Should I watch Route 66 or Adam-12?

"Route 66" has that great opening theme song, a beautiful retro Corvette and George Maharis to look at and wonder about.

There's also an episode with Joan Crawford.

So really, there's no other choice.

R1 George Maharis left midway through the third season. Shortly there after, Glenn Corbett was Milner's new sidekick.

[quote] So really, there's no other choice.

So why didn't you vote in my poll, cunt?

Adam-12 is a typical Jack Webb cop show which is to say the plot is the same in every episode and it was made cheaply. Basically a non-geezer version of Dragnet.

Route 66 was shot on location all over the US--it's a history lesson in the way the US was 60 years ago and it is full of great actors in guest roles at the beginning of their careers. It also has the great Nelson Riddle theme song which captures the open road like nothing else.

I live on Route 66 so of course it gets my vote!

Both are very different and both are good.

Martin Milner was gorgeous in his youth.

Adam-12: Kent McCord

"Adam-12" has one basic script: People (usually young people) do evil things. Cops always win. And one setting, Los Angeles.

"Route 66" has episodes that range from fairly dark psychological dramas all the way to light, comedic tales (e.g., Karloff, Lorre and Chaney at the O'Hare Airport Inn). And actual location shooting that shows what a lot of America was like in the 60s. Definitely more watchable.

Find the show where this comes from ("Gidget"?) and watch that instead:

Milner is on an episode (Mirror Image) of The Twilight Zone tonight. I've seen this episode so many times and had never realized it was him. He looks older than he did on Adam-12 even though this episode predates Adam-12.

George was a kinky mother fucker. Let's just say he was a regular guest for coffee at Danny Thomas's house.

[quote] he was a regular guest for coffee at Danny Thomas's house.

I hope Marlo's mother or the staff disinfected the coffee table before serving.

kent mccord was thee epitome of the clean cut pretty boy on adam-12... so fine... i remember back in 2002 or so seeing him sitting down on sunset blvd in the court yard of the old VIRGIN records store and other businesses, just sitting wearing sunglasses and hanging out. Always wondered if he was looking for a "friend" for the night being this place/area had a gym with great looking muscle strutting around. course that is if he played for the same team, which i don't think he did/does..

I much preferred older Martin Milner. Did he ever do a bedroom scene in his career?

I much preferred older Martin Milner. Did he ever do a bedroom scene in his career?

Burt Lancaster challenging Martin Milner to pull his finger

Look at the hair. So perfectly coiffed.

Adam 12 for the win. The chemistry between Milner and McCord is off the charts.

Adam 12 is my required viewing every day at 5pm. I just love that show. Kent McCord & Marty Milner cause a definite burning in my loins. Yesterday the series started over from the 1st show when Kent was a rookie cop assigned to Milner. Milner worked him hard, just like a drill sergeant, constantly on his ass about one thing or another. McCord had a short military buzz cut and looked adorable.

There is no comparison. Adam-12 was a good cop show but Route 66 was a truly great series of diverse and compelling stories staged across the country with some excellent acting.

Definitely Dragnet. It had better music and much hotter police-women.

[quote]Adam 12 is my required viewing every day at 5pm

Same here.

I like how Adam-12 went against type and had Milner play the ladies man always on the make and McCord was the family man with wife and kids.....

Route 66 had great guest stars. For example, Miss Lois Smith...

And, as mentioned, Miss Crawford....

One of Milner's girlfriends on the show was none other than Aneta Coursaut (Helen Crump from the Andy Griffith Show), who was most likely already sharing her bed off set with Andy Griffith, her long time lover.

Adam-12 also featured William Boyett as Sergeant William 'Mac' MacDonald for all of the Daddy fetishists.

I like Kent McCord not only for looks but for his support of the union. He joined SAG in 1972. In 2006, he was elected 1st national vice president of the Screen Actors Guild’s Hollywood division.. Even back then he was focused on the changes in how work would be shared and the wages and working conditions of members.

i would have loved to see a episode of adam-12 where kent mccord's character and his partner had to go undercover at a equestrian event and both had to wear spray painted on light tan khaki equestrian pants! or go undercover at a marines training base and had to wear super super short and tight small khaki pants like the marines do when they are training! or go undercover at a ballet company and both had to wear nearly see thru light colored spray painted on ballet tights complete with obscene blatant codpieces ( or not codpieces!) bulges.....

McCord and Milner were often seen in their street clothes on the show during those locker room sequences when they're changing out of their uniforms. Both favored nice tight pants and both had fine meaty rump roasts. I've always had a bit of a sideburn fetish and McCord sported some beautiful side panels later in the show once they let him get rid of the short military cut.

A shirtless shot of Kent McCord. Lord have mercy!

Marty Milner was pretty easy on the eyes as well.

