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(Added Title Screen, tidied & completed cast, added most of crew, Fun Facts, Mistakes & succession box. Also removed erroneous mistake (glasses/coffee cups).)
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   episode_title = Forty Tons of Trouble|
   episode_title = Forty Tons of Trouble|
   episode_num  = 410|
   episode_num  = 410|
   air_date      = Jan 11, 1981|
   air_date      = January 11, 1981|
   briefing      = Stealing construction equipment}}
   briefing      = Ring of thieves stealing construction equipment.}}


[[Image:S4Ep10Title.jpg|thumb|Title screen]]
==Plot==
==Plot==
At the drag strip, someone steals a bulldozer but jumps off when the brakes fail. The bulldozer pulls out into traffic behind [[Grossie]]. [[Jon]] hops on it and crashes it into a building.
At the drag strip, someone steals a bulldozer but jumps off when the brakes fail. The bulldozer pulls out into traffic behind [[Grossie]]. [[Jon]] hops on it and crashes it into a building.
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==Guest Stars==
==Guest Stars==
*Robert Englund ("Freddy Krueger" from ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' as Zack)
* [[Mary Louise Weller]] as Paula
*Mary Louise Weller (Paula)
* [[Taylor Lacher]] as Sarge
*Taylor Lacher (Sarge)
* [[Michael Huddleston]] as Scotty
*Michael Huddleston (Scotty)
* [[Robert Englund]] as Zack
*Elliott Street (Rice)
* [[Elliott Street]] as Rice
*Chris Mulkey (from ''Twin Peaks'' as Dave)
* [[Chris Mulkey]] as Dave
*Gene Davis (Harry)
* [[Paul Linke]] as Grossman
*Biff Manard (Manager)
* [[Lou Wagner]] as Harlan
*Hinton Pope (Watchman)
 
==Co-Starring==
* [[Brodie Greer]] as Baricza
* [[Michael Dorn]] as Turner
* [[Gene Davis]] as Harry
* [[Biff Manard]]as Manager
 
==Featuring==
* [[Hinton Pope]] as Watchman
* [[Randi Oakes]] as Bonnie Clark


==Crew==
==Crew==
*Written by: [[James Schmerer]]
* Produced by: [[Cy Chermak]]
*Directed by: [[Gordon Hessler]]
* Written by: [[James Schmerer]]
* Directed by: [[Gordon Hessler]]
* Executive Consultant: [[Rick Rosner]]
* Story Editors: [[William D. Gordon]] & [[James Doherty]]
* Associate Producer: [[Paul Rabwin]]
* Developed for television by: [[Paul Playdon]]
* Theme by: [[John Parker]]
* Music Supervisor: [[Harry V. Lojewski]]
* Director of Photography: [[Robert F. Sparks]]
* Art Director: [[Stephen Myles Berger]]
* Editor: [[Joe Morrisey]]
* Unit Production Manager: [[Donald Gold]]
* First Assistant Director: [[Denny Salvaryn]]
* Second Assistant Director: [[Leslie Jackson]]
* Script Supervisor: [[Jack Gannon]]
* Set Decorator: [[W. Joseph Kroesser]]
* Production Consultant: [[Dave McDannel]]
* Stunt Co-ordinator: [[Paul Nuckles]]
* Assistant to the Producer: [[Randy Torno]]
* Recorded at: [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios]]
* Sound: [[Harlan Riggs]], [[M. Curtis Price]] C.A.S.
* Wardrobe Supervisor: [[Shelly Levine]]
* Makeup: [[Richard Cobos]] S.M.A, [[Walter Schenck]]
* Hairdresser: [[Don Lynch]]
* Casting: [[Cathy Henderson]]
* With Appreciation to [[Glen B. Craig]], [[Commissioner]] [[California Highway Patrol]]
* Motorcycles Furnished by: [[Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A.]]
* Filmed in [[METROCOLOR]] / Titles and Opticals [[MGM]]
* [[Rosner Television]] in association with MGM Television
 
==Fun Facts==
* This episode was recorded four years before Robert Englund's most famous role as Freddy Krueger in ''A Nightmare on Elm Street''.
* Brotherhood Raceway Park was located on Terminal Island. It opened in 1974 and closed in the mid-90s to make way for a coal dock and container storage. No traces remain today. [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=33.747457,-118.255709&spn=0.008502,0.016512&t=h&z=17 View in Google Maps]
* The Princess Louise was built in 1921 and became a floating restaurant in 1966, hosting up to 2,000 guests per day. She was originally berthed on Terminal Island, but moved to San Pedro in 1979. She closed in January 1989 and capsized in suspicious circumstances later that year.


==Mistakes==
==Mistakes==
* Jon and Ponch visit Paula's home. Jon brings out 3 glasses of iced tea and then we cut away to a scene where another piece of construction equipment is stolen. When we return to Paula's house, Jon, Ponch, and Paula are drinking out of coffee cups!
* The first piece of construction equipment the thieves try to steal is a loader (as called out by Paula), but Grossman calls it a grader when he spots it in his rearview mirror. A grader has a long blade underneath and no bucket.
* When the engine of the Bonanza AMX blows, it leaves debris on the track, but the track is clear when the pickup pulls up immediately afterwards.
 
{{Succession box|
preceded =Crash Course|
number =410|
followed =11-99: Officer Needs Help}}

Revision as of 09:16, 13 June 2013

Forty Tons of Trouble
Episode # 410
Air Date January 11, 1981
Briefing Ring of thieves stealing construction equipment.
Title screen

Plot

At the drag strip, someone steals a bulldozer but jumps off when the brakes fail. The bulldozer pulls out into traffic behind Grossie. Jon hops on it and crashes it into a building.

Back at the drag strip, a driver blows his engine. He and his buddies decide to steal the parts.

At the strip again, we learn the CHP chipped in to get a car...except Grossie didn't contribute.

Meanwhile, the thieves start to get worried when they realize they took some CHP parts. Harlan tells everyone of their misfortune at the briefing.

Their next time on the strip, the thieves blow a tire so they steal more.

After talking with a woman who had construction equipment stolen, Ponch spots the van that was used to escape by the thieves. He follows it.

The next day, the thieves are at the woman's construction site again while Ponch and Jon attempt to catch them, one of them tries to escape in a forklift. He tries to kill Ponch with a forklift. (But he only "kills" Ponch's car!)

After Jon and Turner catch the guy, Grossie tells them he found their missing parts. Jon and Getraer chase two thieves while Ponch (in the "CHiPs" dragster) chases the thief in the other dragster. Ponch manages to stop him by opening his 'chute in front of the guy.

Guest Stars

Co-Starring

Featuring

Crew

Fun Facts

  • This episode was recorded four years before Robert Englund's most famous role as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
  • Brotherhood Raceway Park was located on Terminal Island. It opened in 1974 and closed in the mid-90s to make way for a coal dock and container storage. No traces remain today. View in Google Maps
  • The Princess Louise was built in 1921 and became a floating restaurant in 1966, hosting up to 2,000 guests per day. She was originally berthed on Terminal Island, but moved to San Pedro in 1979. She closed in January 1989 and capsized in suspicious circumstances later that year.

Mistakes

  • The first piece of construction equipment the thieves try to steal is a loader (as called out by Paula), but Grossman calls it a grader when he spots it in his rearview mirror. A grader has a long blade underneath and no bucket.
  • When the engine of the Bonanza AMX blows, it leaves debris on the track, but the track is clear when the pickup pulls up immediately afterwards.


Preceded by:
"Crash Course" 		Forty Tons of Trouble
410 		Followed by:
"11-99: Officer Needs Help"
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