Product Details

• Actors: Erik Estrada, Larry Wilcox
• Format: Box set, Color, NTSC, Subtitled
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Turner Home Ent
• DVD Release Date: June 3, 2008
• Run Time: 1056 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0014VPFKY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,435 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "CHiPs: The Complete Second Season" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

CHiPs returned with even more spectacular car crashes and more cute girls for Ponch (Erik Estrada) to charm. The series really hit its stride in this second season (aired in 1978 and '79), balancing nerve-tingling stunts with human drama and whimsical escapades. On the high-tension side, you have a school bus that careens out of control and Jon (Larry Wilcox) has to jump on the roof to rescue the kids inside; trucks jackknife across the highway, causing multiple pileups; an ambulance overturns, trapping a girl in an iron lung; an investigation of dirt-bike vandals leads to angel dust dealers. Then, to lighten things up, Ponch gets a boa constrictor wrapped around his leg and has to help out a team of stranded cheerleaders. But more than anything, this second season was a showcase for Estrada's easy, perfect-for-television charisma. Not only was he handsome and cocky, he could be surprisingly gentle and compassionate, as when he rescued a suicidal woman about to lose her home. Wilcox, even at his best, never seemed fully comfortable in his role, but Estrada radiated the kind of relaxed pleasure that invites the audience's adoration. There were certainly silly moments (the Supercycle! A tiger in a deli mart! Ponch and Jon help a woman give birth in a disco!) and the increase in cars bursting into flame stretches credulity, but most of CHiPs stays reasonably down-to-earth and is all the more enjoyable for it. In fact, the low-key cinematography, without a lot of frantic editing, often makes the car crashes all the more vivid and jolting. This season also introduced more supporting characters, including the first significant female officer on the show, Sindy Cahill (played by the charming Brianne Leary). The boxed set features only one extra, a promotional featurette about the real California Highway Patrol, who love the show about as much as the show loves them--though the real cops' hair is decidedly less fluffy. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description

Can’t drive 55? There’s a ticket with your name on it – sign here, please. Just jumped three freeway lanes and endangered everyone in your path? Pull it over, pal, and dig out that license and registration. California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers Jon Baker and Francis "Ponch" Poncherello are on patrol. Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox return as Ponch and Jon, and the action and fun are ready to roll in 22 road- ripping episodes. Also returning: Robert Pine as amiable Sgt. Getraer. Strap on helmets and goggles for a deadly chain-reaction crash, the appearance of a nettlesome TV-news crew, Ponch’s disco dancing, Halloween patrol and a caped biker daredevil. Remember: safety first. And always signal before turning.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Remember when television used to be FUN to watch? April 5, 2008

By J. McDonald VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

Long ago, before the "reality TV plague" laid waste to most of the television landscape, there was a time when viewers could choose from a whole host of entertaining, fun, uplifting programs. If you're looking for escapist entertainment, likable characters, fun plots, and a few nifty stunts.... then you'll love Chips!

Although this series is over thirty years old, Chips has aged quite gracefully. This is due in part to great chemistry between the actors (all perfectly cast) and mostly lighthearted, fun scripts. If you're a dedicated fan seeking to feed your "nostalgia monster", you'll find yourself in the middle of a retro buffet! It just doesn't get any better than this!

With the recent trend being to release DVD "half seasons" at full season prices (Love Boat, Cannon, etc.), it's nice to see that fans of Chips have been treated fairly. An entire season of Chips is well worth the reasonable list price, and Amazon currently has a wonderful pre-order price to make this an irresistible purchase!

Let's hope that future seasons arrive in a timely manner! I just can't get enough!

Note:

Season one was released on SINGLE SIDED discs. This set is DOUBLE SIDED.

