This was a pilot for another potential Jack Webb show about the Los Angeles District Attorneys Office and was directed by Webb himself who rarely directed his own productions of that era. Malloy and Reed are only on screen for less than a minute at the end without speaking, probably meaning that it was assembled from the rejected/discarded pilot. Reed and Malloy also appear near the very beginning when they show up to investigate the report of a "DB" (dead body). It is at that point Abe Strayhorn is called in since Reed and Malloy suspect medical fraud when they find the strange device the old man was using when he died.
Was made from a pilot of a new half-hour 1974 series, "Fraud", by Universal in association with Mark VII productions. It was directed by Jack Webb and the cast included Frank Sinatra Jr., Ed Nelson, and Sharon Gless. Nelson starred as an assistant district attorney combating fraud, with Gless and Sinatra, Jr. as agents under his command. The series was not sold, not surprising after watching this snoozer.
In the opening titles, the Adam-12 patrol car is cruising at night and then makes a U-turn, but the call that is always heard from the dispatcher, that should have led to the U-turn, never happens (the theme music then continues for several extra measures, as if filling in the time lost by the omission of the dispatcher's call).