Who liked this classic TV show. About the Officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed.
My favorite Episodes are the following. Even though I like many of them.
The Chaser
Badge Heavy
Clear with a Civilian Part 2
The beast
Night watch
Training Wheels
So this guy walks into a bar
Etc.
Quotes I really like are the following. I always find others I like too.
Malloy: The dicks have their job, and we have ours. Its that simple. “
Pete Malloy: You know what this is?
Jim Reed: Yes sir, it's a police car.
Pete Malloy: This black and white patrol car has an overhead valve V8 engine. It develops 325 horsepower at 4800 RPM's. It accelerates from 0 to 60 in seven seconds; it has a top speed of 120 miles an hour. It's equipped with a multi channeled DFE radio and an electronic siren capable of admitting three variables, wale, yelp, and alert. It also serves as an outside radio speaker and public address system. The automobile has two shotgun racks, one attached to the bottom portion of the front seat, one in the vehicle trunk. Attached to the middle of the dash, illuminated by a single bulb is a hot sheet desk. Fastened to which you will always make sure is the latest one off the teletype before you ever roll.
Jim Reed: Yes sir.
Pete Malloy: It's your life insurance and mine. You take care of it and it'll take care of you.
Jim Reed: Yes sir. You want me to drive?
Pete Malloy: A wise man once said; great hazards accompany innovation.
Jim Reed: Yeah. Who was that?
Pete Malloy: Me!
MALLOY: Today we got lucky. All we got was a sack of fish.
REED: You just have to know how to arrest them and still make them like you. We call it technique.
"Reed, you're hopeless!"-Pete Malloy
"The subject of marriage came up."-Pete Malloy
"I've gotta look to the future."-Tee Jay (the occasional snitch)
"What kind of mother are you?"-Jim Reed
"His rap sheet is coming in now."-Lieutenant Moore
Episode 83 "The Search", Malloy hears Reed's voice of the radio, transmissions w/ Sgt. Mc Donnald, Reed wanted to make one last check of
Griffith Park before moving else ware. Malloy"Jerk"
When Reed finds Malloy laying bleeding next to their battered patrol unit in the woods, Malloy looks up at Reed and Malloy says "Partner"
Malloy: "We have to come back here again." Reed: "Yeah, they had good food." Malloy: "Good food we can get anywhere, they had cute waitresses."
From Log 1: The Impossible Mission (1968)
The 415 at the park: Reed has just apprehendened the teens in the barbecue hut and Malloy is just about to read him the riot act:
Malloy: "Just who do you think you are, Sergeant York?"
Reed: "Got in behind them. There's nothing to it."
Malloy: "Really. You could've been killed. When I give you orders, boy, you obey 'em, understand?"
Reed: "Yes sir, but I had a vantage point that you didn't have, so I took the iniative into my own hands."
Malloy: "Well you just take this piece into your little two hands and put it back in the rack!"(hands shotgun to Reed).
Reed:" Sorry. I just thought I was doing the right thing."
Malloy: "You're not old enough to think yet, Junior."
Reed: "Yes sir."
Malloy: "It's when you start thinking, before you're supposed to think,that you think yourself dead!" (Sees and nods to Lt. Moore)"See this tree? Well marry it if you have to, but I want you right here while I go talk to the Lieutenant!"
From A Dead Cop Help Anyone (1969)
The next day on p.m. watch after Ed Wells jumped Adam-12's call and Malloy and Reed get chewed out by Mac. Pete is at his locker and basically tells Ed to stay away from him and don't roll on any of his calls unless he's assigned. Ed is about to protest:
Wells : "Now wait a minute . . "
Malloy: "No, you wait a minute! You charge around like some comic strip charcter. And the sad thing about is that you think you're doing good police work; well you're not. There's more to this job than breaking a door down and taking a gun from some nut. Looks like you haven't learned that yet, and you never will, so I don't need you and these kids don't need you! If you don't get yourself killed, it'll be your partner or some other policeman.
Wells: " Aw, you're just mad because I made the bust. You'll get over it."
Malloy: "Look, Wells, the sergeant chewed on us because we didn't take that call ourselves. And I took it and didn't tell him about the stupid stunt you pulled! But next time you might not be so lucky, so do yourself a favor too, stay away from me!"
Malloy: " you think you could do something about that mirror?"
