T.J. Hooker

The weekly adventures of tough-as-nails veteran police officer Sgt. T.J. Hooker, who rides the beat with his rookie partner Vince Romano.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Cast:William Shatner , Heather Locklear , Adrian Zmed , James Darren , Richard Herd , Hugh Farrington , Lee Bryant , Paul Kent , Nicole Eggert , April Clough , Marcy Lafferty , James O'Sullivan , Robert Miano , Betty Ann Carr , Bobby Justin , Shawn Weatherly , Henry Darrow , Simone Griffeth

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Second Chance

Sat, Sep 25, 1982

The past comes back to haunt Hooker when he and Romano discover a serial killer known as 'The Barber' has returned and Hooker must protect the only survivor from the killer's first wave of attacks years ago; this is the first appearance of Heather Locklear as Officer Stacey Sheridan.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ King of the Hill

Sat, Oct 2, 1982

Hooker and Romano come up against a pair of rebellious speed racers looking to finance their souped-up cars via a crime spree.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Empty Gun

Sat, Oct 16, 1982

Romano struggles with the cold hard reality of being a cop on the street when he fails to shoot a cop killer. When the killer gets released on a bargained-down technicality by lying, Hooker and Romano strive to bring him to justice.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Blind Justice

Sat, Oct 23, 1982

It's a race against time as Hooker and Romano seek to protect a blind witness to a robbery from a murderous, thieving duo intent on knocking off box offices. Watch for a special performance by The Beach Boys.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Big Foot

Sat, Oct 30, 1982

A serial rapist is on the loose and women across the city are terrified. With Captain Sheridan and the news media breathing down their necks, Hooker and Romano are convinced the suspect in custody isn't the real culprit.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Terror at the Academy

Sat, Nov 6, 1982

When a sniper is taking out cops, the department tries to find out who it is. In the meantime, Hooker is training cadets at the academy and one of the cadets is the shooter. When Hooker meets him, he has an uneasy feeling about him. Hooker then does a background check on him and discovers that he is using the identity of a man whom he served with in Vietnam and Hooker learns that the man is some kind of mad dog killer and criminal. The man then plants explosives at the academy and threatens to blow it up unless they give him what he wants. When he booby traps the academy where he set himself up, Hooker thinks that he and Romano, being Vietnam vets, to have the best chance of dealing with him.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Survival Syndrome

Sat, Nov 13, 1982

Romano is wounded while foiling an auto theft and a TV news crew's distorted video implies Hooker shot an unarmed suspect. Hooker sets out to rebuff the D.A.'s investigation by busting the ring and finding the evidence that will exonerate him.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Deadly Ambition

Sat, Nov 20, 1982

When an old friend of Hooker's is shot while trying to stop a robbery at the store where he works as a security guard. A detective who's extremely ambitious suspects that Hooker's friend was the crew's inside man who got a change of heart and that's why he got shot. Hooker tries to prove him wrong. In the meantime, the detective is leaning on his snitch, to give him something. But he knows the crew personally and he and the leader try to find a way to get him to back off.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ A Cry for Help

Sat, Nov 27, 1982

An ambitious drug lord directs a street gang to deal high-grade heroin in Hooker's beat, meanwhile setting up a hearing-impaired teenage gang member to take a murder rap, but Hooker suspects the boy is innocent and vows to help him.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Thieves' Highway

Sat, Dec 4, 1982

Hooker teams with an independent trucker and a pet orangutan to stop a trucking boss's attempts to start a war.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ The Connection

Sat, Dec 18, 1982

Hooker and Romano will stop at nothing to squash a PCP operation after a schoolgirl hallucinating on angel dust tries to fly from atop her high school and a rookie cop friend of Romano's is almost killed when acting as an undercover narc.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ The Fast Lane

Sat, Jan 8, 1983

The tragedy of teenage drinking hits Romano in the heart when he learns the young son of his fallen war buddy is an alcoholic supporting his habit by selling booze to his high school classmates and who is now escalating into bigger crimes.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Too Late for Love

Sat, Jan 15, 1983

Romano's in love with a fashion model and deaf to Hooker's suspicions that she's a member of a ruthless ring of fur coat thieves.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ The Decoy

Sat, Jan 22, 1983

When a serial killer's latest victim is a police officer, a plan is made to send a cop to lure him out. Stacey who knew the one who was killed, offers to do it. While her father reluctantly allows her to do it, Hooker is worried.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ The Mumbler

Sat, Jan 29, 1983

While investigating armored-car thefts, Hooker sympathizes with the sister of one of the suspects.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Vengeance Is Mine

Sat, Feb 5, 1983

The daughter of a cop who's an old friend of Hooker's is raped by someone she knows. The guy is apprehended but manages to find a way to get released. Hooker sets out to try and get enough evidence against the man. while his friend decides to break the law to get him.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Sweet Sixteen and Dead

