Tina Gayle

Ponch becomes the training officer of a new rookie, Bobby Nelson, as they try to catch a pair of health-club thieves and find a runaway teenage mother who has stolen back the baby she sold.

Bruce goes undercover in a high school to try to catch a pair of teenage car thieves, but his own safety becomes an issue when they suspect him of being a snitch. Jim Brown and Danny Bonaduce guest star.

Getraer's new car is stolen, and Ponch is saddled with trying to whip the Police Explorer Scouts into a winning basketball team--minus his star player due to bad grades.

Ponch takes a part-time job as a model for a jeans company, but he finds that he doesn't like being an instant celebrity. He discovers stardom takes him away from his real work, the rewarding job of catching a pair of diamond thieves as well as putting behind bars a sleazy photographer who's been involved in child pornography.

Ponch and Bobby are skeptical when they arrest a 12-year-old girl, Jodi, who claims she robbed a jewelry store in order to get diamonds to her extraterrestrial friend, who needed them to fix its spaceship. When Jodi's mother runs off, Ponch gets temporary custody of Jodi, who insists the alien is real, and she wants to go away with it. Meanwhile, the CHP is trying to stop a pair of thieves preying on Japanese tourists.

While attempting to break a case involving a ring of thieves using an answering service as a front, Ponch meets a kindergarten teacher who is campaigning against drunk drivers. They fall deeply in love and Ponch announces their engagement. However, their plans are shattered by a tragic event.