Supercycle

Supercycle
Episode #	211
Air Date	Dec 2, 1978
Briefing

Brief Plot

Jon and Ponch pursue the phantom, a daredevil artist who endangers bystanders. A "supercycle" performs illegal stunts on the California freeway and then speeds away. Harlan builds a motorcycle that can match the speed of the "supercycle". Ponch chases the suspect on the CHP cycle, jumps a moving ramp on the freeway, and catches the suspect.

Plot

After lunch, Ponch is telling Jon how he likes to go to different places for lunch when they spot someone performing stunts on a motorcycle driving down the street. They take off in pursuit while a couple men in a truck film the whole thing. The stuntman turns off and Ponch and Jon follow him through an abandoned movie lot. As they reach the end, the stuntman drives up a ramp and jumps over a wall. Ponch and Jon scramble up the wall only to see the stuntman wave to them from the other side before he rides off.

At Central the next day, Getraer is showing Ponch and Jon a film of their chase of "the phantom". Getraer says it aired on KPR TV the previous night and asks them to drop off the film after having Harlan check out their motors. In the hallway, Baricza and Grossie give Jon and Ponch a hard time about their TV performance.

Out in the garage, Jon and Ponch ask Harlan about the rumor of "supercycles". Harlan admits that the department has bought some, but won't let them have one. When Dave runs off, he pulls the cover off a supercycle sitting right in front of everyone. Harlan had been working on it at the test track and wasn't supposed to have it in his garage. Ponch convinces him to let them use it when it's ready in exchange for not telling Getraer that the secret's out on the supercycle.

Great Quote

"I never really watched you crash before. You do it very well!"

-Ponch

Guest Stars

• Jason Evers as Fred Gesslin
• George O'Hanlon as Roy Yarnell
• Special Guest Star
• Karen Carlson as Sheila Marin

Crew

• Produced by: Cy Chermak
• Teleplay by: William D. Gordon & James Doherty
• Story by: Barney Slater and William D. Gordon & James Doherty
• Directed by: Phil Bondelli

• Executive Consultant: Rick Rosner
• Story Editors: William D. Gordon & James Doherty
• Associate Producers: Wm. L. Young and Paul Rabwin
• Developed for television by: Paul Playdon
• Music by: Alan Silvestri
• Theme by: John Parker
• Music Supervisor: Harry V. Lojewski
• Director of Photography: Robert F. Sparks
• Art Director: Joseph M. Altadonna
• Editor: William Neel
• Unit Production Manager: Wm. L. Young
• Assistant Director: Ron Grow
• 2nd Assistant Directors: Randell Henderson / Michael Kane
• Script Supervisor: Jack Gannon
• Set Decorator: W. Joseph Kroesser
• Production Consultant: Bob Hayden
• Technical Advisor: Dick Barton
• Sound: Maury Harris, Hal Watkins, C.A.S.
• Stunt Co-ordinator: Paul Nuckles
• Wardrobe Supervisor: Shelly Levine
• Makeup: John M. Norin
• Casting: Michael O. Hanks
• 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

• See the sequel in "Return of the Supercycle".

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Preceded by: "Return of the Turks"

Supercycle 211

Followed by: "High Explosive"