One of my favorites. That had to be controversial in its day. I read a biography on Jack a few years ago. He had quite the life. Growing up was rough, I don't think he knew his dad. He married Julie London when she was smoking hot, then put her in Emergency! twenty years later with her husband, Bobby Troup, a big time jazz performer who wrote the song Route 66. Jack Sheldon, I mentioned before, was a pretty big jazz trumpeter. Jack was a huge jazz fan and I think he knew a lot of big time jazz people of the day. He was a costar in Sunset Blvd with William Holden and Gloria Swanson.

According to the biography, Jack set up an apartment on the Universal lot at his offices as he was a workaholic and would work late into the night and weekends. He apparently developed the concept of pulling a car through the streets instead of using the cheesy looking rear-projection which was the common technique at the time. His Adam 12 cop cars are going down real LA streets being towed by the camera truck. To shoot a show with that much location work and stay on budget required some innovative thinking.