"Log 105: Elegy for a Pig" is, hands down, the saddest episode of the entire series, and the starkest. I first saw it when it originally aired on 21 November 1970, a day before the seventh anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, so as an 11-year-old, this show hit really hard.
Looking at this now, during this time of great unrest, it's good to see a more human side of police life. Mark Goddard, who had been on Lost In Space as well as the 1959-1962 NBC series The Detectives, plays a police officer who loses his life in the line of duty. We get to see how he and Pete Malloy went through police academy and then police service together.
It's a very sad episode, but also very striking in its semi-documentary style of storytelling. And it is clearly one of the very best episodes!
Looking at this now, during this time of great unrest, it's good to see a more human side of police life. Mark Goddard, who had been on Lost In Space as well as the 1959-1962 NBC series The Detectives, plays a police officer who loses his life in the line of duty. We get to see how he and Pete Malloy went through police academy and then police service together.
It's a very sad episode, but also very striking in its semi-documentary style of storytelling. And it is clearly one of the very best episodes!