When I first watched Adam-12 I was like a lot of young later baby boomers drowning in testosterone. The show was on in the very latest of 60's to early 70's which was just when the hormones almost destroyed my way of thinking.
Still, while I was able to think, I remember thinking the show was mostly being interesting to me then because of many beautiful young girls and women in miniskirts, minidresses, etc., plus fantastic automobiles. And in spite of it being a production from that closeted liberal tight-ass Jack Webb, there were a whole LOT of young girls in very, very short skirts and dresses in the show. Many, many more times than just a societal representation. Jack w ass a 100% bot again conservative. At least in the eyes of the public. It was a complete farce and a huge Hollywood joke. He started in loving the early L. A. Beat scene and never really left it. He never left Jazz, Blues, the whole scene, including all of the imbibing of natures own that came with it for the rest of his life. Just ask Bob Denver. Or Rock Hudson. Or Liberace. Or just about any Palm Springs resident/vacationer for decades. "Will you have some "Tea", Jack? Well of course! As always!"
Now that I'm nearing 70 I guess I still enjoy this episode in particular because of the usual great car chase. They had drifted away from the day to day police work that had made the show popular and gone to implausible, with silly undercover stuff. Here there was at least a great chase ruined by bad editing.
A green car, granted not on screen long enough to get the make or model but obviously some sort of full size Mercury or such (hard to tell, but a full size fastback) is being chased by a very sweet yellow GTO ('70 "Judge" IMHO)) and then by Adam 12 in their Satellite Sebring. But a few moments later we see some the same GTO chasing what looks like the beat up butt end of a late '60's firebird.
Granted I'd loved to have that 'bird in that exact same condition in my garage to Ishtar now. That said. Still I do love the cats you show.
As for the hot young girl in miniskirts and such? I live in a retirement community and all I have to do is to remind myself that all of those hot and sexy young girls in miniskirts are now living in the same neighborhood I am, except now they're all in they're late 60's too.
Still...if their legs are nice...I'm a widower and Platinum Member on Norwegian Cruise Lines?
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