{"id":127895,"date":"2015-09-07T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/07\/rip-martin-milner.html"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:51:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T15:51:02","slug":"rip-martin-milner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/07\/rip-martin-milner.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Martin Milner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though the generation just ahead of mine knew him for Route 66,<\/i> I always knew Mr Milner for his longer-running role as Officer Pete Malloy on the Jack Webb series, Adam-12.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Malloy was the senior of the two cops riding in the patrol car coded "Adam-12," mentoring rookie Jim Reed (Kent McCord). Being a Jack Webb show, shot in cooperation with the LAPD, it was a very straight-shooting sort of affair, but they did tackle (with a bit less surrealism than their predecessor, Dragnet),<\/i> the social issues of the late 60s and early 70s, as tough, fair, sometimes overwhelmed, but always dutiful public servants.<\/p>\n

I often look back on that show, and its predecessor, as an idealized notion of what cops should be, what they tried to be, even in the face of the changes of that period. For myself, the cognitive dissonance between the public problems — shootings, paramilitarism, civil forfeiture, corruption — of today's police, and the ideals of that Adam-12<\/i> era, are what most bring home to me how times have changed.<\/p>\n

But I digress. Milner was a fine actor — unambitious, gratified for his chance in the spotlight, but not driven to stay in Hollywood any longer than necessary. He died on Sunday at 83.<\/p>\n

Thank you, sir, for many years (mostly in reruns) of entertainment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Though the generation just ahead of mine knew him for Route 66, I always knew Mr Milner for his longer-running role as Officer Pete Malloy on the Jack Webb series, Adam-12. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/08\/arts\/television\/martin-milner-dies-at-83-actor-made-his-name-on-route-66.html Malloy was the senior of the two cops riding in the patrol car coded "Adam-12," mentoring rookie Jim Reed (Kent McCord). 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