Larry WilcoxC.H.I.P.S.: The Complete Fifth Season S5 (DVD)

CHiPs is one of my all time favorites and is one of those great shows I love as much now as I did when I was a kid. Of course the corniness is a little more apparent now, but it is a guilty pleasure! I don't remember as many of these episodes from the 5th Season and I don't particularly enjoy having Bruce Jenner replace Ponch (his acting was a bit stiff and of course my opinion of him personally is jaded by his personal life in recent years) in some of the episodes. I do enjoy getting to see these again though, and for me it is the first time for several of the episodes.The video and audio are very good as on the previous Seasons. I did notice an issue with formatting on my modern HD BluRay player. There were thick black bars on the left and right sides of the screen. I remembered someone complaining about this with Season 4 but at the time I still used my old VHS/DVD combo unit from 2005 and I didn't have the issue then. Well after messing around with the screen settings on my BluRay player for several minutes to no avail I tried it in my old combo unit which I rarely play DVDs on now, and sure enough it formatted it correctly! The picture is not quite as bright and vivid as on the HD BluRay player, but at least it fills up the screen. I may still contact Sony and see if there is any way to format it correctly on the BluRay unit, but for now I am satisfied I can watch it without those annoying black borders! Had I not gotten it to format on the older player I probably would have rated it 4 Stars, but luckily it worked on my old unit. I have hundreds of DVD sets and have been using the BluRay player for almost a year now and this is the first time this has happened. Maybe it will be a more common issue on recently issued sets? I hope not. I am so glad we don't have to wait another year for the last Season! It's hard to believe it took Warner Brothers almost 10 years to release this show, but at least they did it!

I love this series , lots of retro looks and cars. Stylish lingo and fads. Good viewing no worries. Now, if the movies were included remastered.Having brought the 2nd season twice because of bad double-sided discs, I have some suggestions for next Season Six at the end of this:The third and fourth series used a 5-disc layout. This series gets a 5-disk layout for more episodes-27 in all. Enough people must be buying the series for Warner to not skimp on discs. Compressing the data to 6 episodes per disk (except for the disc 5 which has 3 episodes) at about 4 hours and 50min playing time. I really do not know for sure if fitting so much data is going to cause problems. Maybe the 5 season had excellent video quality sources. But seems like all the good series I brought had less episodes per disc-on one side. Six Million Dollar Man had an average of 3 episodes per disc and ran about same as ChiPs at 50min. per episode. (movies not counted) . Update: from CHiPs wiki Season: The Sixth Season of CHiPs has 22 episodes on a planned 4-disc layout. Season 2 had 22 episodes on 6-discs. Season 4 had 21 episodes on a 5 disc layout. Both of these TV seasons had 4 and or 5 max five episodes per disc. For Season 6: I say, "Warner, use 5 discs and alternate 4 to 5 episodes to discs. hint:(4x3) + (5x2) = where 3 discs have 4 episodes each 2 discs have 5 episodes per disc for a total of 5 discs.

Season 5 introduces the former Bruce Jenner as officer Steve McLeish. At times Erik Estrada was in a work dispute with the network and Bruce took over for a few episodes. Season 5 is just as cheesy (and I mean that in a good way) as the rest of the seasons, but I think the producers required at least two and sometimes three car jump accidents per episode. That's some action! Season 5 has lasers, a battle of the bands, hillbilly con artists, tigers, toxic waste, pot, street races, airplanes, jet-packs, karate, and a bad episode with two chicks named Mitchell & Woods who become detectives in an obvious spin off attempt. Good thing it failed. Season 5 is fun and full of action. Just one more season to go!Update:Ugh, the last episode of the season is another failed spin-off attempt. This one is about an elite LAPD martial arts force. Good thing there is only one season left. This is also the last episode featuring Officer Jon Baker. He does not return in Season 6 due to a contract dispute.

In this season of Chips ends the end for the Larry Willcox who plays officer Jon Baker this is because Eric Estrda who plays officer Frank or better known as Pounch just can not get along with Larry Willcox so he throws A big fit about him so they kick off Larry Willcox witch I think that is why the next season witch was season six was the final season of Chips because the show is not the same without Larry Willcox! Ponch gets A rematch with A run in with tow old criminals that gets A rematch fight but one of them is still A bad egg! Planty of car pile ups and car fires and also car chases! You will see A male stripper dressed as A cop at A strip club joint! You will see animals stealing money this and much much more!

Enjoyed this particular season. As usual, the strength of the show was the two leads but the secondary characters and the guest stars all lend the show a unique flavor. The action scenes are well done, not CGI like most action is nowadays. Overall, I was happy with my purchase!

Season five not so good. the first four chips actually went out onto the highways. No like 5 episodes in they are alway on the same 5 back roads running down hillbilly type bad actors and stories are lame? Liked first season as was more action stories not these bad written ones. If I ever buy again it will be one or 2 season. I guess John was leaving next season so no effort in to save a dying show.

I like the series but the vol totally stinks the sound is terrible what was the movie company thinking when they released it on DVD you have have to turn up the vol way high to here it.

A long time in coming, but super to see Season 5 of this classic series. It even plays on my Region 2 DVD player in the UK (as do the other series editions!)

Loved all the episodes,

Brilliant brought back memories

Great well worth the money chips a pair of legends 500 stars

Great series. Good company to deal with