Man, if you weren't sitting on the couch on a Sunday night in the late 70's watching CHIPs, just what WERE you doing? Time flies, but greatness never dies. One of the greatest tv themes ever.
We lived two blocks from the CHP station shown in the show. We'd watch the cruisers & Kawasakis pull in/out of the station. When an older neighborhood friend disappeared & later came back in a cruiser as a full on CHP officer we were enthralled. Forever my heroes.
Listening to this full version of the theme after all these years just gave me chills. I used to LOVE this theme, maybe even more than the show itself. It's totally 1970s, and it *works!*
"Chips" intro is nothing but a masterpiece in editing work and soundtrack sync! And this 70's funk theme is insanely good. Damn, how creative was tv people back then. They really know how to put on the show.
The Season One intro for CHiPs was COMPLETELY different. If you search for it, you'll see what I mean. ruclips.net/video/Tq0fmjtt3wQ/видео.html The newer intro helped them become a mega-hit for NBC
@@nowitsabadtime Thanks for the link. You are right. The first year intro sounded and looked quite different. I prefer the later version. More upbeat and exciting.
Ohhh mon dieu… je ne m’en rappelais plus mais on adorait cette série avec mon papy!! Que de souvenirs!!! 😢c’était la bonne époque !! Merci d’avoir remis ce générique ❤
I used to watch this as a kid when I would stay home from school. These shows and theme songs from the 70s and 80s bring me back to a great time in life. I'm not saying that the times we are in now are terrible, but sometimes I do miss when there was only one main phone in the house, one main TV in the living room, and you had to keep an eye out for your grandparents or parents when they would pull up in the driveway so you could run outside to help carry in groceries. Simple times and Bruce Lee said it best "Simplicity is the key to brilliance". That goes for life as a whole and everything that comes with it. Keep it simple my friends :)
My first favorite action TV show back in the damn good old days. Who's here still got goose bump while listening the opening theme of the show?? Thank you Eric & Larry for brought to us a golden years as a child...., I wish i can turn back the time
When I saw the show in reruns as a kid it was so cool to see a show about the California Highway patrol. Jon and Ponch on their motorcycles riding on the streets and highways looking for action and saving lives.
Still listening to this 43 years later...wish this younger generation had something like CHiPs, Knight Rider, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Incredible Hulk, etc...so many good shows on back then.
I'm just 53 years young and remember this like it was on last week. The theme was so iconic...disco was king and it was a upbeat track & times.. No smartphones..just simple times!!
Growing up in Scotland, I used to watch Chips every Saturday evening as a kid in the early-mid 80's. And seeing Jon and Ponch riding their motorbikes along to this amazing theme music, made me think they were the epitome of cool. Heck, all these years later, they still are! That theme is awesome, one of my favourites of all time for sure.
That's so cool that you mention that. I remember visiting family in Ireland back in the '70s and was overjoyed that 'CHiPs' was on the tele! It was on early in Ireland though, like 3pm, but I was so psyched!
I watch this show everyday on MeTV and this was what I loved about California this show wasnt all about arresting bad people but rescuing and helping people out. These are prime examples of what a Good Cop does.
It doesn't help that most cop shows either show just corrupt cops or arrogant self righteous ones. We need more cops shows with cops like Columbo and Chips or the squad from Barney Miller or In the heat of the night
I've been having one of the worst weeks of my life and this intro still makes me smile. When I was a kid and this theme started playing I didn't care about anything else in the world.
That funky disco theme song! Thank you very much for posting this. This was the $hit back then along with Battlestar Galactica, the Six million dollar man, The Greatest American hero, Charlie's Angels, Blue Thunder, The Incredible Hulk, Mork and Mindy, Knight Rider, the A-Team, the Master, Airwolf, Dukes of Hazard, Starsky and Hutch, etc.
