CHiPs

Ponch becomes the training officer of a 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.

Ponch and Bobby are skeptical when they arrest a 12-year-old girl, Jodi, who claims she robbed a jewelry store in order to get diamonds to her extraterrestrial friend, who needed them to fix its spaceship. When Jodi's mother runs off, Ponch gets temporary custody of Jodi, who insists the alien is real, and she wants to go away with it. Meanwhile, the CHP is trying to stop a pair of thieves preying on Japanese tourists.

Ponch and Bobby's assignment as security guards for Moloch, a satanic rock singer, turns into near tragedy when the singer's car takes on a life of its own, and a taped message states that the devil is going to take him. Bobby thinks it's just a publicity stunt, but Ponch believes the threat is real and questions why Moloch's manager is so unconcerned.

Bruce Nelson, Bobby's younger brother, is having difficulty deciding between pursuing a career with the CHP and being a professional motorcycle racer. Ponch and Bobby search for a pair of high-speed thieves who are robbing motorcycle couriers on the freeway. Also, a trio of "valley girls" is fleecing older men for their spending money, but they find themselves in a dangerous situation that they didn't count on.

Ponch tries to get a father to accept his mentally retarded son and support the boy's activities in the Special Olympics, while the rest of the "CHiPs" group try to keep motorcycle daredevil Shake Patterson from killing himself by jumping over a flying plane.