C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)

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Category: Comedy

Directed By: Don Chaffey, 1979

Summary: Bain's ailing security systems company is going down the drain, and a young electronics genius, Eure, comes up with C.H.O.M.P.S., which is short for Canine Home Protection System. His invention is a robot dog, powerful and vicious when activated, that he hopes will stop a crime wave and help him win Bain's daughter, Bertinelli. The head of a rival company, Backus, hears about the dog and wants it for his firm, so he devises a plan to sabotage Bain's operation. Buttons and McCann do what they can as the saboteurs, but of course Eure wins out in the end. The real hero from start to finish is the dog, C.H.O.M.P.S. The robodog of home security, this computerized super hound puts the bite on some bumbling burglars.

Running Time: 91 Mins

Original Rating: PG

Cast:
Wesley Eure ... Brian Foster
Valerie Bertinelli ... Casey Norton
Conrad Bain ... Ralph Norton
Chuck McCann ... Brooks
Red Buttons ... Bracken
Larry Bishop ... Ken Sharp
Hermione Baddeley ... Mrs. Flower
Jim Backus ... Mr. Gibbs
Robert Q. Lewis ... Merkle
Austin Willis ... Head Engineer
William Flatley ... 1st Engineer
Dinah Ann Rogers ... 2nd Engineer (as Dinah Anne Rogers)
James Reynolds ... Reporter
Joe Baker ... Storage Foreman (as Joe E. Baker)
Phil Adams ... 1st Hood
Regis Toomey ... Chief Patterson

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Commentary:

Does anybody remember this teenage Val in this late 1970s movie? Was this movie supposed to be a pilot for a series that never got picked up? Pretty much Hanna-Barbera-ish.

That robot dog movie was a totally demented flick.

Tell it "CHOMPS" and follow it with a number and it does something.

Tell it "CHOMPS number 666" and it would play a song of Van Halen's "Running With The Devil" I guess.

It never got to a command where it told the dog to do his business on the lawn...if you know what I mean. ;-)

Maybe they'll rerelease this in the theaters...when pigs fly.

Val sure looked good then as well as now. It might be rebroadcast whenever some station feels like it. Lotsa luck in the video rental department.