There are a couple of oddities in the early part of this episode. When in pursuit of a blue sedan which peeled away (right in front of Adam-12) from where shots fired were heard at a gas station, Reed fails to mention - via radio to dispatch - the shots fired or the gas station. There might be someone there dying from bullet wounds. In fact dispatch has to respond asking why Adam-12 is pursuing the sedan.
Then, when they get the blue sedan stopped, neither Malloy nor Reed seem to consider that the guy at the wheel of the sedan might have the gun that fired those shots at the gas station. They pretty much nonchalantly stroll over to the car when the driver exits and follows orders. They don't even put handcuffs on the guy immediately when questioning him. The only reason the partners would have to not worry about the presence of a gun in the sedan, is because they read this episode's script. Of course, there is no gun in the car because it was the gas station owner who had the gun and who had fired the shots. Malloy and Reed did not have that information though.
Reed also makes the mistake of volunteering to write an article about Malloy for a Police Magazine. We learn that Malloy was born in Detroit but his family moved to Seattle when little Petey was 9 months old. The magazine article is to celebrate Malloy's 10th anniversary as a Police Officer. It's humorous watching Reed struggling to come up with anything intetesting to include in his article. He's like Opie Taylor (from "The Andy Griffith Show") trying to write a "Most Interesting Person" school assignment about his Paw, Sheriff Andy Taylor. He's too close to the subject to be able to do him justice.
There's a lesson for viewers regarding having knowledge of illegal narcotics in your house. Meaning that if those narcotics belong to a spouse or family member with whom you're having an argument, don't invite the Police into your home and then present them with the revelation of those illegal narcotics. Yes, they will arrest the one who brought the narcotics into the house. But... Surprise! They'll arrest you too! Also for possession of illegal narcotics. You just know that some in the viewing audience of the 1970's wrote that one down.
This episode includes a quick storyline which is one of those instances when you question the truthfulness of the end credit's continuous insistance that "the incident's you have just seen are true". Did a real person set up a loudspeaker in his backyard and play, at high volume, the recorded sounds of a lion's roars? This so as to scare a neighbor's poodle so it would stop it's incessant yapping? Weird.
There is a very believable moment where Malloy stops to help a gorgeous babe whose car horn is blaring uncontrollably. When he approaches the young woman, she turns and leaves, revealing that the car belongs to a Broom-Hilda type female. She comes complete with extra body-fat and an ugly scarf atop her head. It seems that human being Pete Malloy is capable of being rather shallow. Chalk one up for the writers for including this honest insight into the character.
There's more action to be enjoyed with another car chase which ends up with Malloy in a foot chase and Reed behind the wheel of the squad car. This one has an odd ending with the bad guy trying to get away by entering a suburban home's unlocked garage service door. How exactly did this guy think he was going to get away at that point? Thing is, this actually is the sort of thing that many criminals do when chased by police. The suddeness of the situation combined with a criminal's usual inability to rationalize, often leads them to make extremely idiotic decisions like this. You see it all the time on the News... on TV.
Then, when they get the blue sedan stopped, neither Malloy nor Reed seem to consider that the guy at the wheel of the sedan might have the gun that fired those shots at the gas station. They pretty much nonchalantly stroll over to the car when the driver exits and follows orders. They don't even put handcuffs on the guy immediately when questioning him. The only reason the partners would have to not worry about the presence of a gun in the sedan, is because they read this episode's script. Of course, there is no gun in the car because it was the gas station owner who had the gun and who had fired the shots. Malloy and Reed did not have that information though.
Reed also makes the mistake of volunteering to write an article about Malloy for a Police Magazine. We learn that Malloy was born in Detroit but his family moved to Seattle when little Petey was 9 months old. The magazine article is to celebrate Malloy's 10th anniversary as a Police Officer. It's humorous watching Reed struggling to come up with anything intetesting to include in his article. He's like Opie Taylor (from "The Andy Griffith Show") trying to write a "Most Interesting Person" school assignment about his Paw, Sheriff Andy Taylor. He's too close to the subject to be able to do him justice.
There's a lesson for viewers regarding having knowledge of illegal narcotics in your house. Meaning that if those narcotics belong to a spouse or family member with whom you're having an argument, don't invite the Police into your home and then present them with the revelation of those illegal narcotics. Yes, they will arrest the one who brought the narcotics into the house. But... Surprise! They'll arrest you too! Also for possession of illegal narcotics. You just know that some in the viewing audience of the 1970's wrote that one down.
This episode includes a quick storyline which is one of those instances when you question the truthfulness of the end credit's continuous insistance that "the incident's you have just seen are true". Did a real person set up a loudspeaker in his backyard and play, at high volume, the recorded sounds of a lion's roars? This so as to scare a neighbor's poodle so it would stop it's incessant yapping? Weird.
There is a very believable moment where Malloy stops to help a gorgeous babe whose car horn is blaring uncontrollably. When he approaches the young woman, she turns and leaves, revealing that the car belongs to a Broom-Hilda type female. She comes complete with extra body-fat and an ugly scarf atop her head. It seems that human being Pete Malloy is capable of being rather shallow. Chalk one up for the writers for including this honest insight into the character.
There's more action to be enjoyed with another car chase which ends up with Malloy in a foot chase and Reed behind the wheel of the squad car. This one has an odd ending with the bad guy trying to get away by entering a suburban home's unlocked garage service door. How exactly did this guy think he was going to get away at that point? Thing is, this actually is the sort of thing that many criminals do when chased by police. The suddeness of the situation combined with a criminal's usual inability to rationalize, often leads them to make extremely idiotic decisions like this. You see it all the time on the News... on TV.
