Bonnie Clark

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Bonnie Clark
Actor Randi Oakes
Appears in Seasons 3 through 5 (1979 - 1982)
Call Numbers 7 Charles
Badge Number Unknown
Bonnie during Season 3
Bonnie easy becomes distracted by Jon as seen in "Valley Go Home!"

Bonnie Clark is originally from Iowa.[1] Bonnie has a hot temperament and often goes her own ways.[2] When she believes something happened, it's hard to tell her the truth. [3] She has a heart of corn and takes care for the ones who need help. When Getraer is threatened by an old enemy, Bonnie gives the whole family a new home in her apartment.[4] One day she gets a higher paying job offer to take part in the Joie Chitwood Stunt Show while dating a stunt driver named Ray Conner.[1] The Sarge helps her to make the right decision.

Bonnie and Jon during Season 3
Bonnie sitting in Harlan's Mustang as seen in Sharks

She had once agree to help Ponch and Jon out by going undercover as rich business woman living in a condo in order to have lunch at the Chart House in Marina del Rey, finally gets out of a rented Rolls-Royce after parking it herself while wearing some of her real expensive jewelry by causing an incident when one of her real gold rings accidentally falls off her left finger, and sets up a jewel thief named Chuck after letting him put it back on her left finger.[5] She had finally agreed to do Ponch a favor for being late by driving his friend named Marla who happens to be the daughter of convicted tow truck driver named Danny to elementary school.[6] She seemed to interested in tennis lessons rather than write a ticket violation.[7] She was nice enough to be Jon's partner in a tennis match against Getraer and Grossie.[8] She helped Ponch and Jon in the arrest of traffic criminal named Delgado, and mananging to calm down a road rage driver named Harry Saunders.[9] She actually did take part in billing prank in order to get back at a motor officer named Bill Clayton that was actually filling in for Ponch.[10] She did actually take part in funeral for another officer named Steve Wydemeyer who was accidentally killed in car crash caused by a stunt driver.[11] She had helped Ponch and Jon actually arrest three counterfeiters who were running a print shop out of the Divine Gospel Church.[12] She even attendant the funeral of officer Andy Stratowski who was actually dying of a brain tumor but was accidentally killed after being shot in the back by a piece of shrapnel.[13] She even borrowed Harlan's hill climbing Mustang to helped catched a criminal.[14] She originally had a 1980 Ford Fairmont Futura that was stolen by Hungarian Motorcycle star named Janos, and later abandoned.[15] She finally had gotten a beautiful brand new 1982 Buick Skylark by agreeing give to Ponch a ride in order to meet his sister named Patti at a restaurant, and refused to let him change in the backseat.[16] She had a crush on a new motorcycle officer named T.C. Hunsacker, and decided to throw a special barbecue at her apartment in honor of him.[17] She was sitting on the floor at Ponch's Apartment waiting for them to comeback with Pizza, and actually finds out that the bank forgot to add one of Ponch's paycheck deposits. She had later accidentally drop a piece of Pepperoni Pizza on Ponch's paycheck.[18]

Bonnie wearing a pair of Aviator Sunglasses while chasing the Suspects as seen in Christmas Watch
Bonnie's 1980 Ford Fairmont Futura being hijacked by Janos as seen in Suicide Stunt

Bonnie's talents include: gymnastics[19], stunt performer[1][15], tennis player[7][8], bowler[17], darts[5], balloon popper[5], wheelchair racer[5], hang-glider[20], roller skater[21][22], disco dancer[21][22], go-cart racer[23][24], chess player[25], karate[26], drag racer[27], bicyclist[28][29], motorcyclist[2], weight lifter[28][29], dirt track racer[30], sailboarder[31], basketball[32], scuba diver[14], street racer[14], sky-diver[33], ultralight pilot[2], wind-surfer[7], and video game player.[4]

Bonnie's brand new 1982 Buick Skylark as seen in Breaking Point
Bonnie talking into the CB Radio while sitting in her own patrol car as seen in Moonlight

Bonnie volunteer efforts include: She once volunteered to host a disco modeling contest.[21][22] She had volunteered her time to the injured children at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and had also agreed to help out at the yearly carnival.[5] She recovered the bell, and delivered it back to the church so that the kids can ring it on Christmas Eve.[34] She had also volunteered to take the emergency medical technician training course on her own time.[20] She had once taught a gymnastics class, and a women's self-defense class down at the youth center.[19][26] She took part in the bucket of water challenge, and even got herself tossed into kiddie pool by Turner. She later had a ball thrown at her while sitting in the dunk tank by actor Richard Klein.[28][29] She even demonstrated the safety device, and equipment along with Communications Sergeant.[35]