Weirdly listening to this bought a tear to my eye. I read what someone else had written and totally agree - I also want to go back to my childhood - no mortgage, energy bills, car purchase, water bills, mobile phone bills, broadband bills, food bills. No COVID19, just sit in front of the telly and watch CHiPs while my Mum makes the dinner!
What made shows like this so amazing and interesting to watch, were the intros. You couldn't wait until the next episode just so you can see the intros
Vallejo California in the 70s watching this...really good days...rest in heaven benjy my younger brother who paasedsed at 7yrs old this was his favorite show.
Brings back memories of being on summer break, the neighborhood kids and I on our Schwinn and Huffy bikes cruising around the town with this theme song in our heads while we do the Ponch and John "handslap". 🤩🥰
Forget all the remakes we get today,there was nothing like the 70s and 80s,these shows have lasted with those of us that grew up with them for a lifetime and the theme tunes were not a 10second affair but a theme that everyone remebered and loved......Jon and Ponch
Every Sunday night, you knew exactly when CHIP'S was on even when you weren't able to see the screen. Tight bass drum beat for two measures, then rhythm guitar accompanied by disco-bass guitar., power trumpets and violins, then back to bass guitar with some synth, back to bass guitar again...then the song finally takes off. One of the best TV theme songs, period.
I could watch that intro 50 times in a row. When that intro started, something REALLY crazy just happened, like a delivery truck just flipped-over and blew up!
Me to i love all the old tv shows i wish we all could go back in time and start are lives over again.but" its a oneway 🎫 ticket for us all" no do over.
You’re so right in regards to the LA skyline then and now. Wow! You could look right at the Bonaventure hotel from the fwy back then. It’s like the 8th tallest building downtown back then. That area was my stomping ground back in the day. Now you can’t even see it there are so many skyscrapers now. Amazing to see how much has changed there in 40 years
LOL...god, the good old days, this show was mad corny, every bad guy was caught due to a highway mash up, Ponch and John NEVER pulled their guns during the series, and every episode ended with a laugh than freeze sequence...I MISS THIS.
You couldn't even have a theme song today, it would get lost in the trash of everything else on tv from constant viagara ads, to car insurance buying more time, and them cutting off the intros! lol We were so lucky to live in a time when TV was fun, exciting, something to actually look forward too, and once you heard a theme song from the other room, you knew exactly what show was coming on, weather you hated it, or loved it.... the good 'ol days of TV!
LOL ! That's right brother ! Being a professional drummer myself, and growing up watching this show, it brings back great memories ;))) !! Good times !
Just watched the whole first season. Can I please jump into a time machine back to my childhood days of CHiPs, Wonder Woman, Buck Rogers, Hulk, and Charlie’s Angels?
You said it! Just the feelings you get from watching these intros. I've become addicted to watching these quite often just to remember the feelings I got when one of these was starting as a kid. Reminiscing those days.
Jordanj, you're an idiot. We - law enforcement - had to shoot people in the 70s. The difference was, back then, people remembered that BAD GUYS have already made victims. Today, we seem forget that. Law enforcement was supported by the people.
Yes, it most certainly was!!! Nowadays, TV is straight up garbage and unclean and full of ignorance and stupidity from all of these useless reality shows!!!
This is what we'd been reduced to by 1977: a show about California Highway Patrol, ffs. Watch as two men, sitting really upright on their standard-issue motorcycles, drive the old speed limit of 55 mph. The Not-at-All-Fast and the Not-at-All-Furious. Nothing major was ever depicted - because it was a show about the freekin' HIGHWAY PATROL! - but somehow Erik Estrada's sex appeal kept it going for 6 years. The theme used for this clip is pretty cool - the disco original. Later seasons had iced out the disco-style "sipping" high-hat (sip! sip! sip!), the "trippy" guitar, the dramatic violins, but did keep the ultra-modern synthesizer. Whatever music you use, cut to soulless downtown LA before fading to commercial. Speeding tickets! FAR OUT!
