Reed and Malloy on the Layout: First new "detectives" in ages . . .

Well........being a huge Adam-12 fan I'd have to hold out on the Matador!!!

But being it's Adam-12 I gotta love it!  I grew up in Los Angles through the 1960's and loved all the LA shows......Dragnet, Emergency.

Cool project as always!

Excellent. One thing we always had a chuckle about, was that they were designated out of "Rampart Division", which should have given them the call 2-Adam-12. (2 designating the division, "A" Adam, designating them as a 2 man patrol car, and 12 their patrol car number. "1" would designate they worked out of "Central".

Loved the show, and it was the last 1/2 hr dramatic series on TV.

Cool, I remember the show well.  Nice display, thanks for posting Lee.

They should be wearing all navy blue uniforms.

When you run out of room on the layout you can put 240 Robert in the air.  

Great addition.

Lee - I had completely forgotten about that show, but it was fun to watch.  Nice job as usual.

 

Art

I see they're handling a situation in the Trailer Park. Is there any likelihood John Gage and Roy Desoto might be showing up in Squad 51 to clean up after the mayhem? 

 

Is that the same trailer park where Jim Rockford lives?

Yeah, but I'm out of Navy blue paint and the officers I bought were . . . . well you know. 

 

 

 

Yes, or it will be when I find a diecast Firebird Esprit - everyone makes only the Trans Am. 

I have Direct TV and one of the channels we get is called ME TV. During the week they Adam 12, Dragnet and Emergency. On Sunday they show Streets of SF, Cannon, Kojak, Rockford and others. They show a lot of good old TV shows. Late Thursday night they show the TM train videos.

Bob

ME TV Channel 11-2 Pittsburgh, PA currently does an hour each weekday of Adam 12.  Previously it was Dragnet/Adam 12, both Jack Webb productions. As mentioned followed with an hour of Emergency. Vintage late 1960's early 1970's  I owned a 1972 and 1975 D150 Dodge truck so the Emergency D300 squad is a look back in history. The Adam 12 police cars are may be 68/69 Plymouth Fury's 

Adam 12 used the '68 & '69 plymouth Belvedere,then the '71 before the AMCs. Dish doesn't have Me TV so I have break out my tapes. Those are great shows.

The frsutrating thing is the White Rose model I have is a '69 Belvedere.  Its just such a lousy model: windows a bit too small and rather poor detail throughout.  But its the right model and year.  I'll find a better one eventually, and until then malloy and Reed will solider on somehow . . . 

Car 54 where are you?

 

wouldn't it be funnier if Big Big Bob had stolen Doyle's traction motor cabling?

 

It looked like a '69 Fury at first glance. I've found many road runner models, but have never seen any four door Plymouths. I'm kinda fimilar with that body style.

 

What a coincidence, Adam 12 is on TV right now!

Lee,

Nice work!  Looks good.  Any chance we'll see a a powered version cruising your streets with or without lights?

 

Larry

Looks great, and I just watched this show a week ago. Hadn't seen it in years! Terry

Hi Lee, your cops and detectives on the layout are awesome.  Would Malloy ever have a run-in with Tod, on Route 66.

Love it. I grew up in Los Angeles and used to watch that show religiously. Jack Webb had a great relationship with LAPD and the cars they used in the show were actually spec LAPD radio cars (minus the real radio gear) that were added to the LAPD fleet order (obviously paid for by the studio). Kent McCord also often appeared as Officer Reed in Dragnet.

 

None of the "LA-based" police shows that followed held a candle to Dragnet and Adam-12.

the actual squad and both  the fire trucks used in Emergency (all were used in real duty after the show ended) are in the LA Fire museum.

First new "detectives" in ages ....

 

Of course Reed and Malloy are Patrolmen and Patrolmen deserve proper recognition.  Jack Webb and Robert Cinader did a wonderful job of depicting good patrolling with Adam 12.  I have yet to find an author who gives Patrolmen their due as well as David Ziskin.  In his book The Real Police he says

 

Patrolling is the basic activity of policing.....There is more to it than is readily apparent, and the real professionals make it look easy.  They take an intense personal interest in their district.  They lever their numbers by appearing in unlikely places and by seeming to be a constant presence.  They drive very slowly and look at everything.  They greet citizens, stop frequently, talk to all kinds of people and make themselves accessible and approachable.  This type of activity has the serendipitous quality of seeming benign to law-abiding citizens while, at the same time, it looks like prowling and stalking to the bad guys.  What most people view as a reassuring presence, the bad guys view as unrelenting pressure.

 

It is a great read and I highly recommend it to fans of Patrolmen Reed and Malloy. 

 

http://www.davidziskin.com/

 

21-50 by......oops, wrong show

Hey zwbob. Now we're talkin! Det. Dan Matthews and his "57 Buick, I believe.  A great show, great opening theme music, and great narration by Art Gilmore. Am I a fan of Highway Patrol?  Possibly.  Rich

Excellent!!!!

Lee,

More 50's police shows, San Francisco Beat with the 1950 Ford, Highway Patrol with the mid-50's Buick and M Squad(lee Marvin) in the 57/58 Ford.

Yeah, I am waiting on diecastdirect to get Broderick Crawford's Buick - they have it on their website set for this month, so we will see.  I have a place already picked out for him.  

Cannon and Kojak are feeling left out. Me, I am looking for a (close to scale) Batman to put on a building facade.

BK; what channel is ME tv on Direct??

I am going to have a few movie and TV scenes on my layour. I installedparking meters on my main street so I could pput Paul Newmann in cutting the heads off. Ill have the crew from Scooby Doo solving a mystery and Ill have the A-Team saving the day. Im also giving some consideration to having Marty Mcfly crusing around time in his Delorean

I have a 1/48 scale 'Spinner' from Blade Runner I am tempted to have flying overhead!!!

Looks pretty good to me.

Spence in NY it's on 43.

Bob

Spence, it is odd here in Kansas. Channel 115.3. Not sure what channel where you live.

BK, Lionmaster; thanks.