Wow that was a hell of a fight. Boxing, kung fu, karate, you name it. What a time to be alive.

Good ole Ponch, on nearly every episode, he takes one lesson at somthing and next thing ya know, he's an expert at it! Gotta love Chips!

I love how from 1:10 to 1:12 Ponch changed from being a lefty to a righty, like, INSTANTLY

I actually remember watching this scene on TV. I was a huge fan of CHiP's

That was a very well done fight. Even the A-Team, which was later than this, just featured punching, and then BA Baracus picking people up and throwing them. Ponch's skill with Nunchucks and poles means he found some spare time to go to the Valley and take lessons from Mr. Miyagi.

It was mighty nice of the bandit to not finish off Ponch when he was down

Dang, Ponch's stuntman put a beatdown on Andy Macedon. This show was freaking awesome. Glad they're showing these episodes again on MeTV.

no fair! ponch was blinding andy massedon with the glare from his teeth.

Baker's glowing brown leather jacket is the joint.

The gang leader looks like a folk singer! 😄

The guy Ponch is fighting would obliterate him in an actual fight. That dude is GOOD.

this gang wanted napoleon dynamite to join them because of his bo staff and numchuck skills.

Lewis Van Bergen as Andy Macedon. He later returned as a reformed good guy in another episode...helping Ponch battle Danny Bonaduce once again.

I remembers those karate episodes from when I was a kid I thought they were so cool now they're kinda silly But at the time they were cool

They pulled out nearly every martial arts weapon 🤣

That's pretty impressive fight choreography for an age where the traditional thing was "tackle to the ground, roll three times one way, three times the other way, person on top punches" (seriously, watch most 80s television fights!)

There's more violence in this scene than every other episode combined.

I see a few folks saying that the choreography is horrible, but considering that this was for television and during the early 1980's, I think the choreography and techniques are decent. The second Karate episode, which is the sequel to this, had even better choreography.

Barry Gibb vs Ponch.

Wow! I remember watching this as a kid and thinking it was so cool to see them use Karate but seeing it now, I can’t believe how cheesy the karate was. I still say it was my favorite CHIPS episode though.

Wish they could have slowed it down a bit... and see those lightening fast moves lol

Great episode. Seems like theres nothing that PONCH cant do AMAZING!!!

estrada is the spanish william shatner.

It was amazing that when the bad guy pulled out the 2 sai, Ponch grew about 5 inches and lost some weight! Ponch must have channeled his inner Chuck Norris!

The best fight screen of all time, even jet li or jacky chan cannot fight like this and the music was so katate kid. .

Everybody was Kung Fu fighting!

The sequel "a threat of war", is very hard to find, it appears. Jon has a straight up fight with this Andy guy, but it's in the ring instead, all legit-like. I haven't been able to find it, and i really want to see it again!

that was like the fight from anchorman, that really escallated quickly!! I think somebody had a trident and a granade at one point..

After the fight ponch went to the disco and ruled the floor then delivered a baby,,then expertly skateboarded home.

wow I missed this episode as a kid.... pretty handy how everyone had their karate weapons with them.....

For my money, Andy Macedon was the greatest TV bad guy ever

love it great post this was my favorite "chips" episode thank you

They originally start out Karate fighting, but Ponch resorts to good ol' street fighting to finish the guy off.

The 70’s street fight, sticks, knives, numbchucks , fists and roundhouses. Kick a..

We've all heard of "karate chops," but, "karate CHIPS"?! They really brought out the whole karate & kobudo arsenal, too: empty hands, staff, sai, nunchaku, tonfa . . . whew!

Eric Estrada had a stunt double in parts of this scene. The man who played andy masadon was a real black belt.

Ponch could've confused him by square dancing.

hilarious!!! one of the greatest moments in tv history!! hahahahaha.

John was like Ponch is the one unarmed badass cop that does not need a partner backing him up against a trained fighter WITH weapons ..lol

"I hate to hit a beaten man."

Ponch went up to Reseda to spend his day off with Mr. Miyagi, I see.

A Mexican doing karate lmao. Homeboy said I want my 3.99 a minute back from the psychic friends network

The fight scenes at the time for the most part had to be made for T.V. They weren't like you would see Chuck Norris or Jackie Chan do. They were made for television.

Your description was perfect! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

2:35 with his back to the camera, that's a double for Estrada.

