CHiPs - Season One DVD
CHiPs DVDs
Buy CHiPs - The Complete First Season
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0053939778526
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen,
Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 70
Label: Turner Home Ent
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital
1.0SpanishSubtitledPortugueseSubtitled
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
MPN: DT7785D
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2007
Running Time: 1056 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1977
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Where the rubber meets the road and the bad guys meet the badge --
that's where you'll find California Highway Patrol motorcycle
officers Jon (Larry Wilcox) and Ponch (Erik Estrada). Set in the
sun-drenched sprawl of Los Angeles CHiPs combines action heroics and
fun in 22 Season One episodes whose event-packed storylines range
from freeway gridlock (let's use a circus elephant to tow that
broken-axled truck!) to wild roadway pursuits (who's that beautiful
woman lead-footing a Rolls Royce?) from spilled onions (crying time
fellas) to pure venom (an overturned van loaded with...sssnakes!).
Attention all units: Report now for arresting entertainment!
Format: DVD MOVIE
Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS
Rating: NR
UPC: 053939778526
Manufacturer No: T7785
Amazon.com:
Country boy Larry Wilcox got first billing, but Erik Estrada was the
breakaway star of CHiPs, the popular late 1970s show about
California highway patrolmen. With his blindingly white teeth, tight
shirts, tighter pants, and exquisite '70s hair (which always emerged
from under his helmet perfectly coifed), Estrada transformed his
struggling career of playing hoodlums into becoming one of
television's first Latino heroes--Frank "Ponch" Poncharello--and a
skyrocketing sex symbol as well. CHiPs is basically Adam-12 on
motorcycles. Ponch may have been a hothead, but there's not a hint
that these cops are anything but perfectly upright and earnest in
their duties--a far cry from The Shield or The Wire! Ponch and Jon
Baker (Wilcox) cruise all over the southern California freeway
system, grappling with car thieves, clearing away overturned trucks,
and pulling beautiful girls out of car accidents. Every episode has
at least one high-speed chase and just about every episode features
Ponch hitting on a woman with gloriously feathered hair; watching
episode after episode may feel a bit repetitive, but there's no
denying that the stories are efficiently laid out and crisply
executed. Foiling crime and rescuing lost dogs was the show's meat
and potatoes, but the dessert was preposterousness like Ponch
competing with a squad of middle-aged housewives on a game show or
chasing after spilled chickens. The extras on CHiPs: The Complete
First Season are meager, but many episodes feature introductions by
Estrada, who's gained some weight but lost none of his cocksure
charm. --Bret Fetzer
