Weirdest episode of CHiPs ever.

Great series, I was only 12 years old when Battlestar Galactica aired and I was hooked. Now I’m 55 and I just bought the 1978 series on DVD and watched the whole thing in 3 days. This series will arrive next week, unfortunately I wasn’t a model kid so I missed a lot due to being grounded from the tv, who knew 39 years later that I’d get the last laugh on my parents lol.

A bit of trivia - Willy (the lead biker) is played by the late Brion James, AKA Leon in "Blade Runner".

Don’t lie, you wanted one of those when you first saw this

When I was a kid, this scene was so cool. I wanted the same helmet and same bike for ever.

Love the design of the bikes. And the Vipers look absolutely awesome. Probably because they were designed by the same artist who designed the x-wing fighters in Star Wars. Ralph McQuarrie, an absolute genius.

Dude, those Egyptian Pharos helments!

I love this episode of Galactica 1980 but I always a great big hug fan of Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979).

I loved Brion James as one of the bikers. Classic villain who was in everything!

Admittedly, Galactica 1980 wasn't the best Battlestar Galactica offering that ever happened, but as a kid I watched every single episode with total devotion, and when my best friend and I saw these bikes, we craved them like nobody else! I still think they look awesome, and I would happily drive one in a hot minute if offered the chance; doubly so if I could do it with the Colonial Warrior uniforms & helmets!

It's funny how with the passage of time it feels like you can see all the wires and strings holding it together , but I remember how cool it seemed watching it in the 1980's

This is the only part of "Galactica 1980" I remember as a kid. I thought their motorcycles looked so cool.

Oh, this is a close second to the couple of times someone tried to drag-race against Michael Knight and KITT in the 80's. "laughter".

This looked cool as hell when I was a kid. It just goes to prove, childish perceptions are very different from those of an adult.

The special effects were well done. It told a story of its own which meant it got the job done.

Hey that was Brion James as the biker troublemaker {"Willy") on the right side of the road. I forgot he was in this. He's been in so many things, one of those guys you recognize and has bits in EVERYTHING but you don't know who they are. He was in pretty much every show on TV at some point or another when I was growing up in the 70's and 80's. He's also been in over 100 movies according to wiki, one of those guys who probably never turned down a role. Been in a lot of crap movies but some very good ones too, like Blade Runner. I was trying to remember where I knew him from in a favorite movie after seeing this and it finally came to me...he was General Munro in the Fifth Element. I got to thinking I don't recall seeing him in anything since...the Fifth Element came out in '97, he died in '99 at only 54, sadly. RIP. Thanks for all the interesting characters.

I must of watched this a 100 time as a kid ...Love the motorcycles !! They still look pritty cool.

a guy named Rick Cornhour ( may have misspelled his last name ) was my good friend and mentor on working on bikes. he had a photo album of him and others building those bikes and some of the bikes that were in the movie (Any which way you can) sadly he passed away in early 2015 from cancer. but its nice to see that people still remember his work

Colonial Vipers were some of the coolest looking ships in sci if

This scene was cut wasaaaay to soon. The very next thing to happen was Poncherello came up next to them on his flying CHiP bike. “Do you know how fast you were flying?”

It's a good thing this wasn't Galactica 2020. Everyone would've had their smartphones out live-streaming the bikes flying off.

36 years later and it is still painful to watch.

I remember watching this the night it was first aired, loved this show. Thanks for sharing!

wow.....that bike.....i often watch this when i still a kid.

I don't miss Mega Force that much!

Remember this episode as if I was yesterday brings back great memories 🙂

I used to watch the show when I was a child and it was first run on the television. I haven't known about these bikes until January 1st 2022 and I have never seen this episode!

Hey, one of those bikers was a replicant in Blade Runner.

I like to pretend that Galactica 1980 never existed. That it was all a Bad Dream.

