I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.

Wilcox attended Cal State Northridge where he earned a degree. Wilcox appeared in a 1985 made-for-TV movie sequel to The Dirty Dozen called The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission. On March 22 1986 Wilcox married his present wife Marlene Harmon a member of the 1980 Olympic heptathlon team.