A couple episodes back, Officer partners Malloy & Reed continuously ran into Officer partners Woods & Allen. This was at different police-needed locations. Here, M & R continuously run into Officers Wells & Baker. There are difficulties concerning W & B. These partners can't stand one another. An interesting dynamic quite unusual to the series.
One of those scenarios, which for real Police Officers must be as aggrivating as it is for the Officers of Adam-12, arises in an early story segment. This involves the titular, citizen with a gun. This guy is threatening his wife with it. What's aggrivating is that this isn't the first encounter with this feuding couple the police have had. Wells & Brady are just as sick of dealing with this couple as they are dealing with each other. The aggrivation does not receive an ending. The abused wife walks off alongside her husband, upset that he's been arrested.
There's another segment in which M & R meet a little girl, Melissa Denman, and her "friend", Mrs. Juniper. This is a weird one which concludes with Malloy contacting Child Services. This is sad and oddly, there's no follow-up. However, there is unusual continuity involving this ordeal which is referenced in an upcoming episode. Now that's nice to see - the writers tying together separate episodes in what will be a major way.
While Wells keeps irritating his partner both at crime scenes and at the Police Station, Malloy and Reed in the squad car, roll up on a cab driver who sends them to the scene of a burglary in process. Except, it's not. It's just some idiot scaling down the side of - not a mountain, but the side of an abandoned building. While Malloy looks like he might like to try this out sometime, Reed gets all uptight, and directs some mean growling toward the guy.
Then there's another citizen with a gun who's just protecting his own property. That's what he says after he almost kills Officer Baker in the dark of night. Thankfully, the citizen only shoots his own birdbath to death. Viewers are taught a lesson here. You can defend yourself, certainly. But you can't just shoot wildly into the bushes on your property just because you think there's a bad guy hiding out there. It could just be a kid cutting through your yard, taking a short-cut home. Or a Police Officer who's out there because you called for help.
The feud between Wells and Baker gets a quick and rather unsatisfactory resolution. Baker basically simply announces that he's figured out that Wells is just a jokester. Baker's been taking Wells seriously all this time. Except... Wells has always been written as indeed being serious. He's always been a snarky, condescending jerk. Actor Gary Crosby, as Wells, has always done a terrific job of making his unlikeable character right on the edge of being at least, tolerable.
Another good episode which takes the chance of presenting Police Officers in a somewhat negative way. They can't all be Pete Malloy and Jim Reed.
One of those scenarios, which for real Police Officers must be as aggrivating as it is for the Officers of Adam-12, arises in an early story segment. This involves the titular, citizen with a gun. This guy is threatening his wife with it. What's aggrivating is that this isn't the first encounter with this feuding couple the police have had. Wells & Brady are just as sick of dealing with this couple as they are dealing with each other. The aggrivation does not receive an ending. The abused wife walks off alongside her husband, upset that he's been arrested.
There's another segment in which M & R meet a little girl, Melissa Denman, and her "friend", Mrs. Juniper. This is a weird one which concludes with Malloy contacting Child Services. This is sad and oddly, there's no follow-up. However, there is unusual continuity involving this ordeal which is referenced in an upcoming episode. Now that's nice to see - the writers tying together separate episodes in what will be a major way.
While Wells keeps irritating his partner both at crime scenes and at the Police Station, Malloy and Reed in the squad car, roll up on a cab driver who sends them to the scene of a burglary in process. Except, it's not. It's just some idiot scaling down the side of - not a mountain, but the side of an abandoned building. While Malloy looks like he might like to try this out sometime, Reed gets all uptight, and directs some mean growling toward the guy.
Then there's another citizen with a gun who's just protecting his own property. That's what he says after he almost kills Officer Baker in the dark of night. Thankfully, the citizen only shoots his own birdbath to death. Viewers are taught a lesson here. You can defend yourself, certainly. But you can't just shoot wildly into the bushes on your property just because you think there's a bad guy hiding out there. It could just be a kid cutting through your yard, taking a short-cut home. Or a Police Officer who's out there because you called for help.
The feud between Wells and Baker gets a quick and rather unsatisfactory resolution. Baker basically simply announces that he's figured out that Wells is just a jokester. Baker's been taking Wells seriously all this time. Except... Wells has always been written as indeed being serious. He's always been a snarky, condescending jerk. Actor Gary Crosby, as Wells, has always done a terrific job of making his unlikeable character right on the edge of being at least, tolerable.
Another good episode which takes the chance of presenting Police Officers in a somewhat negative way. They can't all be Pete Malloy and Jim Reed.
