CHiPs

that program is so old I thought this thread was about potato chips.

Their bulges are timeless.

funny now that i'm older i'm more team JON.... estrada was "obvious" in his looks and sexiness, and looking back now decades later, he comes across as a raging exhibitionist, narcissist, and cheesy and hammy! looking back as well, i realize that Jon larry wilcox was the quiet sexy one who had pretty blue eyes and who also had great hair i might add! and was a REAL marine too! he was the REAL deal...

neither one though had THAT great of a body, even though estrada tried to show it off all the time... after wilcox left the show, his ego got even bigger, and whether it was him or the creators, having him mistaken for a male stripper and pondering if he should go into that, becoming a disco singer, modeling shirtless for a jeans commercial and so on and so on, looking back now it's like "geez, how much ego does estrada have to have to be okay with all this over the top fawning over him and his character!"?... i would be embarrassed if i was him, but without wilcox and the newbie tom reilly, i think estrada thought oh good 100% attention on me and my character!

Well tussled hair.

It's JON, you fat whore!

Wasn't Eric Estrada the first Latino to star in his own TV show? Or was that Freddie Prinze Sr?

Hangin' with the Boss.

I don't know who that old guy is, R7, but I suspect he has some fine looking sons.

John was effortlessly sexy. Ponch tried TOO hard.

Every episode ended with a freeze frame of the cast laughing at a stupid joke.

I remember Ponch in a red speedo

R11, he owned many Speedos.

Does anybody remember a CHiPs / Emergency cross-over episode? I have a vague recollection of that.

Team Jon. Ponch has a stank sleeve.

I’m team Paunch.

Team Jon - Larry was way sexier and had a more muscular body.

I realized I loved Hispanic men thanks to Ponch, 40 years later, nothing has changed. Except now I have a husband who looks like him.

All about Sgt. Getraer. Even as an 8 yo gayling it was all about the sexy grey sideburns and that bulge for me.

I wonder how big Ponch’s chorizo is?

Was Wilcox ever shirtless? I always liked him.

Where the option of "that other gal"?

No one filled out tight light blue polyester more bulge-tastically than Erik Estrada.

Here they are busting a perp.

My favorite thing about the show was how it would often start with some ridiculous highway disaster. For example, some kid would be flying a kite too close to the freeway or highway (for whatever reason0, and the kite would fall on a windshield of a car, and that would lead to a seventeen car and truck pileup. Miraculously, NO ONE would be killed--all Ponch and Jon really had to do was to get everyone back moving again.

R21, Kaitlyn seems different, somehow.

R13- EMERGENCY! went off the air in the spring of 1977. CHIP's premiered in the fall of 1977. I don't see how they could overlap.

What R3 said. What's Larry Wilcox doing now?

What I should’ve said is I wonder how big Ponch’s longaniza is? Since he is Puerto Rican!

I disagree that Erik Estrada's body was not that good: remember, this was before the AIDS crisis made every gay man try to get a body like his at the gym (because the ideal was to be incredibly muscular so your body looked like impregnable armor), and so Estrada's really stood out in the time period.

I thought Randolph Mantooth was far more attractive than either Larry Wilcox or chunky Eric Estrada.

I thought Erik Estrada was Puerto Rican in rela life, but Ponch was supposed to be Italian-American.

Randolph Mantooth is a stupid made-up name.

R30 Iused to think that name, Randolph Mantooth, was hilarious when I was a kid! I used to think he would get teased by everybody for such a funny name!

They obviously used some sort of skin lightening on Estrada back then. He was hot as blazes in those days. Now he looks like a migrant farm worker.

Oops

Erik Estrada aged poorly. Ponch got paunchy.

A Martinez was the king of the Latin bulge.

I always thought A Martinez looked like a living bobblehead. And what is with having just a letter as your first name?

Here’s Eric and Farah faucet!

R34 R35, Father Time, you can be such a harsh parent.

R24 - like the time that Leif Garret, playing a teen idol who was overworked, was in the back of a limo that crashed. I remember being confused for years - they said he survived because his body was “so tired” when he got in the accident. For years, I thought being tired would help save you in a car accident.

R26, it looks like your TV Guide collection has finally come in handy!

R41: It's a wonder we can even think at all from watching all that TV.

I used to think that Leif Garrett and Mrs. Garrett from the Facts of Life somehow had to be related, because those were the only two people named Garrett that I knew in the whole world.

Can’t I have both?!

R33-That was his birth name. He didn't change it for show biz.

Erik in the 70s. Larry now, as the country is more right-wing and conservative these days.

I was a wee kid when Chips was on originally, but Chris' father Robert Pine was very good looking then, and this little gayling had a thing for Officer Barickza played by Brodie Greer. Damn he was hot.

