Right at the start, Adam-12 teaches viewers some ways to keep their homes safe from burglars. Install dead-bolt locks, use broomsticks to keep sliding glass doors from sliding by force and keep your hedges trimmed. Burglars love hedges as they block the view from the street.
Malloy and Reed are in the house of a citizen who has requested a home safety check as offered at a police/community meeting. When the woman's young son arrives home, she wants M & R to give the boy's bedroom a once over. Upon opening the bedroom door, the partners are greeted by a large poster of a pig in a policeman's uniform. As the episode proceeds and we get to know this boy a bit better, we learn that he's really into keeping his community safe and even may want to be a Police Officer when he grows up. He even knows some official police codes. (Or at least, he thinks he does - funny moment!) All this adds up to a kid who respects police. So why would he have that pig-cop poster? Doesn't make sense, but it does make for a good mini-cliffhanger leading into a commercial break. This is a small nit-pick of a sort of "forced moment" of the script for an otherwise good episode.
The partners, along with motorcycle cop Officer Grant get to do some investigating and plain clothes undercover work. There's some humour to be had in that Grant's personal clothes aren't very plain! It's nice to see the Grant character getting a bit of expansion here. More to do than how the character has usually been presented.
When dealing with a case of Fraud regarding car accidents, viewers see the results of a Ford t-boning a big Chevy. The Chevy used in the scene has way too much damage to it. The scene is set as if the Ford hit the Chevy's passenger side, but the Chevy has major front end damage and it's roof is even caved-in. Just another minor nit-pick. The production used whatever damaged cars they could get. The actress who plays the fraudulent witness is very good. First, her character is all peaches, cream and cute, cuddlely kittens. Later, she's a venomous, snarling witch. Wonderful!
And here's another nit-pick: During the undercover plain clothes assignment, Malloy eventually gets into a foot chase, going after a burglar who has been spotted. At one point, we see Malloy running away from the camera and jumping over a short gate. Martin Milner is replaced by a stuntman for this. The stuntman is nothing whatsoever close to being the same body-type as Martin Milner. I mean, they didn't even try.
There's a lesson provided for business owners in this episode as well. If your business has a small parking lot for your customers, you need to put up signs saying non-customers can't park there. No such signs, the police can't write tickets. Put up those signs, the police will be thrilled to nail each and every lousy, rotten, non-customer car that is parked there illegally. Good to know!
Malloy and Reed are in the house of a citizen who has requested a home safety check as offered at a police/community meeting. When the woman's young son arrives home, she wants M & R to give the boy's bedroom a once over. Upon opening the bedroom door, the partners are greeted by a large poster of a pig in a policeman's uniform. As the episode proceeds and we get to know this boy a bit better, we learn that he's really into keeping his community safe and even may want to be a Police Officer when he grows up. He even knows some official police codes. (Or at least, he thinks he does - funny moment!) All this adds up to a kid who respects police. So why would he have that pig-cop poster? Doesn't make sense, but it does make for a good mini-cliffhanger leading into a commercial break. This is a small nit-pick of a sort of "forced moment" of the script for an otherwise good episode.
The partners, along with motorcycle cop Officer Grant get to do some investigating and plain clothes undercover work. There's some humour to be had in that Grant's personal clothes aren't very plain! It's nice to see the Grant character getting a bit of expansion here. More to do than how the character has usually been presented.
When dealing with a case of Fraud regarding car accidents, viewers see the results of a Ford t-boning a big Chevy. The Chevy used in the scene has way too much damage to it. The scene is set as if the Ford hit the Chevy's passenger side, but the Chevy has major front end damage and it's roof is even caved-in. Just another minor nit-pick. The production used whatever damaged cars they could get. The actress who plays the fraudulent witness is very good. First, her character is all peaches, cream and cute, cuddlely kittens. Later, she's a venomous, snarling witch. Wonderful!
And here's another nit-pick: During the undercover plain clothes assignment, Malloy eventually gets into a foot chase, going after a burglar who has been spotted. At one point, we see Malloy running away from the camera and jumping over a short gate. Martin Milner is replaced by a stuntman for this. The stuntman is nothing whatsoever close to being the same body-type as Martin Milner. I mean, they didn't even try.
There's a lesson provided for business owners in this episode as well. If your business has a small parking lot for your customers, you need to put up signs saying non-customers can't park there. No such signs, the police can't write tickets. Put up those signs, the police will be thrilled to nail each and every lousy, rotten, non-customer car that is parked there illegally. Good to know!