CHiPs/Force Seven

Force Seven
Season 5, Episode 27
Airdate	May 23, 1982
Written by	Stephen Downing
Directed by	Lee H. Katzin
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CHiPs — Season Five

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Force Seven is the twenty-seventh episode of the fifth season of CHiPs, and the one hundred seventeenth episode overall.

Starring: Fred Dryer (Lt. John LeGarre), Tom Reilly (Rick Nichols), Donna Benz (Cindy Davis), Tony Longo ("Sly" Angeletti)

Guest Star: John Rhys-Davies (Nakura)

Co-Starring: Steve Franken (Alan Drummond), Edward Davis (Chief), Sam Yorty (Mayor)

Plot Overview

After Jon and Ponch find specifications for a stolen missile during the bust of a drunk driver, a specialized police team goes to work, one that believes in the use of martial arts rather than guns. The Force Seven team goes to work in searching for the missile and preventing it from being used, and ultimately the team's leader confronts the main villain, a man who cost him an eye in Vietnam. A brash LAPD officer with a troubled past is inducted into the team due to his martial arts skills, and he eventually comes around to the team's way of thinking.

Trivia

The Show

This is the second of two failed pilots that would have been spinoffs from CHiPs.

This is the final appearance of series' co-star Larry Wilcox. Interestingly, he would be replaced by one of the cast members from this episode, Tom Reilly, though he would play Bobby Nelson rather than Rick Nichols.

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