Malloy and Reed have a rough day keeping Los Angeles safe from all the evil criminals infesting it. But they get help from two of Law Enforcement's most eager stamper-outers of evil. Chief O'Hara, from "Batman" and SWAT Leader Howard Hunter, from "Hill Street Blues".
Well, it's the actors who played those characters who turn up in this episode. Stafford Repp (O'Hara) plays a Hard-Hat wearing man who is sick and tired of his wife battling with the next door neighbor floozey. Seems she would like to floozey with Mr. Hard-Hat. He doesn't seem to want to floozey with either of them. Malloy and Reed leave the bickering women for Hard-Hat to deal with, as it's apparent he's been dealing with them for a long time.
James B. Sikking (Hunter) plays a good 'ol Texas Cowboy who has forgotten about being good since his arrival in L. A., a mere couple of hours prior to being arrested by M & R. He's robbed a taxi cab driver. That cab driver gets to go for a ride in a police car and help find the bad cowboy, so at least part of his day is fun.
Both those segments contain some smile inducing, but it's another segment which is played for yucks. Malloy and Reed spot a severely dilapidated truck parked on a nice suburban street. Checking it out, they happen on a party celebration at a nearby house. The President of the United States lives there and he's hosting a gathering of Mexican Nationals. Actually the guests are one incredibly naive man and a bunch of children whom the episode's Director can't get a decent performance out of. The naive man and the kids think the home owner is the President. He is, but it's merely a club of some sort that he's the President of. As to how the man and the kids, riding in the dilapidated truck got past Border Security, is not revealed. Malloy and Reed depart the scene having only asked that POTUS keep the noise levels under control.
In the final segment, the partners could have used some help from Howard Hunter and his Hill Street SWAT Team. Malloy and Reed come to the aid of a couple of kids who have been shot at by a guy from a nearby house. Geesh, nice neighborhood. The neighborhood is the Studio Lot Streetscape, so the setting comes across rather dull. We do get to see Malloy shoot some tear-gas through a house window though. So that's something.
A decent enough episode. However, those children chanting in mis-directed unison in honor of El Presidente, knocks it down a bit in overall quality. Sikking's country rube's enchantment with a four-story "skyscraper" bumps the episode's fun factor back up a notch though.
Well, it's the actors who played those characters who turn up in this episode. Stafford Repp (O'Hara) plays a Hard-Hat wearing man who is sick and tired of his wife battling with the next door neighbor floozey. Seems she would like to floozey with Mr. Hard-Hat. He doesn't seem to want to floozey with either of them. Malloy and Reed leave the bickering women for Hard-Hat to deal with, as it's apparent he's been dealing with them for a long time.
James B. Sikking (Hunter) plays a good 'ol Texas Cowboy who has forgotten about being good since his arrival in L. A., a mere couple of hours prior to being arrested by M & R. He's robbed a taxi cab driver. That cab driver gets to go for a ride in a police car and help find the bad cowboy, so at least part of his day is fun.
Both those segments contain some smile inducing, but it's another segment which is played for yucks. Malloy and Reed spot a severely dilapidated truck parked on a nice suburban street. Checking it out, they happen on a party celebration at a nearby house. The President of the United States lives there and he's hosting a gathering of Mexican Nationals. Actually the guests are one incredibly naive man and a bunch of children whom the episode's Director can't get a decent performance out of. The naive man and the kids think the home owner is the President. He is, but it's merely a club of some sort that he's the President of. As to how the man and the kids, riding in the dilapidated truck got past Border Security, is not revealed. Malloy and Reed depart the scene having only asked that POTUS keep the noise levels under control.
In the final segment, the partners could have used some help from Howard Hunter and his Hill Street SWAT Team. Malloy and Reed come to the aid of a couple of kids who have been shot at by a guy from a nearby house. Geesh, nice neighborhood. The neighborhood is the Studio Lot Streetscape, so the setting comes across rather dull. We do get to see Malloy shoot some tear-gas through a house window though. So that's something.
A decent enough episode. However, those children chanting in mis-directed unison in honor of El Presidente, knocks it down a bit in overall quality. Sikking's country rube's enchantment with a four-story "skyscraper" bumps the episode's fun factor back up a notch though.
