Bomb Run

Bomb Run
Episode #	507
Air Date	November 15, 1981
Briefing	?

Title screen

Brief Plot

CHP is setting up a recruitment stand at an airshow when an old girlfriend of Baricza's drops in with her father in a vintage plane. Baricza senses something is not quite right, but doesn't realize they plan to use their aerial show as a cover for a robbery.

Guest Stars

• Kristen Griffith as Terri
• Taylor Lacher as Brady
• Brion James as Monk
• Steve Gagnon as Neely
• Paul Linke as Grossman
• Lou Wagner as Harlan

Special Guest Star

• Ed Nelson as Brian

Co-Starring

• Brodie Greer as Baricza
• Michael Dorn as Turner
• Art Scholl as Himself
• Randi Oakes as Bonnie Clark

Crew

• Executive Producer: Cy Chermak
• Produced by: James Doherty
• Story Supervisor: William D. Gordon
• Written by: Richard B. Mittleman
• Directed by: Phil Bondelli
• Executive Consultant: Rick Rosner
• Story Editors: L. Ford Neale & John Huff
• Associate Producer: Randall Torno
• 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: Stephen Myles Berger
• Editor: Joe Morrisey
• Unit Production Manager: Donald Gold
• First Assistant Director: Denny Salvaryn
• Second Assistant Director: Leslie L. Jackson
• Script Supervisor: Jack Gannon
• Set Decorator: W. Joseph Kroesser
• Production Consultant: Dave McDannel
• Stunt Co-ordinator: Paul Nuckles
• 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

• Brion James (Monk) played Ackerman in Drive, Lady, Drive.
• Art Scholl was a top aerobatic pilot who died while filming a stunt for Top Gun (1985). He moved his company to Miro Field (sometimes called Rialto Municipal Airport) in 1978 and staged several successful airshows there (including the one in this episode). After his death, Miro Field was renamed Art Scholl Memorial Field in his honor. His company still operates from there. View in Google Maps
• The Tiger Moth seen here (A17-695) is an ex-RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) bi-plane that belonged to Art Scholl Aviation. As of 2010 it was being restored in Canada.

Mistakes

• Terri's father mispronounces Bear's name as Barry Barisca. Considering he used to work with Bear's father and Terri used to date Bear, you'd have thought he would get it right!
• The announcer says the reconstruction is going back "to the very beginning of aerial combat, 1915, the First World War". The first Tiger Moth didn't fly until October 1931, about 13 years after the First World War ended.
• The explosives on the safe are placed around the door handle, yet blow the door clean off without damaging the briefcase inside.
• When the yellow car is lifted by the helicopter (why?), daylight can be seen where the engine should be.

Preceded by: "Anything But The Truth"

Bomb Run 507

Followed by: "Diamond in the Rough"