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Adam-12

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 Police Procedural, featuring Martin Milner as Officer Peter J. Malloy and Kent McCord as Officer James A. Reed, two Los Angeles cops partnered in a patrol car with the call sign "Adam-12". Produced by Jack Webb of Dragnet fame as a companion to that show: While Dragnet followed a pair of detectives in the course of investigating crimes, Adam-12 followed a pair of rank-and-file patrolmen as they performed their duties. Scrupulously accurate about police procedures of the period, to the point that several episodes were used in police academies as instructional films. The sense of realism was aided by casting actual LAPD dispatcher Shaaron Claridge as the unseen voice whose frequent calls of "One Adam Twelve! One Adam Twelve!" were virtually emblematic of the show.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The series ran 174 episodes on NBC between 1968 and 1975, accompanied by a comic book adaptation from Gold Key. There was a failed In Name Only Revival in 1990-91 that accompanied a similar In Name Only version of Dragnet. (This is not to be confused with the 1989 TV movie Nashville Beat, a Spiritual Successor starring Milner and McCord as former partners now working in Tennessee).The entire series has been released on DVD, and the first four seasons can currently be enjoyed on Hulu, assuming one is in the United States. As of May 2013, the show (along with the 60s/70s Dragnet) airs weekday afternoons and late night on digital subchannel network MeTV.
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 555: A form of: LXI 483 seems to be the license number of a lot of cars in Los Angeles. It's the license number the dispatcher checks in the opening credits of the first two seasons and of several cars over the course of the series. Suspect vehicles had license plates where the third letter in the three-letter sequence was I, O or Q. California did not issue license plates with those letters in that position because they could be confused with numbers, and reserved those combinations for Hollywood's use. One of the things Pacific Telephone had set up in Los Angeles County was a fake phone number in every exchange, consisting of the exchange number, the digit 1, and the exchange number, so a phone number like 282-1282 or 772-1772 would be a fake number. At least one guy asked for his phone number by the police gave a number in the exchange-1-exchange format. Of course, this was back when Los Angeles consisted of just area code 213, not the current 10+ area codes it has now.
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