One of my absolute favorite shows as a kid. And there was something about that theme song...you'd have the opening segment, the "trouble" was presented, and then here comes the bass drum underneath the last part..."Bomp bomp bomp bomp Bomp bomp bomp..." That sent chills up my spine every time. They always did a great job with the opening bit, then the theme. Love it.
I lived in SoCal back then. Yes, there were fewer cars and people in and around LA then but there were also fewer freeways, the existing freeways had fewer lanes, and there were no diamond lanes or express lanes. The shots in the opening credits from overhead or a distance or angle where you can't see that it's really LW and EE are actual CHP motor guys on a real, open to the public freeway, but the shots where you can see that it's really LW and EE and the stunt riding shots were filmed on closed freeways with a few production company drivers and cars in the background to try to make it look more real. Even back then, no open to the public freeways in SoCal were that empty in the daytime. That's why in those shots there are so few cars, no exit or other signs, and the freeway looks so clean. "The freeway chases and crash scenes were filmed on nearly-finished stretches of Southern California freeways. For the first season, the Glendale Freeway (Highway 2) in Montrose, California was used. For the second and subsequent seasons, the intersection of the Foothill Freeway (Interstate 210) and the Simi Valley Freeway (Highway 118) in Sylmar, California were used. These sections of freeway were under construction for many years, allowing producers about a mile of finished freeway section to use for the show. The 210 and 118 were opened in the early-1980s forcing the freeway scenes for the last season to be shot in Long Beach, California."
I grew up in the 80s. Remember watching this as a kid. There were lots of shows I remember watching, mainly cause we only got like three stations so just watched what was on at the time lol
Yes, that's what I meant. I wasn't saying he was the reason people watched. He was just one of the reasons. After he left it just seems like a cartoon more than anything.
It was a propaganda TV show I lived in the Bronx at that time so we did not have the shiny highways the shiny police uniforms however what I did want me to come was a medic on a motorcycle or a moped to cut through the traffic
@Michael Lyles oh they definitely can! I have lots of respect for cops and the job they do. Just that the media seems to hate them now and a few bad ones give the rest a bad name.
Grew up in the 70s and loved this show. I had these little plastic motorcycles that I'd love to have again with which I played CHIPs for countless hours.
@@jediskunk67 And back when California wasn't so CROWDED. In 1977 when CHiPs was on TV, California's population was less than 23 million. Now it's almost doubled to less than 40 million in 2020.
Man, if you weren't sitting on the couch on a Sunday night in the late 70's watching CHIPs, just what WERE you doing? Time flies, but greatness never dies. One of the greatest tv themes ever.
Watching it on a Saturday night
Pedaling my chips big wheel around the block
From an old retired Scottish motorcycle officer. Thank you Jon and Ponch. Wish we'd had your weather.
From a young lad of the Seventies for whom these boys were unsung heroes, British motorcycle coppers were the next best thing.
Thank you for your service, Derek! I remember riding bikes as kids pretending we were Ponch and Jon and humming this song. Good times!
A lot of places have bad and cold weather in California, like in the mountains and up north.
We lived two blocks from the CHP station shown in the show. We'd watch the cruisers & Kawasakis pull in/out of the station. When an older neighborhood friend disappeared & later came back in a cruiser as a full on CHP officer we were enthralled. Forever my heroes.
Late 70’s and 80’s were the best times on this planet.
High school class of 78....🔥 🔥 🔥
For television at least.
@@bobbyadkins6983 & music....
All 70s and all 80s
💖 7M3
If you were a child in 77 you sat there immobilized when this intro came out.
And you are absolutely correct!
This brought back a flood of memories, family, friends, acting like Ponch and John on our bicycles.
Yeah no shit Sherlock
Hell yes I loved this show as a little boy.
Sorry bro. I was boy of 18 y.
But still at this age (63) love it. Took me back in calm and peaceful days
This show was one of the treats of having been around during the late 70s and early 80s! The theme is still as good as ever!
