Q 01/05

Which two LAPD officers are the central characters of Adam-12?

A) Ed Wells and Jerry Woods

B) Joe Friday and Bill Gannon

C) Pete Malloy and Jim Reed

D) Roy DeSoto and John Gage

Answer · why

C) Pete Malloy and Jim Reed

Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) ride together as the crew of patrol unit 1-Adam-12 for all seven seasons of the series.

Q 02/05

In the call sign 1-Adam-12, what does the "12" identify?

A) The officers' watch number

B) The car's assigned patrol area

C) The station's street address

D) The cruiser's fleet number

Answer · why

B) The car's assigned patrol area

The car's assigned patrol area. The LAPD says no real unit ever carried that designation until 2003, when it put a 1-Adam-12 car on the street in the ...

Q 03/05

What is Jim Reed's status when Adam-12 begins?

A) A motorcycle officer

B) A transfer from Vice

C) A rookie on probation

D) A detective demoted to patrol

Answer · why

C) A rookie on probation

A rookie on probation, out on his very first patrol. He ignores Malloy's orders on a shooting call, arrests the gunmen single-handed, and earns himsel...

Q 04/05

Jack Webb's production company, which made Adam-12, was called what?

A) QM Productions

B) Mark VII Limited

C) Desilu Productions

D) Spelling-Goldberg

Answer · why

B) Mark VII Limited

Mark VII Limited, whose hammer-and-stamp logo closed every episode. Webb's shows stood so close to the LAPD that when he died in 1982 the department b...

Q 05/05

On which network did Adam-12 originally air?

A) NBC

B) CBS

C) PBS

D) ABC

Answer · why

A) NBC

NBC, for all seven seasons. The 1990 revival, by contrast, had no network at all: it was sold station by station in syndication.