While we're all fans of the show, we all have an episode we hate.....you know, the one that's so phony it can't possibly be true by any means like they claim....

I think mine is in season 4, episode 12 entitled "the Dinosaur". This is where a veteran officer is fully retired due to being injured in the line of duty, and recovers enough to return to the job 8 years later. With no recurrent training, they just give him a badge and a gun and put him back to work (of course with Reed and Malloy). He keeps screwing up because he is 'out of step' with the current times and laws. We all know they would never do something like that...and everytime that episode comes up, I have to skip over it.

Ok, so lets hear about your least favorite episode and why.

I always hated "The Search."
I watched it as a kid when it originally aired in October - Nov 1971. It was not the last episode in Season 4. This is the episode when Malloy flips the 1971 Plymouth Satellite during a 211 pursuit and destroys it. Although, in the crash sequence they changed the car to a 69 Plymouth Satellite, he was driving the 71 when the chase started. They had just gotten the car back from the garage.

The next week, the 71 Plymouth is back in service with the "83012" garage number on it. Factually, the garage number would not have been replaced because it dealt with the mantainance records for a particular car. They should have reversed the story line and given him a 70 Montego to destroy.

I agree that "The Dinosaur" was pretty weak. However, even the worst Adam 12 episodes are better than most of the new cop shows that are out on network TV!