Adam-12 3

Pete Malloy and Jim Reed are partnered uniform LAPD patrol officers. In relative terms, Pete is the veteran, Jim the green neophyte. At the beginning of their partnership, Pete had been on the force for seven years, his previous partner having just been killed on the job, while Jim was fresh out of the academy. Their patrol unit is code named Adam-12. As Pete and Jim attend to calls and patrol the streets of Los Angeles, they deal with the entire gamut of police situations, from the dangerous and tenuous, to the mundane, to the absurd and ridiculous. Through their burgeoning friendship, a continuing point of contention between the two is their differing lifestyles, each who tries to convince the other that they are happier, and thus should be emulated. Jim has a loving wife named Jean and a growing family, while Pete is the confirmed bachelor who wants whoever his latest girlfriend solely to be casual.