CHiPs: Season 5
by Alexander Grasshoff, Barry Crane, Bernard L. Kowalski, Bruce Kessler, Charles Bail
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Actor: Donna Kei Benz, Edward Davis, Erik Estrada, Larry Wilcox, Robert PineDirector: Alexander Grasshoff, Barry Crane, Bernard L. Kowalski, Bruce Kessler, Charles Bail
DVD: Region Code 1
Format: NTSC
Studio: WARNER
DVD Reviews of CHiPs: Season 5
DVD Review: My Favorite Season!
Summary: 5 Stars
CHiPs 1981-82 Season was my favorite season even though this police dramas 5th Season had some twists and turns and set backs in it.
For instance, this was the last season with Ponch's old partner Jon Baker(Larry Wilcox), since Jon was replaced by Ponch's new partner Bobby Nelson(Tom Reilly) in the 6th Season, due to the fact that Larry Wilcox didn't get along very well with Erik Estrada, even though Ponch & Jon seemed quite inseperable during all 5 years of their partnership throughout the first 5 seasons of this police drama.
This 1981-1982 Season was also the season when famous world athlete celebrity(Bruce Jenner)briefly joined the cast & crew of this show as Jon's interim partner(Officer Steve McLeisch) in the episodes "The Killer Indy", "Anything But The Truth", and "Diamonds In The Rough", since Erik Estrada(Ponch) had unfortunately left the show temporarily in the mid-Fall of 1981 due to a salary dispute, but Ponch had returned to the show permanently in November of 1981, starting with the "Finders Keepers" since the ratings on this show started sinking drastically when Steve had temporarily replaced Ponch trying to keep this show afloat, but was obviously unsuccessful.
Fortunately, the ratings on this police drama surged back up when Ponch came back permanently and when McLeisch departed the show after the "Concours d' Elegance" episode.
In other words, the producers of CHiPs had to bring Ponch back permanently to save the show in order to prevent it from getting the boot by NBC, despite the frequent rivalry between Wilcox & Estrada behind the set.
What I found baffling about CHiPs Fifth Season was in all 3 of the episodes where Steve McLeisch subbed for Ponch as Jon's partner in Ponch's absence, they still used Erik Estrada's name & picture on the introduction and nobody on the show, including Jon and their hard-nosed superior officer Sgt. Joe Getraer(Robert Pine) ever even mentioned a word about Ponch or why he wasn't around or anything as if Ponch never even existed, which didn't make a lot of sense, but was apparently due to the rumor that the producers were trying to get rid of Ponch.
Additionally, CHiPs 1981-82 Season had a lousy season finale episode on top of that, which by the way was the "Force Seven" episode, since they only showed Ponch & Jon in only 2 brief scenes, but in the rest of the episode, it had absolutley nothing to do with Ponch or Jon and it involved a martial arts gang infiltrating sadistic criminals who were involved in highly illegal crime sprees, which was certainly no way to have a last episode with Jon Baker, especially since it didn't give us a chance to see Jon in action one last time or see Jon do his best one last time as Ponch's partner, but it just so happens that Tom Reilly guest starred in this episode as a rookie LAPD officer who gets involved with the "Force Seven" group before his first appearance as Ponch's new partner(Bobby Nelson) in the following episode "Meet The New Guy".
It was also neat seeing
-Bill Lucking in the "Moonlight" episode before his co-starring days as the overzealous Army nemesis(Col. Lynch) on THE A-TEAM
-Doug McClure in the "Battle Of The Bands" episode before his co-starring days on OUT OF THIS WORLD
-George Lindsey in the "Bright Flashes" episode after his co-starring days on THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
-Susan Richardson in the "Battle Of The Bands" episode after her co-starring days on EIGHT IS ENOUGH
-Anne Francis in the "In The Best Of Families" episode after her co-starring days on the short-lived HONEY WEST & before her co-starring days on the detective drama RIPTIDE
-Bill Boyett in the "Silent Partner" episode after his co-starring days as Los Angeles police Sgt. MacDonald on ADAM-12
-Norman Burton in the "Tiger In The Streets" episode after his co-starring days as Joe Atkinson on WONDER WOMAN
-Don Stroud in the "Trained For Trouble" episode before his co-starring days as Capt. Lussen on THE NEW DRAGNET
-Noble Willingham in the "Finders Keepers" episode before his co-starring days on WALKER TEXAS RANGER
-Fred Dryer in the "Force Seven" episode before his co-starring days as Los Angeles police Sgt. Rick Hunter on the police detective drama HUNTER
CHiPs 5th Season also takes me all the way back to memory lane to when I was living in the Imperial Valley in my hometown(El Centro, CA) and when NBC's motto was "Our Pride Is Showing", which was NBC's slogan from the Fall of 1981 thru the Summer of 1982 along with the fact that I was 9 years old at Rockwood Elementry School in Calexico, CA at the time along with all the budget cuts we had going on back then from the recession we had back in 1981-1982 when Ronald Reagan was the president.
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