7.1/10130 votes#1 - Peaks and Valleys
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1978
Central gets a new mechanic, Harlan Arliss. Ponch and Jon are accused of improperly moving an accident victim. Jon meets an old friend who tries to convince him that there are better jobs out there than CHP officers.
Director: Phil Bondelli
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
7.4/10114 votes#2 - The Volunteers
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1978
Jon and Ponch must take on the dangerous assignment of escorting a convoy of trucks carrying hazardous chlorine gas.
Director: John Florea
Writer: Arthur Marks
7.7/10116 votes#3 - Family Crisis
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1978
Jon's nephew starts stealing cars with some friends. Ponch moves into a new apartment. A movie car, designed with special features, is used for robbing banks. The CHP has a hard time catching it.
Director: Phil Bondelli
Writer: James Doherty, William D. Gordon
7.1/10135 votes#4 - Disaster Squad
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1978
A television news crew - the Disaster Squad - edit a report to make it look as though Ponch had threatened them with violence. However, the reporter is forced to confess all during a later report when Jon and Ponch rescue a child from a river.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: Max Hodge
7.5/10113 votes#5 - Neighborhood Watch
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1978
Ponch and Jon have their hands full trying to deal with a persistent dangerous driver and a group of delinquent kids.
Director: Phil Bondelli
Writer: L. Ford Neale
7.6/10116 votes#6 - Trick or Trick
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1978
Ponch and Jon find themselves having to deal with a bewildering array of petty thefts and false alarms when on patrol during Halloween.
Director: Phil Bondelli
Writer: James Schmerer
7.9/10110 votes#7 - High Flyer
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1978
Jon and Ponch attempt to catch a gang of thieves who have been stripping car parts from parked vehicles. And Ponch fakes illness in order to conceal his fear of flying.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: James Schmerer
7.6/10104 votes#8 - The Grudge
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1978
After arresting some frat brothers for cannabis possession, Ponch and Jon find themselves targets of a vendetta by the disgruntled students.
Director: John Florea
Writer: Rick Mittleman
7.5/10106 votes#9 - The Sheik
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1978
Jon and Ponch pull over a speeding motorist who claims to have diplomatic immunity. When they subsequently accept an invitation to a party, they find themselves being offered bribes by their host.
Director: Phil Bondelli
Writer: Jerry Thomas
7.6/10104 votes#10 - Return of the Turks
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1978
After having trouble on the highway and wiping out a number of vehicles, terror becomes a game of highway bumper cars.
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: Stephen Lord
8.0/10117 votes#11 - Supercycle
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1978
Jon and Ponch pursue the Phantom - a motorcyclist who has been performing illegal stunts on the freeway using a souped-up superbike.
Director: Phil Bondelli
Writer: Barney Slater
7.7/10106 votes#12 - High Explosive
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/1978
Jon and Ponch sort out an accident caused by a misguided youth with a pellet gun. And an ambulance driver steals a van and fills it with dynamite after being fired from his job.
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: Suzanne Ryder
7.7/10110 votes#13 - Down Time
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1978
Ponch is proud, his new build Firebird is a lovely car. He also gets a new neighbor, Kim. This woman is weird, she is very friendly to Ponch 'till she learns he's an officer. One day Ponch's Firebird is stolen. Ponch is very sad but he also checks Kim out. Later his car is burned down from Kim, who belongs to a group of female car thieves.
Director: John Florea
Writer: N/A
7.5/1091 votes#14 - Repo Man
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1979
A ruthless collection agent plots to destroy Jon's and Ponch's credit ratings after they prevent him from harassing private citizens.
Director: John Florea
Writer: N/A
7.9/10143 votes#15 - MAIT Team
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1979
Jon and Ponch investigate when Sindy is blamed for a major accident which leaves her unconscious and 11 people dead.
Director: John Florea
Writer: N/A
7.6/1094 votes#16 - Pressure Point
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1979
Jon and Ponch are assigned to protect a VIP and his daughter.
Director: Phil Bondelli
Writer: Paul Robert Coyle
7.5/10105 votes#17 - The Matchmakers
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1979
Cora is sad, in a few days she will lose her home to a building company. She has no idea where to go with her animals. So she decides to commit suicide and drives her car into a lake. Jon and Ponch and Sindy try to help her after hearing her story. Officer Derk only has one week before going on pension so he starts some crazy actions and Sgt. Getraer isn't very pleased about that. A private investigator tries two times to kidnap a little girl from her mother. Derk, Jon and Ponch can frustrate his plans. After a few days Jon and Ponch get the idea to bring Derk and Cora together. And their plan works. Cora and Derk become a couple. Derk allows her to bring all her animals with her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10103 votes#18 - Rally 'Round the Bank
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1979
A series of robberies at drive-in bank windows is frustrating the CHP - especially Jon and Ponch, who unsuccessfully chased the bandit's car three times. The thieves have joined a 150-car road rally that enables their vehicles to elude the police. Meanwhile, Ponch gets a surprise visit from his mom, who refuses to tell him the reason for her trip.
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: Lee H. Grant
7.3/1094 votes#19 - Bio-Rhythms
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1979
Sindy has a new study project. She creates Bio Rythms for all officers. Robbie Davis (known from The Volunteers) is in trouble again. Someone attacks her trucks and the drivers lives. Jon and especially Ponch try to help.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: N/A
6.5/10102 votes#20 - Quarantine
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1979
Central HQ has to be quarantined after a boy is brought in suffering from a mysterious disease. Two crazy criminals are bringing trouble, too. The other officers investigate the past of the boy and find a puzzle piece in his ""bomb"". We learn that Grossie is learning Russian.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1092 votes#21 - CHP-BMX
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/3/1979
Jon and Sindy are training a BMX team for kids. Ponch takes care for a young boy who vandalizes his school. He wants to see him on the BMX team. The sergeant's son has a bad accident, Joe feels guilty for that. It confuses him so much that he makes bad mistakes at work.
Director: John Florea
Writer: Rick Mittleman
7.5/1088 votes#22 - Ride the Whirlwind
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/10/1979
Sindy, Jon and Ponch go in search of some outlaw bikers.
Director: Larry Wilcox
Writer: Stephen Lord
6.3/1071 votes#23 - The Greatest Adventures of "CHiPs"
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/12/1979
A sustained superior special achievement award for the guys has fellow CHPers remembering Ponch and Jon's exploits, as flashbacks recount the coolest cases of Seasons One and Two.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: L. Ford Neale, John Huff
The Best Episodes of CHiPs Season 2
Every episode of CHiPs Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of CHiPs Season 2!
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers...
Genres:DramaAction & Adventure
Network:NBC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Peaks and Valleys" is the best rated episode of "CHiPs" season 2. It scored 7.1/10 based on 130 votes. Directed by Phil Bondelli and written by Rudolph Borchert, it aired on 9/16/1978. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Volunteers".