Adam-12 (season 3)

Adam-12 (season 3)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	26
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	September 19, 1970 – April 8, 1971

This is a list of episodes from the third season of Adam-12.

Broadcast history

The season originally aired Saturdays at 8:30-9:00 pm (EST) from September 19, 1970 to January 16, 1971 and Thursdays at 9:30-10:00 pm (EST) from January 21 to April 8, 1971.

DVD release

The DVD was released by Shout! Factory.

Episodes

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
53	1	"Log 174: Loan Sharks"	Bruce Kessler	Michael Donovan	September 19, 1970
Malloy and Reed try to investigate a series of beatings at a plant resulting from a loan shark operation, but the employees refuse to talk until the son of one employee stands up to testify. An armed robber could only bring himself to steal $2, then was robbed himself.
54	2	"Log 35: Easy Bare Rider"	Bruce Kessler	Norman Katkov	September 26, 1970
Calls include a drunk and naked driver, a young boy who found a large sum of money and went on a spending spree, and a car parts theft ring inside a park.
55	3	"Log 95: Purse Snatcher"	James Neilson	Michael Donovan	October 3, 1970
Malloy and Reed assist Officer Brinkman in bringing down a ring of juvenile purse snatchers, the leader of which later commits an armed robbery and kills someone during the crime.
56	4	"Log 45: Bright Boy"	James Neilson	John T. Dugan	October 10, 1970
Malloy and Reed meet Harold, a young boy with a photographic memory, who alerts them to, and helps bring down, a group of home burglars disguised as movers. Other calls include stopping two female joyriders and two paint-sniffers shooting at a box of dynamite.
57	5	"Log 65: Cigarettes, Cars and Wild, Wild Women"	Christian Nyby	Norman Katkov	October 17, 1970
The officers bring down a auto-theft ring whereby mini-skirted girls arrange to get rides with the victims (mostly young boys), steal their cars, and take them to a "chop shop". Other calls include a delusional elderly woman who ran a red light and thinks she's in her 30s, a would-be motorcycle thief stopped by a feisty woman, a shut-in woman who thinks she is hallucinating when it's her nephew that is on marijuana, and two men moving a safe down the street. Tony Dow and John Mitchum guest star.
58	6	"Log 55: Missing Child"	Christian Nyby	William P. McGivern	October 31, 1970
Malloy and Reed investigate a missing child with a Band-Aid on her leg. Other calls include rescuing a cat and birds from a woman who was trying to get rid of them using gas, apprehending a man who stole a disability check from his uncle, and responding to an auto burglary turned homicide with a Hispanic family more concerned with how the officers would treat them. Jodie Foster guest stars.
59	7	"Log 75: Have a Nice Weekend"	Oscar Rudolph	Robert I. Holt	November 7, 1970
The officers discover a burglary ring operated by a group of young kids, with their victims all being people playing Bridge. Other calls include Reed being held hostage by a crazy woman, and breaking up a fight between a church organist and the choir director over the choice of music. Butch Patrick guest stars.
60	8	"Log 105: Elegy for a Pig"	Christian Nyby	Norman Katkov	November 21, 1970
This documentary-style episode shows Malloy telling the story of his best friend, Officer Tom Porter (Mark Goddard), who was killed chasing a suspect. Malloy reviews his and Porter's history together, including applying for the LAPD together (and Porter meeting his wife that day), graduating from the Police Academy together, and their history in the LAPD. Jack Webb provided the opening and closing narration.
61	9	"Log 25: Indians"	Oscar Rudolph	Robert I. Holt	November 28, 1970
Malloy and Reed have to stop a dispute between Apache Indians from getting out of hand. Other calls include investigating a series of explosions and a shootout while looking for the suspects in the explosions, and an elderly woman who mistakes a pizza delivery man for a prowler.
62	10	"Log 135: Arson"	Christian Nyby	Arthur Dales	December 5, 1970
The officers investigate a series of arsons with different descriptions of the arsonist, a domestic involving a man, his wife, the man's female friend, a football game, a jumper, and an escaped mental patient holding his wife at knifepoint.
63	11	"Log 96: Pilgrimage"	Oscar Rudolph	John T. Dugan	December 19, 1970