Brodie with Robert and another hot cop. Mmmm, baby!

i would daddy pine in his prime over his son anyday!....

daddy pine and his baby blues was so so handsome especially EVEN BEFORE his "chips" days when he appeared in movies and tv show and the use of technicolor film and the pancake makeup used at the time made him even more pretty....

gotta love some gorgeous pretty boy bruce penhall and his "older brother" tom reilly.. 2 gorgeous blue eyed blond california beauties they both were..

interesting though in that all the men (except for grossman and the little odd mechanic doctor guy) were served up as sexy men, but NONE Of them ever had a real hot sex scene or homoerotic alone scenes! i guess because it was still technically a family show?... course we did get to see some sexy stuff over the years, but nothing blatant with any of the girlfriends jon, ponch and the others ever hooked up with?...

[quote] pretty boy bruce penhall and his "older brother" tom reilly.. 2 gorgeous blue eyed blond california beauties they both were..

Penhall came from a very wealthy family. His parents were hard core Orange County Republicans. They were killed when Penhall was in his teens. Penhall's son was killed by a drunk driver. A financially privileged life, but with lots of personal tragedy.

Reilly wasn't Californian. He was an army brat born and raised in the midwest and New Jersey. He lives in northern California now, probably sitting around remembering the good old days when he was a college jock.

Baka OP, we already had this thread.

[Penhall came from a very wealthy family.]

Photo, left to right: Bruce Penhall, DL favorite Sarah Jessica Parker, beautiful cum dump Timothy Patrick Murphy (who died of AIDS), and Danielle Brisbois.

R50.. i didn't mean that penhall and reilly WERE californians, i mean they represented that blond blue eyed californian "look"... interesting info about penhall who did star in a couple of those racy babes and hunks b level soft porn mixed with action movies of Andy Sidaris, as did erik estrada i might add, interesting career circle of the two..

[quote] His parents were hard core Orange County Republicans.

When someone has a conservative in their family, why do certain DLers always make a point to mention it? It's like when you talk to a German, and they always make sure to let you know if a certain person is Jewish. It's creepy.

R54 wears a MAGA hat.

R55, better that than having my head 3 feet up Elizabeth Warren's twat.

As a12 year old beginning to obsessively masturbate Erik was one of my regulars. I had no interest in Wilcox; I rarely like blonds. Randolph Mantooth is of mixed European and Native American, which is the origin of his surname. I also jerked to him.

Kiss them for me.

Team Ponch

When Estrada had a contract dispute, they replaced him with Caitlyn who played "Officer Steve McLeish" for a half dozen episodes during the 1981 season.

All three were quite hot in and out of uniform. Does anyone remember the CHIPS/Three's Company crossover episode where Jon and Ponch meet Jack at the bathhouse?

Another vote for the Sarge. So sexy in his uniform. Much handsomer than his well calculated son Chris.

After Wilcox left, one of his replacements was cutie Bruce Penhall, .who played "Officer Bruce Nelson."

After Alex Wilcox left, they still continued. It was a failed mission.

They were trying to keep California's State Highways safe.

they failed

R39, I must have sex with you now. Immediatly.

There is no arguing with it.

Lick the head Michelle

Only one time.

The other replacement was Ted Reilly as "Officer Bobby Nelson." Then, they brought Penhall in at R64 as his younger brother.

[quote] neither one though had THAT great of a body, even though estrada tried to show it off all the time... after wilcox left the show, his ego got even bigger, and whether it was him or the creators, having him mistaken for a male stripper and pondering if he should go into that, becoming a disco singer, modeling shirtless for a jeans commercial and so on and so on, looking back now it's like "geez, how much ego does estrada have to have to be okay with all this over the top fawning over him and his character!"?... i would be embarrassed if i was him, but without wilcox and the newbie tom reilly, i think estrada thought oh good 100% attention on me and my character!

Estrada was the star. He didn’t write the scripts. Wilcox was supposed to sing, in the episode where Estrada sang Celebration. He backed out and Estrada sang (terribly). Estrada became the star and therefore the writers gave him more attention.

[quote] Erik Estrada aged poorly. Ponch got paunchy.

Estrada didn’t age poorly. The man is 71. He aged averagely.

[quote] They obviously used some sort of skin lightening on Estrada back then. He was hot as blazes in those days. Now he looks like a migrant farm worker.

Just like your skin tans so does his. Just like your skin appears differently, depending on the lighting, so does his.

They have knowlege.

[quote] neither one though had THAT great of a body, even though estrada tried to show it off all the time... after wilcox left the show, his ego got even bigger, and whether it was him or the creators, having him mistaken for a male stripper and pondering if he should go into that, becoming a disco singer, modeling shirtless for a jeans commercial and so on and so on, looking back now it's like "geez, how much ego does estrada have to have to be okay with all this over the top fawning over him and his character!"?... i would be embarrassed if i was him, but without wilcox and the newbie tom reilly, i think estrada thought oh good 100% attention on me and my character!

