Trying to download the sample. It keeps jerking the computer around and won't do.

Is this from the CHIPs television series?

I was on the beach in Topanga California quite awhile back. Something was going on in the parking lot. A crew was setting up to film scenes for "CHIPs". I mosied around to see what goes on. Alex Rocco was there. Saw Eric Estrada sitting at a table with a white towel over his head.

Few hours later they were filming a scene with the two motorcycle cops on their bikes. The bikes were on a flatbed trailer being pulled by a truck with a camera mounted on the back. The entire rig was cruising up coast highway with "Ponch and John" sitting on the bikes as if cruising down the road. If you look at those scenes on television, you'll see the bikes are about 3 feet above the surface of the road.

The episode they were filming that day had Alex Rocco and his gangster sidekick holed up in a house along the beach.

victoravalentine, October 14, 2008; 7:37 PM

Killer knives... these are indeed sample tracks from the new ''CHiPs'' release from FSM and they are super-duper-dynamite!

I think they even sound better than the first release.

I was very suprised and excited to see a follow up release of CHiPs... ain't it obvious?! :)

Too bad you cannot listen to the sample tracks I have submitted. Here is a link to Screen's website without having gone through tinyurl which could be affecting your media player. The sample tracks were taken from there.

http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm?ID=10603

As a side note, I was never really into CHiPs that much to be honest. I remember that it was very popular in its days and Estrada becoming an overnight celebrity but that was it. I did not even recall the music until the first FSM release of CHiPs.

From the 70's crime shows, I vividly remember Kojak, which really must have laid the foundations on the 'serious' TV cop shows of that era, Starsky & Hutch, Baretta whose funky music by the way should get some type of a release ASAP, lolly pop girls *Farrah*, *Jilll* and *Sabrina* from the mindless cop show Charlie's Angels which was always fun to watch and many others. I can go on and on. I have fond memories from all of these. The 70's produced some of the best film scoring both for TV and for the big screen.

BTW, you might be interested in getting or renting the first seasons of Kojak and Baretta on DVD which are the only available seasons as of yet just to check out the cool music from Baretta and the great and memorable episodes from Kojak and the wonderful music scoring of course by John Cacavas.

serifiot, October 14, 2008; 6:41 PM

Never cared for the series myself. It was one of those things that couldn't be avoided. "Ponch and John" everywhere a person looked. Talk about far out TV music, check out the Frank Comstock theme for "Adam 12" (complete episodes on http://www.hulu.com).

Check out "The Cop Show Themes" by Henry Mancini if you haven't heard of it.

Without doubt, the best thing about television was some of the music. Doesn't even have that going for it anymore.

victoravalentine, October 14, 2008; 7:35 PM