SPOILER: On their day off, Reed and his pregnant wife and Malloy and his date--a cute nurse--go exploring an old ghost town and run into a gang of nasty bikers, who disable their car and whose leader threatens to kill them. Although the series didn't very often show Reed and Malloy spending a lot of time together off-duty, you'd think the show's writers could have come up with a better idea than this. It's taken for granted that nothing bad is going to happen to the show's two stars, so no matter how much the bikers threaten them or actually attack them, there's no tension or suspense wondering if Reed, Malloy and company are going to come out of it OK--of course they will. So that means that the bikers will end up on the short end of the stick, which--to no one's surprise--is exactly what happens. The writing is simplistic in the extreme: the bikers are pure evil and are sneeringly referred to as "unwashed" and listening to "indecent, filthy music", which in 1969--when this episode was shot--was anathema to arch-conservatives such as the show's producer Jack Webb and pretty much a sign of the coming apocalypse that would be brought on by the "hippies", the "youth movement" and all the other forces of evil that were destroying America (to their way of thinking, at least). In addition, the biker gang's leader is played by Bruce Glover--Christian Glover's father--in such snarling, clenched-teeth, off-the-wall scenery chewing as to be embarrassing. Of course Reed and Malloy--and, by extension, the forces of goodness and decency--triumph, much as you knew they would. I actually like Adam-12 and thought it was overall a pretty good show, but every so often Webb's far-right politics would find their way into an episode or two, and this is one of them. Skip it.