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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 Worst Episode
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    T. J. Hooker Season 1 Episode 2 - The Streets
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    #1 - The Streets

    S1:E2

    While hunting for a mugger who attacks women and leaves a Bible at the scene of his crimes, Hooker and Romano have to escort an overeager, aggressive newswoman. But the reporter's involvement just serves to complicate matters further.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Rick Husky

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  2. T. J. Hooker Season 1 Episode 3 - God Bless the Child
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    #2 - God Bless the Child

    S1:E3

    When a school-mate of Hooker's daughter is found dead, after being pumped full of drugs and pushed off a roof after threatening to expose a drug runner's racket, Hooker realises that it could just as easily have been his daughter, and is determined to nab the culprits.

    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Rick Husky

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  3. T. J. Hooker Season 1 Episode 4 - Hooker's War
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    #3 - Hooker's War

    S1:E4

    Hooker and Romano spot a van jumping a red light in a seemingly straight-forward traffic violation, but when they give pursuit they find themselves taking on gun-runners in the firearm-loaded vehicle. The pair go on the trail of the former members of a biker gang who are now involved in the illegal arms dealing, but just who is supplying them?

    Director:Charlie Picerni
    Writer:Leo Garen

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  4. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 1 - Second Chance
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    #4 - Second Chance

    S2:E1

    The murder of a dancer who has had a lock of her hair cut off signifies to Hooker that a serial killer he pursed eight years previously is back in operation. Hooker is concerned for the only victim to survive one of the previous attacks - a dance teacher with whom he nearly fell in love - and sets about protecting her, believing that the killer will go after her again to try and finish the job.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Mark Rodgers

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  5. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 3 - The Empty Gun
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    #5 - The Empty Gun

    S2:E3

    Two armed juveniles rob a liquor store, and the ensuing Police pursuit results in an Officer being shot dead. Romano waits until the killer is out of bullets before he corners and apprehends him, resulting in a number of Officers being angry at Romano for not avenging their colleague's death. Hooker is torn as his partner is slated for going by the book and not taking the opportunity to shoot the cop-killer.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Paul Savage

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  6. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 5 - Big Foot
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    #6 - Big Foot

    S2:E5

    When a man attacks and rapes a young female jogger, Hooker and Romano find themselves on the trail of a serial rapist who has left behind only one clue: a size 13 shoe-print.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writers:Dallas L. Barnes, JoAnne Barnes

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  7. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 6 - Terror at the Academy
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    #7 - Terror at the Academy

    S2:E6

    When a highly-trained sniper takes out a patrol car's front tyre, sending it crashing off the highway, the tactics used suggest to Hooker and Romano that the attacker is an ex-Vietnam war veteran gone bad, who has made the hit as practice for a bigger strike. But the culprit is closer to home than they expect, and is planning to turn an upcoming visit by the Mayor to the LCPD headquarters into a nightmare, with his own little war-zone.

    Director:Phil Bondelli
    Writer:Jack V. Fogarty

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  8. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 8 - Deadly Ambition
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    #8 - Deadly Ambition

    S2:E8

    After a security guard is shot down when trying to stop a diamond vault robbery, the investigating detective is determined to prove that the guard had taken a bribe from the robbers and wants to nail him for aiding the thieves. The guard is an old friend of Hooker's who knows that his friend wouldn't have been involved. As he and Romano investigate to find out the true circumstances it seems as if the detective is willing to go to any lengths, including blackmail, to see that he is covered in glory for his busts and quickly fly through the ranks.

    Director:Michael Preece
    Writer:Arthur Weingarten

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  9. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 9 - A Cry for Help
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    #9 - A Cry for Help

    S2:E9

    After arresting a teenager who's been left to take the rap for a murder by his fellow gang members, Hooker discovers that the youth is hearing impared. Convinced of the boy's innocence and that his membership in the gang is a cry for help, Hooker and Romano try to help the youth's hearing problems and to root out the real culprits behind the drugs-related killing. But Hooker can't help the teenager unless the boy is first willing to help himself.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Jack V. Fogarty

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  10. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 10 - Thieves' Highway
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    #10 - Thieves' Highway

    S2:E10

    Hooker and Romano get caught up in the dispute between an independent trucker and the ruthless wholesaler who is sabotaging the trucker's operations. Against the wishes of his superiors, Hooker insists that he intervene in the situation before the truckers tire against the lack of action taken against the saboteurs, and become vigilantes to deal with things themselves. A new female Police commissioner who doesn't agree with Hooker's methods does not exactly help matters.

