Valley Go Home!
| Valley Go Home! | |
| Episode # | 303 |
| Air Date | September 29, 1979 |
| Briefing | Beach valley feud, and tape decks rip off's |
Brief Plot
Officers mediate a feud between teenagers. Ponch and Jon intervene when some irate surfers chase the Valley kids who bumped their car. Meanwhile, a couple of thieves use trash pickup as a cover to rip off beach-goers' tape decks.
Plot
On one extremely hot and sunny Friday morning, and the kids are now out of school for the first day of summer vacation at Malibu State Beach. Ponch and Jon are now on duty, and happen to be riding along the Pacific Coast Highway. Two young women while cruising along in a Mercedes 450 SL start noticing Ponch’s deep golden brown suntan, and began waving at him. After two young women finally finish noticing Ponch deep golden brown suntan. Ponch now starts smiling while looking at the two young women, and now wants to know about Jon‘s suntan. Jon is now having second thoughts about sun tanning, and doesn’t think that he could keep up the results with Ponch. Ponch now gives Jon some encouragement to stick with sun tanning for the results. Jon now feels the encouragement from Ponch in order to suntan.
Ponch and Jon now find themselves reading last years racial warning welcome mat from the surfers to the Hispanic people about coming to their beach. While still riding along the coast, and the kids are enjoying their first day of summer vacation now deciding to play on the beach. While three recent high school graduates who are actually inexperience surfers looking to start some trouble today, and happen to be cruising along in an retire Oldsmobile Ambulance. The mural painted on the back of the ambulance, and happens to be an airbrushing of a male teenage surfer hitting the high waves with his surfboard. Jerry is driving along the coast, and his buddies are acting like idiots while singing along to a brand new song on the radio. Jerry happens to be taking his buddies to the beach in order to go surfing.
Jerry finally finds the perfect parking spot in order to park his ambulance. But there is actually one problem with the Ford Galaxie 500 in the parking spot in front of the ambulance is parked a little too close. Jerry’s buddy Dave now gives him the benefit of doubt about being able to parallel park in that type of situation. Jerry finally decides to pull into the tight squeeze of a parking space, and wants to teach his buddies a stupid lesson about learning how to parallel park in these types of situations. Jerry now decides to be obnoxious about the situation, and keeps backing up until finally he parks right on the front bumper of the Ford Econoline. After Jerry finally finishes being an obnoxious big shot by parking right on the front bumper of the van, and his buddies finally decide to get out of his ambulance.
After finally getting out of Jerry’s ambulance, and Dave finally decides to take off his white shirt. While their buddy Bart finally decides to give a helping hand by opening up the back right passengers door of the ambulance to retrieve their surfboards. Dave now thinks it’s funny about the owner of the van having hard time getting out of this parking spot. Bart finally has decided to give both of his best friends which consist Dave and Jerry by handing them their two surfboards. Jerry actually doesn’t care about victimizing the owners van with one of his stupid parallel parking moves, and starts insulting the Hispanic race of people that come from the valley in order to get a chance to come to this beautiful white sand beach.
Both Dave and Jerry now notice the mural painted on the back of the van. The mural painted on the back of the van, and happen to be an airbrushing of a coyote howling in front of cactus while out in the desert. Jerry actually hates the coyote mural, and thinks the owner of the van is actually Hispanic that comes from the valley. Both Dave and Jerry now start making fun of the coyote mural by howling at it. Bart now wishes that his buddy Jerry would be nice enough to back into the ambulance, and finally do the right thing by pull up a little more to give the owner of the van some room to pull out. Dave really doesn’t care about doing the right thing, and Jerry now wants to go to the beach in order to go surfing. Both Jerry, Dave, and Bart now finally agree to hit the beautiful white sand beach with their surfboards.
After Jerry, Dave, and Bart finally agree to hit the beautiful white sand beach with their surfboards. Meanwhile a teenage girl wearing a bikini is now surfing the high waves with her surfboard, and she accidentally hits a low wave that causes her to wipe out. The other surfers are now finally managing to hit that same low wave, and which causes them to accidentally wipe out. While three recent high school graduates that are actually Hispanic people from the valley, and happen to be walking up the hill with their two girlfriends after deciding to leave the beach. They are now watching the other surfers actually manage to hit the low waves, and which causes them to accidentally wipe out. Lupe now notices that one of the surfers is actually going underneath the waves, and Michael knows about the surfers finally wiping out on their surfboards.
After finally walking up the hill while being together with their girlfriends. Michael now notices that an ambulance is actually parked right on the front bumper of his van today. Ramone now starts complaining about the parking situation. Ramone’s girlfriend also starts complaining about the parking situation. Lupe then starts complaining about this being the only parking spot left at the whole beach. Michael has just now started complaining about the surfers having a number of choices in parking spaces, and just parked here in order to be mean. Ramone now starts complaining about the surfers that are actually thinking about owning the whole beach. Michael’s girlfriends finally starts complaining about the parking situation.
Guest Stars
- Ed Griffith as Tom
- Aarika Wells as Kris
- Kim O'Brien as Donna
- Grant Wilson as Jerry
- Greg Bradford as Bart
Crew
- Produced by: Cy Chermak
- Written by: John Huff and L. Ford Neale
- Directed by: Barry Crane
- 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
- Both actors Michael Dorn and Lou Wagner that play the characters of Turner and Harlan don't appear in this episode.
- Actor Paul Linke who plays Grossie only makes a cameo appearance in this episode.
- This whole entire episode was actually filmed in Malibu instead of Los Angeles.
- Jon's blue GMC K15 pickup truck is actually upgraded to a 1979 model.
Mistakes
| Preceded by: "Roller Disco: Part 2" |
Valley Go Home! 303 |
Followed by: "High Octane" |