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Road action with California Highway Patrol motorcycle cops, focusing on partners Jon and Ponch.
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No offense to the current crop of motorcycle cops cruising the City of Angels, but the California Highway Patrol has never looked better than when Erik Estrada was riding high as Officer Francis Llewellyn "Ponch" Poncherello alongside Larry Wilcox's Jon Baker on CHiPs (1977-83). For six years, the blow-dried and beloved sex symbol broke racial barriers and battled NBC, while forever cementing his status as an icon on wheels. So in honor of the show's Tuesday debut on DVD, we rang up Estrada to get the dish on CHiPs — including Ponch's nationality switch, and the money dispute that almost got him "Olympically" canned. TVGuide.com: Let's talk about the first season of CHiPs, which just came out on DVD. It's about damn time!Erik Estrada: I know. Through the years people would come up to me and say, "W