    Director:Michael Preece
    Writers:Roger H. Lewis, Devorah Cutler

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  11. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 11 - The Connection
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    #11 - The Connection

    S2:E11

    Saving a teenage girl high on drugs from jumping off the high-school roof, Hooker is concerned that there is a new supplier of PCP on the streets that is dealing to the students. When a rookie officer is badly wounded while undercover trying to stop the suppliers, Hooker is determined to get to the root of the operation and put the dealers behind bars.

    Director:Corey Allen
    Writer:Donald R. Boyle

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  12. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 12 - The Fast Lane
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    #12 - The Fast Lane

    S2:E12

    After a fatal drink-driving crash, Hooker and Romano set out to track down the gang who are making liquor robberies and then selling it to local youths. But Romano has a personal concern in the case when he finds out that the gifted son of a deceased friend from his time serving in Vietnam has fallen into the disreputable company of the gang.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Jeffrey M. Hayes

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  13. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 13 - Too Late for Love
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    #13 - Too Late for Love

    S2:E13

    As Hooker and Romano pursue a pair of thieves who have stolen a batch of valuable new furs, Hooker rescues the robbers' hostage - a model who turns out to be an ex-girlfriend of Romano's. Brought back together by the incident, Romano and the girl become close, and Romano quickly develops deep feelings her. But unbeknown to him, she is actually involved with the thieves, and is giving them information that she's extracting from Romano to help them plan their next heist.

    Director:Michael Preece
    Writer:Jack V. Fogarty

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  14. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 15 - The Mumbler
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    #14 - The Mumbler

    S2:E15

    As Hooker and Romano examine the scene where a trio made an attempt to hold up an armoured bank van, Hooker finds a pigeon leg band dropped by one of the thieves. A pigeon breeding friend traces the band to its owner's address, where they meet the orphaned young sister of one of the men who is mixed up with the thieves. As they try and track down the robbers, Hooker forms a bond with the girl, and is determined to see that she isn't sent back to juvenile hall.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Joe Viola

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  15. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 16 - Vengeance is Mine
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    #15 - Vengeance is Mine

    S2:E16

    Hooker and Romano are just finishing working on a case with Lt. Paul McGuire, a close friend and colleague of Hooker's, when they respond to a reported rape - in which the victim turns out to be none other than McGuire's own daughter. The girl is certain that she knows the attacker and can identify him, but the attacker, a lawyer, uses legal loopholes to get off without charge. As Hooker tries to nail the attacker ""by the book"", McGuire becomes infuriated at the lack of action taken and takes matters into his own hands, endangering not only his job, but Hooker's case that will bring the attacker to justice in the proper way.

    Director:Phil Bondelli
    Writer:Allison Hock

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  16. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 19 - Requiem for a Cop
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    #16 - Requiem for a Cop

    S2:E19

    The hunt for a serial arsonist that is torching condemned buildings intensifies when a Private Investigator, who is an ex-cop and an old friend of Hooker's, is murdered. Certain that the man was on the verge of finding out who is behind the attacks, Hooker and Romano work with his daughter, who is also a PI, to bring the arsonist to justice.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Gerald Sanford

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  17. T. J. Hooker Season 2 Episode 21 - Payday Pirates
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    #17 - Payday Pirates

    S2:E21

    On Stacy's first week of field training, Hooker assigns her to be partnered with tough veteran officer Jim Corrigan, who has low opinion of female cops after his former parter was killed while partnered with one. Meanwhile, Hooker has a personal concern in catching the culprits of a series of violent mini-mart robberies in a factory district, when his ex-wife Fran is badly wounded in a hold-up and is in danger of being left blind as a result.