Reed – “ Sounds like a red head I used to know. “
Malloy: “What’s so funny?”
Reed: “ Oh Wells. I never knew a guy who could get into more scrapes! “
Malloy: “ Lets get Wells and Brinkman to come the party. “
Reed:- “ Wells? I can hardly wait. “
Officer Wells - “ how do you like that? “
Officer Brinkman - “ Wanna stay and watch? “
Officer Wells – “ Might as well. Morning shot anyway. “
Reed - “ Sure. Duke needed another dishwasher like a hole in the head. “
Reed –
Malloy - “ There he is. Three minutes before we go to work and he walks in all suited up.“
Reed – “ Did I get any phone calls? “
Malloy – “ What calls? Who would call somebody at seven O clock in the morning?”
Malloy - “ What did the guy say who shined your shoes? “
Reed – “ Nothing. “
Malloy - “ Did he ask you any questions?”
Reed – “ HA HA He never said a word why? “
Malloy – “ how about that Mac?”
Mac – “ Kinda hard to believe isn’t? “
Malloy – “ Yeah! He might as at least offered to shine your ankles. “
Reed – “ I didn’t ask her it wasn’t on the check list. “
Malloy – “ Either was I suppose. “
Reed – “ Did you want to be?”
Malloy - What 4 o clock in the morning? No thanks! “
Malloy – “ You got a dime?! “
Reed – “ Organization. “
Malloy – “ its gonna be a long day. “
Malloy - “ Where to partner? The nearest phone booth? “
Malloy – “ Sorry partner.”
Reed – “ Is anybody gonna tell me what it is? “
Malloy – “ It’s a mask and gown. “
Malloy – “ A fortune of merchandise inside protected by a ten cent lock. “
Reed – “ Couldn’t be more then four foot tall. “
Malloy – “ He’s a lot higher then that. “
Officer Grant- “ Eight hundred in the day time and a thousand at night. You aren’t gonna see anything but dollhouses, and toy cars and ants. What a great way to stamp out crime. “
Malloy – “Getting to be about that time. “
Reed – “ Just what my stomach was thinking. “
Reed – “ Can you believe that?”
Malloy – “ I think were about to meet the world’s dumbest thief. “
Reed – “ I wonder how he’d like my arm? Medium rare or well done. “
Malloy – “ Who do you think you are? Sgt. York? “
Malloy – “see this tree? Well you Marry it if you have to, But I want you right here when I finish talking to the lieutenant.”
Malloy - “ Well Mister we buster him for 21954 A.
Kid – “ What’s that mean?”
Malloy – “ Obstructing traffic. “
Malloy – “ The hills are so dry this time of the year. All you have to do is look at them sideways and they go up like a torch. “
Malloy – “ How do you feel partner? “
Reed – “ Hungry! “
Malloy – “ You seem a little down. “
Reed – “ Yeah. But did I do the right thing? “
Malloy – “ Probably. But on this job the only thing black and white is the car. “
Reed – “ Malloy! All of a sudden I’m just not hungry. “
Reed – “ Malloy. “
Malloy – “ No! “
Reed – “ What do you mean no?!”
Malloy – “ No I will not take a puppy. “
Reed – “ Did I ask you? Huh? “ Did I ask you to take a puppy? “
Malloy – “no. “
Reed – “ Well, don’t say no until I ask you. “
Malloy – “ Eight adorable, loveable, puppies need children for Birthday presents. Contact Jim Reed. PM watch. “
Malloy – “ Listen you meatball. What am I gonna do with a puppy? Lock it up in an empty apartment all the time while I’m workin. “
Malloy – “ Reed your out of your mind!”
Reed – “ Well 15 minutes to go to the end watch. “
Malloy – “What are trying to do, jinx us?
Reed – “ what do you mean? “
Male Dispatcher – “ All units in the vicinity, and 1- Adam 12, 1- Adam 12, a prowler there now, 456 Bennington, Apartment three, 1- Adam 12 code 2. “
Malloy – “ That’s what I mean. “
Reed – “ Malloy? “
Malloy – “ No! “
Reed – “what do mean? No. “
Malloy – “ No I do not want to spend the rest of watch trying to figure out why anybody would keep a Boa Contrictor as house pet.”
