I was always afried of becoming the kid with his head stuck...
Posted on 09/08/2015 9:43:59 AM PDT by Kartographer
IIRC, they used the expression even when the citizen who requested an officer was a woman. I never once heard dispatch say “see the woman.”
Was that LAPD standard radio lingo? I guess it was, since Adam-12 was a Joe Friday production.
I wouldn’t be surprised. Lots of shorthand used in dispatching police calls.
Well thanks for confirming that. I wondered about that for years. In fact, back when Google first got big, that was one of the things I searched for (probably 12 years or so ago).
I typed in “Adam-12 see the man” and other similar search strings, and got nothing. Maybe today that would be different.
Not having an answer to this left a hole in my adolescent consciousness that you have finally filled. For that, I thank you.
Adam-12 & Hawaii 5-0 are MeTV favorites, and our teens will drop everything to watch with us.
RIP, Officer Malloy, among other things, your snarking on Reed and scamming on chicks will be missed.
I was always afried of becoming the kid with his head stuck...
I’ll feel old when Michael Jackson dies...uhmmmmm....wait....
Beat it...
And Dean Jones last week.
Jack Cassidy is dead for many years too. I suppose Hopalong must be dead as well. When I was a cotton topped kid my older brother used to tell me I looked like William Boyd who played Hopalong Cassidy on TV.
Julie’s ex-husband was Jack Webb, who produced the show.
The dispatcher on Adam-12 was an actual LAPD Dispatcher, so I assume she’d use corect radio protocol
Wow, we must have lived the same life. I had the same lunchbox and always remembered the kid in the fence. I never saw that scene on TV and wondered why.
A few months ago, I started watching Adam-12 on Netflix and saw the scene. I think it’s season 1 episode 1.
I had to quit watching because I got so sick of comparing Peace officers of then to the thugs and revenue enhancement agents of today.
10-42.
Rest in peace.
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