Flare Up

Flare Up
Episode #	520
Air Date	March 7, 1982
Briefing	?

Title screen

Brief Plot

Ponch gets accused of assault by a guy he pulls over for speeding, even though he didn't even write him a ticket. Jon has to go to hospital after breathing chlorine gas at an accident. Grossman organizes a demonstration about chemical fires, but only Harlan turns up.

Guest Stars

• Harry Carey, Jr. as Grandfather
• Alan Stock as Eddie
• Jennifer Perito as Marie
• Michael Bowen as Dennis
• David Underwood as Brian
• Paul Linke as Grossman
• Lou Wagner as Harlan

Co-Starring

• Brodie Greer as Baricza
• Michael Dorn as Turner
• Beverly Hart as Dr. Patricia Fairfield
• Bernard McDonald as Englishman
• Jeff Eagle as Hugh
• Cecily Thompson as Little Girl
• Ernestine Barrier as Old Lady
• Susannah Darrow as Mother

Featuring

• Tannis Reed as Mom
• Christina Maria Hutter as Girl in Car
• Douglas Emerson as Boy in Car
• Dean Dittman as Chef
• Barbara Treutelaar as Nurse
• Randi Oakes as Bonnie Clark

Crew

• Executive Producer: Cy Chermak
• Produced By: Paul Rabwin
• Story Supervisor: William D. Gordon
• Written By: Larry Mollin
• Directed by: John Florea
• Executive Consultant: Rick Rosner
• Story Editors: L. Ford Neale & John Huff
• Executive 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
• Rerecorded 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 T. Schenck
• Hair Stylist: Don Lynch
• Assistant Editor: Bill L. Theobald
• Sound Editor: Mark Dennis
• Music Editor: Jan Gershkoff
• Casting: Cathy Henderson, Barbara Hanley
• 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

• Alan Stock (Eddie) previously appeared as Andy's son Chris in Sick Leave.
• Eddie gets pulled over outside the triangular building on Green Valley Circle. The opening accident takes place at the intersection with Fox Hills Drive near Fox Hills Plaza (now Westfield Culver City). The square white building seen when Bonnie's cruiser approaches was demolished to 2008 to make way for an extension to the mall. View in Google Maps
• The chemical spill scene was filmed on North Vermont Avenue. The truck crashes at the intersection with Cromwell Avenue, and Ponch is put into the ambulance at Gainsborough Avenue. Eddie and his grandfather lived at the house on the corner of Cromwell and Glendower. View in Google Maps

Mistakes

• In liquid form, hydroacetic acid is actually a colorless organic acid that's commonly mixed with water and used as a cleaning agent.

Preceded by: "Silent Partner"

Flare Up 520

Followed by: "The Game of War"