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{{Infobox Episode | | {{Infobox Episode | | ||
episode_num = 215| | episode_num = 215| | ||
air_date = | air_date = January 13, 1979| | ||
briefing = How the accident happened (drawn on chalkboard)}} | briefing = How the accident happened (drawn on chalkboard)}} | ||
[[Image:S2Ep15Title.jpg|thumb|Title Screen]] | |||
==Brief Plot== | ==Brief Plot== | ||
==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
[[Sindy]] is involved in a major accident and [[Ponch]] and [[Jon]] respond. | [[Image:S2Ep15InjuredCahill.jpg|thumb|Cahill is injured.]] | ||
[[Sindy]] is involved in a major accident and [[Ponch]] and [[Jon]] respond. Our heroes arrive at the same time as the emergency vehicles. It isn't until later that someone notices Sindy's cruiser. Eleven people died. Luckily Sindy is alive but unconscious. She was the only survivor and witness. | |||
Ponch and Jon become part of the | Ponch and Jon become part of the [[M.A.I.T.]] team to investigate the accident. Several witnesses claim to have heard a siren just before the crash. | ||
The next day, pictures and measurements are taken at the scene of the accident. Everything seems to be pointing to Sindy as the cause. Trouble arises when a Senator joins the investigation. While Ponch and Jon do a (safe) re-creation for the Senator, [[Getraer]] is following up clues and ends up chasing a truck which lost a part at the scene of the accident. When Getraer slips and tips over, Ponch and Jon take up the chase. | The next day, pictures and measurements are taken at the scene of the accident. Everything seems to be pointing to Sindy as the cause. Trouble arises when a Senator joins the investigation. While Ponch and Jon do a (safe) re-creation for the Senator, [[Getraer]] is following up clues and ends up chasing a truck which lost a part at the scene of the accident. When Getraer slips and tips over, Ponch and Jon take up the chase. When they catch the guy, Ponch makes the arrest. It turns out he ran because he thought they were getting him for excess parking tickets. | ||
When Sindy regains consciousness, she remembers nothing. Ponch suggests they recreate the accident. | When Sindy regains consciousness, she remembers nothing. Ponch suggests they recreate the accident. | ||
The next day, they have a truck and multiple old cars to play with. | The next day, they have a truck and multiple old cars to play with. On their second run through, they get it almost exact. When Ponch and Jon get blinded by the reflection of the sun, Ponch realizes why the truck drove on the wrong side.They recreate it once again with the reflective sheets on top of the hill which were being delivered at the time of the accident. Jon is blinded and drives on the wrong side. The accident almost happens again. | ||
When Ponch and Jon visit Sindy in the hospital, they bring her an 8-track player. | When Ponch and Jon visit Sindy in the hospital, they bring her an 8-track player. When Ponch realizes he forgot the batteries, he runs out to get some. | ||
==Great Quote== | ==Great Quote== | ||
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:"None that were any help." | :"None that were any help." | ||
:-Sindy (in the hospital) and Jon (referring to the dead accident victims) | :-Sindy (in the hospital) and Jon (referring to the dead accident victims) | ||
==Guest Stars== | ==Guest Stars== | ||
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*[[Michael Bell]] as Margolis | *[[Michael Bell]] as Margolis | ||
*[[Carmen Argenziano]] as Borlov | *[[Carmen Argenziano]] as Borlov | ||
==Also Starring== | |||
*[[Brianne Leary]] as [[Sindy]] | |||
*[[Brodie Greer]] as [[Baricza]] | |||
*[[Paul Linke]] as [[Grossman]] | |||
*[[Lew Saunders]] as [[Fritz]] | |||
==Co-starring== | |||
*[[Michael Christian]] as Ken Thomas | *[[Michael Christian]] as Ken Thomas | ||
*[[Dan Ferrone]] as Anderson | *[[Dan Ferrone]] as Anderson | ||
*[[Robert Lone]] as | *[[Robert Lone]] as Welsh | ||
