Second Chance

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

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Brief Plot

Ponch and Jon try to apprehend a jewel thief who has hit several condos in Marina del Rey. A thief injures a young girl while making a motorcycle getaway. Ponch tries to befriend a recovering girl who was injured by the thief during his escape. Bonnie organizes a special carnival which includes a picnic style lunch for the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Plot

Ponch and Jon are riding along the coast during the afternoon.

Chuck apologizes to the male witness.

After Ponch and Jon has just finished patrolling the hostile party crowds at Santa Monica State Beach over a four day weekend which has just ended on Monday night, and the kids are now finally back in school by Tuesday afternoon. While riding along the beautiful coastal route of the Marina Freeway, and poor Jon has to hear Ponch start complaining about wanting to quit his job at the California Highway Patrol in order to become a lifeguard at the beautiful beach where they had just finished patrolling the hostile party crowds during the four day weekend. Jon now decides to cheer up Ponch today by making him fully satisfied with his real job rather than his stupid imaginary job. Ponch now feels a little bit better at the moment about doing his job today. Meanwhile during lunchtime an amateur jewel thief named Chuck had just broken into a single desperate woman’s beautifully furnish condo in the small seaside community of Marina del Rey, and has entered the bedroom by starting to go though her dresser doors until he finds a beautiful crushed reddish-brown velvet case which actually contains a few very expensive high quality pieces of jewelry. Chuck now decides to take advantage of a single desperate woman by opening up her jewelry case, and taking out all her items by placing her items them into a leather messenger bag. Chuck will eventually leave her condo without any force of entry by using the spare house keys, and is unaware that Ponch and Jon are now riding around in the small community shopping area of Lincoln Boulevard. Chuck is now walking down the outside steps of her small seaside condo community while carrying a hard leather purse of recently stolen items, and accidentally knocks down a man who happens to see the jewelry. After Chuck finishes apologizing to the man for accidentally knocking him over, and picks up the jewelry while the witness runs up the steps in order to call the police about meeting a recent burglar today. Chuck now decides leave his recent crime scene in the small seaside condo community with the jewelry inside a leather messenger bag, and gets onto a recently stolen red Yamaha TT 500 in order to take off from the parking lot into the city streets for a quick getaway hoping to avoid the police.

Chuck is now looking back at Ponch and Jon.

Ponch along with the witnesses are unable to help Keli get back up off the ground.

While Ponch and Jon happen to be riding around Lincoln Boulevard at the same time they actually received a call from the LAPD dispatcher on their CB radios about Chuck suspected for stealing jewelry during their lunchtime today. Ponch and Jon happen to spot Chuck speeding around the corner a stolen red Yamaha, and decides to call in a 211 into the dispatcher using their CB radios in order to pursue their suspect for a few miles into the city streets until reaching to end of road which leads to the beach. While the walking path of the beach actually contains some adults enjoying their daily activities during the time most of the kids are already back in school except for a fifteen year old girl named Keli Adams who happens to be riding her beautiful baby blue Schwinn Breeze rather than attend her first day of high school. While Ponch and Jon are still in pursuit of Chuck who now makes his way down to the beach deciding to cut off a pedestrians in the crosswalk, and illegally enters the walking path hoping to lose them. Ponch and Jon are now forced to go in the other direction by cutting off some pedestrians while going though the road closed signs in the case of real emergencies like this one today. Chuck is actually illegally riding on the walking path, and is scaring the crap out of pedestrians while Ponch and Jon continue to spot him doing it. Chuck performs a dangerous slide stunt in order to keep himself from wiping out, and accidentally collides with Keli during the process by causing her some head trauma while sending her tumbling onto her hips by finally landing into the white sand of the beautiful beach. After Ponch and Jon has just finished witnessing accident scene that was caused by Chuck, and watching the pedestrians attend to help comfort Keli. While Ponch has a real emergency to attend by cutting across parking lot, and Jon manages to pick up pursuit with Chuck where it had left off. Jon will continue to purse Chuck on the streets, and while Ponch enters the walking path along with three new witness in order to help a confused Keli by explaining their police pursuit today. When Ponch along with two male witnesses try to use their hands in order to help Keli get back up off the white sand grounds of the beautiful beach, and they now find out that she had accidentally sprained her left leg during the collision with Chuck. After Ponch along with witnesses look at Keli’s condition, and decide to call an ambulance immediately to the accident scene.

Ponch and the paramedics now have Keli on the stretcher.

Ponch agree's to accept T.C.'s obstacle course challenge.

