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ADAM 12 (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Jack Webb, of Dragnet fame, puts in another plug for the Los Angeles Police Department as producer of a series about two uniformed cops. Martin Milner and Kent McCord are the stars. Premiere...
These two people are so solidly realized that the conventions of the crime thriller-careening cars, daring acrobatics, the inexorable dragnet-are all but incidental. The film's most heart-stopping sequence, in fact, is the hero's climb to the roof of the orphanage to retrieve a lost ball. This is only one of the many small human truths that Director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) presents to delight and surprise the eye. A phalanx of nannies march through Hyde Park as though each tree and blade of grass belonged to them. The faces of children...
...that depends heavily on the audience's suspension of disbelief for success. This time, disbelief is almost impossible to overcome, thanks to a clumsy script that features such antique devices as a shoe-banging Russian U.N. delegate, cliché-spouting admen and a sound track that plays The Dragnet Theme whenever the fuzz appear...
Still commercial television being what it is, viewers had to sit through the ludicrous incongruity of chirpy commercials that the stations had spliced between footage of pillage and tragedy. Meanwhile, the networks reported that several hundred people telephoned the stations to protest the pre-empting of Bewitched and Dragnet...
...Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," CBS's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," and a new NBC entry, "The Cricket on the Hearth." Of course, as happened last week, it is always possible to have The Flying Nun conjure up a white Christmas in the tropics or send Dragnet's Sgt. Friday in pursuit of the scoundrel who stole the Christ child from a Nativity scene. But how much easier it is to haul out an old tape of John Huston narrating Christ