I. The. Ones. With, ponch. And. Bobby. Nelson. Jon is. Okay

I want to go back and do it all over ....The 70’s and 80’s were my decades and they were the best years of my life. America was absolutely a different place back then. It was still a treat then to get 30 cents from mom and walk uptown to the gas station to get a Coca-Cola or Pepsi or to the ice cream shop and get a CMP ice cream. We truly did not lock our doors and stayed out till after dark with our bikes and on Halloween we all went trick-or-treating without our parents at night in the cold and it was great fun.. In the summer we played outside all day and all night, The only way my mom got us home to eat was a big brass bell she had outside the sliding glass doors that she would ring to get out attention to come home for dinner. I remember wonderful 4th of July celebrations when mom took us to the ball park and we laid on blankets to watch the fireworks. And of course Christmas and even though it was tuff for my mom raising us she always made sure we had a great holiday . Even Easter was special in America back then... as we get older we started to go see the movies and we really did have the best movies. ( Jaws, Close Encounters, , Raiders of the lost Ark, James bond, Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, Predator, planet of the apes, E.T, The terminator, The goonies, Friday the 13th, Batman, Back to the future . ...To name a few.....The TV show line up on the networks were fabulous ( this was before you got 500 channels like you do today and still nothing on is good) we had Dallas, knots Landing, Falcon crest, laverne and Shirley, happy days, WKRP in Cincinnati, cheers, mash, The Waltons, Little house on the prairie, Star Trek, Lost in space and many more. And every night of the week a network would compete and have for example, Monday night at the movies! Tuesday night at the movies and they would show a major movie release. we had real holidays were we all got together and enjoyed each other’s company. We had great stores that are all but gone now in 2023 and great movie theaters and of course the MALLS! It was not the 80’s without a Mall. My very first few jobs were at the mall. First Macdonald’s and then The Gap!. Yes sir those days were GREAT! and I am very lucky to have lived them .... today I don’t even see kids outside and everyone is in fear for saftey from crazy people.... I do not recognize America anymore. God Bless us all ! (If you can even say that anymore)

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Exactly the same here in England. Great Times.

True

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You just made my day with that comment.

@@code3wnc944 How many times did Bobby it wrong during the last season of the show ?? XD

That bass player is none other than the great Abraham Laboriel. Look him up he is truly the best in my opinion.

I think we had the greatest tv shows of all time when we were kids.. i don’t think I ever missed an episode of chips

It's a great theme song. I didn't realize there were multiple inrtros. I like the third intro. This played when I was in the 7th grade!

Lol!!! Same here!!!

Haha....too funny.

I taped a card so it makes a “motor” sound when the spokes hit it. I was in kindergarten in 1978.

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Yes, nothing beats it. Goosebumps still at 51!

I agree. That's the version of the theme that I'm familiar with. I don't think that I got to see the first season episodes until I saw them on TBS when I was in high school back in 1988.

For me it was season one. Not just for opening tiltle music but for the show ender (with the small pauses in the action) music as well.

Back when it was actually a freeway

Same here man!!!

Speaking of which, look how few cars were on the road during rush hour. Those were the days.

I just noticed that car hauler at 1:15 ....my guess is those could be new cars from the Ford factory, great ones there! I see a sweet looking Lincoln Town Car (a.k.a. Continental Town Car), possibly with a Country Squire station wagon in front of it, then behind it looks like possibly a Ford Grenada, and in the front it looks like an Econoline van...can't really make out what the ones on the bottom are though except for possibly a Ford LTD...but what's strange is it looks like those cars don't have hub caps, so maybe they're not new, hard to tell (unless back then those were kept inside the car and added on later after they got to their dealerships)...

@@jediknightjairinaiki560 how do you know it’s rush hour.

@@jackpow2004 Have you ever been to L A? It's ALWAYS rush hour in Los Angeles.

I remember being little on vacation at the beach and having to race back to the room so I could watch. I loved Ponch 😂

Paul lane are you a police officer?

Back than the speed limit on the CA hwy was 55 mph but you drove 45 when you see a cop.

