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Pacific Coast Highway
Successful Beach Boys-like pop group from the "#1 With a Bullet" episode (3/20/1984) of detective television series Riptide.
Member Chip Ross (Reid Smith) and band manager Dell Turner (Brant Van Hoffman) crash their car after someone cuts the brake lines. Chip is killed and Dell is in the hospital. The protagonists try to get to see Dell, and when they discover he's scheduled for completely unnecessary brain surgery, they break him out of the hospital.
Seems record company exec Alan Singer (Edward Winter) tried to kill Dell twice after Dell threatened to take the band to a different label. Chip's death was an unfortunate unintended consequence. Now rescued, Dell blackmails Singer into signing over 100% of the profits from Chip's rush-released memorial album. This finally gets Dell killed for realsies.
Meanwhilst, the detectives analyze the album with a computer and discover it's not Chip singing, but the band's third backup singer: Peter "Hot Dog Pete" Frank (G. Rockett Phillips). When the detectives try to squeeze Singer by saying Pete's been blabbing the truth, Singer just moves up his plans to kill Pete anyway. The detectives rescue Pete and turn Singer and his flunky Bob (Brian Libby) over to the police.
