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How come Reed never drives the car?

posted 8 years ago by 4dbirds
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Over the years, I think I have seen almost every episode. However, I only recall 2 episodes where Reed drives the police car.

One episode is when the regular Adam 12 car is in for repairs and the guys are given a near junk replacement vehicle. Sure Malloy let Reed drive that old wreck before it finally died. The other episode is when Malloy is off and donating his time in a kiddie day camp and we see Reed on duty solo driving the car which does not make sense since 2 cops are required to patrol in a police car.

Did Reed ever get to drive Adam 12 in other episodes that I just don't remember? How come Malloy never let Reed drive that car? LOL.

[–] seldon913 8 years ago

There's a few others. In the first season, Malloy lets Reed go put gas in the car and he brings it back with a dent. I don't remember the season, but there's an episode where Mack does a spot inspection and finds Malloy's license to be expired. There's an episode where Malloy chases a suspect car while Reed isn't in it and he flips it over; Reed gets another car to use while searching for Malloy. In the final season they have a couple of episodes where Malloy fills in for Mack and Reed serves as training officer for Gus Corbin (played by Mark Harmon) and then Dana Hall (Jo-Ann Pflug - Lt. Dish in the original MASH movie).

[–] 4dbirds 8 years ago

Thanks. I knew there had to be other times where Reed drove. I wonder if one partner would really drive 99.5% or if they would split the driving? Come to think of it, he also did all the driving in Route 66 but at least he owned the vette.

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[–] 4dbirds 8 years ago

Just saw that episode last week and you are 100% correct. Seems that Reed's driving skills would eventually kill off Malloy. Great scene with the running over of the hat and subsequent response regarding the injured hat.

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[–] SpaceMountainMike 8 years ago

They don't trust him after he dented the fender in this episode http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0505294/?ref_=fn_ep_tt_1

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[–] davebuffalo (3014) 2 years ago

They do a skit on Laugh-In here where they joke about Reed wanting to finally drive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uopGooFc3yc