Adam-12 is an American television drama which originally aired from September 21, 1968 to August 30, 1975 on NBC for 175 episodes. The show was produced by Jack Webb, who also was behind Dragnet and Emergency!. The series was nominally considered a spin-off of Webb's Dragnet 1967, and the Reed and Malloy characters appeared on episodes of the parent program.

Premise

The program followed the daily activities of a pair of Los Angeles police officers -- seven year veteran officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) -- and to a lesser extent Sergeant William "Mac" MacDonald (William Boyett). The episodes were based on true incidents culled from LAPD case files.