*[[Scott Mulhern]] as Doctor | *[[Scott Mulhern]] as Doctor | ||
*[[Russell Shannon]] as Citizen #1 | *[[Russell Shannon]] as Citizen #1 | ||
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*[[Lee Terri]] as Barbara Daniels | *[[Lee Terri]] as Barbara Daniels | ||
*[[Wade Wallace]] as Construction Worker | *[[Wade Wallace]] as Construction Worker | ||
*[[ | *[[Ingrid Wang]] as Cheng | ||
==Crew== | ==Crew== | ||
* Produced by: [[ | *Produced by: [[Cy Chermak]] | ||
* Teleplay by: [[William D. Gordon]] & [[James Doherty]] and [[George Zateslo]] | *Teleplay by: [[William D. Gordon]] & [[James Doherty]] and [[George Zateslo]] | ||
* Story by: [[George Zateslo]] | *Story by: [[George Zateslo]] | ||
* Directed by: [[John Florea]] | *Directed by: [[John Florea]] | ||
*Executive Consultant: [[Rick Rosner]] | |||
* With Appreciation to | *Story Editors: [[William D. Gordon]] & [[James Doherty]] | ||
* Motorcycles Furnished by: [[Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A.]] | *Associate Producers: [[Wm. L. Young]] and [[Paul Rabwin]] | ||
* Automobiles furnished by: [[Ford Motor Company]] | *Developed for television by: [[Paul Playdon]] | ||
* Filmed in [[METROCOLOR]] / Titles and Opticals [[MGM]] | *Music by: [[Alan Silvestri]] | ||
* [[Rosner Television]] in association with MGM Television | *Theme by: [[John Parker]] | ||
*Music Supervisor: [[Harry V. Lojewski]] | |||
*Director of Photography: [[Robert F. Sparks]] | |||
*Art Director: [[Joseph M. Altadonna]] | |||
*Editors: [[Dennis Mosher]] & [[Michael Renaud]] | |||
*Unit Production Manager: [[Wm. L. Young]] | |||
*Assistant Director: [[Ron Grow]] | |||
*2nd Assistant Directors: [[Mary Lou Maclaury]] & [[ Roger Slager]] | |||
*Script Supervisor: [[Robert Gary]] | |||
*Set Decorator: [[W. Joseph Kroesser]] | |||
*Production Consultant: [[Bob Hayden]] | |||
*Technical Advisor: [[Dick Barton]] | |||
*Sound: [[Robert Sheridan]] & [[Hal Watkins, C.A.S.]] | |||
*Stunt Co-ordinator: [[Paul Nuckles]] | |||
*Wardrobe Supervisor: [[Shelly Levine]] | |||
*Makeup: [[John M. Norin]] | |||
*Casting: [[Michael O. Hanks]] | |||
*Locations by: [[Cinemobile Systems]] | |||
*With Appreciation to [[Glen B. Craig]], [[Commissioner]] [[California Highway Patrol]] | |||
*Motorcycles Furnished by: [[Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A.]] | |||
*Automobiles furnished by: [[Ford Motor Company]] | |||
*Filmed in [[METROCOLOR]] / Titles and Opticals [[MGM]] | |||
*[[Rosner Television]] in association with MGM Television | |||
==Fun Facts== | ==Fun Facts== | ||
* | *Ponch and Jon are wearing long sleeves during this episode. | ||
*We see Rescue Squad 51 and Engine 51 respond to the accident. These are from the firehouse made famous in the 70s drama, "Emergency!" | |||
*Erik Estrada is sporting a scar over his left eye. | |||
* The crash scene was filmed on Forest Lawn Drive, close to the Forest Lawn Memorial Park. The housing development shots were filmed at another location. [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.15183,-118.326402&spn=0.003057,0.009457&t=h&layer=c&cbll=34.151753,-118.326474&cbp=12,341.03,,0,4.5&z=18&panoid=SIbq8i802qvrBkl0ojdCWQ View in Google Maps] | |||
==Mistakes== | ==Mistakes== | ||
[[Image:S2Ep15DriverlessCar.jpg|thumb|The driver is missing before impact.]] | |||
* The driver of the orange car that hits the trailer is missing before impact. | |||
* When Sindy is playing dead just before the theme, she's hanging out of her cruiser. Aren't all officers supposed to wear safety belts? | * When Sindy is playing dead just before the theme, she's hanging out of her cruiser. Aren't all officers supposed to wear safety belts? | ||
* After Ponch arrives at the accident scene and drives between the wrecked cars, he gets off his motorcycle, takes off his helmet, and puts it on his motorcycle. Watch his helmet fall off the motorcycle. | * After Ponch arrives at the accident scene and drives between the wrecked cars, he gets off his motorcycle, takes off his helmet, and puts it on his motorcycle. Watch his helmet fall off the motorcycle. | ||
