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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0053939778526 Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Turner Home Ent Languages: Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent MPN: TRNDT7785D 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 Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Turner Hm Entertainm Release Date: 09/02/2008 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 Average Rating:
 Rating: - Great series, great seasonCHiPs was/is popular not only in the United States. I first caught a glimpse of this great show on German cable TV while living overseas. It didn't take long to get hooked. It's a great family-friendly show that easily appeals to different age groups. I loved the show 15 years ago and still love it now. Great to have it on DVD! Rating: - Great dvd set! Great dvd set! My family is thrilled that Chips is finally coming out on dvd so that we can watch the shows again! Rating: - Love Erik Estrada I have this DVD and also Season 2 on DVD. I am a HUGE fan of Erik Estrada. :-) Rating: - Love the show!This is a great DVD. I love CHiPS, reminds me that shows during that period were better than what we have now. Rating:  - So Bad, it's GoodAs a teenager during the show's original run, I thought that "CHiPs" was not very intelligent, poorly written, and poorly performed. By the early 80's the show was so consistently bad, that for me it really became "appointment television". Remembering all of the laughs this show brought me during those years, I could not resist purchasing "CHiPs", the first season. After viewing a handful of episodes, I realized that my adolescent assessment of this series was less than accurate--"CHiPs" is even ... Read More |