Sat, Feb 12, 1983

A young prostitute is killed by her pimp which was witnessed by a former prostitute who works at a shelter that helps them. Hooker tries to find her before the pimp.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Raw Deal

Sat, Feb 19, 1983

Hooker and Romano team up with a Gamblers Anonymous counselor to bust a drug lord who blackmails compulsive gamblers into serving as drug mules.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Requiem for a Cop

Sat, Feb 26, 1983

A friend of Hooker's who was a cop turned P.I. was killed while he was investigating some arson fires. Hooker thinks he was killed by the arsonist because he was getting too close.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ The Hostages

Sat, Mar 5, 1983

Sibling robbers hold Stacy, Fran and several hospital patients in exchange for their wounded father.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Payday Pirates

Sat, Apr 30, 1983

Hooker and Romano team up with Jim Corrigan and his new rookie partner Stacy Sheridan to catch an armed robber who preys on people cashing their paychecks, among them Fran Hooker, whom he pistol whips and leaves in danger of blindness.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Lady in Blue

Sat, May 7, 1983

A shootout with a pair of gun shop robbers leaves a policewoman critically injured and emotionally traumatized. Hooker and Romano set out to bust the illegal weapons ring while also encouraging their colleague not to give up on life.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ The Return

Sat, Oct 1, 1983

The bank robber who killed Hooker's partner 5 years ago returns. And Hooker is determined not to let him get away.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Carnal Express

Sat, Oct 8, 1983

When a girl Hooker and Stacy knows goes missing, she goes undercover as an exotic dancer at a club she applied to.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Chinatown

Sat, Oct 15, 1983

While Hooker is looking for an arms dealer, the trail leads him to Chinatown where he comes face to face with a man whose wife Hooker was involved with years ago, when she thought her husband was dead. Hooker is unaware that this is the actually man he is looking for. While in Chinatown, Hooker also encounters the daughter of the woman, and realizes that, based on the timeframe of their relationship, she could be his child.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ The Cheerleader Murder

Sat, Oct 22, 1983

Hooker and Romano set out to break up a porn ring.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Shadow of Truth

Sat, Oct 29, 1983

Someone trying to kill Lisa Jericho, a reporter who is relentless in her pursuit of the truth and a friend of Hooker. They try to make it appear that one of the persons she was writing about was the target but failed. Hooker senses this and tries to find out who has it in for her.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Walk a Straight Line

Sat, Nov 5, 1983

When a cop is killed, his partner who is an alcoholic tries to get the man but his addiction impedes him. Hooker tries to get him to get help but he won't admit to his problem.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ A Child Is Missing

Sat, Nov 12, 1983

A guy who robs a jewelry store also kidnaps his son to get back at his ex-wife. Hooker vows to get the boy back. Hooker thinks the man is in Mexico so he goes there and works with a local cop who's a bit laid back in his approach.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ The Trial

Sat, Nov 19, 1983

When Hooker and Romano respond to a robbery with two other cops. Romano and one of the cops who came are shot. And the other cop, a woman is accused of not coming to backing them up, because of an incident from her past. When she is about to face a board of inquiry, she asks Hooker to be her advocate and Romano feels like Hooker is betraying him.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Matter of Passion

Sat, Nov 26, 1983

Hooker probes the death of a girl whose body he found while jogging on the beach.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Blue Murder

Sat, Dec 3, 1983

When several criminals are being gunned down, everyone wonders who is doing it. And when Hooker was with one of them before he was taken out, even he wonders. He gets a line on a possible witness and they find her, she says that the man was killed by a pair of cops. Later they use Hooker to get one of their targets that's when he sets out to get them.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Undercover Affair

Sat, Dec 10, 1983

A cop now a fed whom Hooker knows has gotten close to a major drug dealer. The Feds want to bust on major deal but they're worried that if any of his small operations are busted that he won't push through with the deal so they tell the police to back off but people are dying from his drugs. So Hooker tries to find a way to do both.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Slay Ride

Sat, Dec 17, 1983

Stacy realizes a couple who foiled a drug raid are a team of robbers.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ The Lipstick Killer

Sat, Jan 7, 1984

Hooker and his team track a psychotic nurse-killer who sends flowers to his future victims.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ The Snow Game

Sat, Jan 14, 1984

A drug ring is responsible for the execution-style murder of narcotics officer.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Exercise in Murder

Sat, Jan 28, 1984

Stacy disappears while posing as a TV aerobics dance instructor to help crack a series of murders and thefts.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Hooker's Run

Sat, Feb 4, 1984

Hooker tries to get something on a criminal whom they have trouble getting anything on. When the informant he sends gets killed Hooker tries to get his ex, a hooker to testify against him. They later learn that the criminal has someone on the inside looking after him, someone he knew since he was a kid. When the safe house is hit Hooker and the girl go on the run. But they have to find some insulin for her cause she's a diabetic.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Hot Property

