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[[File:WatchCommander.jpg|left|thumb|Bates reserved parking spot happens to the read the word Watch Commander.]]
[[File:WatchCommander.jpg|left|thumb|Bates reserved parking spot happens to the read the word Watch Commander.]]
While Bates has just arrived at central for his first day as watch commander after exiting the beautiful [[Harbor Freeway]] in his [[Ford LTD Country Squir]]e, and will park in his reserve spot which is actually in the back of the building. Since Bates happens to be a very organized person who does everything by the book which includes putting on his officers hat every morning, and the first thing he will notice that the motorcycles are actually parked incorrectly rather than overlook the whole situation with his colleagues today. Bates will eventually come in through the front door of the building, and happens to catch Ponch who happens to be working the front desk while talking on the telephone to one of his girlfriends about his skydiving lessons. Since Ponch will have to finish his conversation in a hurry by hanging up the telephone, and will eventually welcome Bates by giving a salute of honor with his right hand that contains a broken wrist. While Getraer finishes giving the briefing about Mel and Tyrone that are renting trucks in order to steal thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from warehouses, and will eventually get everyone’s attention by welcoming Bates as their new watch commander. Since Bates will be giving his welcoming speech, and [[Bonnie]] and [[Grossie]] are actually talking about their new watch commander being transferred here from public relations in Sacramento. Bates will start off giving his speech about his last assignment with public relations in Sacramento, and Bonnie and [[Turner]] along with Grossie will eventually start staring at him for a short time. Which Bates happens to know about reading minds from his colleagues about police work, and will start bitching about noticeable things such as motorcycle being parked incorrectly rather than in a neat row. Baricza will decide interrupted Bates about Grossie always being in a hurry, and will often park his motorcycle incorrectly rather than in a correct fashion. Bonnie and Jon along with Turner now laughing at Bates who will notice Baricza’s uniformed being buttoned incorrectly, and makes him buttoned it correctly in front of his colleagues. Bates will start bitching about Ponch’s custom made uniform which was tailored by his uncle [[Manny]] at a sewing shop in order to fit him properly in the chest, and makes Bonnie along with other colleagues will start laughing at him about being a dictator rather than a leader today. Since Bates will keep verbally abusing Ponch about his uniform be custom made in a tailor shop, and becomes fixated on saving fuel rather than waste in their vehicles by wanting to monitored their daily gas consumption because of oil crisis in the Saudi Arabia. Since Getraer will eventually make Bates dismiss the colleagues because his speech on noticeable disorganization has ran a little to long, and Baricza and Jon will have a conversation about their new watch commander. Getraer will have a serious conversation with Bates about Ponch having uniforms tailor by his uncle Manny after losing some weight because he had accidentally broke his right wrist during a jewel robbery about over a month ago, and can’t seem to get through to the new watch commander who happens to fixated on the errors in this department. Since Getraer starts thinking that Bates isn’t understanding about Ponch having a serious motorcycle accident with a criminal named [[Donnie Joe King]] who had stolen a beautiful red [[Yamaha TT 500]] from their friend [[Roy Yarnell]] in order use in several jewel robberies during those weeks while setting up a stunt show at the Fairplex. Bates will eventually end the conversation about Ponch’s serious motorcycle accident that had hospitalized him in coma for several weeks, and decides to walk out of Getraer’s office.


==Guest Stars==
==Guest Stars==

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The Watch Commander
Episode # 311
Air Date November 17, 1979
Briefing Crooks stealing trailers from loading bays. Fuel conservation/Identikit of thief.
Title screen

Brief Plot

A new watch commander, Lieutenant Bates, tries to make sure everything runs to the rule book, but eventually sees the need for flexibility. A pair of thieves are renting tractor units and stealing packed trailers from loading bays.

Plot

A cruiser has just driven by the central building this morning.
Mel and Tyrone laugh while Baricza drives away in his cruiser.

While the morning shift has begun at central where Getraer is now sitting in his office at the desk, and will happen to hear Ponch having a some naughty fun by chasing a beautiful secretary with long blonde hair who is actually wearing a strapless sundress around the hallway. Getraer now gets angry at Ponch for his little escapade with the secretary in the hallway, and will call him into his office for a little reminder about being on restricted duty because of his broken right wrist. Since Getraer has a brand new watch commander who happens to be a lieutenant named Harold Bates that has just transferred to this division from public relations in Sacramento, and will give Ponch a choice in jobs which are either working the front desk or cleaning weapons in the backroom. After Ponch has a little argument with Getraer about Bates coming in this morning, and he will now choose to work the front desk rather than clean weapons in the backroom today. Since Ponch is a little angry about not being able go back on duty in the streets because of his recent motorcycle accident, and will eventually walk out of Getraer’s office in despite of himself wanting go back into a cruiser. Meanwhile Jon is actually now riding alone on the city streets, and while parking his motorcycle during a coffee break in order to fix a loose tail light in front of the J.T. Market. Jon is actually unaware that two criminals which are a salt and pepper duo named Mel and Tyrone that happen to be known as the rent a truck crooks who happen to be driving around in a recently stolen blue Ford Super Duty, and will eventually stop to think about a stakeout being there because Baricza had just pulled up in his cruiser today. In fact that Baricza has actually stopped to help Jon fix a loose tail light on his motorcycle, and Mel and Tyrone will eventually decide to haul a trailer instead of worrying about a stupid stakeout today. While Mel and Tyrone eventually arrive at the Balford Home Appliance Distributors Incorporated in order to steal a trailer full of appliances that are worth about eighty thousand dollars by hooking it up themselves, and Baricza and Jon had just finished fixing a loose tail light on his motorcycle. When Baricza decides offer Jon skydiving lessons that Ponch can’t attend because of a broken right wrist, and will get turned down immediately because of his fear of being thrown from an airplane without a parachute. Both Baricza and Jon will eventually split, and Mel and Tyrone will drive off with a trailer full of appliances. While Baricza is finishing putting the tools away in the trunk his cruiser, and Mel and Tyrone will drive passed him closing his trunk. While Mel and Tyrone laugh at Baricza driving away in his cruiser.

Bates reserved parking spot happens to the read the word Watch Commander.

Guest Stars

Co-starring

Crew

Fun Facts

  • One of Michelle Pfeiffer's earliest TV roles.

Mistakes

  • Apparently, this episode should have aired before the Drive, Lady, Drive two parter. Ponch is still on light duty due to his wrist injury.
  • The lieutenant is not as much of a stickler for rules and regulations as he may think. His patrol unit is missing both driver's side hubcaps and his nameplate and badge are crooked through the entire episode.
  • You might think that the lieutenant would have a Safety Award pin...
  • When Jon and Grossman stop the two unmarked trucks, Jon tells dispatch that they are following two white Fords. One happens to be a blue International.
  • When getting chewed out buy the lieutenant about losing the thieves, he mentions that the bad guy Jon saw was black, yet the composite of him was a white guy.
  • When Bates whispers something to Getraer after the briefing, Getraer is not wearing his gunbelt. Seconds later, when Ponch approaches him, he has it back on.
  • When the two trucks pull over on the freeway, there are four stationary cars in the background of the shot where Jon dismounts from his bike. They only start moving when the trucks pull away.



Preceded by:
"Drive, Lady, Drive: Part 2" 		The Watch Commander
311 		Followed by:
"Destruction Derby"
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