Adam-12 (1968)/A Fool and His Money

A Fool and His Money
Season 5, Episode 21
Airdate	February 28, 1973
Written by	Webb Richard Marris
Directed by	Sam C. Freedle
Produced by	Herman S. Saunders
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Adam-12 — Season Five

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A Fool and His Money is the twenty-first episode of the fifth season of Adam-12, and the one hundred twenty-third episode overall.

Starring: Martin Milner (Officer Pete Malloy), Kent McCord (Officer Jim Reed)

with Regis Toomey (Billy Heckman), Lurene Tuttle (Mary O'Ryan), David White (J.T. McGrath), William Boyett (Sgt. MacDonald), Donald Barry (Wino), Fred Stromsoe (Officer Woods), Ken Renard (Jimmy Lee), Mike Santiago (Norm)

Uncredited: Shaaron Claridge (Dispatcher)

Plot Overview

Malloy has won $10,000 in a woman's shampoo naming contest and is being bombarded with mail at work and suggestions from Reed on how to invest the money but Malloy wants a new boat. Opening call is a loud noise complaint from an elderly gentleman about a new elderly female tenant and her Irish music. Malloy and Reed explain the complaint and introduce the couple to each other and quietly leave them together. While on patrol a sniper starts shooting and they call in support resulting in them shooting the sniper in a car while fleeing. A theft report call is a man in an expensive home that appears to have been stripped. In fact due to his financial ruin and three wives the only items left were two cameras and a TV that were stolen. A call about body in alley is a wino killed for his new tennis shoes. As they leave the scene the officers spot another wino wearing new tennis shoes sleeping it off in a junked car. Malloy realizing Reed has his best interests at heart presents Reed with a gift of a single share of stock worth $5 to develop a "nest egg".