CHiPs Premiered Date, Network, Genre, Cast

Premiered Date

September 15, 1977

Network

NBC

Cast

Erik Estrada, Larry Wilcox, Michael Dorn, Robert Pine

Erik Estrada

as Officer Frank Poncherello

Larry Wilcox

as Officer Jon Baker

Michael Dorn

as Officer Jebediah Turner

Robert Pine

as Sgt. Joseph Getraer

About CHiPs

About

Popular action/crime series that follows the lives of two California Highway Patrolmen. The series spanned six seasons. A reunion TV movie for the series was released in 1988, about 15 years after the show's final episode.

Trivia

Erik Estrada didn't appear in seven episodes of the fifth season due to a strike on syndication pay. A film inspired by the series, also titled CHiPs, was released in 2017, starring Dax Shepard and Michael Pena.