JM

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Seven mary three and four, responding on willshire blvd. July 21, 2008

By matt

Format:DVD

I have to say that the amazon product review sums it up perfectly. This is a great retro gift to yourself or a friend. You feel good watching chips, even if you never saw it the first time. The same zanny antics from season one continue, with the blend of action and comedy going at 70 mph. Estrada's little special feature, where he interviews actual Chippies, is cute and shows how much he was influenced by the show. An odd episode, which I chalk up to being made in the 70s in a more innocent time, is where John befriends a 15 year-old girl who obviously has fallen in love with him, to the point of making him dinners, getting his slippers and hanging out at his place instead of with her mom. John never says she can't or shouldn't do any of these things, only says to tell her mom where she is at. It is very weird! What adult, much less a male cop, would hang out by himself with a 15 year-old in his apartment and tell her to stay there whenever she wanted? Weird! I may expect that sort of thing from Ponch, but John? Come on.

My only real complaint is that the sound is often terrible. At many points you have to turn it up all the way to hear the dialogue, then the music comes blaring in and you fall out of your seat. Also, it would have been nice to have other cast members make some sort of commentary or appearance, but along with nearly all of WB's other dvd sets, they refuse to pay anyone for their time, travel or comments, so once again their cheapness only hurts the fans who supported the show in the first place. But they know we will buy it anyway.

Still very much worth it, if for nothing else, Ponch's extended disco, freeze frame scenes at the end of one of the episodes. Man, this stuff gets funky!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars "CHiPs" S2 July 3, 2008

By Ben Masters

Format:DVD

Another great season of a great series, at least so far. The stories really moved (and I mean that very literally)--that is, there were plenty of chases, and also, there was plenty of other great action from our heroes Ponch and Jon. The chases gave this second season's worth of "CHiPs," like the first, sort of a "travelogue" feel; in essence, I got the sense that I was being led on a guided tour of L.A. and its environs, right from my own home. This second season's worth of "CHiPs" represents part of the time period in which the series aired on NBC Saturdays from 8 P.M. to 9 P.M. In total, I have truly enjoyed this second season's worth of "CHiPs," and I heartily recommend it. Warning: this season is presented on three double-sided discs (at least for the episodes).

The extras include a documentary presented by Erik Estrada, entitled "The Real CHiPs", and a feature-length special called "The Greatest Adventures of CHiPs" that recounts (according to the package) "the coolest cases from Seasons One and Two." The extras are presented on a fourth disc, which is single-sided.

This season (unlike the first) also includes English, Spanish, and Portuguese audio, and English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French subtitles.

Overall, an excellent release from Warner Bros. of an excellent NBC series from MGM, and like I said, I heartily recommend it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Could Have Been Remastered June 7, 2008

By Ian Mitchell

Format:DVD

As some of the music score for season 2 is available re-mixed in stereo from the original masters it is a shame a stereo re-mix sound track was not added to make the program even more enjoyable.

Shame also the picture could not have been re-mastered and last negative is the DVD's are flippers which I really hate.

However it is still great to see Jon & Ponch in action again.

I may also be wrong on this point but the menus seem to use the season 1 theme and the episodes are in Dolby Digital 1/0

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A Serious Upgrade To CHiPs 1st Season March 3, 2008

By Taheen Lopez

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

It's about time they finally got the 1978-79 Season of this police drama on DVD along with the fact that this was the season when Ponch(Erik Estrada) & Jon(Larry Wilcox)really hit their stride & when I started watching CHiPs a lot more often, especially when this season kicked off in the Fall of 1978 which was only a year later from when this police drama made its debut on NBC in the Autumn of 1977.

In fact this season takes me all the way back to memory lane to my childhood days when CHiPs was on NBC every Saturday night & when this show became even more popular, especially since this season is even better, more upgraded, and quite a bit more sophisticated than the First Season was with more action, more co-stars, more accidents, and had major improvement on both the CHiPs music scoring and improvement on the CHiPs theme song from it's 1977-78 Season along with the fact that this season had even more viewers than the 1st Season did.

This 1978-1979 Season is also the season when Brianne Leary joins the cast & crew as Jon & Ponch's spunky fellow CHP Officer Sindy Cahill which was eventually replaced by Randi Oakes as Officer Bonnie Clark as the new 7-Charles in the 3rd Season since this was the only season with Sindy, plus this was the season when Lou Wagner joined the cast & crew as CHP mechanic(Harlan Arliss)making this the first year that this show had a female co-star and a special CHP technician....

