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Best cop show ever. The most realistic you can get without being "Cops". Hill Street was somewhat realistic, more so than Starsky and Hutch. However, it was too melodramatic and soap operatic. Ditto for NYPD Blue. High Incident was cool, but it wasn't afforded an opportunity by the boneheads at Disney to really take off.

I loved this show. I think that the reason why people thought that it was boring was because Jack Webb made the show realistic. He wanted to show the audience excatly what the L.A.P.D. cops had to deal with everyday. Just my two cents worth.

one Adam 12, one Adam 12... respond to report of a negro carrying a tv in white neighborhood. Last seen entering truck marked Sanford and Son Salvage. Good TV show / never jumped!!

Somebody commented that the '73 AMC Matador was the ugliest car ever. Not even close--not even the ugliest squad ever. Take a look at the '92 Chevy Caprice, which looked and performed like a '53 Hudson:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22421801@N00/92044999/

Now that's UGLY.

The '73 and '74 Matadors were actually pretty decent squads--fast (for post-emissions vehicles), good-handling (better if retrofitted with radials) and reliable.

Never jumped. It's perfect!

One of the first "adult shows I can remember watching. I loved it because, well it was cops,and what little kid doesn't like cops. The younger partner took over as a grown boxy when Apollo left Battlestar Galactica.

"One Adam 12...One Adam 12...see the man, 503 Sycamore Street about child with kite stuck in tree."

Totally boring crimes, but I still like to watch it.

Never jumped. I loved this show even though it was real corny. I always liked the way Reed and Malloy handeled everything themsleves. Who needs back-up when Adam-12 is on the job. There was one episode when a cop was shot by a baricaded suspect. They got on the radio and there were extras comming out of the woodworks, but it seems all they got to do was direct traffic while Adam-12 talked the suspect out and rescued the shot officer.

Never jumped! Got a little repetitious, looked a little cheap, but Universal in the 60s & 70s was a tacky place at times. Best 'beat cop' show until Hill Street, NYPD Blues, then High Incident in the 90s.

Never, ever, ever, ever even came close to jumping. If Adam 12 isn't the best cop show ever, it's in the top 3.

As far as I know adam-12 was required watching in police academies to learn how to drive and use the car the right way

When I started noticing that the cruiser's windshield had been removed to cut glare, leaving the wipers sitting well up onto the dashboard.

Every cop show owes this show

no other cars got any calls

Adam-12 never jumped. As the seasons progressed you saw some of the changes in the series such as the vehicles and the uniforms, but the show never made any serious casting or plot blunders that spelled the death knell for it. The only reason it ended in 1975 was that Jack(Webb) saw there was a possible profit in having the show syndicated. It's everything that I wish some modern cop shows could be.