Valley Go Home!
| Valley Go Home! | |
| Episode # | 303 |
| Air Date | September 29, 1979 |
| Briefing | ? |
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 Saturday morning while riding along the Pacific Coast Highway of Malibu State Beach Ponch and Jon are on duty. Two young women while cruising along in a Mercedes start noticing Ponch’s deep golden brown suntan, and began waving at him. After finally being notice for his deep golden brown suntan, Ponch now starts smiling while looking at both young women, and wants to know how Jon‘s suntan in coming along today. Jon is not sure if he can keep up with Ponch for the results. Ponch now encourages Jon to stick with it for the results. Jon is now thankful to Ponch for the encouragement to suntan. Ponch and Jon while still riding all of sudden read last years welcome mat as a gift to the Hispanic people from the surfers, and still warning them about coming to their beach. Ponch and Jon are still riding along the coast, and the kids are playing on the beach. Three male surfers after recently graduating from high schools are looking for trouble today, and while cruising along in a retire Oldsmobile Ambulance. The mural painted on the back of the ambulance, consists of teenage surfer hitting the high waves with his surfboard.
The teenage surfing trio while driving along the coast, now singing along while acting like idiots to a brand new song on the radio, and are on their way to the beach. The teenage surfing trio finally finds the perfect parking spot, and theirs one problem the Ford Galaxie 500 in the parking spot in front of them that is actually parked too close. Dave now doubts his buddy Jerry about being able to parallel park in that type of situation. Jerry who is actually driving the ambulance now decides that he wants to look for some trouble today by being stupid, now wants his buddies learn a lesson in parallel parking, and finally pulling into the tight squeeze of a parking space. Jerry now decides to keep backing up until he finally parks right on the front bumper of the Ford Econoline. After Jerry finishes parking right on the front bumper of the van, and his buddies finally decide to get out of the ambulance.
Dave finally takes off his white shirt, and while his buddy Bart opens up the back door of the ambulance. Tom now notices the mural painted on the back of the van which is actually a coyote in the desert, and thinks funny of somebody else having hard getting out of the parking spot. Bart finally hands him a surfboard. Jerry who doesn’t care of his stupid parallel parking move, now notices the mural which consists of the coyote in the desert on the back of the victims van. Jerry is thinking that the people from the valley are her, and insults race not knowing the owner of the van is actually Hispanic. Both Dave and Jerry are now making fun of the mural which consists of the coyote in the desert scene on the back of the van by howling at it. Bart would like his buddy to pull up, and them some room. Dave really doesn’t care, and Jerry just wants to hit the beach. The teenage surfing trio now agrees to hit the beach with their surfboards.
The teenage girl wearing a bikini today is now surfing along the waves with her surfboard, and finally manages to hit a low wave causing her to accidentally wipe out. The other surfers are now finally managing to hit the low waves causing them to accidentally wipe out. The Hispanic teenagers are now leaving the beach, and are watching the other surfers finally managing to hit the low waves causing them to accidentally wiping out. Lupe now notices one of the surfers is going underneath the waves. Michael just knows about surfers losing their surfboards because of the low waves today. The Hispanic teenagers are finally walking up the hill together, and noticing that the ambulance is parked right on the front bumper of their van.
Michael is now furious at the ambulance driver for parking right on the front bumper of his van. Michael’s girlfriend is now mad how to get out of this situation. Lupe is now thinking that this is only parking spot left at the beach, and eventually makes Michael even angrier. Michael now starts complaining about the rude ambulance driver that had his choice of parking spaces, and agree to do it just to be mean. Ramone now starts bitching about the surfers that are thinking about owning the whole beach. Michael now has plan to get back at the ambulance driver for parking right on his front bumper today, and wants everybody to finally get inside his van. Michael now gives the keys to his buddy Ramone in order to start the van, and then grabs a wire by turning it into a coat hanger. Michael now starts climbing over the front bumper of his van in order to get the ambulance, and his girlfriend thinks that he is actually crazy for attempting to break in. Michael is actually unaware that he going to start trouble with the surfers today by breaking into their ambulance. Both Hispanic teenage girls run over to watch Michael break into the ambulance. Lupe now runs over, and manages to keep a look for the surfers, and while his crazy buddy finally manages to break into the ambulance by popping the lock with a wire. After Michael finally finishes breaking into the ambulance, and shifts it into in neutral. Ramone after finally getting the signal from Michael to drive the van, agrees to ram the surfers ambulance into the other car causing it to wreck the front bumper, and bashing out the right seal low beam headlight. The other cars rear bumper is also wreck along with it’s seal beam tail lights now bashed out.
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
- Michael Dorn who plays Turner doesn't appear in this episode.
Mistakes
| Preceded by: "Roller Disco: Part 2" |
Valley Go Home! 303 |
Followed by: "High Octane" |