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  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • Mar 10, 1979
  • 1 h
  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • Mar 10, 1979
  • 1 h
CHiPs

Summary The adventures of Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. This great series had 6 seasons before it ended. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives. 1998 followed the TV movie "CHiPs ´99" with some of the series cast but we can also see new faces like Officer ...

Directed By: Larry Wilcox

Written By: Stephen Lord, Paul Playdon, Rick Rosner

  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • Mar 10, 1979
  • 1 h
  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • Mar 10, 1979
  • 1 h
CHiPs
S2 • Episode 22
Ride the Whirlwind
Air Date: Mar 10, 1979
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Summary The adventures of Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. This great series had 6 seasons before it ended. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives. 1998 followed the TV movie "CHiPs ´99" with some of the series cast but we can also see new faces like Officer ...

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Episode 1 • Sep 16, 1978 • 1 h
Peaks and Valleys
An accident victim Ponch and Jon helped is pressed by his lawyer into suing them. Ponch encourages his partner to stay on the force when a disillusioned Jon considers leaving the CHP to sell used cars for a successful high school friend.
Episode 2 • Sep 23, 1978 • 1 h
The Volunteers
Ponch and Jon are tapped to escort a convoy of tanker trucks containing highly explosive and toxic chlorine gas across 140 miles of troublesome terrain.
Episode 3 • Sep 30, 1978 • 1 h
Family Crisis
Ponch intervenes when he suspects Jon's young nephew of joyriding in stolen cars. An overeager officer is obsessed with recovering a stolen movie stunt car being employed for diamond heists. Ponch trades in his motor home for an apartment.
Episode 4 • Oct 7, 1978 • 1 h
Disaster Squad
Ponch befriends a runaway four-year-old motorcycle enthusiast while Jon romances his divorcée mother. A sensationalist news crew dubbed the Disaster Squad pesters Ponch and Jon.
Episode 5 • Oct 14, 1978 • 1 h
Neighborhood Watch
Ponch and Jon are put on patrol in a residential neighborhood where four unsupervised children run amok. Jon has repeated run-ins with a reckless driver with a bad attitude.
Episode 6 • Oct 21, 1978 • 1 h
Trick or Trick
Keeping the streets safe for trick-or-treaters, Ponch and Jon search a haunted house for a runaway boy, foil a ghoulish getaway and nab a candy bag snatcher. Meanwhile, Sgt. Getraer is determined to bust the Halloween Hobgoblin.
Episode 7 • Nov 4, 1978 • 1 h
High Flyer
Ponch and Jon pick up the trail of an auto theft ring. A fatherless teenage girl has a crush on Jon. Ponch is running out of excuses to avoid going up on patrol in the CHP helicopter.
Episode 8 • Nov 11, 1978 • 1 h
The Grudge
In retaliation for a drug bust, five frat boys wage psychological and prank warfare on Ponch and Jon.
Episode 9 • Nov 18, 1978 • 1 h
The Sheik
It's the "Taming of the Sheik" when Ponch and Jon are put on patrol with a pompous and spoiled young oil sheik studying police science in America.
Episode 10 • Nov 25, 1978 • 1 h
Return of the Turks
Ponch and Jon each experience unsettling encounters with past acquaintances. A reckless driver plays bumper cars on the freeway.
Episode 11 • Dec 2, 1978 • 48 m
Supercycle
An Evel Knievel-style stunt cyclist evades, outwits and embarrasses the CHP, so Harlan develops a supercycle to put Ponch on a level playing field.
Episode 12 • Dec 9, 1978 • 1 h
High Explosive
Ponch and Jon befriend a fatherless country boy out of place in the big city and in big trouble for firing his pellet gun into traffic. A reckless ambulance driver threatens lives when he illegally transports cases of unstable dynamite.
Episode 13 • Dec 16, 1978 • 1 h
Down Time
Ponch's personal and professional lives meet when his prized Firebird is heisted by a trio of beautiful car thieves. Determined to get it back, Ponch turns detective on his down time.
Episode 14 • Jan 6, 1979 • 1 h
Repo Man
Jon's heroism makes him a reluctant local celebrity. A disreputable repo man makes life difficult for Ponch and Jon. The CHPs pull a practical joke on their published writer colleague Grossman.
Episode 15 • Jan 13, 1979 • 1 h
MAIT Team
Cahill is critically injured in a multi-vehicle pile-up that claims eleven lives. Ponch and Jon are tapped to serve on the Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team determined to pinpoint the cause and to clear Cahill from blame.
Episode 16 • Jan 20, 1979 • 1 h
Pressure Point
Ponch and Jon put away their bikes and play a diplomat and his chauffeur when they go undercover to prevent a wealthy man and his beautiful granddaughter from falling victim to a violent extortion racket.
Episode 17 • Jan 27, 1979 • 1 h
The Matchmakers
Jon and Ponch are matchmakers for two lonely people: an officer forced to retire and a widow pressured by the city to move.
Episode 18 • Feb 3, 1979 • 1 h
Rally 'Round the Bank
While investigating a string of drive-in-bank robberies, Ponch is baffled by a visit from his mother.
Episode 19 • Feb 17, 1979 • 1 h
Bio-Rhythms
Ponch reconnects with Robbie, whose trucking business is at the mercy of a competitor trying to put her out of business. Meanwhile, Officer Cahill is tracking everyone's biorhythms to see if it affects their performance on the job.
Episode 20 • Feb 24, 1979 • 1 h
Quarantine
A young hitchhiker with a bomb succumbs to a rare illness after being taken into custody by Jon and Ponch, putting the CHP headquarters on a quarantine alert.
Episode 21 • Mar 3, 1979 • 1 h
CHP BMX
Distracted by his son's accident, Sgt. Getraer mistakenly releases a narcotics suspect.
Episode 22 • Mar 10, 1979 • 1 h
Ride the Whirlwind
Jon and Ponch encounter unruly dirt bikers, a clandestine PCP operation and a macho city councilman showing off on the hillsides when they volunteer as members of a pilot trail bike team.
Episode 23 • May 12, 1979 • 2 h
The Greatest Adventures of CHiPs
While Ponch and Jon are off in Sacramento attending a seminar, Grossman starts to collect anecdotes about the team from other officers so that - win or lose - they can give them a party, half testimonial and half roast.
6 Seasons

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Erik Estrada

Officer Frank Poncherello

Larry Wilcox

Officer Jon Baker

Robert Pine

Sgt. Joseph Getraer

Paul Linke

Officer Arthur Grossman, Man in Convertible

Brodie Greer

Officer Barry Baricza

Lou Wagner

Harlan Arliss

Randi Oakes

Officer Bonnie Clark, Blonde Secretary, Kim Balford

Michael Dorn

Officer Jebediah Turner, Police Officer with Glasses

Lew Saunders

Officer Gene Fritz

Tom Reilly

Officer Bobby 'Hot Dog' Nelson, Rick Nichols

Tina Gayle

Officer Kathy Linahan

Brianne Leary

Officer Sindy Cahill

Clarence Gilyard Jr.

Officer Benjamin Webster

Bruce Penhall

Officer Bruce Nelson, Bruce Nelson, Cadet, Cadet Bruce Nelson

Caitlyn Jenner

Officer Steve McLeish, Steve McLeish

Gwynne Gilford

Betty Getraer, Gwynne Gilford

Ellen Geer

Julie Barris, Margo Adams, Martha, Mrs. Williams

Alyscia Maxwell

Housewife, Kathy, Second Motorist, Woman, Woman at Bus Station

Ari Sorko-Ram

Shain, Officer Shain

Robert Hoff

Paramedic

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