Adam-12 (1990 TV series)

Adam-12 (also known as The New Adam-12) is an American police procedural crime drama television series produced by Arthur L. Annecharico, Burton Armus, and John Whitman under The Arthur Company and Universal Television. It is a syndicated revival of the 1968–1975 series of the same name created by Robert A. Cinader and Jack Webb (both credited posthumously as series creators) and features the same premise with different characters and an updated setting, following Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers Matt Doyle and Gus Grant as they patrol Los Angeles in their police cruiser, assigned the call sign "1-Adam-12". The New Adam-12 stars Ethan Wayne and Peter Parros, and co-stars Miguel Fernandes, Alma Martinez, Linden Ashby, and Harri James, among others. The series ran over two seasons of 26 episodes each, and aired consecutively for 52 straight weeks, with the entire series airing over one full calendar year from September 24, 1990 to September 16, 1991.

The New Adam-12 aired alongside The New Dragnet, another remake of a 1960s Jack Webb series by The Arthur Company that was implied to be set in the same fictional universe. Both revivals were considerably different from their original works; most notably, the performances leaned more toward action but had far less depictions of violence, their scores eschewed the original themes for new synth-pop and jazz fusion tunes typical to police procedurals of the era, and the lead cruiser was a 1989 Ford LTD Crown Victoria.