Adam-12 - Season Three DVD Review

[TJ]

Long before the TV series Cops could bring reality into our living rooms by taping men and women of law enforcement “live on the scene,” reality was reenacted, in a more dramatic sense. Jack Webb was a pioneer of bringing these true stories into the spotlight, and Adam-12 was one of the series that he produced to reenact these stories. And now, the third season of Adam-12 is available on DVD.

In Adam-12, Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) are two street cops who cruise the streets of Los Angeles in pursuit of the bad guys and those needing assistance. Adam-12 was about the street cops involved in tracking the criminals, and not about the glorified (although in reality, not much higher ranking) detectives or prosecutors. Much like Dragnet (a series which was also created by Adam-12 series creator Jack Webb; Webb also starred in Dragnet), each of the stories on the series were true, and as the old saying goes, “the names have been changed to protect the innocent.”

Season Three is the second release of the series by Shout! Factory, as they began to release the series beginning with the second season (Universal, who owns the rights to the series, released the first season before licensing subsequent seasons to Shout! Factory). The four-disc set contains all 26 episodes from the 1970-1971 season of the series.

Read our review by Skees53 here:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/adam12s...dvdreview.html

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