This cut is not from "Battlestar Galactica". A massive write-in campaign began upon the cancellation of the original Battlestar Galactica 1979 so ABC contacted TV-producer Glen A. Larson who modified a less expensive format spin-off: "Galactica 1980"

I didn't know what to make of Galactica 1980 when it first aired, but I watched with my parents as faithfully as we could, given how it skipped around. BSG Classic was great. BSG 1980 was, well, a mixed bag. The bikes were fun, if a little iffy. -- Funny, I can't remember if Troy or Dillon was supposed to be the grown-up version of Boxes. I'll have to do a rewatch of both shows. -- I loved the old BSG and grew to love the BSG Reboot.

This Scene, with The Bike Gang,is Epic!

This was “Galactica 1980.” I never really was a BG fan, but I loved this show for some reason.

The Oppressor MK1back in the 80's lol.

ah, so this is where R* got the idea for the oppressor.

2021, you watch this scene and galactic motorcycles look with old technology. 😊

I loved the flying motorcycles. So cool!

I loved these bikes. Wow this takes me back some , I want one

Classic, vintage, still awesome to watch now as an adult as a 70s kid i can speak for all of us 70s kids 70s, 80s, 90s were the most memorable years of my childhood the things we have experienced now we wouldnt comprehend or begin to understand how times and technology have changed over the years. Never undestood why the new Battlestar series didnt have lazer weapons in space really mind boggling why not. Would you use an automatc rifle or a lazer weapon against a mechanical 8ft tall robot? LMAO!🤣

I was never a big fan of Galatica 80. I thought it was rather weak especially with those lame kids. But, I did dig those cool bikes....

Hola hombre, es una de las mejores peliculas de principios de los 80's.

I actually never saw this episode, but I like it! The cheese fits in right along with the rest of the series so I don't see a problem with it.

Have to admit, I loved those turbo cycles (that’s what I call them) despite Galactica 1980 was a far cry from the original series! But they had the story of a lifetime if they used their heads and came up with a storyline that the pyramids in Egypt was a tie to Kobol and wrote a storyline about it! They could have saved the series if some of the writers had an imagination!

The line that should have been: "Don't forget where we parked the Vipers!"

I remember as a kid I wanted one of those bikes and a Viper for Christmas. Dad said we couldn't afford them. I was crushed lol

3:11 that last stutman, who hit the curb and flew over the handlebars ... he landed okay-ish, but his backseat passenger ... wow, that landing is going to require painkillers

It was such a pleasure watching those motorcycle punks bite the dust - literally.

For some reason that I can't remember now, the 80's movies and TV shows were all about portraying bikers as klutzy assclowns that always ended up on their butts with wrecked bikes every time they hassled someone. LOL

That brings back memories as I was a kid

This was when it started getting lame.

My childhood dream right there when I first saw this in 1980 on tv

This was called mission Galactica in new zealand in the 80s..it was when they found earth...

Some things were better in the memory than to actually be seen again. This is one of those things.

Me too, I was buzzing watching this as a kid :) Buzzing!

I remember this from when I was a kid :) I wanted one of those bike sooooooo bad

The old series, I love this perhaps most with those two leads. Cheers...

"Those guys were good!" "Yea, a little too good. We better drive this show into the ground!"

Que lindo recuerdo. Amaba esta serie. De hecho ahora d egrande la sigo amando jeje. Gracias por compartirla. Abrazo

man if i had the cash id have those custom built.... I remember the night this aired.... i was 8 yrs old staying at my grandma's and i was blown away ! they got flying Bikes!!!

Thin it guy parachutes into earth's atmosphere

These bikes were the inspiration for today's superbikes 😎

Omg . 😂😂😂 great 👍 That was the begining .. I was 7 Years old. Wishes from Austria 🇦🇹

I wonder did somone make copies of these bikes in real life that would be so cool.

