Editing Martin Milner (section)

===''Adam-12''===
By the mid-1960s, Milner and Jack Webb had a long-established working relationship. Milner had appeared in numerous episodes of both the radio and television versions of the series ''Dragnet'', and had worked with Webb in the films ''[[Halls of Montezuma (film)|Halls of Montezuma]]'' (1950) and ''[[Pete Kelly's Blues (film)|Pete Kelly's Blues]]'' (1955).<ref>{{cite book |author1=Daniel Moyer |author2=Eugene Alvarez |title=Just the Facts, Ma'am: The Authorized Biography of Jack Webb |date=2001 |publisher=Seven Locks Press |isbn=9780929765297 |page=110}}</ref>

In 1968, Milner returned to television as seven-year [[Los Angeles Police Department|LAPD]] veteran uniform patrol Officer Pete Malloy in ''[[Adam-12]]'', a Webb-produced police drama. [[Kent McCord]] played his partner, rookie Officer Jim Reed. The series ran from 1968 to 1975. Like Webb's ''Dragnet'', it was based on real Los Angeles Police Department procedures and cases.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Ronald Wayne Rodman |title=Tuning In: American Narrative Television Music |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195340242 |page=242}}</ref>

Milner was Webb's choice for Malloy in part because of his relative youth and prior acting credits and because of his on-camera driving experience from his days on ''Route 66''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Prime-time hits: television's most popular network program| first=Susan|last=Sackett|year=1993|publisher=[[Billboard Books]]|isbn=978-0823083923}}</ref> He guest-starred in three episodes of ''[[Emergency!]]'' between 1972 and 1976, during and after ''Adam-12''{{'}}s run on NBC, the first of which, and the best known, was the pilot movie ''[[The Wedsworth-Townsend Act]]''.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Richard Yokley |author2=Rozane Sutherland |title=Emergency! Behind the Scene |date=May 2007 |publisher=Jones and Bartlett Publishers |isbn=9780763748968 |page=46}}</ref>