Also agreed, and I really liked the Mac character as well, played by the late William Boyett. Calm, authoritative, firm, fair, all business but not impersonal. A nice change from a lot of shows where the supervisor/boss has to be antagonistic, ineffective or eccentric. Likewise for Captain Stanley on Emergency! I watched a lot of the syndicated 1990 revival. It was OK but not great, they couldn't recapture the feel of the original. I was crazy about Emergency! as a kid. A neighbor was a firefighter and he took me to the fire station and showed me a Biophone and a K-12 and other cool stuff, just like on TV! I was over the moon. And speaking of Mark VII, anybody remember Project UFO?
^^ Yeah, I watched a couple of episodes of that. I don't think I was ever aware of a syndicated Adam-12 revival, though.
The big continuity error about Buz's background is that in season one's "Like a Motherless Child" he states that he knows for a fact that both his parents are dead. Yet, in season two's "The Mud Nest", Buz states that he was abandoned as an infant and never knew who his real parents were. He then goes on a quest for his real mother on the assumption she is alive.
Maybe he just was just using the dead-parents story to avoid facing that he had been abandoned, and then later faced up to it.
Wow, icons of classic TV keep passing away. Martin Milner also had an interesting role in "Valley of the Dolls." Kor
Very likely, since nobody seems to believe in straightforward heroes anymore. You're making me cry. I posted this in another thread, but it's relevant here, too:
On Black Friday, COZI's observing their annual tradition of airing largely Christmas episodes of the shows in their lineup, including two holiday episodes of Adam-12 (12:00-1:00 p.m. EST). Deck the halls with Reed & Malloy!
^^ Sadly, Cozi is mostly infomercials here. Do you mean this one by Nat Segaloff? This is the one I have.
At noon? Yeesh, that's worse than WZME, my former Me affiliate (currently the less favored of two H&I options). Meanwhile, on DECADES...yeesh, they sure play a lot of movies about serial killers. Their parent company must have the rights to content made for The Serial Killer Channel. You'd think they'd be playing Alice's Restaurant for the holiday, given that they've aired that before.
Yeah, last time I checked Cozi, they had infomercials at all hours. I haven't really looked lately, since they took Avengers off. I'll see what they look like today.
Avengers is currently on their schedule at 1 a.m. on weeknights, but probably replaced with infomercials on your affiliate.
Ah, thanks for the tip. It's hard to say, because it seems very random. Of course, I have no reliable recording device anyway....
Very true. When they remake Adam-12 they will probably dramatize the characters background lives and problems and have the officers be neither good or evil. They will exact Adam-12 justice with a vengeance. LOL!