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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 2 - King of the Hill
    10.0/10(121 votes)

    #1 - King of the Hill

    S2:E2

    The latest in a series of armed robberies on super-markets leaves a young cashier possibly paralysed when the thieves take her hostage and then push her from their speeding car to slow up the pursuing cops. The cars used by the robbers are specially modified "hill racers", leading to the local hill racing champion, an old friend of Hooker's, being wrongly arrested as the prime suspect. Hooker must prove his innocence by speeding after the real culprits.

    Director:Charlie Picerni
    Writer:Stephen Downing

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  2. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 22 - Lady in Blue
    10.0/10(93 votes)

    #2 - Lady in Blue

    S2:E22

    Hooker holds himself personally to blame when a female rookie cop that he trained is seriously wounded in a confrontation with a pair of fleeing gun-shop robbers. With the officer needing her leg amputated as a result of the wound, Hooker and Romano, with help from Stacy and Corrigan, investigate the gun thieves, who are selling their hauls to a back-street crime baron.

    Director:William Shatner
    Writer:Rick Husky

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  3. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 1 - The Return
    10.0/10(84 votes)

    #3 - The Return

    S3:E1

    Hooker, still haunted by the murder of his former partner five years previously, is determined to catch an unapprehendable band of bank robbers whose leader matches the description and tactics used by the his partner's killer.

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Mark Rodgers

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  4. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 3 - Chinatown
    10.0/10(80 votes)

    #4 - Chinatown

    S3:E3

    Responding to a shooting at a cock-fight in China Town, Hooker thinks he catches a glimpse of a face from the past in the crowd. As he investigates the illegal dealing of automatic weapons in the area, the face turns out to be the daughter of a woman who he was once in love with, but had to cut off their relationship after her husband, presumed dead, had turned up alive. But now, the man is involved with the gun dealing, and sees that he has an old score to settle with Hooker.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writers:Simon Muntner, Jack V. Fogarty

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  5. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 11 - Undercover Affair
    10.0/10(73 votes)

    #5 - Undercover Affair

    S3:E11

    Hooker, Romano, Stacy and Corrigan are staking out a small-time drug dealer when they find that a major drug supplier is involved – who is being staked out in a Federal investigation. Hooker is ordered to keep well away from anything to do with the Fed operation and any of the smaller dealers which may be involved with the drug ring, something which proves to be difficult and results in Hooker being suspended. But an old flame, who is a Fed agent, is undercover posing as the girlfriend of head of the ring, and Hooker, fearing for her safety, is determined to put the ring out of operation himself - even if it costs him his job.

    Director:Charlie Picerni
    Writer:Simon Muntner

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  6. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 14 - The Snow Game
    10.0/10(72 votes)

    #6 - The Snow Game

    S3:E14

    Hooker, Romano, Stacy and Corrigan are involved in an undercover operation to nail a large cocaine dealing ring, when a highly respected fellow officer is killed, execution-style, by the ring, who are on to him. Tracking down one of the thugs involved, Romano is badly injured by a gun-shot wound, before Hooker captures the goon, who gives the lead of a crooked bail-bondsman who is involved with the dealing. Against the wishes of a DEA, Hooker and Corrigan go undercover as drug dealers, with Stacy posing as one of their carriers, to infiltrate the dangerous ring via the bail-bondsman and catch them in the act.

    Director:William Shatner
    Writer:Fred McKnight

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  7. T. J. Hooker Season 4 Episode 2 - The Two Faces of Betsy Morgan
    10.0/10(79 votes)

    #7 - The Two Faces of Betsy Morgan

    S4:E2

    Hooker and Romano by chance spot a van swerving dangerously over the road – in which a pair of teenage prostitutes are being held against their will by two men. When the van crashes off the road, they find one of the girls dead after being strangled – the latest victim in a series of killings by ""The Boulevard Strangler"" and his accomplice, who are prying on young runaways. Hooker finds that the surviving girl has run away after being abused at home, and leads a double life – a perfect high-school student, and as a prostitute. But now the girl is in danger with the killers after her, who are concerned that she can identify them in the murder of the other girl... Meanwhile, Corrigan considers leaving the force to take a job teaching.

    Director:Paul Krasny
    Writer:Robert Bielak

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  8. T. J. Hooker Season 4 Episode 5 - Anatomy of a Killing
    10.0/10(65 votes)

    #8 - Anatomy of a Killing

    S4:E5

    Following an execution-style murder connected to a drug racket, Hooker joins forces with ex-partner and personal friend Jim Cody to solve the killing and put the drug ring out of business. But as they investigate the case, it becomes apparent that Cody's own daughter is a heroin addict and involved with key members of the drug ring.

