S5E17
The Beast
Adam-12 · 1973-01-31 · 30 min
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what happens
Malloy and Reed are given an older cruiser with 300 miles to go until retirement. They quickly learn the car is extremely unreliable and barely works: the accelerator surges, the glove compartment door constantly drops on Reed's knees, the water hose breaks while they are sneaking up on a prowler suspect (actually just a man who once lived there), their malfunctioning taillights prevent them from writing a ticket to a citizen whose car had the same problem, the distributor cap fails when trying to respond to another call, and finally, after capturing a pursuit suspect, the car's brakes fail and the unmanned car totals itself on a light pole. Another call regarding a truck loading up at a warehouse leads to the arrest of a large group of organized burglars after Malloy notices a slight discrepancy in their otherwise foolproof plan.
nobody has mapped this one
We draw an episode's shape from public discussion of it, and there isn't enough about this one to draw anything honest. Forty-five seconds with the dial and it has a curve.
rate S5E17 →who made it
- directed
- Robert M. Leeds
- written
- Kenneth Johnson
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Todd Martin as Gus Osgood
Alberto Morin as John Mendoza
Donna Douglas as Nina Draper- FFred Stromsoe as Officer Woods
Lennie Weinrib as Tony
Marty Ingels as David Harwood
John Gallaudet as Ralph Peterson
Lenore Stevens as Casey Marshall