This seemed a lot better when I was 6 years old

Odd how easy Ponch was to knock down at first only to rally back in the end.

Eric Estrada should love his stuntman

Ahhh, Ponch wearing good ole Nike Cortez's....that's old skool...

ponchos double denim acted like knights armour

Watch out! He's got karate!

I like how alot of the villians have new york accents...lol

i think the glare from ponch's teeth blinded his opponent.

You can tell most of Ponch fighting is a stuntman and the other dude is a real fighter

My God ! Ponch could have killed him with those savage karate moves !

Loved this episode. Actually, there were three episodes of CHiPs that featured martial-arts. This one, it's sequel, and a proposed spinoff series called "Force Seven." Fun stuff.

This is the best karate match ever seen!

Eric Clapton has really turned nasty 🧔🎸

this was better then a 60's karate movie

Ponch looked so cool swinging those nunchucks.

This is better than Captain Marvel.

Ponch was also secretly a Ninja in his spare time, little known fact.

I started taking karate lessons at 8 after this episode came out😂😂. The good old 1980s. Karate was on chips and every Saturday night was the black belt special on regular TV. Everything is at everyone’s fingertips now and my daughter asked me what it was like back then. It was a lot of fun because you always had something to look forward to the next week when it was coming on and if you missed it you didn’t see it lol.

That was a very good realistic scene they filmed.

Andy should have done some ground and pound when ponch was down.

wow.. that might have been the worst/best scene from CHiPs ever. Who knew Ponch was a weapons expert/ninja.

Even though the moustached dude was the bad guy, he was classy... allowing Ponch to get fully up before taking another shot at him.

Best TV show of all time

Poncherello delivers yet another SMACKDOWN!!! RIGHT ON PONCH !!!!

My favorite chips episode!!!!

Aiyaiyai, talk about third-drawer fight choreography. They could have borrowed some green belts from the local dojo for better fight scenes than this stuff. What I do like about CHiPs is that whatever was fashionable in the seventies was on the show: Disco, martial arts, roller skating, clothes. The show is a real time capsule.

For the longest time I thought his name was Andy Mastodon.

Ponch better know how to kick ass, he gave up his gang being Nicky Cruz in NYC.

clearly the shows budget could not afford a fight choreographer

That's why I never liked gangs, always had to bring a weapon into a fight. Ponch through his weapon down & fought like a man 😉. Really liked that part ponch jumped over the stick & kicked the guy. Don't think I've ever seen that before 🤯

I don't think so. Those two episodes are quite honestly the only two episodes where I remember Ponch or John doing any physical combat at all. Actually - I kind of remember John throwing a guy off his car once.

This one is the episode where Baricza actually pulls out his gun on Danny Bonaduce. The first and ONLY time Baricza pulled out his gun.

You just happen to have Sai swords a Bo and nunchuck at the burrito stand

Ponch for President!

I have never sprung such awesome wood !!

Oops! @ the 3:29 mark, you see an umbrella opened underneath the overhead. Somebody was not doing their job.

Ponch ‘Punch’ Poncherello, he should have done this to everyone they ever pulled over. 😂

Ponch is a star at everything he doe's!

Chuck Norris should have been a guest on this show (especially the season Clarence Gilyard was on it), and Estrada on Walker, Texas Ranger.

Glorious 70s tv 'fight'! Denims, big hair, bad music, obvious stunt double, instant facial bruising, sai and nunchaku pulled out of nowhere all topped off with blindingly bright white teeth I loved it!

Love Chips and crew great series

EVERYBODY was Kung-fu fighting!

That was so sad!

Andy came back later on in season as a good guy

Eric Estrada a gift from god....Pure beauty!!!!Hello.Gianna from sunny Greece...

After getting beaten he should have said,..."Your Shaolin technique is very good" Lol

Ever wonder why ponch has his back to the camera most of the time?

Do all LA street fights involve sais and nunchucks?

Ponch finally kicks the crap out his school bully named Andy Macedon.

at 1:14 i like his twitchy foot. very "karate" in the 80s. CHIPS is awesome on all levels. KIAI!!!!!

What episode is this?

Poncherello: the 5th Ninja Turtle.

@SumKindaNice I think it was from the fourth season. Could be wrong though.

I guess the moral of this episode is not to solve problems with your fists : /

Where'd the Okinawan weapons come from???