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Stephen Downing

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  9. T. J. Hooker Season 4 Episode 13 - Trackdown
    10.0/10(91 votes)

    #9 - Trackdown

    S4:E13

    A parking attendant's suspicion leads to the discovery of a woman's body in the trunk of a car, sending Hooker and the team on the trail of a psychotic killer who is on a cross-country murder spree. Meanwhile, the deranged killer lures a young woman into his clutches and takes her hostage, leaving behind her husband and sick baby. Hooker persuades the Detective in charge of the case to let him place a trap to try and catch the killer and get the woman back safely, but it places Stacy in great danger.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Mark Rodgers

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  10. T. J. Hooker Season 4 Episode 17 - Hollywood Starr
    10.0/10(158 votes)

    #10 - Hollywood Starr

    S4:E17

    Dani Starr is an attractive Hollywood Detective who lives alone, dresses snazzily, and always gets the job done. While en route to Hollywood to deliver a captured jewel thief, Hooker and Corrigan are ambushed by the thief's men, who free their leader. Hooker teams up with Dani Starr to find the sprung thief, who is the prime suspect in the murder of a porn film producer. As they search for leads, they find that there is a Mob connection; Hooker learns that Dani's husband was previously murdered by the Mob, and she is determined to find those responsible.

    Directors:Winrich Kolbe, William Shatner
    Writers:Rick Husky, Stephen Downing

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  11. T. J. Hooker Season 4 Episode 21 - Lag Time
    10.0/10(67 votes)

    #11 - Lag Time

    S4:E21

    Unbeknown to Romano, his law school teacher is living with ex-convict Jack Lewis, the ring-leader behind a string of armed robberies. Already upset about the recent death of a close friend, Stacy is almost killed when she and Corrigan respond to armed robbery on a pawn shop, when the thug she apprehends disarms her. As Hooker and the team search for Lewis, who specialises in training criminals to disarm cops, the incident leaves Stacy with shaken confidence and an internal investigation over the lapse which nearly cost her her life.

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:William Keys

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  12. T. J. Hooker Season 5 Episode 4 - Death is a Four Letter Word
    10.0/10(64 votes)

    #12 - Death is a Four Letter Word

    S5:E4

    A 17-year-old girl is killed in a struggle during the filming of a porn movie, and when her dumped body is found, it turns out to be the niece of Hooker's colleague, Detective Max Brodsky. Hooker takes charge of the case, with Stacy going undercover as a potential porn star to get inside the production company; but Brodsky's obsession with nailing the killers himself jeopardises the whole investigation.

    Director:Bruce Seth Green
    Writer:James Schmerer

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  13. T. J. Hooker Season 5 Episode 12 - Shootout
    10.0/10(61 votes)

    #13 - Shootout

    S5:E12

    Hooker, Corrigan and Stacy are working undercover on a pimp sting when they respond to an armed robbery alert at a nearby bank, and the ensuing shootout as the robbers escape sees an Officer fatally wounded and dying in Stacy's arms. The hunt is on for the murderous gang, who are already putting their next bank robbery plan into motion, but Stacy's performance begins to suffer as she is over-come by fear that she will be the gang's next victim.

    Director:William Shatner
    Writer:Mark Rodgers

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  14. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 20 - The Hostages
    8.0/10(98 votes)

    #14 - The Hostages

    S2:E20

    After Hooker and Romano foil an armed robbery committed by a family of robbers, which leaves the father wounded in hospital and the daughter held in custody, the two sons take the hospital wing with their father on siege, holding Hooker's ex-wife Fran, Stacy, a little girl urgently needing heart surgery, and a whole floor of patients hostage.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Robert Earll

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  15. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 2 - Carnal Express
    8.0/10(113 votes)

    #15 - Carnal Express

    S3:E2

    When a young female singer, whom Hooker has got cleaned up on a drug reform programme, is kidnapped, Stacy goes to work undercover as an exotic dancer at the club that they suspect to be a front for a white slavery ring that is dealing in attractive young women.

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Joe Viola

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  16. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 12 - Slay Ride
    8.0/10(78 votes)

    #16 - Slay Ride

    S3:E12

    Despite being undercover dressed as Santa Claus, Hooker is finding it hard to get into the Yuletide cheer faced with his first Christmas away from Fran and the children; Stacy too, is low on Christmas spirit, after splitting up with her boyfriend. The Christmas blues set in even deeper when a drug stakeout doesn't go to plan, allowing the main target to get away. Later, after Stacy witnesses an armed hold-up by a man and woman connected with the wanted dealer, the woman is forced to abandon her young baby at a local church. As they try and get a lead on the offenders, Stacy looks after the young baby, but Hooker, Corrigan and Romano become concerned that she may be coming to attached to it too want to give it back.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Rick Husky

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  17. T. J. Hooker Season 4 Episode 12 - The Surrogate
    8.0/10(69 votes)

    #17 - The Surrogate

    S4:E12

    After a woman in a troubled marriage, whom Hooker meets in a bar, is fatally stabbed, he notices a similarity with three other cases, and a pattern emerges that all of the women had phoned in to a relationship therapist's call-in radio show before they were murdered. Convinced that the connection to the radio station is the key to the killings, he tries to persuade the show's therapist to help him track down the killer, but she is very reluctant, worrying that the bad publicity will stop callers to her show... During the investigation, Stacy and Corrigan rescue a young baby and it's mother from a brutal attack stirs feelings between them.

