Adam-12 was in its first season. To ensure the series would follow in the footsteps of Dragnet, series stars Martin Milner (ex-Route 66) and Kent McCord appeared on Dragnet in their roles as Officers Pete Malloy & Jim Reed, respectively, in a tale about the Internal Affairs unit, to which Joe Friday (Jack Webb) & Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) have been assigned for this particular episode.
Future soap star John McCook, later of The Young & The Restless, and frequent Webb repertory player Jack Sheldon (ex-Run, Buddy, Run) also guest star.
Today, both Dragnet & Adam-12 are airing on Me-TV in hour-long blocks. Dragnet as part of the dawn patrol, and Adam-12 as a lead-in to The Flintstones.
Rating: A.
2 comments:
Crossovers can be fun! I always considered it a treat of sorts to see my favorite TV characters interact with one another and acknowledge a shared universe. Of course, now there's fanfiction.net and no one's looked back since!
I loved both Dragnet and Adam -12 reruns since I was a kid and still enjoy the shows when I can catch them. Of course Officers Reed and Molloy also guested on an episode of "Emergency!" as themselves; although another episode had them as their TV show that the guys at Squad 51 were watching! Weird that they didn't keep that consistent.
Television in the 60's & 70's was weird like that.
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