The best Kent McCord ever looked during his Adam 12 days. Look at those beautiful sideburns.

R29, we get where you're going with all that. It's nifty.

[quote]I like how Adam-12 went against type and had Milner play the ladies man always on the make and McCord was the family man with wife and kids.

Quite the contrary in my opinion. Malloy was NOT always on the make -- in fact, there were episodes in which he displayed a complete disinterest in women, even women who were very pretty, nice, normal, and interested in him. He just didn't care. It happened enough that I always thought the argument could've been made that the writers were trying to convey that Malloy, if not gay, was at the very least bisexual (and likely would've been portrayed as such had the show been produced in a more "enlightened" time than the '70s).

mccord was the pretty boy and milner was the suburban daddy.. both would have been PURR-FECT in gay porn playing these respective roles...

[quote]William Boyett

He had the most beautiful, dreamy blue eyes.

For your reading pleasure, here’s a link to a super hot Malloy/Reed gay fanfic story. It’s a sure 10 on the Peter Meter.

Adam-12 had better eye candy. Kent McCord was gorgeous.

i was on a game show with Martin Milner. He was stunning.I was getting turned on just speaking with him.

Kent McCord looked like he might have a slight bit of America Indian in his lineage.

^I agree. It’s the dark features, the low brow and the high, chiseled cheekbones.

Can't you just record one and watch the other?

[quote] Can't you just record one and watch the other?

R43, read the OP:

[quote] recording is not (I repeat not) an option

Kent McCord is still a very handsome man at 77. Very elegant in appearance.

If I recall correctly...oh. now I can't recall. McCord comes off as a bit of an oddball in either "I, Rhoda" or "Prairie Tale: a Memoir". It was during the SAG saga with Valerie and Melissa.

I still don't get why he doesn't record it.

[quote] I still don't get why he doesn't record it.

Perhaps no DVR?

R45.. i would still "do" mccord even at his age of 77..

[quote]Quite the contrary in my opinion. Malloy was NOT always on the make -- in fact, there were episodes in which he displayed a complete disinterest in women, even women who were very pretty, nice, normal, and interested in him. He just didn't care. It happened enough that I always thought the argument could've been made that the writers were trying to convey that Malloy, if not gay, was at the very least bisexual (and likely would've been portrayed as such had the show been produced in a more "enlightened" time than the '70s).

There were no homosexuals in my universe!!!!

[quote]I like how Adam-12 went against type and had Milner play the ladies man always on the make and McCord was the family man with wife and kids.....

Which was something of a parallel with Friday (bachelor) and Gannon (married with kids) on "Dragnet."

Route 66 can boast of a guest appearance from the verve-acious Miss Elaine Joyce...

off topic, but speaking of other shows..

1) barnaby jones... sorry but it was unintentionally hilarious to see old and i do mean old buddy ebsen jogging down a criminal with a gun!

2) cannon- same thing for william conrad but this time his weight and he wasn't a spring chicken either. although i do remember when i was a child watching one episode of this show where (don't know why or the storyline or the name of the episode) a really hunky blond guy was kidnapped and Cannon found him alive tied up NUDE in the trunk of a car! i find that very erotic and pretty risque for it's time...

Barnaby Jones is the Decades channel's show marathon this weekend.

Barnaby Jones (Buddy Ebsen running funny) and Cannon (fat guy star) aren't even tangentally related. get your own threads for these geezer shows.

Good God, Dragnet. Now there's a shit show if there was ever one made. Kent McCord & Marty Milner were both on the show. The acting on that show was so bad it was laughable. Jack Webb walked like he had a metal bar rammed up his ass. The dialog for every single performer was the same. Speak like you're reading everything off a page and speak as fast as humanly possible with absolutely no breaks between being asked a question and answering the question. But that was the way Webb wanted it. It's on every morning and I'll watch it just to laugh at all the performer's delivery.

And then there's 'Highway Patrol' with Broderick Crawford, another rapid fire delivery actor and a show with really sad acting. It's on also a few times a week in the early AM.

At least Adam-12 went for a more realistic approach.

You just can't beat Racket Squad...

No love for Adventures in Paradise?

I also love Jack Webb’s “Emergency!” Randy Mantooth as Johnny Gage and Kevin Tighe as Roy DeSoto also had good chemistry, similar to that of Milner and McCord. I’ve met Robert Fuller at several conventions, and he during the Q&A he often recalls his first meeting with Webb, who wanted him badly for the role of Dr. Kelly Brackett after seeing him in The Hard Ride. Fuller only wanted to do westerns, and flat out turned Webb down, but the latter wouldn’t take no for an answer. He invited Fuller back to his office with all the network brass there, told him to make himself a drink, sit down and listen to his pitch before turning it down again. Fuller left with a script of the pilot in hand, having finally agreed to take the role.