I've seen the scene in TV when I was kid. I dont remember when. But now, I'm 42 years old :)

Those bikes really flew! Policeman: you've been drinking and taking drugs again! 🤣

The battlestar helmets always reminded me of Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot

Wow, that wonkey 70s music 😂 Forty years later and still no flying motorcycles. How disappointing 😞

"One-ADAM 12, see the man on Viper cycle."

where are they now? at junkyard or collector's hands?

Ha, I bet the bikers wished they had rocket bikes...classic fun series..👍

Damn! What those Japanese won't think of next!!!

"Bad Day at Black Rock", that was the name of an old Spencer Tracy movie.

Critical flaw: The show had too big of a budget for a kids show, and was too painful for adults to watch.

Watching this gave me such severe autism that I quit my job and am re-enrolling in Kindergarten to try to rebuild my brain from scratch. Hopes are dim. Pray for me.

this is not Battlestar Galactica....this is Galactica 1980. Please do not confuse the two. One is an awesome sci-fi anthology...the other is this. The only thing great that "1980" had going for it was Robyn Douglas.

Oh, no! It’s the King Tut Biker Gang!

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's . . bad TV. Not even flying motorcycles could save this mess.

Filming blooper. At first it's a cloudy day and the road appears wet. Right as they take off its a sunny day with a dry road.

All that technology and they had to follow street signs

I was so excited when I saw a commercial in Jan. 1980 that said Battlestar Galactica discovers Earth, Sunday night in a three hour epic adventure......but I was horribly disappointed when I put it on and what...no Captain Apollo, no Starbuck, no Cassiopeia, No Sheba, No Col. Tigh.....I watched but it was not even close to what it could have been if they’d had the original cast, better writing, and perhaps even an interaction with the Ship Of Lights who could have helped them with the transition...

About as believable as pulling a dune buggy out the 'lunar lander'! The magic of TV!!!

the viper always looked better than a X wing fighter I thought

In Galactica 1980 they say Earth is technologically primitive but really Earth did have a lot of the same tech that went on battlestars....the Galactica's computer tech seemed pretty similar to 1980's Earth computer technology...we had thermonulear missiles (albeit pointed at each other rather than put on battlestars or at least orbital defense platforms and probably giving Adama some serious Western Nationalist/Eastern Alliance hostility vibes in the process) and we did have lasers, just no weapons-grade ones as of yet...although some armor-piercing bullets might've done better at penetrating the thick armor on that Cylon scout ship rather than the Vipers' lasers which only bounced off it

I love this 2nd season of battlestar galactica ,those turbo cycles were a nice addition to the Vipers.

I think it would have been entertaining and funny if Officers Reed and Malloy would have pulled those two over.

Glen A Larson was the master of cool ideas, that didn't really make sense. They had an appeal to younglings, but they were challenging to seasoned ones. Who hasn't wanted to show off a flying vehicle in traffic & cause comical accidents, without anyone getting seriously hurt? Though 1980 wasn't a high point, the bikes were cool. They were one reason, I never accepted Megaforce. Their bikes paled in comparison.

I like the episode where the party crowd believes the cylon is a guy in his carnaval outfit.

I remember this miniseries - the _Galactica_ and its ragtag fleet finally reaches Earth...

I saw this in the cinema as the "Conquest of the Earth" movie.

I would live to see a re-creation of one of those bikes.

The oppressor from GTA 5

I Miss Starbuck and Apollo, the originals😊. Everyone remember where we parked, yes, that was a Star Trek reference.😊. Cool cloaking device they have.😊

This video brings back great childhood memories. 🚀

This must be the least convincing green screen ever.

You can't fake this. Even the music at the end is sincere.

They have motorcycles like that now. Not the flying part, but the general look part, with the rider practically laying on top of the bike to ride it.

The part of Galactica '80 I've always liked was the time travel element back to World War II

I remember the flying bikes, and the kids taking apart the TV camera.

i was 8 when i saw this episode...badest shit ever for a kid in the early 80's!

they are not realized that he is Leon Kowalski, a Nexus 6 replicant at the left