Reed – “you gotta admit, its pretty weird. “
Malloy – “ Ah it could be worse. Arthur might’ve been a Cobra. “
Reed – “ Grand theft horse? They’re putting us on. Hey Maybe that’s a phony call. “
Malloy – “ Grand theft horse? That’s gotta be for real, Its too goofy. “
Malloy – “Reed. “
Reed – “Yeah? “
Malloy – “ Don’t say it. “
Reed – “ Don’t say that the noise started again? “
Malloy – “Yeah. “
Reed – “ I wont. “
Reed – “ Whats the matter? “
Malloy – “ Looking around for another car. Before this one drives me into a rubber room.”
Reed – “ I already checked. They’re all tied up.”
Malloy – “ Hmm. “
Dectective – “ Do you know what kind of wall it was?”
Reed – “ Of course not! How am I suppose to know that? What are you getting at? “
Malloy – “ Take it easy. “
Reed – “ What am I suppose to do? Run up and look at the wall before I start shooting? It’s a stupid question. “
Reed – “ Feel like a darned fool. I can’t stop shaking. “
Malloy – “ Can I get you anything? A sandwich? Some soup? Aspirin? Six dancing girls?”
Reed – “No just leave me alone a minute. I’ll – I’ll be Okay.”
Reed – “ I saw a man shooting at me. And I shot back. Now that’s all I know. “
Waitress: One lousy dime, that's not a tip.
Officer James A. Reed: No ma'am, it's a hint.
Reed – “Remember there’s a rat in the middle of separate”
Malloy: " If your saying its the humidity and not the heat, you can go and walk. "
Officer Grant: “ How high you fly?”
Officer Grant: “ So you flutter around and keep that keen, keen eye on the freeways. That turn you on? Huh? “
Officer Wells : “ Hey, I’ll tell you what? You stay awake at roll call this morning and you just might learn something.”
Malloy – “ Well lets go see if we can find another nail. “
Reed - “ Those guys are always coming out with hot cars aren’t they?”
Malloy – “ No big secret. Sanchez memorizes the hot sheet. Mans got a photographic brain. Same as me. “
Reed – “ It’s a real gift isn’t it? “
Malloy – “ If you don’t forget to load the camera. “
Malloy – “ Nobody wants us today. “
Malloy – “ I don’t know how you can say that? I’m a real nature lover myself. “
Reed – “ Really isn’t too much of a hazard at that? “
Malloy – “ Lets be happy in our work Reed. “
Reed – “ Oh sure. But you got to admit, hasn’t been much of a day. “
Malloy – “ Tomorrow isn’t any better.”
Reed – “Yeah?”
Malloy – “ Somebody aught a cancel it. “
Reed – “ We were having lunch. “
Malloy – “ Say goodbye Reed. “
Malloy - “ You’re learning junior, You’re leaning. “
Malloy – “ Give him a ball a yarn and he could knit us both a sweater. “
Malloy – “ Alright music lover. Lets go tell the people they’re playing the piano too loud.”
Reed – “ This guy goes into a bar one night. He’s this little meat man with glasses. He’s got this funny looking squatty dog on a leash. And he walks up and orders a beer. Just a few feet away from him is another fellow, a big man. He got a great big ferrous dog with him, I mean like the biggest dog you ever saw. I mean like a Great Dane, with teeth about this long. I should of told you. The little funny looking dog was yellow. Well the big guy he looks over at the little guy then looks down at the yellow dog and he barks out laughing. And he says that’s the funniest looking dog I ever seen. And the little guy just nods and says I agree with you. He’s not much for looks, but he sure can fight. And the big guy says un uh my dog’s the fighter. There ain’t a dog in the world that can whip him. Anyway they went like this for a few minutes. Pretty soon the big guy says, OK put your money where your mouth is sport. I’m gonna bet you five hundred dollars my dog can beat yours. So they made the bet. So the big guy and the little guy they made the bet. And they took the dogs out in the alley. Now the big guy he stick the Great Dane on the little yellow dog. For about ten seconds all you could see is brown fur flying. And pretty soon the Great Dane he takes off with his tail between his legs just whipped. The big guy stood there and shook his head, and said I didn’t think there was any dog that could whip mine, let alone a little runny thing like that. And the little guy said maybe I should of mentioned it. Before I cut off his tail and painted him yellow he was an alligator. “
Reed- " This looks like a steak to me now. "
Reed – “ Why do you say you’re going to eat light and order a pepperoni pizza? “
Malloy – “ Why do you use a toothpick? When all you got is a bowl of soup. “
Reed – “ Chicken! I saw you get out of that one! “
Malloy – “ Come on, Nick. What were you doing up here? “
Malloy- “ Every car I see turns into ’62 Plymouth. “
Reed – “ Me, too. Makes you wonder. Just to grab a girl off the street, a guy would really have to be sick.”
