Trick or Trick

Trick or Trick
Episode #	206
Air Date	Oct 21, 1978
Briefing	Only use the radio for official business.

Plot

Ponch and Jon are on patrol on Halloween. They chase a speeding van that was carrying 13 black cats. When it stops, they all ran away in front of Ponch.

Before the briefing, Ponch walks under a ladder. Grossie shows up with a jack-o-lantern that's supposed to look like Getraer. After the briefing, Ponch nicks himself with his electric razor, closes his locker door, and breaks his mirror. Getraer tells Grossie to get a candle for the jack-o-lantern...he has one in his locker. (Do we want to know why?)

On the streets, a kid asks Ponch for a treat, but Ponch gets a trick from a perfume filled squirt gun. Ponch threatens to put handcuffs on him. When they pass by a house later on, two men are taking up sod. Ponch and Jon chase and catch them.

Later, while Ponch stops at a store to fill his saddlebag with candy, an angry father blames Ponch for making his kid run away when Ponch told him he'd put handcuffs on him.

After a hobgoblin broadcast, Ponch and Jon find two women trying to steal a street sign. They convince them to forget about the scavenger hunt and get invited to a party.

That night, a woman dressed as a ghost robs a deli and Ponch and Jon chase her. Ponch has to tend to a ghost caused accident and she gets away. Ponch and Jon find a kid who had his candy stolen and Ponch offers them some of his.

Later, Ponch and Jon check out the local "haunted" house for the missing kid. After a while, they find him in the kitchen.

After a third hobgoblin broadcast, Jon notices a woman stealing candy. They chase her to her house where they find out she's just looking for her engagement ring. Jon finds it in her own candy bowl.

Back on the streets, Ponch and Jon chase the ghost again. They catch them when their windshield is egged.

At the party, Getraer reveals that he knew everything that was going on because Grossie left an impression on the page under the one he wrote his plans on.

Also starring

• Brianne Leary as Sindy
• Brodie Greer as Baricza
• Paul Linke as Grossman

Co-Starring

• Edward Call as Manager
• Barbara Leigh as Paula
• Jenny Sherman as Karen

Featuring

• Hal Baylor as Reed
• John Dennis as Collins
• Joe Medalis as Mr. Stone
• Susan Page as Julie
• Justin Dana as Tommy
• Jack Perkins as Drunk
• Hap Lawrence as Truck Driver
• Gary Dubin as Teenager
• Tony O'Dell as Teenager
• Bobby Porter as Sammy
• Darryl Cooksey as Skeleton
• Jeff Cotler as Allan
• Brandi Tucker as Child
• Beatrice Colen as Mary

Crew

• Produced by: Cy Chermak
• Written by: James Schmerer
• Directed by: Phil Bondelli
• Executive Consultant: Rick Rosner
• Story Editors: William D. Gordon & James Doherty
• Associate Producers: Wm. L. Young and Paul Rabwin
• Developed for television by: Paul Playdon
• Music by: Bruce Broughton
• Theme by: John Parker
• Music Supervisor: Harry V. Lojewski
• Director of Photography: Robert F. Sparks
• Art Director: Joseph M. Altadonna
• Editor: William Neel
• Unit Production Manager: Wm. L. Young
• Assistant Director: John M. Poer
• 2nd Assistant Directors: Randell Henderson / Michael Kane
• Script Supervisor: Jack Gannon
• Set Decorator: W. Joseph Kroesser
• Production Consultant: Bob Hayden
• Technical Advisor: Dick Barton
• Sound: Maury Harris, Hal Watkins, C.A.S.
• Stunt Co-ordinator: Paul Nuckles
• Wardrobe Supervisor: Shelly Levine
• Makeup: John M. Norin
• Casting: Michael O. Hanks
• 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

• Having a Halloween marathon? Check out "Rock, Devil, Rock".

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Preceded by: "Neighborhood Watch"

Trick or Trick 206

Followed by: "High Flyer"