Re: CHiPs Punk Rock episode

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> PPS: I also caught a bit of the punk rock episode of
> CHIPS the other day again...

I used to watch this episode over and over on video tape when I was in
elementary school (taped as a rerun from Detroit's TV 50 WKBD).  I
always liked the scene when Ponch and John ride their motorcycles near
the pier (Santa Monica?) and they maintain their cool as the "punks"
heckle them.  I can still sing the words to the song "Pain."

Gene Sculatti writes about this episode in his "TV Meets the Beats, Punk
& Hippies" survey from the book "Too Cool." 

"But the absolute best-worst of the tele-Vicious incidents occurred on
C.H.I.P.S.   Heroic hog-straddlers Ponch (Erik Estrada) and John (the
one who's not Estrada) are called in when another Fear rip ("Pain") is
suspected of stealing other bands' equipment.  Pain's singer Potato Head
slings stolen guitars off a Venice rooftop, causing a three-car pileup.
Doug McClure, owner of a renamed P.J.'s Nightclub, is threatened by a
switchblade-toting Painster: "Talk to me, earth dog!"  Having vanquished
the punks, Estrada closes the show by giving the misguided kids what
they really wanted all along: him, belting sub-disco in glitter togs and
strutting across the stage like the cool guy he's sure he is.
Exquisite."

Ted L.
who liked John over Ponch and parts of "CHiPs '99."