Sat, Feb 25, 1984

Hooker and his colleagues take part in a drugs raid at a scrapyard. Afterwards, the body of a policeman is found; he wasn't involved in the raid and Hooker begins to suspect the officer was corrupt. Meanwhile, Stacy, who logged in the heroin seized, crosses paths with her former fiance, a lawyer who (unbeknown to her) has links to the same drugs gang. When he engineers a switch whilst the drugs are in transit to the LCPD laboratory, Stacy is suspended and eventually decides to quit the force. Hooker must solve the case, whilst saving both Stacy's career and her life.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Death on the Line

Sat, Mar 3, 1984

The latest victim of the Marina Rapist - and the first to survive - is known to Hooker, but she resists his request to admit what really happened for fear of losing her boyfriend. Even when one suspect is killed whilst trying to escape a crime scene, Hooker isn't convinced the Marina Rapist's crime career is concluded.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Death Strip

Sat, Mar 10, 1984

While posing as a male stripper for a drug investigation, Romano witnesses a murder.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Psychic Terror

Sat, Mar 24, 1984

Hooker is ordered to work with a psychic to find a kidnapped little girl. The psychic has visions showing where the child is and Hooker uses police investigative work, and together they find the girl.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Gang War

Sat, May 5, 1984

Hooker and the department have been working on getting two Hispanic gangs to settle their differences. But when an attempt is made on one the gang leaders and the ones who did it were wearing the colors of the other gang but the other gang swears they didn't do it. But when more attempts on other gang members are made a war is brewing. Hooker tries to get them to calm down. What they don't know is that an arms dealer wants them to go to war so he can sell them weapons.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Deadlock

Sat, May 12, 1984

Hooker and Romano come across what appears to be a robbery in progress. they go in and when they confirm it, they try to call for back up but some kids who were spray painting take the cruiser leaving them with no way to call for back up. They confront them and eventually Romano is hit and Hooker gets trapped in the elevator with one of them with no ammunition.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Night Vigil

Sat, Oct 13, 1984

Stacey walks in when a robbery is being committed and is shot. They learn that she was shot with bullets that penetrate the protective vests that police officers wear. Hooker is determined to find the one who shot her even if it means jeopardizing his career.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ The Two Faces of Betsy Morgan

Sat, Oct 20, 1984

Hooker tries to help a teenage prostitute after several murders in the red-light district.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Pursuit

Sat, Oct 27, 1984

Hooker pursues two robbers at high speed, resulting in the injury of a pregnant teller.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Hardcore Connection

Sat, Nov 3, 1984

A friend of Hooker's who is working vice is shot and killed. Investigations show that he appears to be on the take. Hooker doesn't believe it and is determined to clear his friend's reputation, helped by a former prostitute.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Anatomy of a Killing

Sat, Nov 10, 1984

Hooker works with another cop, who's a friend to get some drug dealers. But during their investigation, they discover that his friend's daughter is not only involved with the people they are looking for but she's also an addict.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Target: Hooker

Sat, Nov 17, 1984

Romano faces the possibly permanent loss of his sight, and his girlfriend dies, when Hooker becomes the target of a vengeful killer.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Model for Murder

Sat, Nov 24, 1984

Stacy poses as a model to help Hooker uncover the identity of the murderer of a high-fashion model who also worked as a prostitute.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ A Kind of Rage

Sat, Dec 1, 1984

Corrigan's behavior changes drastically after he receives a blow on the head during an undercover investigation of bag-lady murders.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ The Confession

Sat, Dec 15, 1984

A female Episcopalian priest whom Hooker knows is raped. The man is later caught. But when he goes to her and confesses, she chooses not to testify.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Grand Theft Auto

Sat, Dec 29, 1984

While searching for Romano's stolen sports car, Hooker encounters a Gypsy girl determined to exact vengeance for her uncle's murder.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Street Bait

Sat, Jan 5, 1985

Stacy poses as a clerk to trap a murderer killing department-store patrons.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ The Surrogate

Sat, Jan 12, 1985

A talk-show host helps Hooker and Stacy locate a killer whose victims have phoned her for advice.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Trackdown

Sat, Jan 26, 1985

A psychopathic killer uses his female captive to lure unsuspecting women into a deadly trap.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ Outcall

Sat, Feb 2, 1985

Hooker races to save Stacy's life when mobsters detect her undercover assignment as a massage-parlor employee.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ The Bribe

Sat, Feb 9, 1985

After being ousted from the force for taking bribes, Hooker goes to Las Vegas as part of a plan to clear his name.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ Love Story

