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T. J. Hooker
On ABC · CBS — From Spelling-Goldberg Productions · Columbia Pictures Television
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Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.
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- E1 The Protectors (pilot)Next upMar 13, 1982 · 120 min · ★ 6.0
Synopsis
With a crime-wave sweeping the city, a new Police programme has been formed to fast-track recruits to get them patrolling on the streets, and it's up to tough veteran cop Sergeant T.J. Hooker to bring them up to scratch. Trying to cope with his recent divorce and money problems, Hooker struggles with a job that he can't get away from. Meanwhile, the spate of crimes, including robbery, murder and a sniper is quickly getting out of hand. Only Hooker can train the eager but inexperienced young recruits as he leads them in bringing peace back to the streets, but the pursuit of the two murderous armed robbers at the head of the crime-wave inevitably leads to an explosive confrontation.
Guest stars: Lee Bryant (Fran Hooker), Eddie Barth (Singer), Tawny Little (Reporter), Lynne Moody (Nadine / Dr. Pamela Carter / Susan), Nicole Eggert (Chrissie), David Hedison (Saxon), Brian Patrick Clarke (Officer Jess Canfield), Helen Martin (Mrs. Sears)
- E2 The StreetsMar 20, 1982 · 60 min
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While hunting for a mugger who attacks women and leaves a Bible at the scene of his crimes, Hooker and Romano have to escort an overeager, aggressive newswoman. But the reporter's involvement just serves to complicate matters further.
Guest stars: Judith Baldwin (Carol Hayes), Gary Frank (Brett Williams), Victor Brandt (Billy Marks), George Murdock (Detective Jackson), Karen Carlson (Tracy Hill), John Furlong (Barnes), Bruce Winant (Eddie Savalas), Buck Young (Zabrowski)
- E3 God Bless the ChildMar 27, 1982 · 60 min
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When a school-mate of Hooker's daughter is found dead, after being pumped full of drugs and pushed off a roof after threatening to expose a drug runner's racket, Hooker realises that it could just as easily have been his daughter, and is determined to nab the culprits.
Guest stars: Lee Bryant (Fran Hooker), Rick Lenz (Dr. Damon Segal), Deborah Foreman (Alise Edwards), Janis Hansen (Denice Clark), Tom Nardini (Falco), Steve Sandor (Perez), Paul Kent (Harry Simpson), Susan McClung (Cathy Hooker)
- E4 Hooker's WarApr 3, 1982 · 60 min
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Hooker and Romano spot a van jumping a red light in a seemingly straight-forward traffic violation, but when they give pursuit they find themselves taking on gun-runners in the firearm-loaded vehicle. The pair go on the trail of the former members of a biker gang who are now involved in the illegal arms dealing, but just who is supplying them?
Guest stars: Lee Bryant (Fran Hooker), Vic Tayback (Pete Benedict), Sid Haig (Gang Leader), Paul Picerni (Rossi / The Clerk), Mickey Jones (Orson), Joseph R. Sicari (Banty), Debra Blee (Lisa Christopher), Ross Borden (David Klingman)
- E5 The WitnessApr 10, 1982 · 60 min
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An attractive young woman witnesses a murder, but her married boss dissuades her from going to the Police in fear that it will uncover their affair. Hooker must try and persuade the frightened girl to help them and testify against the psychotic killer, but the murderer intends to see that she never makes it that far.
Guest stars: Joseph Whipp (Carl Taub), Michael O'Hare (Cal Jastrow), Michael Pataki (Nick Vitale), Jonathan Banks (Freddy Baker), Lisa Hartman (Allison Baker), Gene LeBell (James Wallace), Robert Hogan (Neil Stoner), Ted Gehring (Mackey)
Cast & crew
Created by Aaron Spelling, Rick Husky
William Shatner
Heather Locklear
James DarrenImages · 3
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GenerationofSwineJan 10, 2023
I look back at the Twilight Zone sometimes and remember that Captain Kirk could really act and not just play characters. This is T. J. Hooker, this is Shatner playing Captain Kirk on earth in the 1980s. Don't sit down and think you are going to get the man that is paranoid to fly and sees a Gremlin on the wing, or a newlywed obsessed with a fortune telling machine in a cafe... ... This isn't that Shatner, this is Shatner playing Kirk as a cop in the 80s. But, don't t… Read more
hink it sucks either, because it does work in an over-the-top cartoonish sort of way, and that was what the show was meant to be. Serious and tongue in cheek at the same time. For those of you my age, Hooker is Sledge Hammer! (1986) if Sledge Hammer! Didn't know it was a comedy. And for entertainment value it works.