* How do they know exactly where the reflective sheets were aimed? Even the slightest deviation at that distance would have made it reflect at something other than Jon's truck. | * How do they know exactly where the reflective sheets were aimed? Even the slightest deviation at that distance would have made it reflect at something other than Jon's truck. | ||
* It would be highly unlikely that Sindy (being a trained driver) would intentionally cross the center lane to avoid a vehicle coming at her head on. Training would dictate her going to the right to avoid a head on collision. | |||
* The lightbar on Sindy's cruiser changes from a [http://www.policecararchives.org/twinsonic.html Twinsonic] before the crash to a [http://www.policecararchives.org/yankee.html Yankee-Deitz] style lightbar during and after the crash. | |||
* Jon and Ponch apparently forgot that moving crash victims could be bad... | |||
* Sindy appears to be wearing some sort of hosiery when being moved onto her bed in the hospital. | |||
* During the recap before the re-enactment, Borlov mentions that the construction foreman did not see a blue pickup at the crash site. Getraer responds by telling them it was a false lead. Shouldn't Borlov have known this since he interviewed the driver of the blue truck already? | |||
* When the truck jackknifes, it ends up with the cab at about 90 degrees to the trailer, but it's parked perpendicular to the road when the orange car goes under it. | |||
* When the car jumps into the truck's cab there is damage to the front of the truck which wasn't there seconds earlier, even though nothing hits the front of the truck. | |||
* At the end of the second re-enactment, two green cars and a dark red car pull up just short of the truck. When the camera angle changes, the cars are in different positions. | |||
==Buy this episode== | ==Buy this episode== | ||
* {{Amazon DVD|id= | *{{Amazon DVD|id=B001ATCSXC|name=MAIT Team}} | ||
{{Succession box| | {{Succession box| | ||
Latest revision as of 06:02, 5 April 2020
| MAIT Team | |
| Episode # | 215 |
| Air Date | January 13, 1979 |
| Briefing | How the accident happened (drawn on chalkboard) |
Brief Plot
Plot
Sindy is involved in a major accident and Ponch and Jon respond. Our heroes arrive at the same time as the emergency vehicles. It isn't until later that someone notices Sindy's cruiser. Eleven people died. Luckily Sindy is alive but unconscious. She was the only survivor and witness.
Ponch and Jon become part of the M.A.I.T. team to investigate the accident. Several witnesses claim to have heard a siren just before the crash.
The next day, pictures and measurements are taken at the scene of the accident. Everything seems to be pointing to Sindy as the cause. Trouble arises when a Senator joins the investigation. While Ponch and Jon do a (safe) re-creation for the Senator, Getraer is following up clues and ends up chasing a truck which lost a part at the scene of the accident. When Getraer slips and tips over, Ponch and Jon take up the chase. When they catch the guy, Ponch makes the arrest. It turns out he ran because he thought they were getting him for excess parking tickets.
When Sindy regains consciousness, she remembers nothing. Ponch suggests they recreate the accident.
The next day, they have a truck and multiple old cars to play with. On their second run through, they get it almost exact. When Ponch and Jon get blinded by the reflection of the sun, Ponch realizes why the truck drove on the wrong side.They recreate it once again with the reflective sheets on top of the hill which were being delivered at the time of the accident. Jon is blinded and drives on the wrong side. The accident almost happens again.
When Ponch and Jon visit Sindy in the hospital, they bring her an 8-track player. When Ponch realizes he forgot the batteries, he runs out to get some.
Great Quote
- "Didn't you guys have any witnesses?"
- "None that were any help."