Sat, Feb 16, 1985

An attractive woman, whom Hooker tickets for running a red light, finds that her friend has been robbed and raped. She aids Hooker as they try to identify the violent gang and they quickly fall in love. Things take a nasty turn when the gang attacks Teri. Hooker's fierce pursuit of the gang gets clouded by personal feelings and the want for revenge.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ Hollywood Starr

Sat, Feb 23, 1985

A routine arrest leads Hooker and a detective to a mob involved in pornography, murder and jewel theft.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ Sanctuary

Sat, Mar 2, 1985

Hooker calls in a task force when three murderers take hostages, including Stacy and an injured Corrigan.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ Homecoming

Sat, Mar 9, 1985

Hooker's vacation plans are aborted by a racetrack robbery that ends in an officer's death.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ Serial Murders

Sat, Mar 16, 1985

Hooker's protégé's obsession to succeed drives her to use cocaine.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ Lag Time

Sat, Mar 23, 1985

During a robbery/murder investigation, Stacy's insecurity over an earlier failure endangers Hooker.

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ The Throwaway

Sat, Apr 6, 1985

Hooker tries to prove Corrigan innocent of shooting a suspect with a gun stolen from a police property room.

23Season 4

S4.E23 ∙ The Chicago Connection

Sat, May 4, 1985

A brash Chicago detective gets a few lessons in police work when he goes under cover with Hooker to arrest a drug ring.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ The Ransom

Wed, Sep 25, 1985

When Hooker's children come for a visit. his daughter is kidnapped. He learns that she was kidnapped by his former partner who turned bad and was sent to prison. He wants to know where his family is. Hooker's learns they are now in the witness protection program.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Return of a Cop

Wed, Oct 2, 1985

Hooker's father shows an intense interest in a routine supermarket robbery case that Hooker is investigating.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ To Kill a Cop

Wed, Oct 9, 1985

When a cop who's a friend of Hooker's is killed by a man he and his partner, Dunston sent to prison. Hooker tries to help his wife but Dunston thinks Hooker is infringing on what should be his responsibility. And when Hooker reexamines the man's arrest, he discovers things that Dunston wanted to stay a secret.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Death Is a Four Letter Word

Wed, Nov 6, 1985

A detective hunts the pornographers he thinks caused his teenage niece's death.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ The Assassin

Wed, Nov 13, 1985

Hooker learns from the Feds that a man he knew in Vietnam who is now an assassin, is going to assassinate a Russian who will be in town for a trade conference. He tries to find him. He starts by talking to the man who hired him, someone who opposes dialogue with the Russians.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ Rip-Off

Wed, Nov 20, 1985

A plan to capture a drug dealer backfires, resulting in Hooker losing an officer and the FBI losing $100,000.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ Funny Money

Wed, Nov 27, 1985

Corrigan considers leaving after accidentally shooting an undercover informant during a counterfeiting investigation.

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ The Night Ripper

Wed, Jan 29, 1986

A recent murder makes Hooker suspect "The Night Ripper" has resurfaced.

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ The Obsession

Wed, Feb 5, 1986

Hooker battles city hall to rescue Stacy from robbers led by a son of an influential citizen.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ Taps for Officer Remy

Wed, Feb 12, 1986

When Hooker runs into a cop he was involved with, he wants to talk but she says not now. Later he learns that she was killed. There are rumors that it may have been a hit. And when he talks to her partner, the guy gives Hooker the cold shoulder and Hooker gets a weird feeling off of him.

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ Nightmare

Wed, Feb 19, 1986

Semiconscious after an auto accident, Stacy is taken in by an escaped mental patient claiming to be a doctor.

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ Shootout

Wed, Feb 26, 1986

Hooker, Corrigan and Stacy pose as bank employees to capture a gang that has already slain one police officer during a bank robbery.

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ Murder by Law

Wed, Apr 30, 1986

A shotgun killer leaves a trail of female attorney victims.

14Season 5

S5.E14 ∙ Partners in Death

Wed, May 7, 1986

Hooker considers the future of Stacy and Corrigan's partnership after friendship becomes confused with romance.

15Season 5

S5.E15 ∙ Death Trip

Wed, May 14, 1986

A paramilitary group targets people they deem "threats to society".

16Season 5

S5.E16 ∙ Blood Sport

Wed, May 21, 1986

Hooker and his team become the protection detail of a Senator, and an old friend of Hooker's, after Hooker saves his life during a routine prisoner transfer in Hawaii while the Senator pushes his anti-terrorist bill.

17Season 5

S5.E17 ∙ Into the Night

Wed, May 21, 1986

Hooker crosses the mob and the FBI while investigating a robbery where a former police officer is shot.

18Season 5

S5.E18 ∙ Deadly Force

Wed, May 28, 1986

The main clue in a robbery-homicide is a laser-aimed gun similar to that used by a comic-strip character.