Postage pilferer; a hitchhiker offers crack cocaine to an undercover cop; a bank robber tries to use red-dyed money.

Partyers threatened by an angry neighbor; an undercover operation stops insurance fraud; marijuana possession; bicyclist hit.

A supposedly quiet day of scuba diving finds Ponch and Jon face to face with a ring of drug smugglers and sharks; guest Richard Roundtree.

Contenders enter the arena to demonstrate their strength and skill.

Round two quarterfinals: Kevin Cleary, Ivian Riley, Susan Stencil, Tommy Knox, Angela Stearns.

Jake Remy (Warren Oates) and his band of mercenaries shoot their way through a tiny border town, planning to escape with their plunder across the river into Mexico. They dispatch a few men to neutralize the local ferryman, Travis (Lee Van Cleef), but he and flinty mountain man Phil (Forrest Tucker) foil the scheme. By the time Jake reaches the river, Travis has already taken everyone from the town to the Mexican side. He refuses passage to the mercenaries, and a lengthy standoff ensues.

Wrongly imprisoned for murder, John Brant (John Wayne) decides his only option is to escape from jail and clear his name by finding the true killer. After breaking out, he ends up on the run from Sheriff Parker (Bob Burns) and catches the attention of outlaw Bob Jones (Lane Chandler), who offers to let Brant into his gang. Needing all the help he can get, Brant agrees, but running with these bandits only gets him deeper into trouble -- while the real killer remains on the loose.

Jon and Ponch train the first female motorcycle officers in the CHP; guests Stuart Pankin, Andrew Duggan.

From Alumni Hall in Annapolis, Md.

A drug suspect escapes; a marital conflict; a woman hiding from prowlers; an evicted tenant breaks into her own apartment.

A gang ambush; a SWAT team serves a warrant; a suspect escapes from a hospital; a murder victim set afire.

Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) leaves his university studies to enlist in combat duty in Vietnam in 1967. Once he's on the ground in the middle of battle, his idealism fades. Infighting in his unit between Staff Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), who believes nearby villagers are harboring Viet Cong soldiers, and Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), who has a more sympathetic view of the locals, ends up pitting the soldiers against each other as well as against the enemy.

An expert fighter (David Bradley) leads an assault on the island lab of a madman (Marjoe Gortner) making a virus for terrorists.

After the Civil War, veteran Ben Shelby (Ben Johnson) travels to Arizona to seek out fellow veteran Johnny Tallon (Dane Clark). After saving Johnny's blind brother, Ned (Peter Graves), from being trampled by a horse, Ben accompanies him to the family ranch. While Ben and Ned become friends, Ned's uncle grows suspicious about Ben's claim of friendship with Johnny. As they all wait for news of Johnny, they face an Indian attack and the arrival of vengeful former soldiers also seeking Johnny.