Reed is all giddy about having met the Chief of Police at a sit-down with other probationary Officers. He goes on and on about it as if it had been Mickey Mantle that he had met and had gotten to play a game of catch with him. Reed's chattering on annoys Malloy, but he puts up with it. Soon, Dispatch sends them on a call which Malloy takes great appreciation of as it shuts up Reed.
The partners tend to a young woman whose car has been stolen. She knows that it's a 1958 Ford, that it's ivory in color, that it's a convertible and that she needs the Officers to have it back to her by six o'clock that evening. She has a date. Viewers learn that it's a good idea to know your car's license plate number. Knowing it will come in handy if the car is ever stolen. Oh, and don't keep the car's Pink Slip (or Title) in the car. Keep it in your home with your other important papers.
This is a cute scene, with Malloy growing more and more exasperated with the dingbat young woman. While Reed goes to her kitchen to use her phone to call into the Station regarding the stolen vehicle, Malloy continues trying to get some pertinent information out of the woman. Oddly, when he learns that she routinely takes her car to the same mechanic's garage, Malloy simply states that maybe the workers there have placed a business sticker on the car. That would be something that police could look for to help identify the car. Malloy doesn't consider that a visit to the garage in question might supply them with a workorder which would possibly have the car's license plate number.
Reed returns from the kitchen and learning the possibility of a mechanic's garage sticker being on the car, announces that he will phone in a supplemental to Dispatch. That's when the girl announces that her pet snake, a Boa Constrictor named Arthur, is still in the stolen car's trunk. At that, Reed says maybe he'll call in TWO supplementals. Not really, but it would have been funny if he had.
M & R then drive off and have a middle-of-the-street rendezvous with Officers Walters and Brinkman in their squad. They all discuss Brinkman's dislike of Boa Constrictors. A little later, Malloy and Reed save a couple of drugged-out dudes from a burning house. The dude that Malloy saved and who had actually been on fire while unconscious, thanks Malloy by telling the Officer that he's nothing more than disgusting "fuzz". You have to believe that things like that most certainly did happen all those 55 years ago from when I write this in 2023. Because they most certainly happen now as well.
There's a very silly segment in which the partners have to deal with feuding neighbors. While the two male neighbors are able to get along with one another - no they can't - yes they can - no they can't, it's actually their wives who can't stand the sight of one another. Reed puts an end to the women's current feud in a rather sexist way. However, that's by 2023 standards.
While Malloy and Reed do check out a couple of ivory (white) 1958 Ford Convertibles, they don't recover Arthur the Boa Constrictor. All they end up finding is a great big bag of marijuana. Whoa. Wait... What?! Malloy discovers the marijuana while conducting a search of a trunk, looking for Arthur. So, would this have been a proper arrest? Would a defense lawyer have torn Malloy's testimony in court to shreds, calling this an improper search, seizure and arrest? Unfortunately, this isn't "Law And Order". This is "Adam-12". So we'll never know. However, this was 1968. And the incidents seen in this episode are true. This unfortunate criminal may still be serving his sentence to this day. (Not really.)
It's revealed in the episode's closing moments that Officers Walters and Brinkman did recover the stolen car as well as Arthur the Boa Constrictor. The previously snake-hating Brinkman even says that Arthur turned out to be a real sweetie.
A fairly good episode. Too bad we never got to actually see Arthur. Maybe Reed could have phoned in a whole bunch more supplementals. Oh, and while that burned-up, drugged-out dude considered Malloy to be nothing but lousy fuzz, at least the dingbat with the stolen car did in fact tell Malloy that he didn't seem like a nut.
The partners tend to a young woman whose car has been stolen. She knows that it's a 1958 Ford, that it's ivory in color, that it's a convertible and that she needs the Officers to have it back to her by six o'clock that evening. She has a date. Viewers learn that it's a good idea to know your car's license plate number. Knowing it will come in handy if the car is ever stolen. Oh, and don't keep the car's Pink Slip (or Title) in the car. Keep it in your home with your other important papers.
This is a cute scene, with Malloy growing more and more exasperated with the dingbat young woman. While Reed goes to her kitchen to use her phone to call into the Station regarding the stolen vehicle, Malloy continues trying to get some pertinent information out of the woman. Oddly, when he learns that she routinely takes her car to the same mechanic's garage, Malloy simply states that maybe the workers there have placed a business sticker on the car. That would be something that police could look for to help identify the car. Malloy doesn't consider that a visit to the garage in question might supply them with a workorder which would possibly have the car's license plate number.
Reed returns from the kitchen and learning the possibility of a mechanic's garage sticker being on the car, announces that he will phone in a supplemental to Dispatch. That's when the girl announces that her pet snake, a Boa Constrictor named Arthur, is still in the stolen car's trunk. At that, Reed says maybe he'll call in TWO supplementals. Not really, but it would have been funny if he had.
M & R then drive off and have a middle-of-the-street rendezvous with Officers Walters and Brinkman in their squad. They all discuss Brinkman's dislike of Boa Constrictors. A little later, Malloy and Reed save a couple of drugged-out dudes from a burning house. The dude that Malloy saved and who had actually been on fire while unconscious, thanks Malloy by telling the Officer that he's nothing more than disgusting "fuzz". You have to believe that things like that most certainly did happen all those 55 years ago from when I write this in 2023. Because they most certainly happen now as well.
There's a very silly segment in which the partners have to deal with feuding neighbors. While the two male neighbors are able to get along with one another - no they can't - yes they can - no they can't, it's actually their wives who can't stand the sight of one another. Reed puts an end to the women's current feud in a rather sexist way. However, that's by 2023 standards.
While Malloy and Reed do check out a couple of ivory (white) 1958 Ford Convertibles, they don't recover Arthur the Boa Constrictor. All they end up finding is a great big bag of marijuana. Whoa. Wait... What?! Malloy discovers the marijuana while conducting a search of a trunk, looking for Arthur. So, would this have been a proper arrest? Would a defense lawyer have torn Malloy's testimony in court to shreds, calling this an improper search, seizure and arrest? Unfortunately, this isn't "Law And Order". This is "Adam-12". So we'll never know. However, this was 1968. And the incidents seen in this episode are true. This unfortunate criminal may still be serving his sentence to this day. (Not really.)
It's revealed in the episode's closing moments that Officers Walters and Brinkman did recover the stolen car as well as Arthur the Boa Constrictor. The previously snake-hating Brinkman even says that Arthur turned out to be a real sweetie.
A fairly good episode. Too bad we never got to actually see Arthur. Maybe Reed could have phoned in a whole bunch more supplementals. Oh, and while that burned-up, drugged-out dude considered Malloy to be nothing but lousy fuzz, at least the dingbat with the stolen car did in fact tell Malloy that he didn't seem like a nut.
