The WORST episodes of CHiPs
Every episode of CHiPs ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of CHiPs!
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 - Thrill Show
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1980
A punk rock group, humorously called "The Bus Boys," is stealing from the patrons of tourist buses to get money for a demo record. 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.
#2 - Force Seven
Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/23/1982
Lt. John LeGarre(Fred Dryer), and Officers Skip Nichols (Tom Reilly) and Cindy Davis (Donna Kei Benù) belong to a secret LAPD police unit dedicated to the preservation of human life through the use of martial arts.
#3 - This Year's Riot
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/28/1982
On temporary duty Ponch and Bobby hunt a drug dealer and mediate a dispute over a nude beach.
#4 - Day of the Robot
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/2/1983
Ponch and Bobby have fun with a robot assigned to their station until it becomes a threat to their lives.
#5 - Things That Go Creep in the Night
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/10/1983
Ponch and Bruce try to protect a woman who is seemingly being stalked by a comic book character.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Fallout
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/19/1982
Anti-nuclear protesters cause trouble for the patrol, not least due to the presence of Getraer's daughter Ellen in the group.
#8 - Head Over Heels
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/5/1982
Ponch meets the woman he wants to wed. But his love dies by an accident, caused by a drunken driver.
#9 - The Greatest Adventures of CHiPs
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/12/1979
Jon and Ponch are away in Bakersfield. Sarge and their fellow officers back at Central reminisce about the past two years. The two heroes shall be honored with a special prize. This was a 90-minute clip show episode.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Mitchell & Woods
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1981
Female patrolwomen Mitchell and Woods find themselves on the trail of a murder suspect. You look for the CHiPs here? Sorry to disappoint you.
#12 - The Spaceman Made Me Do It
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/1982
While on night patrol, Ponch and Bobby respond to a jewellery store alarm. The culprit turns out to be a young girl who claims an alien made her do it.
#13 - Return of the Brat Patrol
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/1/1983
A band of teenage misfits, ex-members of Ponch's Explorer troop, returns to help him catch a group of junior-high extortionists.
#14 - High Times
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1983
Ponch and Bobby try to track down a couple of juvenile car thieves.
#15 - Tight Fit
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/1982
Ponch takes a part-time job as a model for a jeans company, but he finds that he doesn't like being an instant celebrity. He discovers stardom takes him away from his real work, the rewarding job of catching a pair of diamond thieves as well as putting behind bars a sleazy photographer who's been involved in child pornography.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Brat Patrol
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1983
Ponch and Bobby are on the hunt for a drug dealer, and get some help from a rag-tag gang of youngsters along the way.
#18 - Return to Death's Door
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/12/1982
A man blames Ponch for the death of his brother - who was also Ponch's friend - and challenges him to a race.
#19 - Speedway Fever
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/1982
Ponch and Bobby go after a gang of high-speed bike bandits, and a young cadet at the CHP Academy tries to help his brother.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Fast Money
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1981
Hijackers use a hi-tech device in order to steal bearer bonds.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Rustling
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1978
Jon and Ponch confront dirt-bike-riding cattle rustlers.
#25 - 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.