Better than the theme for the remake of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
philaman1972 Probably the only good thing about growing up in the malaise era.
They were better days back then
Yes it was an interesting time been a young TV viewer in late 1970's
小学生の頃土曜日学校から帰ったら必ず観てました。
Siiii❤❤❤❤🤣
わかるぅ〜👍
もしかして同じ年代ですか？(笑)
Tee kwon mee dia pan soo!
小学生の頃、仙台で僕も見てました。土曜学校から帰って、お昼食べてから見てました。ジョンとパンチの掛け合いがアメリカってこんな感じなんだぁと思って見てました。
Got to meet Eric Estrada while CHiPs was filming in downtown Long Beach. What a thrill for a 5 or 6 year old back in the day.
70s and 80s sitcoms and music were the best
Listening to this full version of the theme after all these years just gave me chills. I used to LOVE this theme, maybe even more than the show itself. It's totally 1970s, and it *works!*
Them 70s Rocked
Totally agree 👍
Yuji Ohno is a master composer!
This bass hits so hard in the intro! Classic disco rifts throughout.
I love it. I was just a kid when this first aired in the 70's but the theme song will never be forgotten.
Being a cop was so cool back then.
Vy vy vy
Yes it does!!!
where was the series chips filmed?
"Chips" intro is nothing but a masterpiece in editing work and soundtrack sync! And this 70's funk theme is insanely good. Damn, how creative was tv people back then. They really know how to put on the show.
The Season One intro for CHiPs was COMPLETELY different. If you search for it, you'll see what I mean. ruclips.net/video/Tq0fmjtt3wQ/видео.html The newer intro helped them become a mega-hit for NBC
@@nowitsabadtime Thanks for the link. You are right. The first year intro sounded and looked quite different. I prefer the later version. More upbeat and exciting.
Yep, and all done without computer trickery too!
So True 👍
Absolutley not like today my brother used to love to watch it at my grandpsrents house
Ohhh mon dieu… je ne m’en rappelais plus mais on adorait cette série avec mon papy!! Que de souvenirs!!! 😢c’était la bonne époque !! Merci d’avoir remis ce générique ❤
I used to watch this as a kid when I would stay home from school. These shows and theme songs from the 70s and 80s bring me back to a great time in life. I'm not saying that the times we are in now are terrible, but sometimes I do miss when there was only one main phone in the house, one main TV in the living room, and you had to keep an eye out for your grandparents or parents when they would pull up in the driveway so you could run outside to help carry in groceries. Simple times and Bruce Lee said it best "Simplicity is the key to brilliance". That goes for life as a whole and everything that comes with it. Keep it simple my friends :)
Man some body take me to the 70s and 80s leave me there i miss the good old days.😢😢😢
My mom was born in 1976. I wish i was born in the 70s or 80s or 90s. I really love old school. And i'm only 13.
I miss does days. Todo...
Great days
Samara Macon me too
Bell-bottom jeans, Banana Seat Bikes, jelly slippers, Disco (Vs. Rock), "Hey, what's YOUR sign? I'M a Scorpio." >barf< ;-)
My first favorite action TV show back in the damn good old days. Who's
here still got goose bump while listening the opening theme of the
show?? Thank you Eric & Larry for brought to us a golden years as a
child...., I wish i can turn back the time
I am 2000 kid and I loved coming home to watch this my dad
When I saw the show in reruns as a kid it was so cool to see a show about the California Highway patrol. Jon and Ponch on their motorcycles riding on the streets and highways looking for action and saving lives.
Still listening to this 43 years later...wish this younger generation had something like CHiPs, Knight Rider, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Incredible Hulk, etc...so many good shows on back then.
Annlize😂😂
Every Day So True 👍
Too many angry people in the world today. We should all watch an episode or two of CHiPs and rethink things. Great theme, great show, great memories!
