September 1977-March 1978, NBC Thursday 20:00-21:00
April 1978, NBC Saturday 20:00-21:00
May 1978-August 1978, NBC Thursday 20:00-21:00
September 1978-March 1980, NBC Saturday 20:00-21:00
March 1980-March 1983, NBC Sunday 20:00-21:00
April 1983-May 1983, NBC Sunday 19:00-20:00
May 1983-July 1983, NBC Sunday 20:00-21:00
The series was also successful in many other countries.
In the United Kingdom, it was broadcast by ITV. As with many imported programmes of the era, despite being very popular, the show was not networked for most of its run, with each region instead showing the series in their own selected timeslot, and episodes were quite often shown out of sequence from their original US order. Many regions showed much of the series in a Saturday tea-time slot around 17:35, although later this went on to cause a scheduling clash for fans of such US imports, as it clashed with BBC Ones run of The Dukes of Hazzard (in the days before video recorders were commonplace). For the last couple of seasons, most regions ran the series in a Saturday lunch-time 13:20 slot, interspread with runs of Airwolf (which began production the year after “CHiPs” finished, but many regions still had many “CHiPs” episodes yet to show). Although the show finished production in 1983, many regions did not complete their runs of the series until the later 1980s, in some cases almost ten years after the show had first appeared.