Estrada was the star. He didn’t write the scripts. Wilcox was supposed to sing, in the episode where Estrada sang Celebration. He backed out and Estrada sang (terribly). Estrada became the star and therefore the writers gave him more attention.

[quote] Erik Estrada aged poorly. Ponch got paunchy.

Estrada didn’t age poorly. The man is 71. He aged averagely.

[quote] They obviously used some sort of skin lightening on Estrada back then. He was hot as blazes in those days. Now he looks like a migrant farm worker.

Just like your skin tans so does his. Just like your skin appears differently, depending on the lighting, so does his.

R69, do you think boys have knowledge?

Smart, sweet, boys like us?

What is your favorite REM song?

Mine is Believe.

The creatures jumped the barricades.

Robert Pine has terrible skin.

R76. I'm not gay, but can I suck your dick?

R69.. but as THEE star of the show, i'm sure estrada had some power and some say so in the scripts and what he would or wouldn't do.. no, he went along with the over the top looking back now NAUSEATING scripts of him and his character of narcissism, exhibitionism and ego...

They're both Deplorables now.

Loved Estrada until I saw him, and his anger management issues, on Battle of the Network Stars.

I never much liked the show. It was always on against another show I usually watched. I remember checking it out, though, when a lot of kids on playground talked about how great it was. I agree with R3. I thought it was a nauseating ego-fest for Erik Estrada. I never understood his appeal. I preferred Larry Wilcox as the more humble, subtle guy. Of course, that's the type of personality I go for in guys, so no surprise I preferred Jon over Ponch.

[quote] [R69].. but as THEE star of the show, i'm sure estrada had some power and some say so in the scripts and what he would or wouldn't do.. no, he went along with the over the top looking back now NAUSEATING scripts of him and his character of narcissism, exhibitionism and ego...

[quote] I agree with [R3]. I thought it was a nauseating ego-fest for Erik Estrada. I never understood his appeal. I preferred Larry Wilcox as the more humble, subtle guy. Of course, that's the type of personality I go for in guys, so no surprise I preferred Jon over Ponch.

The show struggled at first. Estrada’s appeal made it a success. The writers gave the audience more. Why wouldn’t writers write more of what actually works. And I doubt that the network gave them much of a choice. None of this is unusual.

R83.. perhaps, still (not being a actor) i can't imagine the monumental EGO in the various episodes that was still regardless if they were "giving the audience what they wanted" over the top nauseating of his character! i mean really (oh look, he's a male stripper lookalike! oh look, he can' also be a disco singer and dancer when he's not at work! oh look, he's so hot, he can be a shirtless jeans model! and on and on and on...

I remember an episode of some usual freeway pile-up where a typical interchangeable pretty girl was hanging by her seatbelt in her overturned car. What does Officer Ponch do? Ask her out on a date of course! What better way to pass the time till help arriives?

I remember an episode when Charly McClain was a guest and she sang this song. Ponch and Bobby got into a bar fight at the Palomino Club in North Hollywood.

Looking back , to me I see CHips as the replacement show for EMERGENCY! Although I was NEVER hot in the pants for either Larry Wilcox or Erik Estrada.

Randolph Mantooth was my favorite on EMERGENCY! I also had a crush/attraction to Dr Joe Early and Dr. Brackett.

Am I right in remembering Julie London as a tough old dame?

R88, her character's name was "Dixie". Can you imagine the outrage that would ensue if a TV show had a character named Dixie now-a-days.

I think my taste in men was set in stone when I was a GAYLING in the 1970's. All the men on EMERGENCY! had slim, natural bodies. No one was FAT or muscular. To this day that is my taste in men. Slim with a natural body.

[quote] I remember an episode of some usual freeway pile-up where a typical interchangeable pretty girl was hanging by her seatbelt in her overturned car. What does Officer Ponch do? Ask her out on a date of course! What better way to pass the time till help arriives?

Yeah that never happened. I tune in to CHiPs regularly on the Charge network. There’s a parade of women and lots of car accidents. But I don’t recall any episode where he asked an accident victim out at the scene of an accident. There’s one particular episode where John is almost in trouble because someone (who looks like him) is impersonating an officer. The impersonator is also hitting on women. Ponch and John are both always meeting women. The love of Ponch’s life was a school teacher he met at a MADD meeting. She then had him come speak to her class. They eventually got engaged, had a falling out and eventually reconciled. Unfortunately she was tragically struck down by a drunk driver while attempting to save her dog and right in front of Ponch.

I KNOW WHAT I SAW, R91