Adam-12
US-Polizeiserie 1968-1975
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In Deutschland wurde diese serie nie ausgestrahlt!Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they rode the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
Created by R. A. Cinader and Jack Webb, also known for creating Dragnet, the series starred Martin Milner and Kent McCord and captured a typical day in the life of a police officer as realistically as possible. The show originally ran from September 21, 1968 through May 20, 1975, and helped introduce police procedures and jargon to the general public in the United States.
Adam-12 was a realistic-style police drama following the lives of two officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, veteran Police Officer III (P-3) Pete Malloy, Badge 744 (Martin Milner) and his rookie partner, probationary Police Officer I (P-1) Jim Reed, Badge 2430 (Kent McCord). Each episode of the series, like those of Dragnet, was based on actual cases with names changed to protect the innocent and covered a variety of incidents that the officers encountered during a shift, from the tragic to the trivial.[9]
In the series' first episode (filmed in September 1967, a year before the pilot was picked up, and directed by Jack Webb), Reed is less than a week out of the prestigious Los Angeles Police Academy, and is eager to begin his career. Three weeks before, Malloy's patrol partner (and friend) had been killed in an attempt to apprehend an armed robbery suspect; Malloy is deeply saddened, to the extent that he plans to resign from the force. On what is to be Malloy's last night on patrol, the watch commander Lieutenant Moore (Art Gilmore) assigns Malloy to take the young, raw, rookie Reed out for his first night on patrol. Moore was Malloy's first training officer 7 years earlier. While Reed shows tremendous potential on his first night on the job, Malloy realizes that his new partner has plenty to learn, and with renewed purpose, the veteran officer decides to stay on the job and guide Reed during his nine-month probationary period. His comment to Reed at the end of their first watch together was: "I couldn't turn you loose on the citizens of Los Angeles, not without a leash."[10]
Reed and Malloy comfort a boy whose sister was the victim of a hit and run driver.
Reed's probationary period is played out during the first and second seasons, after which he is promoted to a full officer. Reed and Malloy remain beat partners. In later seasons, Malloy and Reed began patrolling other beats of Los Angeles, including the L.A. International Airport, the Los Angeles Harbor, the Foothill District, the West Valley area, Venice, Van Nuys, Hollywood, Rampart, and North Hollywood. With Reed having completed his probationary police officer training period and now holding the rank of Police Officer II (P-2), several episodes featured the officers working with other rookie officers, with guest actors playing these one-time characters; some episodes had Reed serving as the training officer, whereas Malloy, having been promoted to the rank of a Senior Lead Officer (P-3+1), who coordinates patrols in many neighborhoods, worked as the acting shift supervisor.[citation needed]
Malloy displays a distinguished expert shooting medal, Reed displays an expert medal.[citation needed]
Malloy and Reed reported to Shift Supervisor (Sergeant 1) William "Mac" MacDonald (William Boyett), who occasionally took a black and white command cruiser (a Plymouth station wagon carrying extra police equipment) with the call sign 1-L-20 into the field. Reed once questioned why Malloy hadn't taken the Sergeant exam, as he would have rated higher than Mac did. Malloy related he preferred working patrol on the street to supervision. Malloy later showed he could supervise when Mac was ill, and Malloy filled in.[citation needed]
Several of their fellow officers were recurring characters; the most frequent were Jerry Woods (Fred Stromsoe), Ed Wells (Gary Crosby), Detective Sgt Jerry Miller (Jack Hogan), and Officer Brinkman (Claude Johnson). Shaaron Claridge, a real-life LAPD dispatcher, was the dispatcher.[citation needed]
Over the course of the series, Sergeant "Mac" MacDonald was promoted to Sergeant 2. Lt Moore was promoted to Captain, and served as the Commanding Officer of the division, apparently replacing Captain Grant (Art Balinger).[citation needed]
The personal lives of Malloy and Reed come up on occasion, and are always tied into their duties. Malloy is a confirmed bachelor who has at least two girlfriends during the course of the series (the last being Judy (Aneta Corsaut), while Reed is married to a woman named Jean (played by several actresses including Kristin Nelson) and later becomes a father.
LocationsAdam-12 featured the year-old LAPD Rampart Division station at 2710 West Temple Street as the setting for the series. However, according to the radio call sign of the unit "1-Adam-12", the patrol area was within the Central Division (Division One), which serves Downtown Los Angeles, rather than Rampart (Division Two). Many of the filming locations were in the San Fernando Valley, and the garage used tow trucks from the North Hollywood Division, close to Universal Studios which co-produced the show with Mark VII. The Temple Street building was closed in 2008, as a newer and larger station now houses the Rampart Division; the old building is being renovated to serve as headquarters for LAPD's Metro Division, an elite reserve unit that includes counterterrorism and SWAT platoons
Darsteller:Police Officer Peter Malloy (Badge 744)................ Martin "Marty" Milner (*28.12.1931)
Police Officer Jim Reed (Badge 2430)....................Kent McCord (* 26.09.1942)
Shift Supervisor Sergeant William MacDonald.........William Boyett (03.01.1927 - 29.12.2004)
Funkstimme des weiblichen LAPD Dispatcher..........Shaaron Claridge (a real life LAPD Dispatcher)
Wiederkehrende Rollen:Watch Commander Lieutenant Moore.....................Art Gilmore (18.03.1912 - 25.09.2010)
(wurde im Verlauf der Serie zum Captain befördert)
Police Officer Jerry Woods.....................................Fred Stromsoe
Police Officer Ed Wells..........................................Gary Crosby
Detective Sgt. Jerry Miller.....................................Jack Hogan
Police Officer Brinkman.........................................Claude Johnson
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Eine sehr ausführliche deutsche Rezension zur Serie könnt ihr hier lesen:http://www.tvforen.de/read.php?3,1405564