    Director:Bruce Seth Green
    Writer:Joseph Gunn

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  18. T. J. Hooker Season 4 Episode 19 - Homecoming
    8.0/10(70 votes)

    #18 - Homecoming

    S4:E19

    Hooker's children come to visit their father, but the vacation is interrupted after Corrigan and another Officer unwittingly disrupt an armed race-track heist, which leaves Corrigan's fellow Officer dead. The robbers were under the pretence of being ambulance attendants, and Hooker has reason to believe that the robbery was an inside job; but the case means that his time with his cherished kids is limited.

    Director:Kenneth R. Koch
    Writer:Rick Husky

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  19. T. J. Hooker Season 5 Episode 5 - The Assassin
    8.0/10(66 votes)

    #19 - The Assassin

    S5:E5

    The State Department asks Hooker's help in tracking down a man whom he served alongside in Vietnam - a disillusioned, mentally unstable trained executioner – who is planning to assassinate the head of a visiting Russian trade delegation.

    Director:Richard Compton
    Writer:Rick Husky

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  20. T. J. Hooker Season 1 Episode 1 - The Protectors (pilot)
    6.0/10(348 votes)

    #20 - The Protectors (pilot)

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Rick Husky

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  21. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 4 - Blind Justice [a.k.a. Blind Watch]
    4.0/10(122 votes)

    #21 - Blind Justice [a.k.a. Blind Watch]

    S2:E4

    When two thugs rob a cinema box office, leaving the cashier seriously wounded, a passing woman is the only witness. Hooker tries to question her on what she saw, only to find that she is blind. Not only that, she is very reluctant to co-operate, and Hooker must work hard to change her mind. Meanwhile, the two armed robbers, planning their next big box office heist on an upcoming Beach Boys concert, are unaware that the woman has no sight, and intend to see that she isn't around to give the Police their discriptions.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Joe Viola

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  22. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 4 - The Cheerleader Murder
    3.7/10(97 votes)

    #22 - The Cheerleader Murder

    S3:E4

    Hooker and Romano, with Stacy and Corrigan, catch the thief of a freshly stolen car, but in the car's trunk, they find the body of a teenage girl. With the coroner's report revealing that the girl was a heavy cocaine user and had had a recent, crudely-operated abortion, they find themselves uncovering a racket that is getting young girls hooked on drugs and then leading them into making underage porn movies to pay for their addiction.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Gerald Sanford

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  23. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 16 - Hooker's Run
    3.3/10(73 votes)

    #23 - Hooker's Run

    S3:E16

    A planned bust on crime lord Frank Dio results in an informant of Corrigan's being shot dead, and Dio facing getting off charge after he manages to discard the gun, but held in custody for 72 hours, giving Hooker time to try and dig up enough evidence to put him behind bars. Following up the lead of Dio's former girlfriend, a prostitute, Hooker promises to put her in protective custody until the hearing and to be given a new identity after if she agrees to testify against Dio. The girl reluctantly agrees to testify, and while Stacy takes care of her young sister, Hooker must go all out to keep her alive, shielding her from the attempts on her life by Dio's men, but a security leak within the force makes keeping the girl's whereabouts a secret impossible.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Simon Muntner

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  24. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 18 - Death on the Line
    3.3/10(82 votes)

    #24 - Death on the Line

    S3:E18

    A worker from the Police precinct is attacked and raped, the latest in a series of rapes and robberies where none of the victims are able to identify their attacker. Investigating, Hooker and co. find that all the victims had prior been visited by a telephone repair man, information which enables them to track down the prime suspect, who ends up being killed as the result of pursuit. But Hooker fears that the dead man was actually the attacker's apprentice and not the actual attacker – a fear that is proven when the attacks continue.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Jack V. Fogarty

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  25. T. J. Hooker Season 1 Episode 5 - The Witness
    1.0/10(133 votes)

    #25 - The Witness

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Gerald Sanford

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Best Episodes Summary

"King of the Hill" is the best rated episode of "T. J. Hooker". It scored 10/10 based on 121 votes. Directed by Charlie Picerni and written by Stephen Downing, it aired on 10/2/1982. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Lady in Blue".