Diamond in the Rough

Diamond in the Rough
Episode #	508
Air Date	November 22, 1981
Briefing	?

Title screen

Brief Plot

Pat, a friend of Getraer's son, is involved in a car accident with his mother, and the Getraers take him in while his mother recovers in hospital. The other car drove off because the occupants are planning a robbery and don't want to wait around for the police. Meanwhile, Jon calls a friend in Las Vegas to try and trace Pat's father.

Guest Stars

• Henry Jones as Dutton
• Gwynne Gilford as Betty Getraer
• Nicky Katt as Pat
• Stephen Davies as Bill McGuire
• Marc Alaimo as Zager
• Paul Linke as Grossman
• Lou Wagner as Harlan

Special Guest Star

• Bruce Jenner as Steve McLeish

Co-Starring

• Brodie Greer as Baricza
• Rossie Harris as Timmy Getraer
• Deborah Fallender as Lois
• Dan Owens as Shaw
• Starletta Du Pois as Lauren Collier
• Elsie Caitlin as Josie
• Albert Henderson as Dixie
• Britt Leach as Cecil Adino
• Lou Tiano as Maury
• Alex Rodine as Weiss

Featuring

• Nat Jones as Jake
• Charles McDaniel as Manager
• Randi Oakes as Bonnie Clark

Crew

• Executive Producer: Cy Chermak
• Produced by: James Doherty
• Story Supervisor: William D. Gordon
• Written by: Steve Greenberg & Aubrey Solomon
• Directed by: Leslie H. Martinson
• 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: Albert P. Wilson A.C.E.
• 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

Crash at 4th & Wall

• The crash at the beginning was filmed on Beverwil Drive. View on Google Maps
• The bank robbers meet at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel, now called the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, on Pershing Square. View on Google Maps
• Steve waits for Pat to arrive on the moped in front of the Valley General Hospital sign used in several previous episodes, but the sign has been moved to a completely different location. This time it's on 7th street outside The Ambassador Hotel. The hotel was demolished in 2005, and the site is now part of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex (Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in the hotel). The intersection was previously used in Hot Wheels.
• Two of the car crashes during the robbery were filmed from different angles at the same intersection. A few of the buildings at 4th and Wall can still be recognized. View in Google Maps

Mistakes

• The crooks appear to have an accurate street map, but the location they point to as a bank is actually Macy's Plaza.

Preceded by: "Bomb Run"

Diamond in the Rough 508

Followed by: "Finders Keepers"