I'm just 53 years young and remember this like it was on last week. The theme was so iconic...disco was king and it was a upbeat track & times.. No smartphones..just simple times!!
use to watch this in the 70's........The music is aweome....love the disco strings and the analog synthesizer awesome!
the bass is cool too and the phase shifted guitar and the trumpets ........very cool swirly phase shifted analog synth at 1:12.......
I know this is a very old comment but I always wanted to know what that sound was at the end. Thanks so much.
Growing up in Scotland, I used to watch Chips every Saturday evening as a kid in the early-mid 80's. And seeing Jon and Ponch riding their motorbikes along to this amazing theme music, made me think they were the epitome of cool. Heck, all these years later, they still are! That theme is awesome, one of my favourites of all time for sure.
That's so cool that you mention that. I remember visiting family in Ireland back in the '70s and was overjoyed that 'CHiPs' was on the tele! It was on early in Ireland though, like 3pm, but I was so psyched!
And i read your comment in the voice of the Critical Drinker. 😃😃
Wasn't born when CHIPS first aired but got to watch reruns during my kindergarten year on TNT. CHIPS is a great show.
I watch this show everyday on MeTV and this was what I loved about California this show wasnt all about arresting bad people but rescuing and helping people out. These are prime examples of what a Good Cop does.
David, me too I grew up watching CHIPS
95 percent of American policing should focus on community and roadway services.
It doesn't help that most cop shows either show just corrupt cops or arrogant self righteous ones. We need more cops shows with cops like Columbo and Chips or the squad from Barney Miller or In the heat of the night
I loved how they’d have casual conversations on their bikes while riding side by side on the freeway at 70 mph.
That's hilarious
They were on a trailer and and the speed limit was 60mph
@@Schultzy1992 I know that. I was making a sardonic comment.
@@simple_beys well your comment is stupid
I do that all the time with my moto partner
I've been having one of the worst weeks of my life and this intro still makes me smile. When I was a kid and this theme started playing I didn't care about anything else in the world.
I don't know what you're through, but I pray that things will get better for you.
Hope you doing better
Still as cool 40 years later.
Definitely 😊👍🏻
Every kid back then wanna be a highway patrol when they played.... well I did :D
I sure did. Wanted to move to Southern California and be a Highway Police Officer.
Yup playing with your bikes with your friends in the neighbourhood.
@@mardy341
I miss my 1978 yellow Schwinn Scrambler
True, on bikes...
That funky disco theme song! Thank you very much for posting this.
This was the $hit back then along with Battlestar Galactica, the Six million dollar man, The Greatest American hero, Charlie's Angels, Blue Thunder, The Incredible Hulk, Mork and Mindy, Knight Rider, the A-Team, the Master, Airwolf, Dukes of Hazard, Starsky and Hutch, etc.
@@stevenbissett I'll definitely check it out. Thanks bro!
That bass line is filthy, son.
Yeah it is.... i need to sit down and lean that one.
Havel Pavel FACTS!!!
😂
THEY NEED ONLY RIDE. THE BASS DOES THE REST.
=)
Mean bass line
God damn the 70s and 80s were great decades, please teleport me back there.
Weirdly listening to this bought a tear to my eye. I read what someone else had written and totally agree - I also want to go back to my childhood - no mortgage, energy bills, car purchase, water bills, mobile phone bills, broadband bills, food bills. No COVID19, just sit in front of the telly and watch CHiPs while my Mum makes the dinner!
Nostalgia. >sigh
What made shows like this so amazing and interesting to watch, were the intros. You couldn't wait until the next episode just so you can see the intros
let's go for a remake of chips
@@PabloRuizMega already did, and they failed big time!
Vallejo California in the 70s watching this...really good days...rest in heaven benjy my younger brother who paasedsed at 7yrs old this was his favorite show.
One of the best intros ever. I just loved the beating of the drums that started it off.
same. Awesone Drum beat
When you heard that kick drum, as Alan Silvestri called it, you knew some bad shit was going to go down on screen.