Robert Fuller was a walking wet dream. That ass, that voice!

^Yes indeed. He had an ass that rivaled Bob Conrad’s.

Ass...

would have LOVED LOVED LOVED to have seen THE ONE AND ONLY CLINT WALKER as a cop in super snug uniform on a cop show at his most handsomest beefiest brawniest mid to late 1960's face and body!

i mean COME ON! CUM ON! that would have been a show that would have brought 1000 sighs and a 1000 orgasms..

I first saw Kent as Kent McWhirter playing a frat bro of Rick Nelson on The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet.

I assumed Rick went to USC and that's where they met....a lot of the guys from his frat were on....I think only Wally the fat one was a real actor....

It was nice to see him as Kent McCord in Adam-12.......

r52 That's Elaine Joyce?!

My god, she had her entire face remade, including nose and chin and god's knows what else.

Kent is here about 4 minutes in playing cards - too bad he doesn't get a close up.

Adam-12 was just as bad as Dragnet. Both glorified what was then a corrupt, unprofessional police department (LAPD).

Way to fuck up the mood R67. Nobody gives a crap about the real LA police department way back then.

I love this short bloopers clip. You can tell the guys really get along.

Marty’s laugh around 1:05 cracks me up. How bout what?!

^I love those bloopers too.

George Maharis with Milner in the photo at R17 was a well known T room queen and avowed free-baller. He was arrested at least once for doin' the dirty with a hair dresser in a gas station bathroom.

Yes McCord and Milner were good friends. McCord spoke at a tribute to Milner a few years ago.

Kent McCord was certainly jackoff fantasy material for this early teen gayling, but so was George Maharis. And I give Route 66 the edge because one could imagine Maharis sliding down on the front seat of that Corvette to suck Martin Milner off, whereas McCord never gave off that kind of energy.

that would have been my favorite Route 66 episode if that had happened R73.

R68: It's the cherry on top of the lackluster acting and the cop-glorifying stilted scripts. The show always sucked.

Agree with r73!

[quote]Kent McCord was certainly jackoff fantasy material for this early teen gayling

Imagine if Milner had left the show and Kent's new partner had been a young Mark Harmon. The gays alone would've kept the show on for another five years!

Los Angeles isn't the whole world. The original Police Woman series is available.

Well, she was no Miss Angie Dickinson!

Bev was...cool.

That's a really cool photo of her with the street Manhattan backdrop

Bev was a Roger Corman scream queen. She spent more time yelling at giant cucumbers than she did wearing fur on a backlot with a NY street scene.

I used it for a long time as my desktop background, r81.

Don't forget the Beverly Garland Hotel, r82.

and...

So Decoy was an early 1950s tv show. Awesome. Need to check it out.

Bev was a cunt.

Her pussy stank.

I’m watching season 1 ep 6 “And You Want Me to Get Married”, and Malloy is DEAD SET against marriage despite Reed trying to sell him on it for the entire episode.

I just watched that, too, R89. I thought Martin Milner was so cute when the show first started.

They both were.

I agree, R91, but any discussion of this show always includes comments about how hot Kent was but less so about Martin (I assume due to the fact he was slender and in shape when the show first began but got a bit paunchy by the time it was over; Kent was gorgeous from start to finish).

Route 66 has hot, gay George Maharis

I'm sure he took a detour onto Route 69

Miss Lois Nettleton on Route 66...

[quote]I’m watching season 1 ep 6 “And You Want Me to Get Married”, and Malloy is DEAD SET against marriage despite Reed trying to sell him on it for the entire episode.

He was what we used to call a "confirmed bachelor." Oftentimes that was code for queer as a three-dollar bill.

In a perfect world, the re-teaming of M&M in 1989’s NASHVILLE BEAT would have been the continuation of their ADAM 12 characters some fourteen years later, and Malloy would have been out of the closet.

I liked ROUTE 66 - but a lot of times the stories were boring....early SJW crap that got in the way of George and Marty (and later Glenn)......and of course it's in black and white. Marty was the rich kid from Beverly Hills and George was the tough kid from the streets - or so the story was given to us.... I remember an episode when they visited Marty's big mansion and we saw his family. That was the one I liked the most.

ADAM-12 was in color and was either preceded or followed by EMERGENCY! which was also fun to watch - IN COLOR!!!

I saw an episode of Celebrity Bowling that featured Milner & McCord against Angie Dickinson and Joe Campanella. It was surreal.....both our cop friends were smoking like crazy and drinking beer.....and they lost the match with Angie rolling the winning ball.....

This is the only Angie Celebrity Bowling I could find...

Wow R98, I hadn't seen that one. A friend sent me the ADAM-12 one that he taped when his local station was broadcasting the show reruns a few decades ago....