Therefore; Sindy & Harlan made each episode in this season more sophisticated, especially episodes like "Family Crisis", "Trick Or Trick", "High Flyer", "The Sheik", "Return Of The Turks", "Supercycle", "High Explosive", "Down Time", "Repo Man", "Pressure Point", "Bio-Rhythms", "Rally 'Round The Bank", "The Matchmakers", "Ride The Whirlwind", "The Greatest Adventures Of CHiPs", etc.

The 2nd Season of this police drama is also the season when Ponch gets his first car, which was his bronze Pontiac Firebird & when Ponch gets his very first apartment at the Marina when he sells his RV trailer that Ponch was living at in the 1st Season along with the fact that this is also the season when Jon gets his brand new 4-wheel drive GMC stepside pick-up which was a major upgrade from the tiny white sports car that he had in the First Season.

Therefore, it was kind of like seeing Randi Oakes going from a bad guy to a good guy, since she was a criminal working against Ponch and Jon in the "Down Time" episode and then she was a cop and fellow CHP officer working with Ponch and Jon in the following season, starting with the "Roller Disco" episode with the exception of the "High Octane" episode, since Sindy was in that episode instead of Bonnie for some reason.

The Second Season of CHiPs is also the last season with California Highway Patrol Officer Gene Fritz(Lew Saunders), which got replaced by CHP Officer(Jeb Turner)as the new 7-David in the Third Season.

The truth is, I actually preferred Bonnie to her predecessor(Sindy)and thought Bonnie was better looking and more sophisticated than Sindy was, but I really missed Sindy when she left this show and got replaced by Bonnie in the 1979-80 Season of CHiPs and I wish that Bonnie and Sindy could've co-starred together on CHiPs as fellow officers of one another, kind of like Deputy Enos Strate(Sonny Shroyer)and Deputy Cletus Hogg(Rick Hurst)did temporarily in the first few episodes of THE DUKES OF HAZZARD's 5th Season and kind of like Officers Vince Romano(Adrian Zmed) and Jim Corrigan(James Darren) did at one time on TJ HOOKER before Romano departed from that show, but Sindy wasn't bad looking either and made the 2nd Season episodes more interesting with her smile, her perkiness, her sweet personality, her participation in cases with Jon and Ponch, etc., which gave me something to look back on and compare to to look back on the days when Sindy was on the show before Bonnie even came along, which helped us see how much a lot of things had changed between Jon's first 2 years on the show and Jon's last 2 years on this police drama throughout its whole 1977-83 run on NBC.

I also liked seeing guest stars like
*Randi Oakes playing a crook in the "Down Time" episode as a guest star before her co-starring days on CHiPs as Ponch & Jon's foxy fellow officer(Bonnie Clark)in the following season.

*Mills Watson in the "Repo Man" episode before his co-starring days as Deputy Perkins on SHERIFF LOBO who also previously guest starred in the "Rustling" episode in the 1st Season.

*Michael Conrad in the "Biorhythms" episode before his co-starring days as Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on the police drama HILL STREET BLUES

*Mary Crosby in the "Pressure Point" episode before her co-starring days on DALLAS

*Charles Brill in the "Neighborhood Watch" episode before his co-starring days as Capt. Lipschitz on the police drama SILK STALKINGS and before his co-starring days on the short-lived TV series SUPERTRAIN

*Markie Post in the "Rally Round The Bank" episode before her co-starring days on NIGHT COURT and THE FALL GUY

*Chris Knight in the "Family Crisis" episode after his co-starring days as Peter Brady on THE BRADY BUNCH

*Laurie Hendler in the "Neighborhhod Watch" episode before her co-starring days on GIMME A BREAK

*Eric Braeden in the "Mait Team" episode before his co-starring days as the often bitter(Victor Newman) on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS

*Danny Bonaduce in the "Family Crisis" episode after his co-starring days as Danny Patridge on THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY

*Ken Kercheval in the "High Explosive" episode during his co-starring days on DALLAS

*Jim Houghton in the "Return of the Turks" episode during his co-starring days on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS

*Beatrice Colen in the "Trick Or Trick" episode after her co-starring days as Diana's spunky colleague(Etta)on WONDER WOMAN

*Robbie Rist in the "Neighborhood Watch" episode after his BRADY BUNCH days, etc.

