As of July 2026, Adam-12 Season 4 aired in 1971 with 24 episodes — streaming now on Philo. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Adam-12 Season 4

1971 24 Episodes Crime · Drama ⭐ 7/10

Adam-12 Season 4 has quietly become one of the more dependable crime dramas currently available on . The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Martin Milner anchors it, but the writing does the real work. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Adam-12 Season 4 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Adam-12 Season 4 treats its mystery as a means, not an end in itself. This is a list of episodes from the fourth season of Adam-12. Martin Milner and Kent McCord lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1971. Adam-12 Season 4 is at its best in the quiet scenes between the plot beats, where the character work actually happens. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

If you cannot walk away from a good mystery, Adam-12 Season 4 will keep you hooked. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Martin Milner anchors it, but the writing does the real work. If you are going to commit to one crime drama this month, make it this one.

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🎬 Adam-12 Season 4 — Episode Guide

E1
Extortion
1971-09-15
Malloy and Reed investigate an extortion racket against a group of Jewish Holocaust survivors, with the owner of a dry cleaners willing to testify but others not out of fear of retribution. The officers return to handle the owner's panel truck being set ablaze and later the owner is physically assau...
E2
Million Dollar Buff
1971-09-22
Police "buff" Jennings Thornton, a thorn in the side for Malloy and Reed, intervenes in a drunk driving case, runs down a shooter after a robbery (and nearly getting Reed killed), and is finally arrested himself for falsely arresting two teenage boys for stealing mag wheels that were actually legall...
E3
The Grandmother
1971-09-29
Malloy and Reed investigate a robbery in a store run by a group of "grandmothers", who sell small homemade items, then later return the money. The suspect later robs an antique shop but is captured when he returns to the first store to attempt another robbery, and the officers purchase some items fr...
E4
The Sniper
1971-10-06
The radical Robin Saydo on the loose, tied into a number of bombings. Reed spots him and Saydo is arrested by D.A. Paul Ryan. Other calls include an abandoned police cruiser which turned out to be a lone policeman on a foot pursuit capturing a drug suspect, and retired security officer Fred Tibbles ...
E5
The Search
1971-10-20
1-Adam-12 is back on the streets after routine maintenance, but the radio isn't working properly. During an armed robbery involving two suspects, Reed captures one while Malloy takes off in pursuit of the other one through Griffith Park and loses control of the car, and it rolls into an embankment h...
E6
The Ferret
1971-10-27
A man named "The Ferret" is vandalizing a manufacturing plant due to their poor record on ecology, and escapes Reed easily on foot pursuit. A reporter catches Reed in an unflattering light after the escape and plasters him over the front page. Reed is redeemed when he catches the Ferret when he retu...
E7
Truant
1971-11-03
Truancy is on the rise in the district and Reed has a plan to pick up truants on the street, which was approved after a garage break-in by two truants. Results show a drop in crimes committed by truants, in one case two truants were stopped by the police and were implicated in a burglary, and one of...
E8
Ambush
1971-11-10
Malloy and Reed are sent to assist the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department with transporting a prisoner from Malibu to Los Angeles for outstanding traffic warrants. During the trip, the prisoner reveals he is also a witness in a mob murder and a hit has been ordered on him. Suddenly, the cruiser...
E9
Anniversary
1971-11-17
Sgt. MacDonald's anniversary is coming up and the officers have limited funds to spend on a gift, which is a bottle of champagne, but when the officers pick it up, the owner of the liquor store was shot in an attempted robbery. Malloy and Reed later find the robber dead in a park from a gunshot woun...
E10
Day Watch
1971-11-24
Over the course of their shift, Malloy and Reed deal with a racist gas station owner who is tired of being the victim of repeated robberies. When they catch the suspect, supposedly a black man, they find he is actually just an equally-racist white man in blackface. Other calls include a hitchhiker w...
E11
Assassination
1971-12-08
A phony prowler call results in shots being fired at Malloy and Reed. Shots ring out again when the officers head to the airport to transport a blood donor. The suspect is a known check bouncer, and Reed's wife gets a disturbing phone call. Later Reed heads home and meets an acquaintance who just ha...
E12
The Dinosaur
1971-12-15
Officer Art McCall returns from eight years on disability and rides with Malloy and Reed to see how much has changed in law enforcement. McCall soon learns exactly how much has changed when he tries illegal techniques to help a young woman with her ex-con husband, fails to Mirandize a boy after arre...
E13
Pick-Up
1971-12-29
Malloy and Reed find a girl who was raped and left for dead in the hills but was actually alive and identified her attacker's car as a red Porsche. Malloy spots the suspect car picking up another girl and gives chase, only to have the suspect dump the girl on the street and the officer loses the car...
E14
Citizens All
1972-01-05
Cases include a woman whose purse was robbed after two men bumped her car while on the road, then are captured along with the loot when a citizen complains about loud noise coming from their lair. A broken-down car leads to a meeting between the car's owner and a counterfeiter, and a fight in a fast...
E15
The Princess and the Pig
1972-01-12
A disturbance call leads the officers to a nightclub where a singer named Kathy is strung out on drugs, and clings to Reed on the way to the hospital, telling him someone is trying to kill her and give her drugs. Narcotic detectives decide to assign Reed undercover as an AWOL soldier with a large st...
E16
The Tip
1972-01-19
Malloy and Reed deal with a woman who thinks she has a rattlesnake in her luggage, an out-of-town traffic violator, and a bar brawl, all while tackling armored truck robbers whose attacks have been predicted in advance by an informant.
E17
The Parole Violator
1972-01-26
Malloy is told that the best player on the recreational league basketball team he coaches has begun using narcotics again, which he flatly denies despite evidence to the contrary. He and Reed also search for a hit-and-run driver who struck a child, and pull over a driver with a seemingly disrespectf...
E18
Adoption
1972-02-02
Malloy and Reed investigate the ransacking of a college football locker room and uncover a controversial performance enhancing drug program. They also investigate suspicious parents who backtrack after their maid reports their baby as missing, apprehend a reported prowler who is then suspiciously le...
E19
Mary Hong Loves Tommy Chen
1972-02-09
A young girl from Chinatown is ordered by her father to withhold information from Malloy and Reed regarding her boyfriend, an undercover cop left in a coma after investigating a potential attack on a Chinese elders' association. Meanwhile, the officers also encounter a middle-aged marijuana user and...
E20
Sub-Station
1972-02-16
On temporary assignment at LAX, Reed and Malloy have to save a stewardess who is taken hostage inside a lounge by a man desperately trying to get the attention of a television producer. Afterward, they go undercover as rental car employees to intercept a large narcotics delivery from Toledo, and the...

🎭 Cast of Adam-12 Season 4

Martin Milner
Martin Milner
Officer Pete Malloy
Kent McCord
Kent McCord
Officer Jim Reed
William Boyett
William Boyett
Sergeant MacDonald

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