Brings back memories of being on summer break, the neighborhood kids and I on our Schwinn and Huffy bikes cruising around the town with this theme song in our heads while we do the Ponch and John "handslap". 🤩🥰
Forget all the remakes we get today,there was nothing like the 70s and 80s,these shows have lasted with those of us that grew up with them for a lifetime and the theme tunes were not a 10second affair but a theme that everyone remebered and loved......Jon and Ponch
Every Sunday night, you knew exactly when CHIP'S was on even when you weren't able to see the screen. Tight bass drum beat for two measures, then rhythm guitar accompanied by disco-bass guitar., power trumpets and violins, then back to bass guitar with some synth, back to bass guitar again...then the song finally takes off. One of the best TV theme songs, period.
I could watch that intro 50 times in a row. When that intro started, something REALLY crazy just happened, like a delivery truck just flipped-over and blew up!
The 70's, 80's and 90`s, I love them! 😍😍😍😍
70s shows always had great basslines!
The 70's were a great time, the best times of my life.
懐かしすぎます！
アメリカのドラマに
日々、浸っていた
子供時代でした。笑
当時は、平日の午後にも再放送されたくらいでしたね。後に深夜放送になってから観にくくなりました。
This is still my show!
Me to i love all the old tv shows i wish we all could go back in time and start are lives over again.but" its a oneway 🎫 ticket for us all" no do over.
This and Charlie's Angels. Seventies.
LMAO
And Robert Pines son is following in the old man's acting footsteps, a Chip off the old block! 🏍️
@@ReR7474 What about Starsky and Hutch, EMERGENCY! and The Streets Of San Francisco?
So many great show in the 70s and 80s and some good show in the 90s and after that there was none.
Love that "Disco" intro. Look at all those huge gas guzzlers! And that LA skyline, it's been way built up since then. That really was another era.
That wasn’t the original theme music when the show first started right? Wasn’t it a little slower then this one was introduce in the second running.
i saw one of the cast members of the partridge family in chips
You’re so right in regards to the LA skyline then and now.
Wow! You could look right at the Bonaventure hotel from the fwy back then. It’s like the 8th tallest building downtown back then.
That area was my stomping ground back in the day.
Now you can’t even see it there are so many skyscrapers now.
Amazing to see how much has changed there in 40 years
Saudades dessa época, melhor seriado de todos os tempos.Não perdia um capítulo.Essa dupla fez história na TV.
Concordo plenamente
The show that made me fall in love with motorcycles. (And Randi Oakes)
Bass guitar is awesome. Great TV theme.
Indeed.
Just where we want it... strong healthy and solid.
When those drums start you know shit's about to get real
ha haa, this comment made me laugh a lot! The seventies equivalent of David Caruso placing his sunglasses on..."YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
LOL...god, the good old days, this show was mad corny, every bad guy was caught due to a highway mash up, Ponch and John NEVER pulled their guns during the series, and every episode ended with a laugh than freeze sequence...I MISS THIS.
You couldn't even have a theme song today, it would get lost in the trash of everything else on tv from constant viagara ads, to car insurance buying more time, and them cutting off the intros! lol We were so lucky to live in a time when TV was fun, exciting, something to actually look forward too, and once you heard a theme song from the other room, you knew exactly what show was coming on, weather you hated it, or loved it.... the good 'ol days of TV!
LOL ! That's right brother ! Being a professional drummer myself, and growing up watching this show, it brings back great memories ;))) !! Good times !
em23 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Chips took full advantage of the disco era, like nobody else
They even had a dance off episode similiar to Saturday Night Fever
Wow
@@amdanyahya4966 meh little brother had a chips toy motorcycle that he used to ride on
I was inspired to get a bike with bags when this show came out. good times.
Dropping that hard Bass drum with that sick Bass guitar hits EVERYTIME!!!!
