The BEST episodes of CHiPs season 5
Every episode of CHiPs season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of CHiPs season 5!
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.
#1 - Weed Wars
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1981
Due to lack of laws on minors a young boy is used for drug smuggling.
#2 - Overload
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/2/1982
Computer-theft plotters jam the CHP computer center and attempt to rendezvous with an ocean-bound yacht.
#3 - Bomb Run
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1981
The CHiPs have a task at a flight show. Bear meets his former girlfriend and nearly spouse Terry. Terry and her dad are planing to rob the flight show bureau. She tries to catch Bear again even she's married. Ponch takes flying lessons and is quite good, only the landings doesn't allow him to fly alone.
#4 - Concours d'Elegance
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1981
Jon and Ponch investigate a scam designed to skim profits from auction sales of rare antique motor cars.
#5 - Silent Partner
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/28/1982
Escaping car thieves injure Grossman. Jon and Ponch mistake a man with a hearing and speech defect for a drunken driver.
#6 - A Threat of War (a.k.a. Karate II)
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/21/1982
Ponch and Jon tackle two karate chopping gangs. The officers meet Andy Macedon, Danny and Rivas again. A pine plant programm helps to solve the gang problems. No one believes Andy that he is no criminal anymore.
#7 - Vagabonds
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1981
A family in a camper van cause an accident to claim the insurance money. Ponch and Jon give chase.
#8 - Breaking Point
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1982
Ponch has a bad accident. After that he's not able to drive his motorbike and get's vacation from Getraer. His sister Patti visits him and both begin to think about a new start. The fellow officers have much to do to bring Ponch back.
#9 - Diamond in the Rough
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1981
A friend of Getraer's son is involved in an accident, while a gang of criminals plot a complex bank robbery. Getraer is giving Timmies friend a home while they're searching for his dad. Timmies friend has much problems with the role of a father as he never had one.
#10 - Moonlight
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1981
Ponch and Jon investigate reports of toxic waste being dumped. Meanwhile, the other officers try to get the Sarge in on a celebration of Ponch and Jon's fourth anniversary as partners.
#11 - Tiger in the Streets
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1982
Jon and Ponch pursue a vengeful mechanic and an escaped tiger. The leader of a poor conditioned animal park is blaming for that but he does not tell the police. Jon and Ponch meet a pretty deputy.
#12 - The Game of War
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/14/1982
Ponch and Jon have to deal with a bunch of soldiers whose war games get out of hand.
#13 - The Killer Indy
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1981
John and Grossie are having lunch at the Family Fun Park when Steve McLeish goes by chasing motorcycle speeders who are leaving a trail of accidents in their wake.
#14 - Anything But the Truth
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1981
Jon and Ponch try to track down a man who is terrorising female drivers, and aren't helped by the fact that their main witness is a compulsive liar.
#15 - Ice Cream Man
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/18/1982
An ex-CHP officer who became a criminal and then an ice-cream man gets caught up in a truck-robbing operation. The son of the ice cream man meets him believing his dad died years ago.
#16 - Suicide Stunt
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1981
Ponch and Jon organize a stakeout to catch thieves who have ripped off a motorcycle show ticket office.
#17 - Bright Flashes
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1982
A criminal gang equipped with a powerful laser cause havoc, committing robberies and blinding witnesses. Ponch drives an Oldtimer race and Jon tries to help an old Western star who is giving up. Wayne Cato's horse has a secret that helps catching the laser attackers.
#18 - Finders Keepers
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1981
Steve is chased and harassed by criminals after recovering their stolen car. Jon falls for a country and western singer.
#19 - Fast Money
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1981
Hijackers use a hi-tech device in order to steal bearer bonds.
#20 - Alarmed
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1982
A gang is wanted for grand theft auto when they hunt down valuable cars for big money.
#21 - K-9-1
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/9/1982
Ponch and Jon work with police sniffer dogs on the trail of bombs, drugs and thieves.
#22 - In the Best of Families
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1982
Jon and Ponch try to apprehend a family of car thieves who steal a CHP cruiser and commit robberies with it.
#23 - Trained for Trouble
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/4/1982
While trained animal bank robbers make monkeys of the cops, Ponch discovers that a lookalike in CHP uniform is a stripteaser at a ladies only nightclub. The man behind the animal robberies only tries to help a woman who is badly hurt by his fault.
#24 - Flare Up
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/7/1982
CHP officers evacuate a neighborhood where a chemical tanker overturned, spilling a potentially toxic gas.
#25 - Battle of the Bands
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1982
A group of punk rockers cause trouble and get caught stealing and breaking into cars.