CHiPs ... the television show

DutchmenSport wrote:
I went out to YouTube and did a search for CHiPs Season 1 and came up with several scene videos from the show. So I stopped the video when I saw the RV's and use the SnipIt tool to copy the frozen frame and pasted it into Paint and save it as a JPEG image. Uploaded to IMGUR and posted here. When you really start looking carefully at all the background stuff going on in that show, there's a lot more going on that what's apparent in the action scene itself. Actually, just in the scenes they posted on YouTube for Season 1, episode 2 and 3 only, there's too many to point out. But here's a few from just Season 1, episode 2 and 3.

Traffic was bad this morning, so I diverted off the freeway and took surface streets. I drove down on Osborne right where your first image was shot (I was coming the other direction, towards the camera).

The year I was born, the State of California took our house through eminent domain to put in a freeway. Mom & Dad said they were devastated at first, but the state paid them really well and they were able to "move up" from a kind of nasty area to a much nicer house and town where I lived until I married and moved away. The State didn't do anything with that land for well over a decade, but once the freeway was partially built and not quite opened, production companies paid for the permits to film on the freeways. That's why you see so many familiar freeways from that era.

The 2, most of the 210, and the 118 were all featured in TV and movies from the mid 70s into the early 80s.

One of my favorite low budget made-for-tv movies was Smash Up On Interstate Five. Not that it was good, but it was filmed on the 210 in Sylmar and my dad got a closeup. They hired some firemen like my dad and there's a great shot of him actually rescuing Harriet Nelson out of a burning car before it got too hot for her.