Martin Milner Dies: ‘Adam-12’ & ‘Route 66’ Star Was 83

deadline.com ^ | 9-7-15 | Erik Pederson

[windcliff]

Martin Milner, the veteran actor best known for starring in the popular TV dramas Adam-12 and Route 66, has died. He was 83. The Los Angeles Police Department’s communications office confirmed his death in an Instagram post referring to his Adam-12 character that reads, “Pete Malloy, you are end of watch”:

[Bratch]

Route 66 - Natalie Cole and Diana Krall

[MCOAvalanche]

When media/entertainment industry started painting the police the enemy not the good guys. Reinforced by the brain dead politicians.

[Kickass Conservative]

Years ago I was flying out of Denver. The Passengers were all a flutter because Martin Milner and Kent McCord were sitting up in First Class.

Everyone was running up the Aisle to get their Autographs before we took off.

We took off in a Snowstorm, after the Plane was Deiced Three separate times on the Tarmac waiting for the Weather to improve enough. It felt like we weren’t gaining any Altitude upon Takeoff. One of the few times I though, uh oh.

If we didn’t make it, at least my Family could tell the story that I died on the same Flight as the Adam 12 guys.

[martin_fierro]

IIRC there were always 3 crimes per show.

[KGeorge]

It really is. I loved Adam-12 (but barely remember Route 66. I was really little. It’s on our DVD ‘’get’’ list, along with 77 Sunset Strip)

:-( RIP

[Kirkwood]

There were 2 separate Route 66 songs that you’ve confused. Nelson Riddle did the TV theme song which was an instrumental and Bobby Troup did the one for radio which had lyrics. The two songs are totally different and the reason they get confused is because they came out around the same time. The Troup song has nothing to do with the TV show. He may have pitched it for the show, but it was a different tempo - much too slow for late 50s, early 60s era TV.

[miserare]

RIP, Martin.

[Kirkwood]

I was just watching Martin Miner and Yvonne Craig on Route 66 this morning and wondering how MM was doing since YC recently passed. He was one my favorite actors. He always seemd to play an intelligent, strong, quiet, decent guy in his roles. Someone who you could count on to be level-headed and fair. I would like to think he was like that in real life.

[infowarrior]

To answer the question posed by the juxtaposed photos? During the tenure of LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, the 'father of SWAT"...

the infowarrior

[al baby]

Thanks i found it i was hoping to find that they did a end of watch over the radio

[Yaelle]

I love what the LAPD did. RIP.

[Yaelle]

I rarely saw the show but it was cool to recognize where they were. And in the hills the streets were so bare! Now they are jungle thick with huge old trees! In the 60s the greets were saplings attached to sticks! Of course with no watering they may go back to sticks.

On Facebook there is an entity called old photos of the San Fernando valley. It’s fun to see those old pics.

[sushiman]

Show was never as good without Maharis IMO .

[Las Vegas Ron]

During the tenure of LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, the 'father of SWAT"...

Like most things in government, programs morph into entities they were never meant to be.

BTW, SWAT was around long before Gates, SWAT was even used in the Adam 12 series.

[Bender2]

His first film was at age 16 in Life with Father playing John Day in the year of my birth, 1947, so you could say I grew up with him.

My first memory of him in a film was Pvt. Mike McHugh... in Sands of Iwo Jima saying, "Tough sergeants just roll off my knife," then he flubs grenade tossing and later is shown dead on the beach with They Were Young and Gay in the pocket of his blouse.

BTW The film came out in 1949 so it must have been from a later viewing because as smart as I was at age two, I was not that smart--

He played a perpetual juvenile for many years up until his role as Tod Stiles... in "Route 66" that was a favorite of mine and my late Father's.

His seven year stint as Officer Pete Malloy in Jack Webb's "Adam-12" TV Series was his longest role but he was always cast in many film and television parts.

I auditioned for a part in "Adam-12" the last year of the series and got to meet him as he walked by with his co-star Kent McCord. Then six year later I was on the set of a "Fantasy island" he was in but I did not get to speak to him.

I once saw him as I pulled up to a traffic light about the same time in LA. I waved and he waved back but I'm sure he was just being polite.

Even in 1981, he did not look 40 year old. He and Dick Clark must have drank from the same well as they never seem to age--

God Bless, Marty. Rest in peace.

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[Las Vegas Ron]

On Facebook there is an entity called old photos of the San Fernando valley. It’s fun to see those old pics.

I've visited it in the past. I like the old historical restaurant sites....what I miss most about So Cal...that and the ocean.

[mass55th]

RIP Mr. Milner. Used to watch Route 66 all the time.

[iowamark]

Rest in Peace. A great career:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590398/

[ErnBatavia]

Much, much better than “T.J. Hooker - faggot cop”...

[sushiman]

” Is George MahaRIS STILL Alive? He was the partner in Rte 66) He got busted back in late 60’s for man boy sex “

Yes , and his bust was in 1974 and was not for man/boy sex . It was for having sex with a make hairdresser in a bathroom stall .