The New Adam-12

I have not seen the original Adam-12 and so won't compare them. What I do know is that this series by itself is a nice , passable television series that doesn't fail to entertain.

I remember watching these episodes during it's original release in 1990 and 1991. They were grouped into two episodes and shown on Saturday mornings. Each episode had two or three story lines and were resolved by the end of the episode. It surprises me now when I watched them that so much was crunched into a half hour format. Many of the episodes could have easily have been developed into hour length episodes and today probably would have been stretched out over several episodes. I enjoyed them then and I still enjoyed them now. The stories were rather tame and the acting was decent enough. The real strength of the series was all the great Los Angeles location shots. It's too bad there were not more seasons made.

Of course this is not a legendary TV show, people talk about. And it never was.

But it doesn't have to be to be good entertainment. I enjoyed the different focus on the work of the police: In most crime shows the heroes are detectives or members of some special unit, whereas the uniformed officers are treated like nameless extras, only good enough to suspend police lines or block a road. Adam 12 depicts their work as also important and thrilling.

And since the episodes jump from one little climax to the next instead of leading to a huge one, they're very relaxing to watch.

I would really appreciate it to be published on DVD.

I agree with the previous comment regarding the low quality of the show. Arthur L. Annecharico (the executive producer) did a number of series for Universal TV like the first-run syndicated episodes of Airwolf along with the revivals of The Munsters and Dragnet. When watching these productions, it is clearly evident that they were shot on a VERY limited budget. Since the syndication market was starting to dry up for these types of shows (anything that wasn't a sitcom) by the late 80's, it was a wise decision since they didn't take a financial bath when the returns were less than stellar. I remember Annecharico having trouble with the unions for some of his labor practices in L.A. (the revamped Airwolf was shot in Canada).

Well the new adam-12 looks more stunning than it actually is.... i looked for this one for a while hoping to spot martin milner and kent mccord in 2 episodes as captain pete malloy and luitenant reed.... turned out its a false alarm and they didnt appear on the episodes it said they would.... so far im more fan of the 1968 adam-12 then this one i went watching to see how the boys turned out many years later but havent seen a glimse of them so far. I do like the fact they made a follow-up series of adam-12 and dragnet i wonder why they never made a follow-up on the Emergency! Tv show the original adam-12 is amazing still love watching it this day.