Nobody could do a cop show quite like Jack Webb, and he never did a better one than Adam- 12. I've read they still use some episodes at the LAPD training academy! Adam- 12 was, and still is, unique. It followed approximately the same format as Webb's long-running Dragnet, inasmuch as it strove to be realistic as far as actual police procedures of that day (late 60's and early 70's). The writers used actual case files from the LAPD to build their stories around. But there were some very key differences. For one, it followed the activities of two ordinary, uniformed patrol officers, not dete...
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