CHiPs/The Volunteers

The Volunteers
Season 2, Episode 2
Airdate	September 23, 1978
Written by	Arthur Marks
Directed by	John Florea
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CHiPs — Season Two

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The Volunteers is the second episode of the second season of CHiPs, and the twenty-fourth episode overall.

Guest Stars: Tige Andrews (Charlie Davis), Katherine Cannon (Robbie Davis), Warren Berlinger (Market Owner)

Co-Starring: Steve Brodie (Sam), Richard Collier (Prisoner), Paul Comi (Councilman), Lee Paul (Police Chief), Rana Ford (Officer Jane Turner)

Featuring: Paul Sorensen (Superintendent), Bill McLaughlin (Gabe), Todd Everett (Young Man), James Crittenden (Leo), Maxine Elliott (Elderly Woman), Anna Uppstrom (Jogger), Karen Wyeth (Young Woman), Mark Carlton (Pete)

Plot Overview

Jon, Ponch and an officer named Turner volunteer to accompany a trucker whose rigs are hauling deadly chlorine gas to a safe disposal destination 150 miles away. The trip doesn't go as smoothly as they had hoped: for one thing, a small town barricades them from entering , fearing that, if there's an accident, the entire town could be wiped out. They manage to convince the leaders of the barricade to let them pass through. Also along the way, three dimwitted and drunken rednecks cause a multi-vehicle accident involving a Sheriff's transport car and a wild animal carrier, which results in a prisoner almost escaping and a tiger getting out of his cage and terrorizing a nearby store. There's also a rock slide, which creates an obstacle, and Ponch also has to race his motorcycle across desert terrain to get an oxygen kit after the trucker's daughter is overcome by the gas.

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Paul Sorensen is billed as Paul Sorenson.

A black actress named Rana Ford plays Officer Jane Turner in this episode. Officer Turner became a regular character a season later, only the character was now a male, Jebediah Turner, and played by Michael Dorn.

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