Bassline is sick
The detail they used to put in theme songs is amazing. Must have been crazy for the budgets
'70s, 80's probably the best decades for TV themes and this one is one of the best in my opinion.
This is 70s Though
2021 and I've got all the series on dvd box set!! This series got me into motorbikes!!! Thanks CHP OR CHiPs
Just watched the whole first season. Can I please jump into a time machine back to my childhood days of CHiPs, Wonder Woman, Buck Rogers, Hulk, and Charlie’s Angels?
You said it! Just the feelings you get from watching these intros. I've become addicted to watching these quite often just to remember the feelings I got when one of these was starting as a kid. Reminiscing those days.
Look at the role models we grew up with... Taught to look up 2 law enforcement as idols.... Wow we've fallen pretty far...
You're forgetting Dukes of Hazzard
I'll see your Dukes of Hazard, and raise you Cagney and Lacey!
Yeah, and now cops kill people and get off on technicalities.
Jordanj, you're an idiot. We - law enforcement - had to shoot people in the 70s. The difference was, back then, people remembered that BAD GUYS have already made victims. Today, we seem forget that. Law enforcement was supported by the people.
Absolutely
In Japan this show called
Shirobai Yarou John and Punch
I can hear it now in the voice of a Japanese game show host.
@Disney is the Devil Or "California Motorcycle Cops Castle".
Chipsu
@@kamuelalee hai! Chipsu lol
Best name ever,
Epic intro , still gives me chills and a truckload of memories as a child 👍
高校生の時❤夢中でみてたな～でかいバイクすごって
They bass line is a direct shot to the soul!
Just think of all the people in their cars from the intro who didn't know they were on film all these years.
They were extras.
I feel so lucky to have grown up in the 70s and 80s. TV was so good back then!
Yes, it most certainly was!!! Nowadays, TV is straight up garbage and unclean and full of ignorance and stupidity from all of these useless reality shows!!!
One of my favourite shows as a child 😂 though I watched it as back to back episodes.
The city was clean and the traffic was light.
This is what we'd been reduced to by 1977: a show about California Highway Patrol, ffs. Watch as two men, sitting really upright on their standard-issue motorcycles, drive the old speed limit of 55 mph. The Not-at-All-Fast and the Not-at-All-Furious. Nothing major was ever depicted - because it was a show about the freekin' HIGHWAY PATROL! - but somehow Erik Estrada's sex appeal kept it going for 6 years. The theme used for this clip is pretty cool - the disco original. Later seasons had iced out the disco-style "sipping" high-hat (sip! sip! sip!), the "trippy" guitar, the dramatic violins, but did keep the ultra-modern synthesizer. Whatever music you use, cut to soulless downtown LA before fading to commercial. Speeding tickets! FAR OUT!
One of my absolute favorite shows as a kid. And there was something about that theme song...you'd have the opening segment, the "trouble" was presented, and then here comes the bass drum underneath the last part..."Bomp bomp bomp bomp Bomp bomp bomp..." That sent chills up my spine every time. They always did a great job with the opening bit, then the theme. Love it.
このテーマが聞こえるとワクワクしたものです。
Bring back chips
Good times as a kid watching this show.....
かっこいい！吹き替えドラマ見てました！😄👏👏👏
I miss those days. When have you ever seen an LA freeway that empty? This was definitely another era.
I lived in SoCal back then. Yes, there were fewer cars and people in and around LA then but there were also fewer freeways, the existing freeways had fewer lanes, and there were no diamond lanes or express lanes. The shots in the opening credits from overhead or a distance or angle where you can't see that it's really LW and EE are actual CHP motor guys on a real, open to the public freeway, but the shots where you can see that it's really LW and EE and the stunt riding shots were filmed on closed freeways with a few production company drivers and cars in the background to try to make it look more real. Even back then, no open to the public freeways in SoCal were that empty in the daytime. That's why in those shots there are so few cars, no exit or other signs, and the freeway looks so clean.
