Adam-12: Season 5 [4 Discs] [DVD]

As originally broadcast on NBC from September 1968 through August 1975, the series Adam 12 brought Dragnet mainstay Jack Webb his second major hit on network television, albeit not in a starring but a producing capacity, through his Mark VII Ltd. shingle. Adam starred two relative unknowns, Kent McCord and Martin Milner, as, respectively, Jim Reed and Pete Malloy, patrol car officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, whose day-to-day brought them into one-on-one contact with a wealth of situations ranging from the devastating to the inconsequential. Adam 12 ran for a respectable seven seasons; Season Five of the program spanned the fall of 1972 through the spring of 1973, after supporting characters Jerry Walters William Stevens, Jean Reed Mikki Jamison), Jerry Miller (Jack Hogan) and Norm Green (Claude Johnson) departed from the series, but a couple of years before Officer Grant (William Elliott and Officer Woods (Fred Stromsoe) turned up. This was also the season that brought in crossover characters from another series produced by Webb at about the same time, Emergency!. As issued by NBC Universal and Shout Factory, this set contains all 24 half-hour episodes of Season Five, full and complete as they originally aired.