CHIPS

When Jon and Ponch help organize a "Skate With the Stars" roller skating fund raiser, they encounter a new problem--pickpockets on skates! Bringing celebrities into the benefit, the duo winds up riding herd on famous rock star, Jimmy Tyler (LEIF GARRETT), and his manager, Frank Balford.

When Jon and Ponch help organize a "Skate With the Stars" roller skating fund raiser, they encounter a new problem--pickpockets on skates! Bringing celebrities into the benefit, the duo winds up riding herd on famous rock star, Jimmy Tyler (LEIF GARRETT), and his manager, Frank Balford.

Ponch and Jon try to intervene between the surfers and "valley" kids before things get out of hand and someone gets seriously hurt.

Jon and Ponch track down a gasoline theft ring, responsible for seriously injuring Sgt. Joe Getraer. In his off-duty hours, Ponch becomes involved in refereeing the department-sponsored roller hockey game.

Officer Steve Wedemeyer is killed in an auto accident, and Jon and Ponch realize the car and driver responsible were doing some fancy maneuvering to cause the death. Their search for the man responsible leads them to a Stuntmen's Association Reception, where out-of-the-ordinary driving is a profession.

Ponch comes across some counterfeit money and the CHP suspect a clergyman is behind it. And Ponch's blind date Heather proves to be more than he bargained for--a real match for the policeman. Guest starring Billy Barty.

When Ponch is injured chasing after the Phantom motorcycle burglar, Jon enlists the help of the team's Supercycle machine to go after the criminal. Along the way, Jon finds that Officer Kathy Mulligan is as pretty as she is helpful as a crime-stopping sidekick.

With Ponch laid up in the hospital, Jon takes after criminal firemen who find more time for robbing than firefighting. Ex-partner Bill Clayton teams up with Jon, and the pursuit gets hotter.

Assigned to bolster a small-town police department, whose officers are on strike, Jon, Ponch and the cadre uncover the illicit sales headquarters of a group of hijackers and appeal to the strikers for assistance in making a raid. Concurrently, Ponch becomes romantically and emotionally involved with a beautiful female race driver (KELLY HARMON) and a runaway orphan girl (TRACEY GOLD).

Jon and Ponch take after a tractor-driving gang who park at busy loading areas, hitch up a loaded trailer, and make off with their loot. While on their mission, the two have to face the scrutiny and inspection of their new watch commander, Lt. Bates (GRANVILLE VAN DUSEN).

Jon and Ponch take after a tractor-driving gang who park at busy loading areas, hitch up a loaded trailer, and make off with their loot. While on their mission, the two have to face the scrutiny and inspection of their new watch commander, Lt. Bates (GRANVILLE VAN DUSEN).

Jon and Ponch infiltrate the Riverside Raceway scene in order to crack a stolen auto parts ring. Car parts lead to cocaine, and the duo enter a Destruction Derby to get to the bottom of the drug dealers on wheels.

Jewel thieves in Marina Del Rey prove to be allusive for Ponch and Jon, who find the canals of Venice and roller-skater-ridden streets tough terrain for the chase. Not so tough, and very rewarding, is the time Ponch and Jon spend at Children's Hospital.

Tracking down a hit-and-run driver, Jon and Ponch run into more wheels than they can contend with. Their travels take them to some of the handicapped people at a rehabilitation clinic.

The Christmas season doesn't mean any less work for Jon and Ponch. At the community church, thieves run off with a 15th century bell that means a great deal to the local kids. The thieves also operate a car-theft ring and prey on unsuspecting car sellers by taking the cars for a test drive and not returning. When the criminals get into an auto accident, their strange behavior gives them away and they are arrested.

In order to infiltrate a stolen car racket, Jon becomes a "jailbird," going behind bars to get information. Ponch joins his fellow officer in the cell, and in their new roles they're able to crack the car caper in due time.

Jon and Ponch volunteer for the E.M.T. (Emergency Medical Technician) training program. Things start out badly when, on the first day of class, the instructor recognizes the duo as the CHP policemen who gave him a speeding ticket the previous day.

What starts out as a cushy assignment for Jon and Ponch ends up with a kidnapping when the CHP Officers are assigned for the day to escort the mischievous winners of a Traffic Safety Essay Contest. The two 12-year-old boys find themselves in more trouble than they can handle when a Rolls Royce they are "investigating" is stolen by a pair of prison escapees.

Jon and Ponch take off for the desert to compete in an off-road race. Also in the race, but for different reasons, are two men looking for syndicate gold lost three months before when the plane one was piloting crashed near the racing site. Meredith MacRae, Ramon Bieri and Edd Byrnes guest star.

Jon and Ponch get into suspect that one of the force's regular tow truck operators is involved with an auto theft ring.

A gang of "strippers" is on the loose: a band of men who go around stripping cars of various parts. Jon and Ponch are baffled as the parts being stolen are not showing up in the usual places. The operation is a slick one: the culprits strip the cars of all their parts, then buy the chassis at an auction and reassemble the car. They own it then sell it for new, legally. All of this segues into Jon and Ponch's skill at sky-diving, and they're able to crack down on a heroin ring that flies the drug into the U.S. from Mexico.

A punk rock group, humorously called "The Bus Boys," is stealing from the patrons of tourist buses to get money for a demo record. And Bonnie plans to leave her job on the force and join up with her former boyfriend, Crazy Ray Conner, the stunt driver with the Joey Chitwood Thrill Show.

The CHP investigates reports of a woman doctor who disappears after treating accident victims. Dana Plato guest stars.