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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.
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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While the series was set in an un-named city, and focused on the adventures of a completely fictional Californian police department, it looked and felt almost exactly like [[Los Angeles|The City of Angels]]. In fact, the series had so many copious shots of streets which are clearly recognizable as Los Angeles suburbs, that the viewers would frequently be left wondering why the producers of the show [[Hey, It's That Place!|couldn't just come out and admit it]].
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* [[Anvilicious]] - The series was the very epitome of this trope, with a threat of some kind (drugs, alcohol, guns, etc.) repeatedly declaimed by Hooker as the greatest evil that humanity has ever faced.
* [[Bridge Bunnies]] - Stacy Sheridan. In the first season she is isolated to being on the desk back at the academy, and giving instructions to Hooker over the radio.
* [[Bound and Gagged]] - Stacy, several times.
* [[Buddy Cop Show]]{{context}}
* [[Burger Fool]] - In one episode, Hooker went to a fictional burger outlet as many times as possible, hoping to get enough stamps to win a prize for his daughter.
* [[Chase Scene]] - And plenty of them.
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** Parodied in a [[Saturday Night Live]] sketch in which Shatner (that week's host) jumped on the hood of a car and managed to hold on as the driver drove through a number of distant locations and time zones.
** Also parodied in ''Showtime''.
* [[Hey, It's That Place!]] / [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]] / [[No Communities Were Harmed]] - Although the action is supposedly set in a fictional American city which remains un-named on screen, the locations were all so obviously [[Los Angeles]] that they might as well have been completely explicit about it. Most frequent filming locations were around the Burbank area, with other instantly recognisable locations being the Santa Monica Pier, Venice Beach and Marina del Rey. On at least one occasion they even went downtown. Most obviously, the exteriors for the "LC"PD Academy were all shot at... the genuine LAPD Academy grounds in Elysian Park, near Dodger Stadium. Very much a case of [[California Doubling|California doubling for itself]] in all but name.
** [[Mad Magazine]] called it "Loser City Police Dept." in their parody of the show.
* [[I Love the Exties]] - Featured in ''I Love the Eighties Stikes Back! - 1982'', along with ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]''.
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* [[Shout-Out]] - It's commonly considered that the initials "T.J." in Shatner's character name are a shout-out to the first two initials of his most famous character, [[Star Trek|James T. Kirk]].
** 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]]{{context}}
* [[Uncancelled]]/
* [[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]]{{context}}
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