"Pete Malloy you are End Of Watch" RIP

[J.T.B.]

Agreed. Reed and Malloy were excellent role models for kids in the late 60s and early 70s and still are today for anyone watching reruns. They were both good office, professional and really cared about their jobs.

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!

Wonder if they will ever do a reboot.

I watched a lot of the syndicated 1990 revival. It was OK but not great, they couldn't recapture the feel of the original.

All the old Mark-VII shows are great. I watched Emergency as a kid also. Great show.

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?

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Yeah, I watched a couple of episodes of that.

I don't think I was ever aware of a syndicated Adam-12 revival, though.

 

[ToddPence]

I was just checking out the network TV schedules out of curiosity....It looks like Route 66 had some serious competition in its timeslot for most of its run--The Flintstones!

ETA: Came across a bit of a continuity issue between a couple of episodes. In one early episode, Buz indicates that he was treated well in the home where he grew up. In a later episode, he temporarily splits with Tod because Todd insists on taking a child hitchhiker back to the orphanage that he was running away from, and evidently Buz had more issues with his childhood at such an institution than he was letting on previously.

Generally the continuity is surprisingly good for a semi-anthology, though. One Season 1 episode referenced several of their previous experiences; and another referenced where they were going to be in the following episode.

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.

 

[RJDiogenes]

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.

 

[TRON JA307020]

^^ Yeah, I watched a couple of episodes of that.

I don't think I was ever aware of a syndicated Adam-12 revival, though.

It didn't last long and it really stunk. The actors were nowhere as goods as Milner and Mcord.

 

[RJDiogenes]

That figures.

 

[TRON JA307020]

That figures.

I fear some jerk is going to make a Adam-12 motion picture and basically mock the original series.

 

[ToddPence]

It'll probably be Abrams.

 

[Kor]

Wow, icons of classic TV keep passing away.

Martin Milner also had an interesting role in "Valley of the Dolls."

Kor

 

[RJDiogenes]

That figures.

I fear some jerk is going to make a Adam-12 motion picture and basically mock the original series.

Very likely, since nobody seems to believe in straightforward heroes anymore.

It'll probably be Abrams.

You're making me cry.

I posted this in another thread, but it's relevant here, too:

I found a biography of Stirling Silliphant on Amazon and it arrived yesterday. Me being me, the first thing I turned to was the appendix on unrealized projects, many of which are quite interesting. Most especially was a script for a Daredevil movie in the early 80s and a Forbidden Planet project in the early 90s-- a remake, sadly, not a sequel, so I'm glad it never happened, but I'd sure like to read it. Also, there was a project in the late 70s called When Worlds Collide, but no indication if it was a remake or an original story.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Look who's on the episode of Rat Patrol airing on H&I right now...ol' Marty between regular gigs.

 

[ToddPence]

Is that the Nat Persoff biography? I've got it. Nice read.

 

[The Old Mixer]

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!

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Sadly, Cozi is mostly infomercials here.

Is that the Nat Persoff biography? I've got it. Nice read.

Do you mean this one by Nat Segaloff? This is the one I have.

 

[The Old Mixer]

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.

 

[RJDiogenes]

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.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Avengers is currently on their schedule at 1 a.m. on weeknights, but probably replaced with infomercials on your affiliate.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Ah, thanks for the tip. It's hard to say, because it seems very random. Of course, I have no reliable recording device anyway....

 

[TRON JA307020]

That figures.

I fear some jerk is going to make a Adam-12 motion picture and basically mock the original series.

Very likely, since nobody seems to believe in straightforward heroes anymore.
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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!

 

[HIjol]

Anyone have any idea who currently owns the rights to "Adam-12"?