Adam-12

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Television series
Original title Adam-12
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1968-1975
Production
company		 Mark VII Limited Universal Television
length 30 minutes
Episodes 174 in 7 seasons
genre Detective film
production Jack Webb
music Unknown
First broadcast September 21, 1968 on NBC
occupation

Adam-12 - is an American television series about a police cruiser crew of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). It was produced from 1968 to 1975 in 174 episodes in seven seasons by Jack Webb as a spin-off of his series Polizeibericht ( Dragnet , German : Schleppnetz). As in the police report , the individual episodes were based on real police cases; only the names were changed to protect the innocent. Adam-12 - the series title is derived from the radio call name of the patrol car - was one of the most influential American police series as well as an advertising medium for the LAPD, which also supported the production logistically. For unknown reasons, the series was not bought by West German television stations in contrast to the remake The New Adam 12 , which was broadcast on RTLplus as a deployment in LA from 1991 .

action

The patrol car crew 1-Adam-12 consists of the experienced police officer Malloy and the 23-year-old police student Reed. They serve in the LAPD Rampart Division , which includes Downtown Los Angeles . Her patrol car, "the black and white", as Malloy simply calls it, is a Plymouth Belvedere and part of her team. Over time, Malloy trains Reed to become a full-fledged civil servant, while Malloy is promoted to sergeant . While they are initially on duty within Rampart, they are later used with their car in other districts of Los Angeles such as the port area or the airport.

Production notes

With Adam-12, Webb followed up on the second season of Police Report , which aired in 1967 as Dragnet '67' . Webb's intention was, apart from the police report , to authentically portray the work of normal patrolmen and not just serious criminal cases that were processed by the LAPD detectives. The cars bought as props by the production department were converted by the LAPD into authentic police cars. For Webb, the series was a major commercial success.

After Rushkoff, the series recorded by a realistic representation of social change in the US in late from the 1960s / early 1970s, by the viewers through the windshield of Adam-12 are perceived and of which also Malloy and Reed are affected:

The world was no longer as simple as the dualistic color scheme of their patrol car, and "to protect and serve" meant to acknowledge and permit a certain amount of bizarre activity in the early seventies Los Angeles.
Rushkoff, p. 48.

Lore

From 2005 to 2012 all episodes were gradually edited for the region codes 1 and 4 on DVD .

See also

literature

  • Douglas Snauffer: Crime television , Westport, CONN (Praeger) 2006, pp. 51–55. ISBN 0-275-98807-4
  • Douglas Rushkoff: Media virus! Hidden agendas in popular culture , New York (Ballantine Books) 1996. ISBN 0-345-39774-6

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