wheelgun1958
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Been watching the re-runs of both Adam-12 AND Dragnet on local channel 52 lately. They were and still are great shows. TIVO is my friend. I think the police academies should require viewing of these shows by the recruits.
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Adam 12 was usually pretty good on doctrine, but not always...as here,
or that warehouse shoot-out where Malloy faces down two burglars KNOWING that his revolver is empty. It is on HULU now, but I never saw that episode run again after the original airing. Always wondered if the LAPD nixed it.
"Enraged at never being allowed to drive, Reed wings Malloy in the arm and then threatens to shoot him in the leg."
(Edit to make a better joke.)
Originally posted by SG-688:
Reed (on the right) is using a clamshell holster, probably Safety Speed, and looks like he has Fuzzy Farrant grips on his revolver.
claygrazer
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I love how they have their fingers on the trigger, and Malloy appears to have the muzzle pointed at the damsel in distress. I think Jeff Cooper would give those boys a good talkin' to for breaking the 2nd and 3rd rule.Originally posted by SG-688:
Adam 12 was usually pretty good on doctrine, but not always...as here
Black Knight
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If anyone is interested you can get the first and second season of Adam-12 on Amazon.com. It was my favorite cop show in the 60s and 70s.
Sistema1927
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I am surprised that no mention has yet been made of CHiPs.
Did Ponch and Jon carry the 67, or possibly the 68?
Did Ponch and Jon carry the 67, or possibly the 68?
TxShooter
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I thought the opening credits for CHiPs showed a blued K frame in the holster. I was thinking 4" M15.
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Sistema 27, I don't remember CHiPs ever showing any of them with their guns out of the holsters.
Jellybean, you make an excellent point.
Jellybean, you make an excellent point.
smith revolver cop
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+1. There's something to be said for good old-fashioned simplicity!!!
smith revolver cop
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Seems to me they had some sort of agreement with CHP not to have any violence (no cops shooting or engaging in stick-time), in exchange for the Highway Patrol's "blessing" on the show.
smith revolver cop
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Originally posted by Eirerogue:
Yes, but can your sing (to yourself please) the Car 54 theme song?"There's a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyn's broken out in fights...."
...there's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights. There's a scout troop short a child, Kruschev's due at Idlewild...
smith revolver cop
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Correct: what he meant and said- Dragnet spun off Adam 12, not Dragnet was spun off FROM Adam-12... both were Jack Webb productions.
On CHiPs, I remember the grips for Colt MKIII's. I think, maybe, they might have drawn once. Of course, they would never fire the things.
I don't think that gun writer guy had started telling us to put our trigger fingers on the frame yet in the A-12 era.
I don't think that gun writer guy had started telling us to put our trigger fingers on the frame yet in the A-12 era.
TxShooter
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From the CHiPs Wikipedia Weapons page:
Although there are a number of instances when the bad guy has a gun, the episodes "Rainy Day", "Peaks and Valleys", and "Karate" are the only episodes where a CHP officer pulls his weapon. In each of these three times, it's always Baricza.
Although there are a number of instances when the bad guy has a gun, the episodes "Rainy Day", "Peaks and Valleys", and "Karate" are the only episodes where a CHP officer pulls his weapon. In each of these three times, it's always Baricza.
smith revolver cop
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Here's Webb at his best...
Jack Webb
+ 10,000,000!!!
Jack Webb and Johnny Carson at their absolute greatest. The best part is at the very end- probably the closest you'll ever get to an on-screen smile from Jack Webb when he's in character. Thanks for the link!
Jack Webb
+ 10,000,000!!!
Jack Webb and Johnny Carson at their absolute greatest. The best part is at the very end- probably the closest you'll ever get to an on-screen smile from Jack Webb when he's in character. Thanks for the link!
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ditto
"C H i P s" = G A Y
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I started in the late 70s and some of the stuff we did then makes the younger guys cringe now, like actually hitting the target. But then when all the cops were carrying revolvers it seemed they didn't feel the need to shoot each other either.
I seem to recall a "Chips" movie made long after the show had ended. Eric Estrada was in it, but was showing some age, and he was carrying an auto which might have been a Beretta, I didn't care that much to pay attention. There was a scene where he was searching a building with his gun drawn and they focused more on his tanned, muscular arms more then the gun.
The show that I felt was about as lame as lame could be was McGyver. There was one episode where he was being held captive and got his hands on a gun, a S&W revolver in fact. Instead of using it on his captors, which would have ended the show in the first 10 minutes, he took the cylinder out and used it as a wrench to turn on a steam valve. His reasoning that he explained to his charming co-star was that he didn't like them. The show ended in the first 11 minutes, for me.
mod57
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+ 1 on McGyver. I saw another episode wherein he got ahold of yet another S&W revolver. He unloaded it, pulled the bullets with his fingers and put the powder in a lock. Then -get this- he put the now empty case over the lock and hit the primer with the butt of the S&W!
I hate that show!
Ralph
I hate that show!
Ralph
Absolutely!
S. Hammer
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I for one would love to see some photos of the Dodge.
My counselor in college used to say the same thing and (at the far end of my career) I gotta say he was right about that, too!
I grew up on Dragnet and Adam-12, but I was already a young trooper when CHIPS came along... I thought it was the stupidest show on TV. (The clever ways the writers came up with to block the freeway were beyond belief... like the convoy truck that had all the cars come flying off the top of it.)
Then Hill Street Blues came along. None of the guys I worked with had a VCR so we all had to get together (on the scanner, since we didn't have portable radios, either) to watch it live.
Those were good times.
Originally posted by S-W4EVER:
Then Hill Street Blues came along. None of the guys I worked with had a VCR so we all had to get together (on the scanner, since we didn't have portable radios, either) to watch it live.
Those were good times.
I was a hard-chargin' uniformed cop when Hill Street Blues came out and my zone partner was a black officer. We were immediately "Hill and Renko." For what it's worth, we very much resembled that duo in the way we handled things...
Allen-frame
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Anyone still following this thread this far along?
Just an f.y.i. My uncle played in a few episodes of Dragnet. And was the protagonist in the Dragnet movie. The bad guy who killed the girls.
I was on set with him while filming that movie and got to hang with Harry Morgan, sat in one of the foldup chairs like they used back then.
If you want to search for my uncle on these old shows his name was Vic Perrin.
I was also raised in the San Fernando valley, and regularly saw Adam-12 being filmed around town
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Never made it to stardom myself tho,,my greatest claim to fame was a voice in a Christmas cartoon alongside June Foray (Rocky the squirrel) and Hans Conried (fractured fairy tales).
Regards ,,,,AL
Just an f.y.i. My uncle played in a few episodes of Dragnet. And was the protagonist in the Dragnet movie. The bad guy who killed the girls.
I was on set with him while filming that movie and got to hang with Harry Morgan, sat in one of the foldup chairs like they used back then.
If you want to search for my uncle on these old shows his name was Vic Perrin.
I was also raised in the San Fernando valley, and regularly saw Adam-12 being filmed around town
Never made it to stardom myself tho,,my greatest claim to fame was a voice in a Christmas cartoon alongside June Foray (Rocky the squirrel) and Hans Conried (fractured fairy tales).
Regards ,,,,AL
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