Well, one of the most interesting "gotchas" of the years that followed was Estrada becoming a telenovela star. You could hear about a quarter of my high-school graduating class (late 1980s Northwest Indiana; they had at least one Spanish-speaking grandparent) smirking.

Suck!!! That's funny. Prior to CHiPs he was a porn star!

Me as well on episode 10 of season 5

I'm now addicted to the show.

Me too Steve Goldman

yes iremember that one..one of my favourite episodes

@itsjemmabond: - That pull-over was not for speeding. It was for wrong way-driving in an oneway street.

@@-MPM- I stand corrected. But it's been years!

Mr. Singleton! Didn’t he call Frank by his actual name? I think it was something like Francis Llewelyn Poncharello.

He kept calling him “Francis” and didn’t he have to go give a speech at the school?

Same here

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77 was a good year, I prefer Season 1's theme!

Abraham Laboriel. One of the best session bassists in the industry at the time.

You're not wrong.

i would have said in court "Oh when Erik Estrada did it was chips but when i do it its lumpy potatoes "

The one used on the 2-hour pilot is even longer.

It sure as hell wasn't during the late seventies and early eighties (thanks to the numerous screw-ups--such as the lavish but pricey stinkbomb "Supertrain" and, of course, the infamous "Hello, Larry"--all perpetrated by NBC's then head honcho, the late Fred Silverman). Along with "Real People" and "Diff'rent Strokes," "CHiPs" was one of NBC's very few successes during that otherwise tumultuous (not to mention uncertain) period in NBC's history.

Seemed fitting for the time in which it aired. Some would have said, "Que esperaste de un show de los Setentas?"

Why couldn't they show Ponch and Jon dating black women for a change.

@@sherry6997 Ponch came close, Jane Kennedy appeared in an episode as a cop. Keep in mind it was still racial stuff in the air at the time, when it came to interracial dating. Hollywood had to make sure they weren't jeopardizing their business.

@@sharoneasley7857 Yes I know and I remember that episode it was Mitchel and Woods Jayne was Paula Woods I have it on dvd.

@BJ Sully Yes I know.

Celebrate good times, COME ON!!! I've only done karaoke twice in my life. In 1997, I saw "Celebration" in the dj's offerings--I dedicated my performance to Frank Poncherello. I'm surprised there aren't more tributes to Ponch on KZfaq, although nobody can match his dance moves.

Yes, Erik Estrada had some killer dance moves, and he even performed a cover of Kool And The Gang's iconic (and signature) hit single "Celebration" in a later episode of "CHiPs," shortly before Larry Wilcox's acrimonious departure. And there's nothing more enjoyable and satisfying in life than performing karaoke onstage in front of your peers. Thanks for commenting, @@elmerslick8700.

No. This is every intro ever used. I have watched every episode of the show and made sure that I included every intro. The season 1 music was made by various composers while seasons 2-6 were done by Alan Silvestri.

@@SmallPersonRoo Then I wonder if what I saw may have been a syndication/cable rerun-related error?

@@SmallPersonRoo : - Sorry Dude, it is really nice from you that you make a video like this, BUT you're wrong, and @ClassicTVMan1981X has right: Season 6 intros (A)(B) in this video are just the inpaste of Season 2 here, and not the original, even the Season 3-5 Intros of the show are (!)just similar, but not the same(!) like Season 2's, you've put here in! The difference of S2's and S3-5' are the drums at the beginning (S2 higher sounded drum, S3-5 deep drum) & the main music instrument during the main starring are not so "space styled" as in S2. The origonal S6 intro is 100% the same as the S3-5's, but at the beginning the deep drums are cutted out, and instead of them was inserted a short summary (short scene cuts of the coming episode) with another background soundtrack before the S6 intro was begun. These are the ORIGINAL Intros of the show what we both miss from your video. Listen the differences! Season 3-5 intro (the Original): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hqySjKuSs7zKZXU.html Season 6 intro (with summary): S6/A version: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gcubidWcva29dqs.html S6/B version: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLJpZdp6p62XlZc.html