While Jon is still pursuing Chuck for a few more miles, and will eventually lose pursuit when he decides perform another dangerous stunt by jumping the red Yamaha off the Santa Monica Pier into the deep water in order to avoid being arrested today. While an amateur boat thief named Danny comes to rescue his older brother Chuck from the deep water, and while Jon arrives at the edge of the pier in order to watch their escape plan has worked today. While Ponch calls in an 11-81 into dispatcher by using his CB radio, and now finds out that their pursuit of Chuck who was actually suspected of stealing jewelry has been recently terminated just a few minutes ago. While Ponch tries to comforted a confused Keli who happens to worried about her wrecked bicycle after a recent collision with Chuck, and when Jon finally arrives back at the accident scene just in time to see the paramedics put Keli onto a stretcher. When Ponch decides to have Keli meet his partner Jon in which doesn’t exactly work out to well with her today, and turns into anger about their recently terminated pursuit of Chuck while the paramedics finally put her into the ambulance in order to drive her to a nearby hospital. About three weeks later Ponch has just arrived at the Children Hospital Los Angeles, and decides to visit his new girlfriend who happens to be a register nurse named Lori during lunch break today. During the time of Ponch’s lunch break he will first visit with a little boy named Timmy who happens to be on his way to physical therapy, and when he finally arrives at the nurses station to romance Lori with a silly poem which makes her laugh at him. Ponch now finds out from Lori that their friend Keli has just been transferred here for physical therapy because the other hospital doesn‘t want her because of difficulties in treatment. While walking through the playroom where Ponch manages runs into a cute little asian girl named Susie who happens to be reading comic books with her friend, and is surprise that she will to be going back home tomorrow morning for the first time but doesn’t want to miss their annual carnival which includes a picnic that is coming up on Saturday morning. Ponch finally runs into a disrespectful little girl named T.C. who often jokes about wanting to steal his motorcycle, and complains about his sense of humor. Ponch manages to shrug off T.C. with a dirty looking smirk, and goes outside to meet with Keli’s father and new stepmother about her recent collision with Chuck. Ponch decides to make the meeting very short because Keli being argumentative with her stepmother, and goes back inside the building in order accept a wheelchair racing challenge by T.C along with her friend after making another joke about him being a chicken.

Ponch and T.C. are getting ready to compete in the wheelchair race which includes a lot of obstacles.

Bonnie decides to points a finger while smiling at Ponch and Jon because she happens to know that they are lying to her face.

After Ponch has just agree to excepted the challenge from T.C., and during the race in which he can’t seem to concentrate on the obstacles in the competition while in a wheelchair which has Keli‘s father laughing at him. Ponch will eventually give up on the obstacle course challenge by letting T.C. win, and accidentally tips over in his wheelchair. Since Ponch has almost completed the obstacle course challenge with T.C., and will finally get a date with Lori for Saturday night but needs to go back on duty by putting a smile on her face. During lunchtime at the Chart House Seafood Restaurant where Danny is currently working as a parking lot attendant, and the right moment comes where a beautiful single desperate woman has just pull into the front of the restaurant while driving a pearl white Stutz Blackhawk. After Danny finishes parking the Stutz by taking the set of keys, and walks over to their customize Ford Econoline where Chuck happens to be inside listening to a new record album with his girlfriend named Peggy. When Danny arrives inside the Econoline in order to have a business meeting with Chuck, and wants Peggy to leave immediately. Things almost backfire when Chuck actually defends Peggy in order to finish the business meeting with Danny about their next jewel robbery during lunchtime today, and manages to get a set of keys for the single desperate woman‘s condo. When Danny has to go back on duty in order to park a beautiful Corvette in which Chuck has Peggy look at while grabbing his motorcycle helmet, and leather messenger bag in order to leave by stealing a Norton Commando 850. During the Wednesday morning briefing where Getraer would look to thank Ponch and Jon along with Turner for almost apprehending Chuck in Marina area, and gets interrupted by Grossie making a stupid joke about string bikini‘s being outlaw at the beach. After Baricza finishes touching Grossie’s stomach, and Getraer is able to finished the briefing about their suspects which are actually brothers named Chuck and Danny about stealing motorcycles in order to ditch them after the robberies.

Guest Stars

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

Co-Starring

• Paul Linke as Grossman
• Brodie Greer as Baricza
• Michael Dorn as Turner
• Lynne Marie Stewart as Nancy
• Ben Van Vacter as Danny
• Nancy Hinman as Lori
• Terri Lynn Wood as T.C.
• Rik Colitti as Galagos
• Robert Dowdell as Mr. Adams
• Ellyn Stern as Mrs. Adams
• Tifni Twitchell as First Woman
• Mallory Sandler as Second Woman
• Bobby Baum as Man
• Derek Wilcox as Timmy
• Steven Mond as Wheelchair Patient
• Tarumi Takagi as Susie
• David Yanez as Starter
• Charles Hart as Second Wheelchair Patient
• Randi Oakes as Bonnie Clark

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 filmed in Santa Monica, Marina del Rey, and Los Angeles.
• The bicycle accident scene was filmed on the coastal path at Santa Monica State Beach.
• The recently injured sick patients, and the wheelchair racing scenes were actually filmed at the Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles.
• The Chart House restaurant is located at 13950 Panay Way, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292. View in Google Maps

Mistakes

Visible straps.

• During the pre-titles chase there is a shot looking back from the red bike where the front wheel is obviously stationary and the straps holding it to the camera vehicle can be seen.

Preceded by: "Destruction Derby"

Second Chance 313

Followed by: "Wheeling"