*Jonathan Goldsmith in the "High Explosive" episode before his co-starring days on DALLAS

In addition to that, this 1978-79 Season of CHiPs DVD is quite a bit more upgraded with better subtitles than CHiPs-Season 1 DVD on top of that.

So if you liked the First Season of this police drama, you'll definetly like the Second Season, especially since the 1978-79 Season is a serious upgrade from the 1977-78 Season along with the fact that CHiPs Second Season is a lot better than CHiPs First Season hands down, which most CHiPs fans would agree with me on.

Hopefully, we wont have to wait this long for them to put the 3rd Season of CHiPs on DVD, not to mention the 1979-80 Season was even more upgraded than the first 2 Seasons of CHiPs and hopefully it wont take as long to get CHiPs Third Season released on DVD as it did to get CHiPs First and Second Seasons released on DVD, especially since CHiPs 2nd Season didn't even get put on DVD until a year after CHiPs 1st Season was.

In fact, it would be a perfect holiday or X-Mas gift if they were to release CHiPs-Season 3 on DVD by the end of November in order to be here just in time for X-Mas this year, so hopefully we'll get lucky enough to get the 1979-80 Season of CHiPs on DVD by the end of 2008, since me and most other CHiPs fans would like to see the remaining 4 seasons of CHiPs released on DVD in the near future, starting with CHiPs 3rd Season, since CHiPs 1st and 2nd Seasons are already on DVD.

Something else that baffled me about this season was in the "High Flyer" episode Ponch was afraid to fly and kept trying to find ways to avoid being selected for air patrol with CHP pilot Officer Bob Patterson(John Ericson), but in the previous season, in the "Career Day" episode Ponch jumped right up and volunteered to go on air patrol in a CHP chopper after he got in trouble with Getraer for breaking his motorcycle at the High School where Ponch was asked to do a presentation for the students on career day, which made absolutley no sense.

Something else that I couldn't help finding odd was in the "High Flyer" episode when Ponch finally goes on air patrol in the CHP chopper with Patterson towards the end of the episode, Ponch spots the tan Ford van that Ponch and Jon were pursuing the first 2 times towards the beginning of that episode, but when Ponch spots that tan Ford van from the chopper, Ponch tells Jon that it was a brown Chevy van that the car stripping thieves used when they tried to kill Ponch & Jon while trying to get away from them during Jon & Ponch's 2nd hot pursuit in the "High Flyer" episode.

In addition to why I couldn't help being baffled about Ponch telling Jon it was the same brown Chevy van instead of the same Ford van that the car strippers used to get away from Ponch & Jon, a Ford van looks nothing at all like a Chevy van, especially since Ford & Chevy are competitors, so why would Ponch say it's a Chevy van if it was obviously a Ford van that they'd been pursuing, especially after they chased it twice in the "High Flyer" episode.

CHiPs 2nd Season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when NBC's motto was "NBSee Us", since that was the slogan for NBC from the Autumn of 1978 thru the Summer of 1979.

It's just too bad that this CHiPs-Season 2 DVD didn't have a bonus episode from the 3rd Season kind of like Universal does with a lot of their TV DVD box sets like Universal did with KNIGHT RIDER-SEASON 3, MAGNUM, PI-SEASON 6, THE A-TEAM-SEASON 4, THE ROCKFORD FILES-SEASON 3, THE ROCKFORD FILES-SEASON 4, MAGNUM-SEASON 3; etc.

Fortunately, I just got word that Warner Bros. is finally releasing CHiPs-Season 3 out on DVD in June of 2012 and I can hardly wait till it does either, especially since Warner Bros. hasn't released another season of this police drama since the Summer of 2008 when this was released, plus CHiPs 1979-80 Season is even more upgraded than this shows first 2 seasons on top of that. Read more ›