TxMike
When this hit the TV waves 40 years ago my youngest was 1 and my oldest daughter was 8. It was one of the TV shows that we loved to watch, it was good, clean family fare with a bit of seriousness. Nothing like this, two L.A. cops patrolling on motorcycles, had been done before. As an aside a few years ago my wife was in L.A. visiting her brother, who worked in the TV production industry, and they came upon Erik Estrada, still looking good after all these years.So the TV show featured Erik Estrada with his handsome face and big, toothy grin as Officer Frank "Ponch" Poncherello and his sidekick, the more serious Larry Wilcox as Officer Jon Baker. Ponch and Jon, we looked for them each week.More recently, released in 2017, is a movie 'Chips', inspired by the original series but it is just a goofy movie, only of interest to juveniles.
oh_oh_oh_yeach
This needs to be remade now. not as a politically correct version or with old characters remade as female characters. The first thing I remember is the theme song. I really like it. also. paunch was a Hispanic motorcycle cop and not a Hispanic car theft which many Hispanic actors were portrayed as. I wish Marvel had done a comic adaption like they did a short version of the a team series. The stunt scenes were exciting and you would see famous actors playing motorist. I sincerely hope they remake this and not make it anything it wasn't mean to be .just clean fun and not taking seriously. in the remake if they ever decide to do one have a Hispanic actor and white and have them be motorcycle cops in thrilling car chases leave political correctness behind!
nickkey
CHiPs was magical ... CHiPs was everything a young child wanted to see and much more ... it had great looking people, it had cop uniforms and cop cars, it had fast cars (hotrods), and yes it had Disco! What more could you want? Not to mention, you had Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada (who had become a 70's sex symbol). You just can't say anything bad about this show, because it was meant to entertain! Thats right ... it wasn't supposed to be a "stupid" reality show, like all we see today, it was meant to entertain and it did just that! I praise the producers for what they did with this ... because they made it huge and I still enjoy watching it today! There were many fine looking actresses then too and to quote a Hollywood exec. who once made the remark about Rock Hudson -- "They sure don't make them like that anymore"!
Nickyp292
I think this is an enjoyable show. ok, at times the acting can be a bit cheesy, but whats wrong with that???I've only just recently started watching it, they show re runs on BRAVO, and i have really got into it. Ponch is funny, but also a cool guy. The crash scenes are really good for a TV show, i mean you're churning out quality crashes like this, (a lot of films have worse ones), week in week out.
Anyway just wanted to say that its good, does anyone else think so??