The BEST episodes written by James Doherty
#7 - Log 105: Elegy for a Pig
Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 8
One of the finest episodes in the series' run, Malloy (who narrates this episode, Jack Webb-style) recalls the rainy night his previous on-duty partner was killed during a robbery. But Malloy's story goes much deeper, as he relates the life of the slain officer, confiding that the officer was more than just his partner, but a loyal and trusted best friend with a young family. Malloy also remembers how he met Reed and the early days of their relationship (before Malloy and Reed became a team). The opening and closing credits are shown over a black screen (in lieu of the usual sequences) without the music and with Jack Webb himself speaking, in apparent tribute to police officers who died in the line of duty.
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#8 - Administrative Vice - DR-29
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 17
Joe has a new partner, Lt. Chris Drucker while Bill recovers from the flu. Joe and Chris are trying to catch bookies. Drucker is really working for the bookies and has been tipping them off when a raid is planned. Drucker tries to bribe Joe to help him.
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#9 - Homicide - DR-22
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 14
Joe and Bill are called to an apartment where the manager has found a young woman bound and dead. The 91 year old manager of the apartment building is a suspect until joe find out that the old man was chief of detectives in Chicago. Finger prints lead Joe and Bill to a couple.
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#11 - Steve Austin, Fugitive
The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 2 - Episode 22
Steve is arrested when an assassin he helped send to prison seeks revenge by framing him for murder. Steve escapes from the police and must find the assassin before the police find him.
#15 - Log 144: Bank Robbery
Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 24
Malloy and Reed respond to a domestic abuse call where they become the abused. Later they become suspicious of a man whose apartment has been burglarized, help a man who found the stolen hood and front fenders of his VW on another car, and complete their day catching bank robbers.
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#16 - Management Services - DR-11
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 4
Joe and Bill are called back to work because of an emergency. It's April 4, 1968, and Dr Martin Luther King has been assassinated less than an hour ago. They are assigned to the police emergency control center to monitor potential unrest in the LA area
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#19 - Juvenile - DR-32
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 24
A child has been bitten by a dog and the child is allergic to the ant rabies shot. Joe and Bill have less than two hours to locate the dog.
#20 - Log 65: Cigarettes, Cars and Wild, Wild Women
Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 5
Reed and Malloy investigate a car theft ring, where pretty young women bait new car owners into giving them rides to a nearby convenience store (presumably to buy cigarettes). While the car owner is in the store, the women make off with their wheels. The cars are taken to a local chop shop, where they are disassembled for parts to be sold on the black market. As the officers make the arrests at the show's end, one of the women complains of being treated like "a common criminal," but Malloy refuses to give in.
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#21 - Juvenile - DR-19
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 20
Joe and Bill are asked to investigate allegation of child abuse by his mother. The story deals with the difficulty of having a child removed from an abusive home.
#28 - Juvenile - The Little Pusher
Dragnet - Season 4 - Episode 6
Joe and Bill are working Juvenile Narcotics Division and find a 12 year old under the influence of narcotics. They go to the boy’s school and conduct a class for teachers on how to identify narcotics. They discover that a ninth grader is selling the narcotics in school and find that his father is the source of the drugs.
#29 - Drive, Lady, Drive: Part 1
CHiPs - Season 3 - Episode 9
Ponch, Jon, Bear and Lenny go to Palma Vista to cover for the striking Palma Vista Police Department. While there, they help an orphaned 10-year-old girl find a new home, arrest a councilman's two sons and city manager's daughter on some serious traffic charges, and break up a hijacking ring. Ponch falls for a lady race car driver, but loses out in the end.
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#32 - Log 023: Pig Is a Three Letter Word
Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 4
A pair of black hoodlums shoot and kill a respected black couple during a grocery store robbery. Reed and Malloy sent in to ward off a potential riot, knowing that given the heightened racial tensions, the wrong thing said could spark deadly violence.
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#35 - Internal Affairs - DR-20
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 12
Joe and Bill investigate a charge of police brutallity against a patrolman. The patrolman was attempting to stop someone from driving drunk when things got out of hand and the drunk tears the patrolman's uniform. This is a crossover episode with Adam-12, taking place in Rampart Station and featuring appearances by Officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed.
#37 - Log 155: I.A.D.
Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 16
Officers Malloy and Reed search for an elusive bar girl who might be able to clear a fellow officer accused of blackmail.
#38 - Robbery - DR-15
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 7
Joe and Bill are working the robbery desk. They handle a variety of complaints about a truck hijacking, a bank robbery and a robbery of a neighborhood market. A woman complains about "thieving birds" and another thinks her wallet had been stolen, but misplaced it in her coat.
#39 - Eyewitness
Adam-12 - Season 4 - Episode 23
Malloy and Reed are searching for a missing six-year-old boy and they believe a elderly witness' inaccurate account may actually be for a different crime. They also respond to a suspicious dog complaint, a domestic dispute over a husband's desire to watch football, a college prank, and search a train station with a police helicopter for fleeing robbery suspects.
#40 - Log 66: The Vandals
Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 17
A simple traffic violation turns into a serious case and a teen-age girl proves to be too popular for her own good as Officers Malloy and Reed ride their beat.
#41 - Log 36: Man Between
Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 18
Officer Reed gets needled by Officer Ed Wells for having too much faith in his fellow man, as Reed and Malloy handle a variety of cases.
#42 - Log 135: Arson
Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 10
Officers Malloy and Reed encounter frustrating cases involving arson in the Rampart district, a family fight, and a dangerous mental patient.
#43 - Log 094: Vengeance
Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 19
Malloy and Reed contend with an ambush aimed at them, search for a missing boy, track down a car thief who is being crushed by his loot, and deal with a recent parolee who has sworn revenge on Malloy.
#44 - Log 76: Militants
Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 20
Two officers are shot down in ambush by members of a vocal black militant group. Complicating the matter is that both shooters are brothers of a friend of Officer Reed's, and the two disagree over the vigilantism.
#45 - Log 165: Once a Cop
Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 19
A bitter ex-cop and a Hollywood starlet and her agent present some unusual problems for Officers Malloy and Reed.
#46 - Log 103: A Sound Like Thunder
Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 6
Malloy and Reed double date on their day off to a ghost town only to be confronted by a motor cycle gang. It takes their quick police instincts to save the day as Mrs Reed gets too close to delivering the baby.
#47 - Log 26: LEMRAS (Law Enforcement Manpower Resources Allocation System)
Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 15
Two armed robbers take hostages in hopes of making a clean get away until Malloy and Reed thwart their plans. The officers then must contend with a group of burglaries committed by motorcycle riders. Computers help solve crimes.
#48 - Log 134: Child Stealer
Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 23
Once Malloy and Reed get an aggressive dog out of the squad, they investigate the kidnapping of a child by its father, contend with an elderly miser who attempts to pay a bill with trading stamps, capture an escaped convict on a bus, and rescue a liquor delivery man from two serial van hijackers.
#49 - Intelligence - DR-34
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 27
Joe is invited to a night school alumni party. Joe goes and is approached by one of the alumni to join the Fielder Militia, a right wing group. They want Joe to help one of the Militia’s members get a Federal firearms license. Joe works with the ATM to join the Militia to locate Militia’s cache of illegal automatic weapons.
#50 - B.O.D. - DR-27
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 15
Joe and Bill are assigned to the Business Office Division. A priest is in the division to observe its operation. Joe and Bill work a series of problems from a potential tidal wave, a wino, protesters, a suicide, and a lost boy.