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Original Airdate: 23-Feb-1978
Plot: Ponch gets a feeling that it's going to be a strange day and then gets dirt thrown at his motor. The culprit runs off. As they're about to get going, a van full of naked female volleyball players drives by. Ponch and Jon (being bachelors) chase the speeding van to a nudist colony. That night, Torgo the dirt thrower is at it again and nearly causes an accident. After Grossie's major shock at the briefing, Ponch and Jon hit the bricks and find a car that crashed because of the mud-slinger. Back at Central, Grossie has to lose 18 pounds (even though he was always overweight). Ponch and Jon go out looking for the dirt thrower. They don't find him but return to dirt covered motorcycles. They soon find an explosives truck driving down the freeway on fire. After the truck stops, Jon drives it away from all the cars. Ponch follows and gives Jon a ride away. Just as they get a few hundred feet away, the truck explodes and knocks them over. Back at Central, Grossie is trying to do sit-ups. Ponch and Grossie go to dinner that night. While Grossie gets the check, Ponch aids someone who's choking by giving him a really poor Heimlich...only after everyone else thinks Ponch is attacking the man. Later that night, Ponch and Jon are staked out in Jon's little car looking for the dirt thrower. After talking to him for a minute, he runs off. Bright and early the next morning, Getraer and Grossman go jogging while Ponch and Jon play volleyball with the women's volleyball team (fully clothed). Later that day, Ponch and Jon find the dirt thrower and arrest him. In the end, Grossman lost 8 pounds and the CHP makes their 1000 pound weight loss goal. When Ponch, Jon, and Grossie ask Getraer to be weighed again, Grossie slips a weight on the scale so that it appears Sarge gained ten pounds. He gets all confused.
Briefing: A man throwing dirt and all about overweight officers
Guest Stars: Don "Red" Barry (as Truck Driver), Steve Franken (as Student Driver), Robert Lussier (as Coach), John Milford (as Doctor), Herman Poppe (as Leonard), Deborah Pratt (as Carol), Crystin Sinclaire (as Linda), Nita Talbot (as Driving Instructor)
Written by: Rudy Borchert
Directed by: Don McDougall
Fun Fact:
- This episode was originally titled "Full Moon Weekend"
- After the opening theme, one naked woman says, "There's a motorcycle cop following us." The next shot is out the back window of a car. The shot is supposed to be from the van they're in...but the window is completely different!
- While Jon is driving the explosives truck, we see a shot from Ponch's point of view. Notice all the cars. Where did they come from? Jon wasn't passing any and all the cars behind them were stopped. It's got to be stock footage.
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