She is actually good friends with Sherron Duke that works down at the Youth Center on Oak Street.[36] She once lost to Grossie during a game of Space Invaders.[4] She even lost to Getraer in the CHP chess tournament.[25]

Bonnie's medical injuries include: She was in a car accident caused by her hallucinating a truck due to lack of sleep after having gotten up at four o'clock in the morning to appear in courtroom in Bakersfield by eight o'clock that same morning, and had suffered a concussion.[3] She hurt her shoulder after falling off a three wheeler while trying to make an escape.[2]

Bonnie heroic efforts include: She had helped a stunt driver named Dennis who was faking an ankel injury while running an insurance scam until the ambulance arrived.[11] She helped Ponch by getting a rope out of the trunk of her cruiser in order to rescue an injured man after his car had caught fire and went off the cliff, Jon used a hang-glider to pull him to safety.[20] She helped Ponch and Jon in the rescue of their friend Marla from almost suffocating to death inside a stolen MG hoisted up in the air by a crane inside a junkyard.[6] She helped to rock infants back and forth after helping Ponch and Jon in the rescue of them from a crushed ambulance.[37] She had respond to a false 11-99 called to rescue Grossie after he had fallen by playing with a stray dog, and accidentally activating the new safety device.[35]

She actually enjoys eating pizza, fish sandwiches, clam chowder, hot dogs, hamburgers[14], cheeseburgers, bratwurst, fries, popsicles, tacos, ice cream sandwiches, and ice cream cones. Her favorite choice to eat in Pizza is actually Pepperoni.[18]

Bonnie was also kidnapped by the Satan's Angels, an aging biker gang. [2]

Although she is probably still with the CHP and Ponch thought he saw her after he returned to the force in 1999[38], her current whereabouts are unknown.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Episode 322: "Thrill Show"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Episode 407: "Satan's Angels"
  3. 3.0 3.1 Episode 324: "Dynamite Alley"
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Episode 419: "Vigilante"
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Episode 313: "Second Chance"
  6. 6.0 6.1 Episode 320: "Tow Truck Lady"
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Episode 303: "Valley Go Home!"
  8. 8.0 8.1 Episode 312: "Destruction Derby"
  9. Episode 314: "Wheeling"
  10. Episode 308: "Hot Wheels"
  11. 11.0 11.1 Episode 305: "Death Watch"
  12. Episode 306: "Counterfeit"
  13. Episode 402: "Sick Leave"
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Episode 413: "Sharks"
  15. 15.0 15.1 Episode 501: "Suicide Stunt"
  16. Episode 513: "Breaking Point"
  17. 17.0 17.1 Episode 417: "New Guy in Town"
  18. 18.0 18.1 Episode 409: "Crash Course"
  19. 19.0 19.1 Episode 416: "Karate"
  20. 20.0 20.1 20.2 Episode 317: "E.M.T."
  21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 Episode 301: "Roller Disco: Part 1"
  22. 22.0 22.1 22.2 Episode 302: "Roller Disco: Part 2"
  23. Episode 401: "Go-Cart Terror"
  24. Episode 404: "The Poachers"
  25. 25.0 25.1 Episode 521: "The Game of War"
  26. 26.0 26.1 Episode 506: "Anything But The Truth"
  27. Episode 410: "Forty Tons of Trouble"
  28. 28.0 28.1 28.2 Episode 405: "The Great 5K Star Race and Boulder Wrap Party"
  29. 29.0 29.1 29.2 Episode 406: "The Great 5K Star Race and Boulder Wrap Party (Part 2)"
  30. Episode 319: "Off Road"
  31. Episode 403: "To Your Health"
  32. Episode 412: "Home Fires Burning"
  33. Episode 321: "The Strippers"
  34. Episode 315: "Christmas Watch"
  35. 35.0 35.1 Episode : "11-99: Officer Needs Help"
  36. Episode 522: "A Threat of War"
  37. Episode 408: "Wheels of Justice"
  38. Episode "CHiPs" '99: ""CHiPs" '99"