CHiPs

Hustle

Season 1, Episode 9, Aired 11/24/77

Episode Summary

Always looking for opportunities to make money, Ponch discovers that Jon once worked as an instructor in a bowling alley and still is a great bowler. Keeping Jons secret from the other CHiPs, Ponch places a series of bets that his partner will defeat all favorites in a upcoming police bowling tournament.

As the officers approach a car that went through a stop sign, they get a surprise. The driver is actor Broderick Crawford, who starred as Dan Mathews in Highway Patrol, the hit 1950s series that could be called the ancestor of CHiPs.moreless

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Robert Pine

Joe Getraer
Paul Linke

Officer Grossman
Erik Estrada

Officer Frank "Ponch" Poncherello

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- From CHiPs Online: In the first scene, the voices of Ponch and Jon were obviously dubbed in later. When Mr. Engelhart presents his photos in court, one is of Ponch and Jon laughing with Broderick Crawford. The shot is of the side of the car. Mr. Engelhart's truck was parked behind the motorcycles. (Also, the position Ponch and Jon are in never happened. Jon was always standing up straight and Ponch never leaned in that close with his back to the window.) In the first close-up of Jon after he hits his hand on the gate, he's wearing black gloves. In the next shot, as he enters a tunnel, the gloves are tan. The baby removed from the car covered in electrical lines is in the same type of car seat that's used for the robot "Gypsy" in Mystery Science Theater 3000. Edit
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- German episode title: "Die Verhandlung", meaning "The Trial". Edit
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- Broderick Crawford: You know, I was making those Highway Patrol shows long before you guys were born. Jon: Yeah, they don't make TV shows like that anymore. Edit
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