# chips vrs. adam 12? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-vrs-adam-12/785168 "2017-04-24T21:40:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-vrs-adam-12/785168/41 "2017-04-27T15:20:44Z")
Emergency, aka how high can someone be trapped? Roy and Johnny sure liked climbing up on high things, but was that a requirement to be a paramedic, or even a fireman? Could I be a productive member of LCFD and refuse to go up on a crane, and tower, a tall tree, (when actual free climbing is involved)? Would the other firemen call me a pussy? ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-vrs-adam-12/785168/42 "2017-04-27T15:28:17Z")
According to actual police officers, _Barney Miller_ was the single most accurate show in terms of police officers actual day to day jobs - mostly paperwork. But, let us give a tip of the hat to _Emergency: Animal Control_, a short lived spinoff about dogcatchers. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-vrs-adam-12/785168/43 "2017-04-27T16:06:28Z")
Jack Webb would never show a woman with prominent nipples in wet underwear.\*[Deborah Zon in “Down Time” (S2E13)](https://chips-tv.com/wiki/images/thumb/3/34/S2Ep13Melodie%27sBikini.jpg/180px-S2Ep13Melodie%27sBikini.jpg) Randi Oakes, in her second appearance before joining the cast as Officer Bonnie Clark, gets the same treatment in that episode but [doesn’t show the same things](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1000/5LGofQyuEFJ5LcqGL2bZJ9ZxkUs.jpg). \*MeTV showed the episode yesterday and blurred those bits, so I had to go find an unaltered version. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-vrs-adam-12/785168/44 "2017-04-27T16:07:09Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > But, let us give a tip of the hat to _Emergency: Animal Control_, a short lived spinoff about dogcatchers. I don’t know whether you are incredibly prophetic or just subtly snarky, but [they tried that](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0570596/). [It didn’t take.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0570596/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-vrs-adam-12/785168/45 "2017-04-27T19:00:44Z")
I was being snarky. I actually watched an episode of that. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-vrs-adam-12/785168/46 "2017-04-27T20:53:21Z")
Adam-12 I lived in the San Fernando Valley and it was a game recognizing all the location shots. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-vrs-adam-12/785168/47 "2017-04-27T21:26:48Z")
Related bit of trivia: Shortly before Jack Webb’s death in 1982, he considered bringing back _Dragnet_ for yet another run. Harry Morgan was busy playing Col. Potter on _M_A_S_H\*, so Webb decided to have Kent McCord as Friday’s new partner. No indication whether McCord was to play Jim Reed or a completely new character, but I think most fans would have welcomed a pairing of Friday and Reed, especially since McCord had appeared as Reed in a couple of episodes of _Dragnet_ as well. > **[Dragnet (franchise)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragnet_(franchise)#Later_in_Webb.27s_career)** > > Dragnet is an American radio, television and film series, following the exploits of dedicated Los Angeles Police Department Detective Joe Friday and his partners, created by actor and producer Jack Webb. The show took its name from the police term "dragnet", a term for a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. > Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural crime drama in American media history. The series portrayed police work as dangerous a... ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-vrs-adam-12/785168/48 "2017-04-27T21:27:59Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Adam-12 > > I lived in the San Fernando Valley and it was a game recognizing all the location shots. I still do that. If they give a good enough shot of a street sign, I whip out google maps and see if I can find the location, and see how it has changed in the intervening 45 years. Surprising how many locations are within a mile of Universal Studios! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-vrs-adam-12/785168/49 "2017-04-27T21:55:11Z")
Tons of good info and photos of _Adam-12_ on this site. More than you might ever want to know. [LAPDCOPS.com](http://www.lapdcops.com/?page_id=2) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-vrs-adam-12/785168.md?page=2)