... and Jack Webb did win lots of them, as in hit TV shows including his own long running TV show in two incarnations - Dragnet as well as Adam-12 and Emergency!.
This had to be a pilot for a proposed Webb series that never took off. Officers Malloy and Reed investigate the death of an elderly diabetic man from hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) and his death is traced back to the use of some quack medical device that he was told by a quack doctor could substitute for his insulin injections. Except that the diabetic is not around to actually tell anybody this. The case is then handed off to a team of prosecutors and the regular Adam-12 cast disappears for the rest of the episode. That is part of the reason I think it was a pilot for a proposed series. The other reason is that the "guest cast" is just too consequential for it to be just another episode of Adam-12.
Jack Webb practically had his own stock company of supporting players. But here they have Ed Nelson as the head prosecutor and Frank Sinatra Jr. And Sharon Gless as the young assistant prosecutors. The cinematography gets cheesy as there are over the top melodramatic close-ups at key moments just in case the direction, acting, or script doesn't cue the audience in that this is an over the top melodramatic moment. Then towards the conclusion prosecutor Nelson breaks into a classic sneering Jack Webb style speech. It comes across as a bit hammy and made me appreciate Jack Webb's ability to pull off this kind of performance even more.
The odd thing? The weird belt that the diabetic fatally depended upon to control his blood sugar may have looked ridiculous in 1974, but today it eerily looks like the insulin pump belts worn by type one diabetics that perform continuous glucose monitoring and insulin injection. Minus, of course, the goofy blinking lights straight out of an Ed Wood movie.
Worth it for the novelty of it all.