Second Chance

Second Chance
Episode #	313
Air Date	December 1, 1979
Briefing	Burglaries in condos in Marina Del Ray

Brief Plot

Ponch and Jon try to apprehend a jewel thief who has hit several condos in Marina del Ray. Ponch tries to befriend a recovering girl who was injured by the thief during his escape.

Plot

After a long labor day weekend that has just ended summer vacation on Monday, and the kids are actually now going back to school for the first time this morning. While on duty where Ponch and Jon had just finished exiting the beautiful coastal route of the Marina Freeway, and happen to be riding along the coast of the beautifully cleaned up recently vacant Santa Monica State Beach. After Jon has just finished listening to Ponch complain about wanting to quit the CHP in order to become a lifeguard at the beautiful white sand beach, and decides that his best friend might need a little bit of cheering up today. Ponch is now finally satisfied with his line of work after a little cheering up from Jon, and feels that he can actually go back to doing his actual real daytime job as an officer of the highway patrol rather than his little imaginary dream job as a life guard at the beautiful white sand beach.

Meanwhile a recent young college dropout actually turned into master jewel thief named Chuck has just finished breaking into a married couples luxury condo in the small seaside community of Marina del Ray, and is now going though the dresser doors until he finds a small painted wood jewelry box. After Chuck finishes opening up the small painted wood jewelry box now finding out that contains several very expensive real gemstone rings, including a bunch of different necklaces like a string of real pearls, and a set of real gold and silver bracelets. Chuck now decides to take advantage of the married woman by stealing her very expensive pieces of jewelry out of the box by placing them into a soft case, and eventually will be leaving their condo without any force of entry.

While Ponch and Jon are now riding around in the small community shopping area of Lincoln Boulevard. After Chuck has just finished taking advantage of the married woman by stealing all her very expensive pieces of jewelry, and he is now walking out of the couples luxury condo carrying a soft case of recently stolen items. Chuck is now walking down the steps in order to get to a certain recently stolen red dirt bike, and accidentally drops his soft case full of jewelry after tripping a married man. Chuck now decides to apologized to the married man for accidentally tripping him, and walks over towards his soft jewelry case in order to retrieve the stolen items. After the husband witnesses Chuck putting his wife’s recently stolen jewelry back into the soft case, and runs up the steps to their condo in order to call the police. After Chuck has just finished putting the victim’s wife jewelry back into the soft case, and now wants to get out of the couple’s condo community.

Guest Stars

• David-James Carroll as Chuck
• Dana Laurita as Keli Adams
• Kristine DeBell as Peggy

Co-Starring

• Derek Wilcox as Timmy

Crew

• Produced by: Cy Chermak
• Written by: Frank Chase and Ramona Chase
• Directed by: John Florea
• Executive Consultant: Rick Rosner

• 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

• The episode was actually filmed in Santa Monica, Santa Monica State Beach, Marina del Ray.

Mistakes

Preceded by: "Destruction Derby"

Second Chance 313

Followed by: "Wheeling"