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23 Episodes 1978 - 1979
Episode 1
Sat, Sep 16, 197860 mins
An accident victim Ponch and Jon helped is pressed by his lawyer into suing them. Ponch encourages his partner to stay on the force when a disillusioned Jon considers leaving the CHP to sell used cars for a successful high school friend.

Episode 2
Sat, Sep 23, 197860 mins
Ponch and Jon are tapped to escort a convoy of tanker trucks containing highly explosive and toxic chlorine gas across 140 miles of troublesome terrain.

Episode 3
Sat, Sep 30, 197860 mins
Ponch intervenes when he suspects Jon's young nephew of joyriding in stolen cars. An overeager officer is obsessed with recovering a stolen movie stunt car being employed for diamond heists. Ponch trades in his motor home for an apartment.

Episode 4
Sat, Oct 7, 197860 mins
Ponch befriends a runaway four-year-old motorcycle enthusiast while Jon romances his divorcée mother. A sensationalist news crew dubbed the Disaster Squad pesters Ponch and Jon.

Episode 5
Sat, Oct 14, 197860 mins
Ponch and Jon are put on patrol in a residential neighborhood where four unsupervised children run amok. Jon has repeated run-ins with a reckless driver with a bad attitude.

Episode 6
Sat, Oct 21, 197860 mins
Keeping the streets safe for trick-or-treaters, Ponch and Jon search a haunted house for a runaway boy, foil a ghoulish getaway and nab a candy bag snatcher. Meanwhile, Sgt. Getraer is determined to bust the Halloween Hobgoblin.

Episode 7
Sat, Nov 4, 197860 mins
Ponch and Jon pick up the trail of an auto theft ring. A fatherless teenage girl has a crush on Jon. Ponch is running out of excuses to avoid going up on patrol in the CHP helicopter.

Episode 8
Sat, Nov 11, 197860 mins
In retaliation for a drug bust, five frat boys wage psychological and prank warfare on Ponch and Jon.

Episode 9
Sat, Nov 18, 197860 mins
It's the "Taming of the Sheik" when Ponch and Jon are put on patrol with a pompous and spoiled young oil sheik studying police science in America.

Episode 10
Sat, Nov 25, 197860 mins
Ponch runs into an old acquaintance who is having trouble accepting the fact that he's growing older; the brother of Jon's former partner, who was killed in the line of duty, impersonates a CHP motor officer by wearing his brother's uniform and riding his motorcycle. Ponch and Jon rescue a young girl from an ambulance that overturned on the freeway.

Episode 11
Sat, Dec 2, 197860 mins
An Evel Knievel-style stunt cyclist evades, outwits and embarrasses the CHP, so Harlan develops a supercycle to put Ponch on a level playing field.

Episode 12
Sat, Dec 9, 197860 mins
Ponch and Jon befriend a fatherless country boy out of place in the big city and in big trouble for firing his pellet gun into traffic. A reckless ambulance driver threatens lives when he illegally transports cases of unstable dynamite.

Episode 13
Sat, Dec 16, 197860 mins
Ponch's personal and professional lives meet when his prized Firebird is heisted by a trio of beautiful car thieves. Determined to get it back, Ponch turns detective on his down time.

Episode 14
Sat, Jan 6, 197960 mins
Jon's heroism makes him a reluctant local celebrity. A disreputable repo man makes life difficult for Ponch and Jon. The CHPs pull a practical joke on their published writer colleague Grossman.

Episode 15
Sat, Jan 13, 197960 mins
Cahill is critically injured in a multi-vehicle pile-up that claims eleven lives. Ponch and Jon are tapped to serve on the Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team determined to pinpoint the cause and to clear Cahill from blame.

Episode 16
Sat, Jan 20, 197960 mins
Ponch and Jon put away their bikes and play a diplomat and his chauffeur when they go undercover to prevent a wealthy man and his beautiful granddaughter from falling victim to a violent extortion racket.

Episode 17
Sat, Jan 27, 197960 mins
Jon and Ponch are matchmakers for two lonely people: an officer forced to retire and a widow pressured by the city to move.

Episode 18
Sat, Feb 3, 197960 mins
While investigating a string of drive-in-bank robberies, Ponch is baffled by a visit from his mother.

Episode 19
Sat, Feb 17, 197960 mins
Ponch reconnects with Robbie, whose trucking business is at the mercy of a competitor trying to put her out of business. Meanwhile, Officer Cahill is tracking everyone's biorhythms to see if it affects their performance on the job.

Episode 20
Sat, Feb 24, 197960 mins
The hitchhiker did NOT die as the description states. He only had the flu and lived. If the person who wrote the description watched the show, they would have clearly heard that the kid was in stable condition and going to be OK. Trying to promote a false narrative of a death doesn't make the person who wrote it look very good. It is apparent that they lied to push a false narrative and the description should be edited to reflect the truthful description. Watch it and you will clearly hear Cindy Cahill on the phone tell the person who the young boy was trying to get to that he is in stable condition and will be OK. He just had a different type of flu that they had diagnosed he would be OK as stated by SGT. Getraer.

Episode 21
Sat, Mar 3, 197960 mins
Distracted by his son's accident, Sgt. Getraer mistakenly releases a narcotics suspect.

Episode 22
Sat, Mar 10, 197960 mins
Jon and Ponch encounter unruly dirt bikers, a clandestine PCP operation and a macho city councilman showing off on the hillsides when they volunteer as members of a pilot trail bike team.

Episode 23
Sat, May 12, 1979120 mins
While Ponch and Jon are off in Sacramento attending a seminar, Grossman starts to collect anecdotes about the team from other officers so that - win or lose - they can give them a party, half testimonial and half roast.