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Paul B. Margolis

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  18. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 6 - Walk a Straight Line
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    #18 - Walk a Straight Line

    S3:E6

    When an undercover armed robbery stake-out is bungled, leaving a cop wounded in hospital, Hooker becomes concerned that a veteran cop's heavy drinking was the cause of the stake-out's failure. As he hunts for the armed robbers who are targeting night-clubs, Hooker becomes more and more worried that his fellow officer is an alcoholic, and is not only endangering police operations, but himself and everyone around him.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Rick Kelbaugh

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  19. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 7 - A Child is Missing
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    #19 - A Child is Missing

    S3:E7

    A diamond thief and his partner trick a young boy and abduct him, in an act to spite and distress the boy's mother, who is the man's former wife. Hooker follows the trail to Mexico, where an eccentric local detective helps him to track down the thief and the missing boy.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Jack B. Sowards

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  20. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 8 - The Trial
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    #20 - The Trial

    S3:E8

    Responding to the alert of an armed super-market robbery, Romano and another Officer are wounded when one of the robbers opens fire at them. Romano blames a female Officer on the scene, who he believes to be guilty of cowardice in stopping the shooting, but with contradicting accounts of just what happened in the incident, Hooker angers Romano and several Officers when he announces he is to act as defence for the Officer in the upcoming trial. The move jeopardises both Hooker and Romano's partnership and their friendship, and the fact that the Officer had previously been brought up on a similar charge does not help her case; but was she actually the one to blame on this occasion?

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Stephen Downing

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  21. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 9 - Matter of Passion
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    #21 - Matter of Passion

    S3:E9

    While out for a jog on the beach, Hooker finds the body of a dead young woman in the surf. When the coroner's report is unable to identify the girl, and indications are that she was murdered, Hooker becomes personally concerned in finding the person responsible. An attractive painter and a small book of phone numbers found with the girl are the only leads in the hunt for the killer, but as Hooker investigates the killing, attempts are made on his own life, as the murderer tries to keep him away from unravelling the events behind the girl's death.

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Dick Nelson

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  22. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 10 - Blue Murder
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    #22 - Blue Murder

    S3:E10

    When a pimp who has escaped charge on a technicality is shot dead, Hooker and Romano are on the alert for a vigilante group. But when a prostitute who witnessed the killing tells them that the killers were cops, it becomes apparent that two officers from an adjoining Police precinct are taking the law into their own hands.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Paul B. Margolis

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  23. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 13 - The Lipstick Killer
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    #23 - The Lipstick Killer

    S3:E13

    Following the bludgeoning to death of a nurse, Hooker and co. investigate the case, the latest in a series of similar murders - a string of killings that Hooker investigated years before that has recently began again, in which the attacker sends a rose to the intended victim prior to the attack. With the aid of a disabled veteran detective and a top psychiatrist, Hooker and the team investigate and find evidence that the murderer, always dressed as an old-fashioned nurse, may actually be a man. But the pattern of the killings suggests that they have less than 48 hours to catch the killer before he / she strikes again.

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writers:Jack V. Fogarty, Robert C. Dennis, Ed Waters

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  24. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 15 - Exercise in Murder
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    #24 - Exercise in Murder

    S3:E15

    In pursuit of a trio of diamond thieves, who escape via helicopter, Hooker is devastated when he accidentally shoots a 9-year-old boy, leaving the youngster critical in hospital. Meanwhile, Corrigan is concerned when his steady girlfriend Jill starts acting strangely before abruptly breaking off their relationship. The girl is actually being blackmailed by the trio of robbers; and when her body is found washed up from the ocean, Stacy goes undercover at the aerobics gym where Jill worked to try and get a lead, endangering herself in doing so.

    Director:Phil Bondelli
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. T. J. Hooker Season 3 Episode 17 - Hot Property
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    #25 - Hot Property

    S3:E17

    After a drug bust that nails a drug-importing ring, that leaves a corrupt Officer involved with the ring dead, Hooker gives Stacy the honour of booking the seized heroin in at the precinct. Soon after, 'Mac' Mackenzie, an old fiancé suddenly re-appears on the scene and rekindles his relationship with her. But when the seized heroin is switched for sugar, meaning the Officers have nothing to hold the captured drug dealers on, Stacy is forced to hand in her badge and her gun until a hearing over the incident. Hooker begins to suspect that Mackenzie's re-appearance is rather too coincidental and that he is somehow involved with the drug ring; But with Stacy and Mac planning to get married, can he prove his fears in time?

    Director:Ric Rondell
    Writer:Chester Krumholz

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Streets" is the worst rated episode of "T. J. Hooker". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Cliff Bole and written by Rick Husky, it aired on 3/20/1982. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "God Bless the Child".