In the series' annual Christmas episode, Malloy and Reed confront a man who robbed a bell-ringing Santa Claus, handle a DUI causing a death transporting Christmas presents, encounter a single pregnant shoplifter who wanted to be caught so her children would have a place to stay for Christmas, and assist a Native American family from New Mexico whose young daughter had wandered off while they were sleeping in the hills. Foster Brooks guests as a drunken driving suspect
64	12	"Log 85: Sign of the Twins"	Christian Nyby	Wilton Schiller	December 26, 1970
The officers' day begins with a liquor store robbery allegedly committed by the owner's brother that resulted in an officer being shot, later confronting the thieves in a shootout. Other calls include a zoning dispute with an elderly woman doing astrology readings out of her apartment, and a young boy asking a pharmacist questions about Seconal pills and his very uncooperative mother.
65	13	"Log 175: Con Artists"	James Neilson	Norman Katikov	January 2, 1971
The Johnson Family is in town, running their con schemes (including nonexistent roof repairs and phony wood delivery), with Malloy and Reed trying to stop them as well as having to catch two former plant security men-turned-arsonists, take a drunken married couple in when neither are in any condition to drive, and handle a traffic accident which became a car fire after a flare set by a good samaritan rolled into a butane tank.
66	14	"Log 115: Gang War"	James Neilson	John T. Dugan	January 9, 1971
A robbery suspect eludes Reed on foot, but is found later after getting food poisoning from his haul. A priest calls Malloy and Reed in to stop a burgeoning gang war, which succeeds at first but ends up breaking out later and resulting in one death.
67	15	"Log 26: LEMRAS"	James Neilson	William R. Cox	January 16, 1971
The LAPD introduces the LEMRAS (Law Enforcement Manpower Resource Allocation System) to assist in identifying high-crime streets, including part of Malloy and Reed's patrol area, which was used in stopping a rash of burglaries involving motorcycle-riding suspects. The officers also have to handle an armed robbery-turned-hostage situation and a kidnapping involving a young girl.
68	16	"Log 155: I.A.D."	Christian Nyby	Michael Donovan	January 21, 1971
Malloy's life is saved by Officer Tony Johnson (Jed Allan), who stopped a forklift from goring Malloy while apprehending some robbery suspects. Johnson later admits he is under investigation by IAD for blackmail, and wants Malloy to locate a woman named Ginger who can clear him, but Ginger's near-identical dissertation of Johnson's story makes Malloy suspicious and demands the truth.
69	17	"Log 66: The Vandals"	Oscar Rudolph	James Doherty	January 28, 1971
Malloy and Reed pull over a car on a traffic violation and find two escaped mental patients driving a stolen car, a dead body in the trunk and a gun. In another incident, an older man got guns drawn on him for making a similar sudden move as the mental patients during a traffic stop, and he dresses down the officers. Later, the officers are called to a home where a window was broken during a toilet-papering incident by a teenaged girl's friends, who ran off and later returned to confront the girl's father (played by George Maharis), and the confrontation turns violent. This episode reunites Martin Milner and George Maharis, who both starred in the television series Route 66.
70	18	"Log 36: Man Between"	James Neilson	Michael Donovan	February 4, 1971
Reed's day starts out with a complaint made against a door-to-door salesman for illegally modifying Reed's $30 check into a $300 check and buying a day-old newspaper, prompting Officer Wells (Gary Crosby) to tell Reed he's "too trusting". Wells and Reed later apprehend a man fitting the description of a shooting suspect, but Wells arrests him rather than wait for the victim to confirm the identity. The suspect was not the shooter, the victim's drunk husband was, and Sgt. MacDonald admonishes Wells for the false arrest. Other calls include two men fighting over a marijuana plant and a distraught woman running to a bank to get a ransom for her baby being held by an armed and mentally unstable man.
71	19	"Log 165: Once a Cop"	Christian Nyby	James Doherty	February 11, 1971
Malloy and Reed are on patrol, and find a homeless man stabbed. They take a retired policeman, Jack Donohoe (who lives nearby), in for questioning, but is released when the real suspect is found. Donohoe later gets involved in a shootout with a robbery suspect. Other incidents include a woman, who came in from Missouri, shooting a phone booth at Union Station after being lured by a false agent who promised a movie career, took her money and then her suitcase was switched at the station, which contained a rattlesnake.
