Ponch becomes the training officer of new rookie Bobby Nelson as they try to catch a pair of health-club thieves, and find a runaway teenage mother who has stolen back the baby she sold.

Ponch takes a part-time job as a model for a jeans company, but he finds that he doesn't like being an instant celebrity. He discovers stardom takes him away from his real work, the rewarding job of catching a pair of diamond thieves as well as putting behind bars a sleazy photographer who's been involved in child pornography.

While on night patrol, Ponch and Bobby respond to a jewellery store alarm. The culprit turns out to be a young girl who claims an alien made her do it.

Ponch and Bobby help a rock star who claims attempts have been made on his life.

Ponch and Bobby go after a gang of high-speed bike bandits, and a young cadet at the CHP Academy tries to help his brother.

Ponch helps children train for the Special Olympics. An old friend of Bobby's prepares for a parachute jump. Grossie buys a truckload of eggs.

On temporary duty Ponch and Bobby hunt a drug dealer and mediate a dispute over a nude beach.

Ponch meets the woman he wants to wed. But his love dies by an accident, caused by a drunken driver.

A man blames Ponch for the death of his brother - who was also Ponch's friend - and challenges him to a race.

Anti-nuclear protesters cause trouble for the patrol, not least due to the presence of Getraer's daughter Ellen in the group.

Ponch and Bobby have fun with a robot assigned to their station until it becomes a threat to their lives.

Ponch is held prisoner in his own apartment by a couple of criminals thirsty for revenge.

Ponch and Bobby try to track down a couple of juvenile car thieves.

Ponch and Bobby are on the trail of a gang of cattle rustlers trying to sell cattle infected with anthrax.

Ponch and Bobby have to take care of a kidnapped dog and a sick child runaway. Kevin is dreaming from ufos bringing him away from his sickness. Ponchs friend allows him a look into the night sky.

Ponch and Bobby try to prevent three female rock musicians from being victimized by an unscrupulous concert promoter.

Ponch and Bobby are on the hunt for a drug dealer, and get some help from a rag-tag gang of youngsters along the way.

Ponch and Bobby try to catch a gang of bikers selling dangerous weapons on the black market.

Ponch and Bobby look into a series of thefts at a local campus, while Bruce tries to find a little girl who is abducted by a woman.

Ponch teams up with Bruce to find the person behind a car theft.

Ponch and Bruce try to protect a woman who is seemingly being stalked by a comic book character.

A band of teenage misfits, ex-members of Ponch's Explorer troop, returns to help him catch a group of junior-high extortionists.