few oddities there. Keeping the safe right in the front window seems like an open invitation to any potential thieves who might wander by. As it happens, some thieves have apparently wandered by and have managed to steal the safe.
Later, our two heroes get to help out a couple of detectives who have tracked down the safe robbers. Reed gets to aim a spotlight and Malloy gets to aim a shotgun. Reed ends up with a destroyed spotlight. Malloy ends up facing a Police Board inquirery when he uses the shotgun to put a hole through one of the bad guys. The bad guy did shoot first though.
A good episode with lots of different calls and situations for the partners to deal with.
Whichever Division it actually is, it apparently includes the Van Nuys Airport. M & R haul it out there because somebody has stolen a single engine airplane. Convienently for the Officers and for the guy who owns the plane, the thief, who is drunk mind you, decides to just circle the airport and come back for a landing. That was very nice of him. He could have headed for Hawaii. We get to see a very old fire engine. Old even by 1960's standards. There's also some fun camera shots here as well. Following alongside the plane as it comes in for a landing, and then too, following the fire truck and Adam-12 as the two vehicles drive back and forth along the runway. An interesting happenstance - during one of the shots of the plane landing, facing away from camera, a huge tree can be seen traveling down the roadway in the far distance. It's being hauled by a truck. Just a weird oddity, is all.
Also in the mix is a search for a missing teenage girl. This brings Malloy and Reed to a rundown, seedier side of town. We get to meet a nasty hippie who is harboring his 17 year old "fiance". It doesn't take long for him to turn on her. Darn hippies.
Then there's a silent alarm at a small market. I myself was fooled for a moment as Malloy sees the "store clerk" counting the cash that apparently wasn't stolen by the bad guy(s). That clerk gives Malloy a cherry wave hello and then a bullet or two from his gun. Well, wasn't that a surprise! Moments later, Malloy really "mops up" the two bad guys.
A highlight of the episode is a nice view we're given of a beautiful Blue Lincoln Continental with a White Convertible top. An absolute classic. The Connie seems to belong to a businessman who for some reason keeps a huge safe right smack in the front window of his shop. He also keeps Ten Thousand Dollars in it as well as some Dynamite. Those are quite a few oddities there. Keeping the safe right in the front window seems like an open invitation to any potential thieves who might wander by. As it happens, some thieves have apparently wandered by and have managed to steal the safe.
Later, our two heroes get to help out a couple of detectives who have tracked down the safe robbers. Reed gets to aim a spotlight and Malloy gets to aim a shotgun. Reed ends up with a destroyed spotlight. Malloy ends up facing a Police Board inquirery when he uses the shotgun to put a hole through one of the bad guys. The bad guy did shoot first though.
A good episode with lots of different calls and situations for the partners to deal with.
