Second Chance
| Second Chance | |
| Episode # | 313 |
| Air Date | December 1, 1979 |
| Briefing | Burglaries in condos in Marina Del Rey |
Brief Plot
Ponch and Jon try to apprehend a jewel thief who has hit several condos in Marina del Rey. A thief injures a young girl while making a motorcycle getaway. Ponch tries to befriend a recovering girl who was injured by the thief during his escape. Bonnie organizes a special carnival which includes a picnic style lunch for the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
Plot
After Ponch and Jon has just finished patrolling the hostile cowards at Santa Monica State Beach for a four day weekend which has just ended on Monday night, and the kids are now finally back in school by Tuesday afternoon. While riding along the beautiful coastal route of the Marina Freeway, and poor Jon has to hear Ponch start complaining about wanting to quit his job at the California Highway Patrol in order to become a lifeguard at the beach. Jon now decides to cheer up Ponch today by making him fully satisfied with his real job rather than his stupid imaginary job. Ponch now feels a little bit better at the moment about doing his job today. Meanwhile an amateur jewel thief named Chuck had just broken into a single desperate woman’s beautifully furnish condo in the small seaside community of Marina del Rey, and has entered the bedroom by starting to go though her dresser doors until he finds a beautiful crushed brown velvet case which actually contains a few very expensive high quality pieces of jewelry. Chuck now decides to take advantage of a single desperate woman by opening up her jewelry case, and taking out all her items by placing her items them into a hard leather purse. Chuck will eventually leave her condo without any force of entry, and is unaware that Ponch and Jon are now riding around in the small community shopping area of Lincoln Boulevard. Chuck is now walking down the outside steps of her small seaside condo community while carrying a hard leather purse of recently stolen items, and accidentally knocks down a man who happens to see the jewelry. After Chuck finishes apologizing to the man for accidentally knocking him over, and picks up the jewelry while he runs up the steps in order to call the police about meeting a recent burglar today. Chuck now decides leave his recent crime scene in the small seaside condo community with the jewelry in a hard leather purse, and gets onto a recently stolen Yamaha TT 500 in order to take off from the parking lot into the city streets.
While Ponch and Jon happen to be riding around Lincoln Boulevard at the same time they actually received a call from the LAPD dispatcher about their suspect Chuck. Ponch and Jon happen to spot Chuck speeding around the corner a stolen red Yamaha, and decides to pursue him for a few miles into the city streets until reaching to end of road. While the walking path of the beach contains some school skippers like Keli Adams who happens to be riding her beautiful brand new baby blue Schwinn Breeze today. While Ponch and Jon are still in pursuit of Chuck who now makes his way down to the beach deciding to cut off a pedestrians in the crosswalk, and illegally enters the walking path hoping to lose their pursuit. Ponch and Jon are now forced to go in the other direction by cutting off some pedestrians while going though the road closed signs in the case of real emergencies like this one today.
Guest Stars
- David-James Carroll as Chuck
- Dana Laurita as Keli Adams
- Kristine DeBell as Peggy
Co-Starring
- Paul Linke as Grossman
- Brodie Greer as Baricza
- Michael Dorn as Turner
- Lynne Marie Stewart as Nancy
- Ben Van Vacter as Danny
- Nancy Hinman as Lori
- Terri Lynn Wood as T.C.
- Rik Colitti as Galagos
- Robert Dowdell as Mr. Adams
- Ellyn Stern as Mrs. Adams
- Tifni Twitchell as First Woman
- Mallory Sandler as Second Woman
- Bobby Baum as Man
- Derek Wilcox as Timmy
- Steven Mond as Wheelchair Patient
- Tarumi Takagi as Susie
- David Yanez as Starter
- Charles Hart as Second Wheelchair Patient
- Randi Oakes as Bonnie Clark
Crew
- Produced by: Cy Chermak
- Written by: Frank Chase and Ramona Chase
- Directed by: John Florea
- 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
- The episode was filmed in Santa Monica, Marina del Rey, and Los Angeles.
- The bicycle accident scene was filmed on the coastal path at Santa Monica State Beach.
- The recently injured sick patients, and the wheelchair racing scenes were actually filmed at the Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles.
- The Chart House restaurant is located at 13950 Panay Way, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292. View in Google Maps
Mistakes
- During the pre-titles chase there is a shot looking back from the red bike where the front wheel is obviously stationary and the straps holding it to the camera vehicle can be seen.
| Preceded by: "Destruction Derby" |
Second Chance 313 |
Followed by: "Wheeling" |