‘Adam-12’ presents ‘The Ferret’ 40 years ago this hour (1971)

(Wednesday, October 27, 1971, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Malloy and Reed are on the lookout for an environmentalist known as “The Ferret” who has been posing as an employee to infiltrate and sabotage industrial complexes he feels are creating too much pollution on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV police drama Adam-12.