"Pete Malloy you are End Of Watch" RIP
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Sad to see this. He was great on Route 66 and Adam-12. Gil Kane based Guy Gardner on his likeness.
RIP
RIP
I loved him in Adam 12. 
A review of his IMDB bio suggests a long and fulfilling life.
What more can one ask?
A review of his IMDB bio suggests a long and fulfilling life.
What more can one ask?
Awww...and I was just catching Adam-12 on COZI today. (I'd started a watch-through on Netflix streaming recently and they pulled the show!)
Perhaps Me-TV will do something Route 66-related in commemoration.
RIP, Mr. Milner.
Perhaps Me-TV will do something Route 66-related in commemoration.
RIP, Mr. Milner.
I watched him in Adam-12 and Swiss Family Robinson.
Another icon from the 60s and 70s gone. I just finished rewatching the entire Adam-12 series a few months ago. It was cool to watch knowing both leads were still alive. I have never really seen Route 66(A few minutes once) and was planning on watching it soon. Adam-12 is one of my favorite shows and Milner did a great job playing Malloy who was a honest cop just doing his job. RIP Mr. Milner.
Route 66 was an iconic role and Milner made it great. It would be easy for Tod to be unsympathetic to viewers, a rich kid who didn't have a job but could afford to travel around in the newest-model Corvette, but Milner had such a easygoing charm it worked perfectly. And Adam-12, well, when I was a kid I thought Officer Malloy was about the coolest character around. His dry sense of humor and bemused patience with some of the odd characters he encountered was priceless. Besides the way he worked with his rookie partner, I also really liked his interaction with his boss, Mac (the also very cool William Boyett) and the other officers like Wells and Woods.
On top of that, seeing him in old movies like The Sweet Smell of Success was a nice bonus. He never became a big star, but he had a good life with his wife of 58 years and got in more fishing than most mortals could dream of. Sorry to see him go, but he had a good run.
On top of that, seeing him in old movies like The Sweet Smell of Success was a nice bonus. He never became a big star, but he had a good life with his wife of 58 years and got in more fishing than most mortals could dream of. Sorry to see him go, but he had a good run.
Yeah, Milner made the straight arrow character (an often thankless role) cool. He was never flashy but always reliable.
Highly recommended. If you're a fan of 1960's TV drama and haven't seen ROUTE 66, that's like being a fan of Elizabethan theater who is unfamiliar with the works of Shakespeare. It is a superlatively-written series, and so consistent that its worst episodes are excellent and its best are bonafide classics of the genre.
Bummer. Always enjoy him in Adam-12 repeats.
Also a fan of him in his small but very funny role in the movie Mister Roberts (at around 1:15 in this clip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVhVjJGvluQ
Also a fan of him in his small but very funny role in the movie Mister Roberts (at around 1:15 in this clip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVhVjJGvluQ
Damn. Another icon of my youth gone. Always have enjoyed Adam-12. One of my favorite shows, and he was my favorite charachter.
RIP, Martin Milner.
Another familiar face from my childhood is gone. I mostly knew him as Officer Malloy when I was young, because Adam-12 was always on the air somewhere, but I'm working on Route 66, which was a masterpiece. He represented the kind of role model you don't see in the 21st century. Thanks for the memories, Mr. Milner.
Another familiar face from my childhood is gone. I mostly knew him as Officer Malloy when I was young, because Adam-12 was always on the air somewhere, but I'm working on Route 66, which was a masterpiece. He represented the kind of role model you don't see in the 21st century. Thanks for the memories, Mr. Milner.
Actually, that's not quite true. He grew up rich, but was fairly destitute in the show. The car was the only thing he had, because it was left to him by his father (or something like that). He and Buz (or Link) had to take jobs in pretty much every episode to support their travels.
Agreed. Route 66 is pure Americana of the Kerouac era. I'm still working on seeing them all, but I've never seen one yet that wasn't spellbinding. And most of them were written by the same guy, Stirling Siliphant, who was an amazing and prolific writer.
I agree completely about Stirling Siliphant.
The stories he churned out, week after week, were incredible. He would produce a stinker now and then, but they were few and far between.
He deserves a spot alongside Rod Serling and Paddy Chayefsky on the Mount Rushmore of B&W television writers.
The stories he churned out, week after week, were incredible. He would produce a stinker now and then, but they were few and far between.
He deserves a spot alongside Rod Serling and Paddy Chayefsky on the Mount Rushmore of B&W television writers.
Thanks, I never saw the show till two or three years ago and still haven't seen much of the first season. I knew they picked up jobs, but the Corvette was new every year!
I agree with the others that it was a great drama with some terrific writing, and I should watch it all the way through. That and The Fugitive, which I've only seen a handful of times.
You could put Howard Rodman and Harlan Ellison (despite his contentiousness) on there as well. The two I think are tied for the most TV writer's guild awards won. Sadly, Silliphant never won a WG award for his work on a ROUTE 66 episode (although another writer for the show, Larry Marcus, did).
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