- -Sindy (in the hospital) and Jon (referring to the dead accident victims)
Guest Stars
- Eric Braeden as Senator Larwin
- Michael Bell as Margolis
- Carmen Argenziano as Borlov
Also Starring
- Brianne Leary as Sindy
- Brodie Greer as Baricza
- Paul Linke as Grossman
- Lew Saunders as Fritz
Co-starring
- Michael Christian as Ken Thomas
- Dan Ferrone as Anderson
- Robert Lone as Welsh
- Scott Mulhern as Doctor
- Russell Shannon as Citizen #1
- Lorraine Barkley as Citizen #2
- Wonderful Smith as DMV Supervisor
- Peg Stewart as Mrs. Harris
- Lee Terri as Barbara Daniels
- Wade Wallace as Construction Worker
- Ingrid Wang as Cheng
Crew
- Produced by: Cy Chermak
- Teleplay by: William D. Gordon & James Doherty and George Zateslo
- Story by: George Zateslo
- Directed by: John Florea
- Executive Consultant: Rick Rosner
- Story Editors: William D. Gordon & James Doherty
- Associate Producers: Wm. L. Young and Paul Rabwin
- Developed for television by: Paul Playdon
- Music by: Alan Silvestri
- Theme by: John Parker
- Music Supervisor: Harry V. Lojewski
- Director of Photography: Robert F. Sparks
- Art Director: Joseph M. Altadonna
- Editors: Dennis Mosher & Michael Renaud
- Unit Production Manager: Wm. L. Young
- Assistant Director: Ron Grow
- 2nd Assistant Directors: Mary Lou Maclaury & Roger Slager
- Script Supervisor: Robert Gary
- Set Decorator: W. Joseph Kroesser
- Production Consultant: Bob Hayden
- Technical Advisor: Dick Barton
- Sound: Robert Sheridan & Hal Watkins, C.A.S.
- Stunt Co-ordinator: Paul Nuckles
- Wardrobe Supervisor: Shelly Levine
- Makeup: John M. Norin
- Casting: Michael O. Hanks
- Locations by: Cinemobile Systems
- With Appreciation to Glen B. Craig, Commissioner California Highway Patrol
- Motorcycles Furnished by: Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A.
- Automobiles furnished by: Ford Motor Company
- Filmed in METROCOLOR / Titles and Opticals MGM
- Rosner Television in association with MGM Television
Fun Facts
- Ponch and Jon are wearing long sleeves during this episode.
- We see Rescue Squad 51 and Engine 51 respond to the accident. These are from the firehouse made famous in the 70s drama, "Emergency!"
- Erik Estrada is sporting a scar over his left eye.
- The crash scene was filmed on Forest Lawn Drive, close to the Forest Lawn Memorial Park. The housing development shots were filmed at another location. View in Google Maps
Mistakes
- The driver of the orange car that hits the trailer is missing before impact.
- When Sindy is playing dead just before the theme, she's hanging out of her cruiser. Aren't all officers supposed to wear safety belts?
- After Ponch arrives at the accident scene and drives between the wrecked cars, he gets off his motorcycle, takes off his helmet, and puts it on his motorcycle. Watch his helmet fall off the motorcycle.
- How do they know exactly where the reflective sheets were aimed? Even the slightest deviation at that distance would have made it reflect at something other than Jon's truck.
- It would be highly unlikely that Sindy (being a trained driver) would intentionally cross the center lane to avoid a vehicle coming at her head on. Training would dictate her going to the right to avoid a head on collision.
- The lightbar on Sindy's cruiser changes from a Twinsonic before the crash to a Yankee-Deitz style lightbar during and after the crash.
- Jon and Ponch apparently forgot that moving crash victims could be bad...
- Sindy appears to be wearing some sort of hosiery when being moved onto her bed in the hospital.
- During the recap before the re-enactment, Borlov mentions that the construction foreman did not see a blue pickup at the crash site. Getraer responds by telling them it was a false lead. Shouldn't Borlov have known this since he interviewed the driver of the blue truck already?
- When the truck jackknifes, it ends up with the cab at about 90 degrees to the trailer, but it's parked perpendicular to the road when the orange car goes under it.
- When the car jumps into the truck's cab there is damage to the front of the truck which wasn't there seconds earlier, even though nothing hits the front of the truck.
- At the end of the second re-enactment, two green cars and a dark red car pull up just short of the truck. When the camera angle changes, the cars are in different positions.
Buy this episode
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