Site Migration

The server migration is on hold. Check here for more info.


Adam-12 (1968)/Suspended

From The TV IV
Jump to: navigation, search
Suspended
Season 5, Episode 20
Airdate February 21, 1973
Written by Leonard F. Hill
Directed by Samuel Freedle
Produced by Herman S. Saunders
← 5x19
Night Watch
5x21 →
A Fool and His Money
Adam-12Season Five
Movie_Projector_Icon.gif This article about an episode needs to be expanded with more information.
Please help out by editing it.

Suspended is the twentieth episode of the fifth season of Adam-12, and the one hundred twenty-second episode overall.

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

with Don Dubbins (Officer Tyson), William Boyett (Sgt. MacDonald), Jay Hammer (Young Man), Byron Keith (1st Deputy Chief), Dale Johnson (2nd Deputy Chief), Shaaron Claridge (Shaaron), Ray Ballard (Grocery Clerk), Chuck Bowman (Range Commander), Steve Conte (Ambulance Attendant), Ron Henriquez (Scorer)

Contents

Plot Overview

After an off night at the shooting range, Reed leaves work and stops at an all night grocery. As he is leaving with both arms full of groceries, a young man approaches as if he knows Reed. He points out a friend in a green Volkswagon Beetle holding a pistol on Reed. Reed drops the groceries, pushes the young man, leaps, and fires at the car hitting it. The man in the car fires hitting his friend.

The grocer heard only one shot as he comes out of the store, the car races off, and the young man hit in the head makes a dying declaration that Reed was gun happy and shot him.

Reed is on desk duty until a review board clears him but the young man dies increasing the pressure on Reed.

Malloy with a new by the book partner spends time on and off duty running license plate number combinations looking for the green Beetle. Malloy eventually tracks down the suspect and figures out why the license plate kept coming back to other cars, and this knowledge - plus a late confession by the suspect - eventually clear Reed.

Notes

Arc Advancement

Happenings

Characters

Referbacks

Trivia

The Show

  • This is the only time that Shaaron Claridge is credited and appears on screen. In all but two episodes, she is uncredited as the voice of the dispatcher.

Behind the Scenes

Allusions and References

Memorable Moments

Quotes