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T.J. Hooker: Created by Rick Husky. With William Shatner, Heather Locklear, Adrian Zmed, James Darren. The weekly adventures of tough-as-nails veteran police officer Sgt. T.J. Hooker, who rides the beat with his rookie partner Vince Romano.
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The background of Sergeant Thomas Jefferson "T. J." Hooker is that he, up until recently, was a plainclothes LCPD Detective Sergeant whose partner was killed in the line of duty while he and Hooker were trying to stop a bank robbery. An angry Hooker becomes motivated to rid the streets of criminals like those who murdered his partner. Thus, he deci...
Background
The series was created by Rick Husky who had also worked on The Rookies for Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg. The series was originally to be a reworking of that former cop show, this time called The Protectors. After the pilot, it was decided to focus the series on William Shatner's character and retitle it T. J. Hooker. The series initially set out to give a more "hands on", procedure-based view of police work than some of the more stylized cop shows of the 1970s and 1980s, evident in th...
Setting
The LCPD Academy scenes were filmed at the Los Angeles Police Department Academyin Elysian Park. Though the series itself was produced in Burbank and filmed in the Los Angeles area, the setting was not disclosed throughout the show's entire run. Hooker and Romano's radio call sign for their "black and white" was "4-Adam-30", and radio calls were very similar to those of Los Angeles Police Department, using three bursts of a 900 Hz tone, using LAPD-type radio codes, and the officers acknowledg...
Vehicles
In the first, second and up to the fourth episode of the third season, Hooker drove a '77-'78 Dodge Monaco police package, but afterwards he started driving a '79-'81 Dodge St. Regis, usually powered by the much more anemic 318 or 360 Cid V8 as opposed to the 440 Cid V8 Monaco. By the fourth season, when Hooker and his team needed an unmarked cruiser, they usually rolled around in a '82-'83 light blue Dodge Diplomat or a '77-'78 burgundy red Dodge Monaco. Hooker's personal car for the duratio...
William Shatner is the only actor to appear in every episode of the series. Heather Locklear appeared in the second-highest number of episodes, appearing in 84 of the 90 episodes, after joining the cast's second season.[citation needed]
US and international syndication
Starting in 2005, the A&E Network re-broadcast the entire series, running one episode per weekday at 4:00 a.m. It is also available in a shortened format on The Minisode Network and full length episodes are available on Crackle. The Universal HD Channel started airing episodes in September 2010. On October 9, 2010, the Sleuth network began a 24-hour T. J. Hooker marathon. In 2023, the MeTV+network began airing the program. In the United Kingdom, the show was originally broadcast by ITV starti...
High definition
Beginning on October 1, 2010, the series was rebroadcast on Universal HDto overwhelming success, quickly becoming one of the most successful series on the channel although the channel did not yet subscribe to Nielsen ratings. Due to the high ratings, the original film elements were re-mastered for high definition, and the program was cropped to a 1.78 aspect ratio to fill the screens of modern televisions.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainmenthas released the first two seasons on DVD in Region 1 and 2. Due to poor sales, no further seasons were released. This release has been discontinued and is out of print. On August 27, 2013, Mill Creek Entertainment announced that it had acquired the rights to various television series from the Sony Pictures library, ...
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Overview. 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 recuits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals. Aaron Spelling.
T.J. Hooker (1982–1986) Full Cast & Crew. See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro. Series Directed by. Cliff Bole. ... (17 episodes, 1982-1985) Sigmund Neufeld Jr. ... (11 episodes, 1983-1985) William Shatner. ... (10 episodes, 1983-1986) Don Chaffey. ... (6 episodes, 1982-1983) Phil Bondelli. ... (4 episodes, 1982-1986) Charlie Picerni. ...
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