Martin Milner, who died Monday in Los Angeles at the age of 82, acted in many movies and many episodes of many television shows in a career that lasted half a century. But he'll be best remembered for two television series, "Route 66," which ran on CBS from 1960 to 1964, and Jack Webb's "Adam-12," on NBC from 1968 to 1975 — shows born at opposite ends of a decade split down the middle culturally, socially and politically, and yet similar in many respects.
Both star two men and an automobile — a Chevrolet Corvette in the first instance, and an LAPD patrol car in the second; many scenes are played on wheels.