Adam-12 is a police procedural from the mind of Dragnet creator Jack Webb. The series stars Martin Milner as seasoned LAPD officer Pete Malloy and Kent McCord as the promising rookie Jim Reed.

This particular episode — "Log 174: Loan Sharks" — takes a bite out of the issue of organized crime employing violent debt collection methods. It's the first episode of the show's third season, and aired on September 19, 1970. Arthur Hunnicutt, Tim Rooney, William Boyett, and Kenneth Tobey also appear in this episode.

Basically, Malloy and Reed respond to a number of attacks at a Los Angeles factory, where a vicious pack of loan sharks are engaging in a feeding frenzy. The only person willing to speak out about the violence is car-obsessed, hippie-slang-slinging Jim Russell, the son of one of the workers. This episode also has an inexplicable and memorable sequence involving a drunk robber!

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