"The freeway chases and crash scenes were filmed on nearly-finished stretches of Southern California freeways. For the first season, the Glendale Freeway (Highway 2) in Montrose, California was used. For the second and subsequent seasons, the intersection of the Foothill Freeway (Interstate 210) and the Simi Valley Freeway (Highway 118) in Sylmar, California were used. These sections of freeway were under construction for many years, allowing producers about a mile of finished freeway section to use for the show. The 210 and 118 were opened in the early-1980s forcing the freeway scenes for the last season to be shot in Long Beach, California."
I loved this so much I watched at my old grandmas house in lake Charles I love these guys so awesome
One of the best tv show themes ever.
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Yes. The best TV show theme of the 70's.
I always loved the way the theme started. boom boom boom boom boom..
Every single summer morning my cousins and I would gather around the tv in the mid 80s watching reruns of Chips all summer long.
same here, while eating Batman Cereal lmao
Terima kasih banyak hadirkan Film favorit saya kecil CHIPS.🌹🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇮🇩
This intro brings back alot of memories for me . Loved this show & the opening intro.
19 seconds to 33 seconds is sick!!! Loooove it!! I’d dance to this in 2019!! No shame!💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
wow.. I remember sunday nights in 1978, 7PM watching this show!
also remember Erik Estrada had to learn how to ride a bike to be on the show..
My younger brother became a motorcycle instructor and all around motorcycle nut thanks to this show.
I grew up in the 80s. Remember watching this as a kid. There were lots of shows I remember watching, mainly cause we only got like three stations so just watched what was on at the time lol
This music makes me smile
When Larry Wilcox left the show it went to chit. He was the cool silent one.
+Gary Schneider It was the chemistry between the two that made the show great.
Yes, that's what I meant. I wasn't saying he was the reason people watched. He was just one of the reasons. After he left it just seems like a cartoon more than anything.
Larry Wilcox leaving unfortunately was the beginning of the end for Chips.
Gary Schneider Larry Wilcox lives in Rawlins, Wyoming
Really liked Chip's
Everyone born before 1977 remembers the intro to this show. 😎👍
Growing up I never missed watching CHIPS with my family
Génération 86
Une serie parmis tant d'autres,
J'étais petit et j'en garde de bons souvenirs!
Merci pour ces moments.
Back when kids actually wanted to be cops! Great show..
As opposed to now where kids are wanna be thugs. Get killed by cops and cry to momma because theres no daddy at the house 😉
It was a propaganda TV show I lived in the Bronx at that time so we did not have the shiny highways the shiny police uniforms however what I did want me to come was a medic on a motorcycle or a moped to cut through the traffic
Nick Smith I actually wanted to be fighter pilot like Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington.
I wanted to be a cop when I was a young kid. I eventually forgot about it when I grew older.
@Michael Lyles oh they definitely can! I have lots of respect for cops and the job they do. Just that the media seems to hate them now and a few bad ones give the rest a bad name.
Una de las mejores intro de la historia de la televisión,a mi modo de ver, muchas gracias!!!👍👍
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Grew up in the 70s and loved this show. I had these little plastic motorcycles that I'd love to have again with which I played CHIPs for countless hours.
One of my favorite shows when I was young
I just turned 4 years old again watching this intro. :)))) This theme is so awesome. Especially that synthesizer bit. :)))
Memories of this coming on Sundays in the evening after NFL football.
When TV was good. Nuff said.
And back when California was more well run and less radical!
@@jediskunk67 And back when California wasn't so CROWDED. In 1977 when CHiPs was on TV, California's population was less than 23 million. Now it's almost doubled to less than 40 million in 2020.
TV was REALLY good, you got that right!!
You said it!!!
1977-1983 What a time for tv.
Every time I've seen this, I was always amazed how light traffic was on the freeways back then. Must have been good times.
I remember this show growing up. Loved the theme song. Storylines were so lame. Love seeing the big boats of the day. sweet rides.