72	20	"Log 76: Militants"	Christian Nyby	Michael Donovan	February 18, 1971
The officers respond to a shooting involving police and two black men, one of which was shot by one of the officers and later found dead in an alley. The dead man was the younger brother of Reed's friend Kenneth James; his older brother Cleotis was an accomplice and both were members of a black militant gang, The Brotherhood. Kenneth believes the gang's contention that Cleotis was murdered by the officers until the James brothers confront each other and Kenneth learns the truth; his brother Cleotis is arrested after briefly taking his brother hostage. Malloy and Reed also pull over an elderly driver on his 75th birthday for multiple traffic violations.
73	21	"Log 164: The Poachers"	James Neilson	John Kingsbridge	February 25, 1971
Malloy and Reed's day begins with a police garage employee taking a joyride in a police car (Code 3), later finding a young woman trying to cash an old age benefits check she found, checking a garage whose closed circuit TV security system was stolen, an elderly woman thinking she saw a prowler, finding a B&E suspect inside a coffin in a mortuary, and poaching into Officer Wells' territory to check on break-ins occurring in warehouses; finally apprehending two drugged out burglars inside a warehouse.
74	22	"Log 16: Child in Danger"	James Neilson	Robert I. Holt	March 4, 1971
Malloy has to shoot one of two robbery suspects, then the officers counsel a young woman in a bad neighborhood not to hang around, later to be kidnapped by two men claiming to fix her car, the LAPD's Air Ten helicopter is used to catch the kidnappers (who already had outstanding kidnapping warrants), find a "mover" (burglar) whose partner hides in a freezer, and the officers visit an apartment on a domestic dispute complaint and find another woman with severe injuries but the couple insists nothing is going on, later arresting the husband on domestic violence charges after the woman's mother calls the police back to the apartment after the woman's husband beats their daughter. Susan Seaforth Hayes guest stars.
75	23	"Log 56: Vice Versa"	Christian Nyby	John T. Dugan	March 11, 1971
Malloy celebrates his birthday by having to let Reed drive 1-Adam-12 due to Malloy allowing his driver's license to expire, and is nervous about his young partner driving the car. Calls include a bank robbery, a burglary involving several neighbors, an abandoned baby, a wife who killed her husband on their wedding anniversary, and a drug dealer selling his wares out of an ice cream truck. Ellen Corby and Keye Luke guest star.
76	24	"Log 106: Post Time"	Christian Nyby	Stephen J. Cannell	March 18, 1971
Malloy and Reed investigate the theft of an offset press at a press shop, and later they find and apprehend the thief who was using the press to print winning bet slips at the track. Other incidents include finding an 80-year-old blind man with a rusty rifle barricaded in a condemned building (they get him to a home but he escapes and has to be returned), and a man with a fully street-legal Army tank causing concerns from citizens. Morey Amsterdam guest stars.
77	25	"Log 88: Reason to Run"	Christian Nyby	James Doherty	April 1, 1971
Retired actor Slim Berkeley has some items stolen from his horse stables; originally his assistant (played by Randolph Mantooth of Emergency! fame) who had a criminal record from New York City was suspected, but later the items were returned by the mother of the real thief, a woman (played by Linda Kaye Henning of Petticoat Junction fame) who is a client of the stable. Other calls include Reed getting physical with two men fighting in a phone booth (and getting a sore jaw for his efforts), finding a robbery suspect after a shootout, and a jewelry salesman (played by Norm Crosby) whose convertible was filled with cement by a cement driver who had mistaken ideas about his wife's intentions with the salesman.
78	26	"Log 125: Safe Job"	Jean Yarborough	William P. McGivern	April 8, 1971
Malloy and Reed investigate a series of safe jobs, which all seem to tie in with a retired safecracker who is taking care of his orphaned niece and nephew, and after a "tip" from him, finds the niece and nephew practicing his old tricks on another safe. The officers also investigate a woman whose baby was held hostage by her cousin and forcing her to meet and steal from other men, after which the officers arrest the cousin and rescue the baby.