CHiPs - Acronym for California
Highway Patrol and title of the .
popular police series CHiPS/1977-83.
Officers Jon Baker & Frank Poncherello
The program followed the day-day adventures of two
California Highway Patrol officers Jon baker (Larry Wilcox) and Francis
Llewellyn "Ponch"
Poncherello (Erik Estrada) as they maintained law and order on California
freeways while cruising police-issued Kawasaki 1000's motorcycles
Other CHiPs officers on the show included:
- Robert Pine as
their commanding officer, Sergeant Joe Getraer
- Paul Linke as Officer Grossman
- Lew Saunders as
Officer Gene Fritz
- Brodie Greer as Officer
Baricza
- Brianne Leary as Officer Sindy Cahill
- Randi Oakes as Officer Bonnie Clark
- Michael
Dorn as Officer Turner
- Bruce Jenner as Officer
Steve McLeish
- Tom Reilly as Officer Bobby "Hot
Dog" Nelson
- Bruce Penhall as Cadet Bruce
Nelson
- Tina Gayle as Officer Kathy Linahan
- Clarence Gilyard, Jr. as Officer Webster
- Lou Wagner as Harlan, the police mechanic who
services the CHiPs vehicles.
The series reunion CHiPS '99 (1998) reunited Jon and Ponch for a two-hour TV
Movie (now riding supped-up BMW motorcycles).
In 2009,
Wilmer Valderrama (of THAT 70s SHOW fame)
plays the role of Francis 'Ponch' Poncherello in the remake of the popular
show.
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