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 party crowds at Santa Monica State Beach over 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 beautiful beach where they had just finished patrolling the hostile party crowds during the four day weekend. 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 during lunchtime 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 reddish-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 by using the spare house keys, 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 the witness 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 inside a hard leather purse, and gets onto a recently stolen red Yamaha TT 500 in order to take off from the parking lot into the city streets for a quick getaway hoping to avoid the police.
While Ponch and Jon happen to be riding around Lincoln Boulevard at the same time they actually received a call from the LAPD dispatcher on their CB radios about Chuck suspected for stealing jewelry during their lunchtime today. Ponch and Jon happen to spot Chuck speeding around the corner a stolen red Yamaha, and decides to call in a 211 into the dispatcher using their CB radios in order to pursue their suspect for a few miles into the city streets until reaching to end of road which leads to the beach. While the walking path of the beach actually contains some adults enjoying their daily activities during the time most of the kids are already back in school except for a fifteen year old girl named Keli Adams who happens to be riding her beautiful baby blue Schwinn Breeze rather than attend her first day of high school. 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 them. 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. Chuck is actually illegally riding on the walking path, and is scaring the crap out of pedestrians while Ponch and Jon continue to spot him doing it. Chuck performs a dangerous slide stunt in order to keep himself from wiping out, and accidentally collides with Keli during the process by causing her some head trauma while sending her tumbling onto her hips by finally landing into the white sand of the beautiful beach. After Ponch and Jon has just finished witnessing accident scene that was caused by Chuck, and watching the pedestrians attend to help comfort Keli. While Ponch has a real emergency to attend by cutting across parking lot, and Jon manages to pick up pursuit with Chuck where it had left off. Jon will continue to purse Chuck on the streets, and while Ponch enters the walking path along with three new witness in order to help a confused Keli by explaining their police pursuit today. When Ponch along with two male witnesses try to use their hands in order to help Keli get back up off the white sand grounds of the beautiful beach, and they now find out that she had accidentally sprained her left leg during the collision with Chuck. After Ponch along with witnesses look at Keli’s condition, and decide to call an ambulance immediately to the accident scene.
While Jon is still pursuing Chuck for a few more miles, and will eventually lose pursuit when he decides perform another dangerous stunt by jumping the red Yamaha off the Santa Monica Pier into the freezing cold water in order to avoid being arrested today. While an amateur boat thief named Danny comes to rescue his buddy Chuck from the freezing cold water, and while Jon arrives at the edge of the pier in order to watch their escape plan has worked today. While Ponch calls in an 11-81 into dispatcher by using his CB radio, and now manages to find out that their pursuit was actually terminated. Ponch tries to comforted a confused Keli who happens to worried about her wrecked bicycle after a recent. When Jon finally arrives back at the accident scene in order to see the paramedics put Keli onto stretcher, and Ponch decides introduce them to each other which exactly doesn’t work out to well because of differences in handling the situation with Chuck. While the paramedics finally put Keli into the ambulance in order to drive her to a nearby hospital, and which will eventually follow into three weeks where Ponch has just arrived at the Children Hospital Los Angeles by taking an early lunch break today. While Ponch is now walking the hallway on his to meet Lori at the nurses station, and manages to run into Timmy who is actually on his way to physical therapy. Ponch finally arrives at the nurses station to romance Lori on her lunch break that is actually coming up in about ten minutes, and now finds the Keli has just recently been transferred here for physical therapy because the other hospital doesn‘t want a difficult patient. When Ponch decides to go outside in order to conduct a follow up meeting Keli’s father, and stepmother along the way he will run into a cute little asian girl named Susie who happens to be going home tomorrow morning but doesn’t want to miss the carnival on Saturday. Ponch finally runs into a disrespectful little girl named T.C. who often insults him by wanting to steal his motorcycle, and manages to shrug her off with a dirty looking smirk. When Ponch finally does go outside to meet with Keli’s parents in order to finished the accident report, and which actually cut short due to differences in opinions about her daily activities. After Ponch goes back inside the building, and is challenge to a wheelchair race by T.C in which he does eventually accept after insulted by her once again.
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" |