One of the more amusing and delightfully cheesy episodes of "CHiPs". While the usual "bad guys vs cops" and "Ponch and Jon get the girls" story lines are played, the main story teaches a moral life lesson, how anger and petty arguments can lead you to trouble.
The story opens with the cops assigned to the beach, an area of territorial dispute between "Surfer Kids" and "Valley Kids". A group of surfer teens in a souped up old ambulance butt heads with a couple of valley boys in a souped up van and their battles spill out onto the canyon roads in the form of aggressive vehicle battles. Ponch and Jon try to stop the nonsense, first with tickets, then with threats, and finally with warnings of jail and possible self injury or worse. Their efforts fail, and indeed the two groups of kids find themselves crawling out of their mangled vehicles after a wild crash down a hillside and licking their wounds as the cops gave them the "I told you so" lecture before hauling them off to the hospital and then the pokey. Lesson learned the hard way.
The bad guy vs. the cops part is a routine police story ending with the robbers who had been stealing car radios attempting to flee in an RV...not successful in doing so.
The final story segment finds the guys meeting a couple of cute girls who teach them how to sail...with Ponch having a hard time climbing aboard the small boat...much to the laugh of everybody involved.
All the typical amusing parts of "CHiPs" are played out in this story...car crashes, girls, bad guys, and Disco music pumping in the background. And within all that silly cheesiness, a moral lesson of how anger can lead to danger is played out.
The story opens with the cops assigned to the beach, an area of territorial dispute between "Surfer Kids" and "Valley Kids". A group of surfer teens in a souped up old ambulance butt heads with a couple of valley boys in a souped up van and their battles spill out onto the canyon roads in the form of aggressive vehicle battles. Ponch and Jon try to stop the nonsense, first with tickets, then with threats, and finally with warnings of jail and possible self injury or worse. Their efforts fail, and indeed the two groups of kids find themselves crawling out of their mangled vehicles after a wild crash down a hillside and licking their wounds as the cops gave them the "I told you so" lecture before hauling them off to the hospital and then the pokey. Lesson learned the hard way.
The bad guy vs. the cops part is a routine police story ending with the robbers who had been stealing car radios attempting to flee in an RV...not successful in doing so.
The final story segment finds the guys meeting a couple of cute girls who teach them how to sail...with Ponch having a hard time climbing aboard the small boat...much to the laugh of everybody involved.
All the typical amusing parts of "CHiPs" are played out in this story...car crashes, girls, bad guys, and Disco music pumping in the background. And within all that silly cheesiness, a moral lesson of how anger can lead to danger is played out.