Enter the Dragon and Meet Pete's Stalker: Ahna Capri

Before Ahna Capri was in Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee, she was Pete Malloy's stalker in "Log 172: The Things You Do for the Job."

Ms. Capri's home movies from "Enter the Dragon" plus her narration on Youtube.

Back to 1969

This is the one where Pete kills a woman and gets away with it. Then he goes back to being a model officer, like nothing ever happened. That's my read-between-the-lines take. If you prefer, he showed up for their date in his Dad Clothes and that turned her right off.

Or maybe he was loud, rude, and puked on her shoes. Maybe she realized it was only the uniform that got her interested in the first place. Either way, he gets rid of her, and this was an insult-your-intelligence kind of episode. 

But we've got actors and locations! 

Opening credits naming who's largely to blame here (but someone higher up had to greenlight it):

The church website at the moment.

Pete is about to find out what happens when you leave North Hollywood. Never veer off Lankershim. Silver Lake isn't your Happy Place. Maybe this experience will learn ya something, Freckles.

Adam-12 patrol the Silver Lake Reservoir loop.  And appear to be driving on the wrong side of the street (!?) in their pursuit of Ms. Capri, "Penny Lang."

Haha, I just got it. Penny Lane. Penny Lang. Was that the joke?

5150

I am not sure when the 5150 Hold began. Was it in use by 1969? A police officer can take you to the hospital for a mental evaluation, and you have to stay up to 72 hours. Not sure if you have to be a danger to yourself for that to happen. Otherwise, a RESTRAINING ORDER might have been the way to go here. Celebrity stalking laws didn't even get started in California until 1990. 

Tip for Malloy: "I already have a girlfriend. I'm engaged. I'm married." Did none of those occur to you?

In a case like this, you need some support from your Brother Officers. Of course, you get NONE.

Instead, a spoiled little rich girl's incessant pursuit of Pete results in him being laughed at by Brother Officers, scolded by his superior, and the assumption made that she's his girlfriend. Telling her off only makes her more determined. And so it unfurls:

It's a real book:

And you're thinking, "I'm so disappointed in this man. Why did he go all spineless? Tell her OFF. The law is on his side. She's harassing an officer. Have her arrested for nuisance calls. Put an END to this, Pete!" But no. Pete gives in. Or does he?

Next day Reed has to pry it out of him.

Apparently Anna's name, being European, was always pronounced "AH" like "open wide and say ahhh," but it kept getting Americanized to rhyme with "can," so she put the H in to correct people. Even though she was not a child actor at this point, she was a child actor once. 

Sadly, Ms. Capri died in 2010 after being in a coma following a horrific crash in, yes, North Hollywood.

Her Hollywood Reporter obituary is archived here.

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Geoffrey Deuel and Malloy Attend Backlot University

Geoffrey Deuel guest stars in "Log 73: I'm Still a Cop," Season 1, Episode 20, and joins Malloy at Backlot University.

Great interview with Geoffrey Deuel on YT.

The plot: Malloy takes college classes and is targeted by police-hating students. 

This episode has Pete in and out of uniform dealing with Dirty Commie Hippies. [Insert South Park's Cartman's dealings with them here,  & here he identifies them. ]

Locations: The backlot. Dudes. No. 

Los Angeles has some beautiful campuses. When Tod last took a class, he had the gorgeous 1920s- early '30s buildings of UCLA behind him.

Problem was, the Time Travel Cops got him:

And so Dodd Hall,  Haines Hall, Kaufman Hall, the Powell Library, and Royce Hall --- all shown when he was taking that computer course --- get no screen time in Adam-12. Instead of me shouting out, "Hey, wow, Malloy was a Bruin before I was!" -- what do we get? Backlot University, the facades of Circle Drive:

Amazing resource:  

Studio Backlots Universal Studios

Great photos of Universal's backlot buildings over the years, including Adam-12 shots.

We learn Malloy is in at least his second semester, as he now seems to be dating his history professor from last term. Refreshing to see him not pursuing the under-25s I guess. 

And hey, it's Anne Helm, his girlfriend of the week in "From an Enchantress Fleeing."  She beat him at that shooting game [No fair! Her dad designed it] and really wounded his male pride by choosing the salad dressing for him, but he's clearly still interested seven years later. Wonder how he felt with her giving him a grade in class!

Note: actor Paul Carr is among his group of dirty commies, and he's playing a professor,  i.e. a cleaner commie with a pipe 😝

This is a very Pete-centric episode. Reed gets a good close-up though. Reed has gained enough confidence to tell Malloy his attitude problem stinks and Reed has to live with it 8 hours a day. 

Art Gilmore did a lot of narrator work. Check his imdb. In addition to being Captain Didion in the original Dragnet, he came back to Dragnet in Color with a variety of names. His name even changed once on Adam-12. Remember in the pilot he was Wangsgard? I guess he was Lt. and then became Captain --- and he always has this look on his face:

Jack Webb named his daughter Stacy after this actor. Mr. Harris passed at only 54. 

As I'm mainly interested in the locations, the actors, and anything I find amusing, the storyline is missing here. 

Something like this: Dirty Commie Hippies don't like Policeman Pete being on campus, plus they have other demands. Policeman Pete and Pals arrest the extras for blocking the hallway. Policeman Pete not welcome on campus by administration, students, or even Sergeant Mac. Makes Malloy want to stay all the more. He's got unfinished business with Anne Helm too.

Paul Carr had two Adam-12 episodes, and of note in my world, six episodes of Mannix and one Streets of San Francisco.

His "legend" status, however, was granted by being in the third episode of Star Trek. Having a Star Trek is like a knighthood. 

That same Dragnet episode, Community Relations: DR-10, had 

another Adam-12 star, William Elliott:

And this guy:

I love The Streets of San Francisco, total childhood favorite. 

Outstanding Streets of San Francisco website here. 

I first noticed Geoffrey Deuel as a guest star on The Streets of San Francisco. Karl Malden calls Michael Douglas "Buddy Boy" -- so imagine my surprise to hear Malloy call Deuel that on Adam-12. It's some kind of "sign" I'm sure.

We're having some meeting. You should join us. You might learn what we students are saying, you dig, man? Get it? 'Cause you're The Man. Maybe we might understand you cops better too, cliched ending.

"Yeah, yeah...  See you around, Bit Part Actors. So, Lady Professor, I'm driving a Mustang now...."