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{{quote|"But Hooker's a Good Cop!" -|[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|MST3K]] catch phrase used during policeman argument scenes.}}
This [[Cop Show|police action series]] was produced by [[Aaron Spelling]], and ran on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] from 1982 to 1986 and its last first run year as a CBS Late Night series. It started out as a [[Midseason Replacement]], but proved popular enough after its first [[Five Episode Pilot|five episode run]] to be picked up for further seasons. It starred [[William Shatner]] as Sgt. T.J. Hooker, a former detective who had volunteered to teach at the police academy and go back out on the beat because of his absolute conviction in doing the right thing. Hooker is an extremely moral cop, whose reaction to something would often be passionately over the top, to the point of almost becoming [[An Aesop]].
Starring alongside Shatner was Adrian Zmed as his rookie partner, Vince Romano, and Heather Locklear as Stacy Sheridan, one of her earliest screen roles. James Darren joined in season 2 as a fellow police Sgt. Jim Corrigan, and the series had something of an [[Unexpected Genre Change|Unexpected Format Change]]. Despite this, the series never lost its unique flavor, as Shatner always managed to deliver copious amounts of [[Ham and Cheese]].
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** More obviously, the episode guest starring Leonard Nimoy (better known as Star Trek's Mister Spock) features Hooker saying he has known Nimoy's character for "seventeen years". Since it had been 17 years since the first broadcast of [[Star Trek]] at the time of the episode, this is almost certainly a [[Shout-Out]].
* [[Strictly Formula]]
* [[Uncancelled]]/ChannelHop - After Season Four [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] cancelled the series. [[CBS]] picked up the series and aired a fifth season of new episodes in a latenight 11:30 slot.
* [[Unexpected Genre Change]] - In its first season, the show was about Hooker and Romano taking to the streets and fighting crime. In the second and subsequent seasons, the main cast expanded to four (with Stacy and Sgt. Corrigan making up "team 2"), with the two separate teams sometimes investigating two completely different crimes, and other times investigating the same one but from different angles. Not quite a complete "genre change", but it certainly gave the series' format a larger scope that it had before.
* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]
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