Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.
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- Seasons
- 6
- Episodes aired
- 139
- Latest aired
- S06E22
- Total runtime
- 4d 16h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1977 – April 1978 22 episodes
- Season 2 September 1978 – May 1979 23 episodes
- Season 3 September 1979 – March 1980 24 episodes
- Season 4 September 1980 – May 1981 21 episodes
- Season 5 October 1981 – May 1982 27 episodes
- Season 6 October 1982 – May 1983 22 episodes
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S02E01 Peaks and Valleys
September 16 · 48min find the promo
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Central gets a new mechanic, Harlan Arliss. Ponch and Jon are accused of improperly moving an accident victim. Jon meets an old friend who tries to convince him that there are better jobs out there than CHP officers.
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S02E02 The Volunteers
September 23 · 48min find the promo
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Jon and Ponch must take on the dangerous assignment of escorting a convoy of trucks carrying hazardous chlorine gas.
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S02E03 Family Crisis
September 30 · 48min find the promo
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Jon's nephew starts stealing cars with some friends. Ponch moves into a new apartment. A movie car, designed with special features, is used for robbing banks. The CHP has a hard time catching it.
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S02E04 Disaster Squad
October 7 · 48min find the promo
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A television news crew - the Disaster Squad - edit a report to make it look as though Ponch had threatened them with violence. However, the reporter is forced to confess all during a later report when Jon and Ponch rescue a child from a river.
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S02E05 Neighborhood Watch
October 14 · 48min find the promo
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Ponch and Jon have their hands full trying to deal with a persistent dangerous driver and a group of delinquent kids.
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S02E06 Trick or Trick
October 21 · 48min find the promo
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Ponch and Jon find themselves having to deal with a bewildering array of petty thefts and false alarms when on patrol during Halloween.
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S02E07 High Flyer
November 4 · 48min find the promo
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Jon and Ponch attempt to catch a gang of thieves who have been stripping car parts from parked vehicles. And Ponch fakes illness in order to conceal his fear of flying.
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S02E08 The Grudge
November 11 · 48min find the promo
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After arresting some frat brothers for cannabis possession, Ponch and Jon find themselves targets of a vendetta by the disgruntled students.
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S02E09 The Sheik
November 18 · 48min find the promo
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Jon and Ponch pull over a speeding motorist who claims to have diplomatic immunity. When they subsequently accept an invitation to a party, they find themselves being offered bribes by their host.
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S02E10 Return of the Turks
November 25 · 48min find the promo
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After having trouble on the highway and wiping out a number of vehicles, terror becomes a game of highway bumper cars.
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S02E11 Supercycle
December 2 · 48min find the promo
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Jon and Ponch pursue the Phantom - a motorcyclist who has been performing illegal stunts on the freeway using a souped-up superbike.
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S02E12 High Explosive
December 9 · 48min find the promo
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Jon and Ponch sort out an accident caused by a misguided youth with a pellet gun. And an ambulance driver steals a van and fills it with dynamite after being fired from his job.
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S02E13 Down Time
December 16 · 48min find the promo
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Ponch is proud, his new build Firebird is a lovely car. He also gets a new neighbor, Kim. This woman is weird, she is very friendly to Ponch 'till she learns he's an officer. One day Ponch's Firebird is stolen. Ponch is very sad but he also checks Kim out. Later his car is burned down from Kim, who belongs to a group of female car thieves.
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S02E14 Repo Man
January 6 · 48min find the promo
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A ruthless collection agent plots to destroy Jon's and Ponch's credit ratings after they prevent him from harassing private citizens.
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S02E15 MAIT Team
January 13 · 48min find the promo
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Jon and Ponch investigate when Sindy is blamed for a major accident which leaves her unconscious and 11 people dead.
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S02E16 Pressure Point
January 20 · 48min find the promo
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Jon and Ponch are assigned to protect a VIP and his daughter.
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S02E17 The Matchmakers
January 27 · 48min find the promo
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Cora is sad, in a few days she will lose her home to a building company. She has no idea where to go with her animals. So she decides to commit suicide and drives her car into a lake. Jon and Ponch and Sindy try to help her after hearing her story. Officer Derk only has one week before going on pension so he starts some crazy actions and Sgt. Getraer isn't very pleased about that. A private investigator tries two times to kidnap a little girl from her mother. Derk, Jon and Ponch can frustrate his plans. After a few days Jon and Ponch get the idea to bring Derk and Cora together. And their plan works. Cora and Derk become a couple. Derk allows her to bring all her animals with her.
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S02E18 Rally 'Round the Bank
February 3 · 48min find the promo
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A series of robberies at drive-in bank windows is frustrating the CHP - especially Jon and Ponch, who unsuccessfully chased the bandit's car three times. The thieves have joined a 150-car road rally that enables their vehicles to elude the police. Meanwhile, Ponch gets a surprise visit from his mom, who refuses to tell him the reason for her trip.
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S02E19 Bio-Rhythms
February 17 · 48min find the promo
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Sindy has a new study project. She creates Bio Rythms for all officers. Robbie Davis (known from The Volunteers) is in trouble again. Someone attacks her trucks and the drivers lives. Jon and especially Ponch try to help.
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S02E20 Quarantine
February 24 · 48min find the promo
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Central HQ has to be quarantined after a boy is brought in suffering from a mysterious disease. Two crazy criminals are bringing trouble, too. The other officers investigate the past of the boy and find a puzzle piece in his "bomb". We learn that Grossie is learning Russian.
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S02E21 CHP-BMX
March 3 · 48min find the promo
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Jon and Sindy are training a BMX team for kids. Ponch takes care for a young boy who vandalizes his school. He wants to see him on the BMX team. The sergeant's son has a bad accident, Joe feels guilty for that. It confuses him so much that he makes bad mistakes at work.
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S02E22 Ride the Whirlwind
March 10 · 48min find the promo
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Sindy, Jon and Ponch go in search of some outlaw bikers.
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S02E23 The Greatest Adventures of "CHiPs"
May 12 · 97min find the promo
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A sustained superior special achievement award for the guys has fellow CHPers remembering Ponch and Jon's exploits, as flashbacks recount the coolest cases of Seasons One and Two.