CHiPs (Season 2)

Nonstop action and highway heroics!

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.

  • Poster for Peaks and Valleys

    Peaks and Valleys (Episode 1)

    Writer: Rudolph Borchert

    Air date: 1978-09-16

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Volunteers

    The Volunteers (Episode 2)

    Writer: Arthur Marks

    Air date: 1978-09-23

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: Jon and Ponch must take on the dangerous assignment of escorting a convoy of trucks carrying hazardous chlorine gas.

  • Poster for Family Crisis

    Family Crisis (Episode 3)

    Writer: James Doherty

    Air date: 1978-09-30

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Disaster Squad

    Disaster Squad (Episode 4) 10.0

    Writer: Max Hodge

    Air date: 1978-10-07

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Neighborhood Watch

    Neighborhood Watch (Episode 5) 10.0

    Writer: L. Ford Neale

    Air date: 1978-10-14

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: Ponch and Jon have their hands full trying to deal with a persistent dangerous driver and a group of delinquent kids.

  • Poster for Trick or Trick

    Trick or Trick (Episode 6) 10.0

    Writer: James Schmerer

    Air date: 1978-10-21

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: Ponch and Jon find themselves having to deal with a bewildering array of petty thefts and false alarms when on patrol during Halloween.

  • Poster for High Flyer

    High Flyer (Episode 7) 8.0

    Writer: James Schmerer

    Air date: 1978-11-04

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Grudge

    The Grudge (Episode 8)

    Writer: Rick Mittleman

    Air date: 1978-11-11

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: After arresting some frat brothers for cannabis possession, Ponch and Jon find themselves targets of a vendetta by the disgruntled students.

  • Poster for The Sheik

    The Sheik (Episode 9) 10.0

    Writer: Jerry Thomas

    Air date: 1978-11-18

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Return of the Turks

    Return of the Turks (Episode 10)

    Writer: Stephen Lord

    Air date: 1978-11-25

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: After having trouble on the highway and wiping out a number of vehicles, terror becomes a game of highway bumper cars.

  • Poster for Supercycle

    Supercycle (Episode 11)

    Writer: Barney Slater

    Air date: 1978-12-02

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: Jon and Ponch pursue the Phantom - a motorcyclist who has been performing illegal stunts on the freeway using a souped-up superbike.

  • Poster for High Explosive

    High Explosive (Episode 12) 10.0

    Writer: Suzanne Ryder

    Air date: 1978-12-09

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Down Time

    Down Time (Episode 13)

    Air date: 1978-12-16

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Repo Man

    Repo Man (Episode 14)

    Air date: 1979-01-06

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: A ruthless collection agent plots to destroy Jon's and Ponch's credit ratings after they prevent him from harassing private citizens.

  • Poster for MAIT Team

    MAIT Team (Episode 15)

    Air date: 1979-01-13

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: Jon and Ponch investigate when Sindy is blamed for a major accident which leaves her unconscious and 11 people dead.

  • Poster for Pressure Point

    Pressure Point (Episode 16)

    Writer: Paul Robert Coyle

    Air date: 1979-01-20

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: Jon and Ponch are assigned to protect a VIP and his daughter.

  • Poster for The Matchmakers

    The Matchmakers (Episode 17)

    Air date: 1979-01-27

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Rally 'Round the Bank

    Rally 'Round the Bank (Episode 18) 8.0

    Writer: Lee H. Grant

    Air date: 1979-02-03

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Bio-Rhythms

    Bio-Rhythms (Episode 19)

    Air date: 1979-02-17

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Quarantine

    Quarantine (Episode 20)

    Air date: 1979-02-24

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for CHP-BMX

    CHP-BMX (Episode 21) 10.0

    Writer: Rick Mittleman

    Air date: 1979-03-03

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Ride the Whirlwind

    Ride the Whirlwind (Episode 22)

    Writer: Stephen Lord

    Air date: 1979-03-10

    Runtime: 48 min

    Overview: Sindy, Jon and Ponch go in search of some outlaw bikers.

  • Poster for The Greatest Adventures of "CHiPs"

    The Greatest Adventures of "CHiPs" (Episode 23)

    Writer: L. Ford Neale

    Air date: 1979-05-12

    Runtime: 97 min

    Overview: 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.

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