Malloy- “ Sick yeah. He doesn’t have to grab anybody. There’s plenty of volunteers around. “
Officer Wells- “ I’m not gonna stand around watching a bunch of blue decon cowboys chasing after my niece!”
Mac- “ You’ve been on the job three weeks! You don’t have an opinion! “
Malloy – “ I don’t know, Maybe you may understand you. “
Malloy – “ Its when you start thinking before you’re supposed to think, that you think yourself dead. “
Malloy – “ Well its my allowance, mother. I can spend it on whatever I want. “
Malloy – “ Just fighting crime when and where we find it. “
Malloy – “ Let it go, Jim”
Malloy – “ I shoulda listened to me.”
Malloy – “ Five thousand men in the department and I had to draw you. “
Malloy – “ I’m gonna take you back to the station and trade you in…”
Malloy – “ Mad never solved anything. “
Reed – “ Its all a matter of organization.”
Reed – “ Nothing ever gets done if nobody ever volunteers for anything. “
Reed – “ There’s always something to be thankful for.”
Reed - “ See? A kind word never hurts.”
Reed – “ A home and a family, and that’s where the satisfactions are. “
Reed – “ We’re talking about a human life, something too valuable not to care. “
Reed - “ You rat! “
Reed – “ Terrific. “
Malloy – “ Didn’t we meet at roll call?”
Reed – “ Yes Sir.”
Malloy – “ You know, I can tell right off, you got a real flair for police work.
Reed – “Yes Sir.”
Reed – “Yes Sir.”
Malloy – Reed, do me a favor.
Reed –“ Yes Sir.”
Malloy- “ See if you can manage to follow me to the car.”
Reed- “ A bottle opener, a comb, and 27 cents.”
Malloy –“ Don’t forget the book.”
Reed – “Yeah, I wonder where he got that?”
Malloy – “ The good old mission. That’s their specialty… a meal, a bed and the book. “
Malloy – “ In where? “
Alice- “ In the refrigerator.”
Malloy- “You put the scarf in the refrigerator?”
Reed- “ Well, maybe that’s the last we’ll see of them.”
Malloy – “ I doubt it very much. “
Malloy – “ Maybe we should stencil it on our uniforms, GOOD COPS,HANDLE WITH CARE.”
Malloy – “ And what is that, a wayward bus?”
Malloy – “ Its just one of those stories. Some people like it, some people don’t.”
Malloy - “ Is that all you’re worried about? What about the guy that picks you up? How do you know what’s in his mind?”
Malloy – “ Once you get into his car, he owns you. A knife or a gun, you do exactly what he says all the way. And when he’s finished, you might be, too. “
Mac- “ I before E except after C.”
Reed- “ Did I do that again?”
Mac- “ Several times. “
Malloy- “ Congratulations partner. “
Malloy – “ The green phantom?”
Reed – “ Yeah, the green phantom, that hard-hearted wife of mine. Anyhow that’s how come we got Queenie and eight puppies. ”
Walters- “ Any guy who would try to unload a couple of mutts on a fellow officer has got to be some kind of a sadist!”
Malloy- “ For crying out loud, I didn’t leave the gate open so Queenie could become a mother.”
Reed – “ It wasn’t the gate, it was the window and she eloped in the middle of the night.”
Reed – Anyway, this dog wanders in the back yard all dirty, foxtails and burrs in her coat. So Jean says don’t feed her and she’ll go away. So I don’t feed her. But she doesn’t go away. In a couple of days, she starts looking pretty good like she’s had a bath and she’s eating regularly. Who do you think was feeding her?”
Reed – “ Narcotics?”
Mark A. Gurney- “ Ah, there’s that dirty word. “
Mark A. Gurney- “ Come on. “
Malloy- “ There’s no point in discussing it. “
Mark A. Gurney- “ Maybe he’s happy. Or isn’t that allowed anymore?”
Reed- “ No sign of them.”
Malloy- “ You’re going to get a sore neck, partner.”
Reed – “ I guess you’re right. They, just bug me, that’s all.”
