{"id":1212,"date":"2011-08-21T21:32:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T02:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2011-08-21T21:42:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T02:42:16","slug":"more-about-adam-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"More about Adam-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 2 miles with the dog]<\/p>\n<p>We watched some more Adam-12 re-runs this evening.\u00a0 Adam-12 is a police show that started on the air in 1968.\u00a0 It was a spin-off from Dragnet and was known for being &#8220;realistic&#8221;, using real incidents from the the Los Angeles police department logs.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of things they don&#8217;t have on Adam-12:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No ambulances;\u00a0 they have something kind of similar but it is just for transportation, and the people who drive it are dressed as policemen.<\/li>\n<li>Not much in the way of an emergency room at the hospital<\/li>\n<li>No paramedics<\/li>\n<li>No CPR<\/li>\n<li>No SWAT teams (I think that kind of thing is kind of out of style again these days.)<\/li>\n<li>They had car radios but no hand-held radios.\u00a0 So once they left the car they were out of touch<\/li>\n<li>No computers, cell phones, GPS<\/li>\n<li>No video camera rolling in the car<\/li>\n<li>No divider between the front and back seats of the car<\/li>\n<li>No seat belts<\/li>\n<li>No plastic-zip handcuffs<\/li>\n<li>No 911\u00a0 (I guess you had to look up the number for the police department?)<\/li>\n<li>No helicopters<\/li>\n<li>No night vision goggles<\/li>\n<li>No mag-lights or laser sights<\/li>\n<li>No air conditioning in the patrol cars<\/li>\n<li>No tasers, no mace or pepper spray either<\/li>\n<li>A very abbreviated &#8220;miranda&#8221; warning<\/li>\n<li>Very little &#8220;crime scene&#8221;\u00a0 evidence stuff of any kind, just a bit of mention of fingerprinting<\/li>\n<li>They do have a breath-a-lyzer that they used on the drunks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of that is because of the style of the show.\u00a0 They used studio back-lots and low-budget sets and production.\u00a0\u00a0 But some is because in 1968 such things didn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>After Adam-12 came on, a few years later there was a spin-off of that called  Emergency!\u00a0 which was about firemen\/paramedics. \u00a0 It kind of introduced that idea to the world\u00a0 And it was more &#8220;realistic&#8221;. \u00a0 Later\u00a0 I think there was a show  about S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons And Tactics) teams where guys did things like training to clear houses and use sniper rifles and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 2 miles with the dog] We watched some more Adam-12 re-runs this evening.\u00a0 Adam-12 is a police show that started on the air in 1968.\u00a0 It was a spin-off from Dragnet and was known for being &#8220;realistic&#8221;, using real incidents from the the Los Angeles police department logs. Here&#8217;s a list of things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}