CHiPs - Season Two DVD
CHiPs DVDs
Buy CHiPs - The Complete Second Season
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0053939107920
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Turner Home Ent
Languages: English Original Language English Subtitled French
Subtitled Portuguese Subtitled Spanish Subtitled
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
MPN: 1000032796
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 03, 2008
Running Time: 1066 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
Release Date: 06/03/2008
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