Malloy – “ You don’t say.”
Malloy – “On this job we seem to get em all.
Malloy – “ Reed, if it makes you feel any better to think of me as a bleeding heart, go ahead. You’re wrong, but that’s your business.”
Reed – “ Hey, what about lunch?”
Malloy – “ I lost my appetite.”
Reed –“ If we don’t stop him soon, we can stop worrying about him. He’ll run out of TVs to steal.”
Reed – “ What kind of mother are you? “
Reed – “ Nice girl.”
Malloy – “ Delightful.”
Malloy – “ Now how are you going fight me in court if you won’t agree to be there?”
Reed- “ Why didn’t you tell her if she didn’t sign the ticket she’d go to jail?”
Malloy- “ Cause she’s the type that would love to go to jail just so she could holler “ Police brutality.” Besides, I didn’t want to spend the time booking her, not with are friend out, there scooping up all the TVs in the world.”
Malloy – “ Don’t miss much, do they?”
Reed-“ No. And it’s not a big dent.”
Malloy- “ Just say the word, and I’ll turn around and go back so you can fight it out with him.”
Reed- “ Well, It isn’t so much the heat though. Its.. “
Malloy – “ Reed if you’re gonna tell me its not the heat, it the humidity, you can get out and walk.”
Reed – “I’ll bet you that’s…”
Dispatcher-“ 912,South Grand Street.”
Reed-“ Cullen again.”
Malloy-“ He’s a character.”
Reed – “ How many times we’ve been here? Four?”
Malloy – Four. And he still hasn’t got the signs right.”
Reed- “ You want to bet he doesn’t call us again.”
Malloy –“ no.”
Reed- “ Well, you said it. The detectives have their job and we have ours.”
Reed – “ Now you take Jean and me, know what we did yesterday?”
Malloy- “ what?”
Reed – “ we painted the bathroom.”
Malloy – “ On your day off you painted the bathroom?”
Reed – “ That’s right. And we had a ball, too. “
Malloy – “ You’re putting me on.”
Malloy - "You think that's weird? I know a guy that paints bathrooms on his day off."
Malloy – “ The world is full of squirrels, and some days on this job, it seems we get ‘em all.”
Malloy – “ I’ll tell you what they had. Lye soap, outdoor plumbing, bad food, and a mortality rate you wouldn’t believe. “
Malloy – “ Keep that trigger finger relaxed.”
Reed – “ Give me one good reason why I should.”
Malloy – “ Up to now, you got no good reason not to.”
Jean Reed – “ In the days when this town was alive, the bad guys rode horses. All they’ve done is figured out a new way to get around.”
Reed – “ Down on the floor, wild mouth! “
Malloy- “ The kind you understand, buddy. Yeah, you’re clean.”
Reed – “ No iron No nothing’, huh? “
A 415 fight group with chains and knives.
Wells- “ no, no thanks, I have a motto, never join a loser. “
Malloy – “ I thought I heard all the excuses in the world. This one was I forgot to feed my gold fish. “
Reed- So hows it going?
Malloy -Besides the occasional cramp.
Reed - Where?
Malloy - I rather not discuss it.
Reed – “ See a kind word never hurt. “
Malloy – “Well that’s a strange place to park.”
Reed – “ What do you think of having two Television sets? “
Malloy- “ You mean for one for each eye? I live alone, remember?”
Reed – “ I wasn’t talking about you. I was talking about me. “
Malloy – “ Welcome back to land of the living. “
Malloy – “ you should have seen the look on your face when the lid started coming up.”
Reed – “ Nag, nag,nag.”
Malloy – “ Another code 3. A baptism of fire for you today.”
Reed – “ Hey, maybe that’s why they call it weed. “
Malloy – “ What do you mean?”
Reed- “ Seems to grow anywhere.”
Malloy- " Ma'am I'm not your paper boy. He is. "
Chick – “hi?!”
Malloy- “ I don’t know. Are you? “
Reed- “ You called it. Codeine. “
Malloy – “ Looks like the candy store just closed.”
Reed – “ pretty impressive bunch. “
Mac – “ That’s what gets ‘em in print. They attract.”
Malloy – “ Not everybody.”
Reed – “ There goes *snaps finger.* the whole department. “
Reed - " You're always telling me I'm late. "
Reed – “ Talking to them is like talking to a machine. “
