I work nights and im usually winding down around the time that it comes on A&E at 4am so I find myself sleepwatching threw it and I just have to say that the acting, the fight scenes and the production value is all so brutal!!! man its bad what the hell were they thinking back then. My godson has more machoismo then Adrian Zmed in that uniform, what a weiner!
shareI actually have to agree with just about everything you said. Zmed, Shatner, all of them are seriously lacking something. That being said, I like this show. Mostly because I liked it twenty years ago, when I was ten. I have a hard time disliking something that I liked when I was a kid. I'll record episodes and watch them whenever I can. I find myself laughing through it most of the time. Generally very predictable plots, and don't forget the obligatory two or three "hot pursuit" scenes in every episode.
Maybe the chases were a hit back in the eighties. Dukes of Hazzard, anyone?
"I want the guy who did this. I want him. I want him bad........" TJ Hooker
This show is great, not good, but great. I love the chase scenes, the acting and Heather Locklear.She is so hot. William Shatner gives it his all in every scene. I always loved when he jumped on a car or a truck and stopped the bad guy and called him scum. I also loved the dialogue. There was always a positive moral message with some humor thrown in between Hooker and Ramano. There were alot of great action/cop/PI shows in the 80's and this one ranks up with:Magnum PI/Simon & Simon/Fall Guy/Dukes of Hazzard/The A-Team/Airwolf/B.J and the Bear/Chips/Greatest American Hero/Matt Houston/Voyagers!/Tales of the Gold Monket/Remington Steele.
shareI have to agree with you that most of those shows were great back in the day. I'm still a huge fan of Airwolf, and I would watch The A-Team, Chips, Dukes, Fall Guy and Magnum, if any of them were still playing. And I've always thought Locklear was incredible, and seeing her again in her early twenties just reminds me of how hot she is/was.
But, honestly, the unintentional comedy of a lot of these shows is pretty high up there. You said it yourself, Hooker jumping on the hood of a car and riding it at high speeds, until he's thrown off at 60 mph, then gets up after the criminal crashes, drags him out, always blocks the same punch and returns the same punch, then finishes off by calling him scum....... That's just great cinema.....and funny as hell.
I agree that the moral messages were good for the show. Maybe some of the children watching would get the idea. But I can't get over the acting and scenes, sometimes. And don't get me wrong, I like Shatner, Zmed and the rest. I just find some humor in a lot of what went on........
I also am a huge fan of the show. Especially Heather, droooollll, but tell me this is it just my imagination, or did Hooker run down the bad guy in every episode. Seriously, no matter how they solved the crime, Hooker was always in at least one foot pursuit in every show.
shareI think the big chases started with CHiPs. Every episode seemed to include at least one, filmed at low speed on a closed section of L.A. freeway and then speeded up, and always including a ramp flip.
shareI just turned on tv and saw spock and kirk in a police car,i just bust out laughing lol id never even heard of this series till i saw it 2day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkpbSD5sOj8 I'm running this monkey farm now frankenstein
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They steal a lot of ideas from other shows and movies. Hooker used a line simalar to Clint Eastwoods famous lines about the 44 mag being the most powerful handgun. In another show, they stole a scene from the old "Police Story" show, where Hooker and Ramano confronted and uncooperative suspect out on the street and Ramano requested and ambulance. When the suspect asked why, he was told the ambulance was for him if he did not cooperate. Of course he complied at that point.
shareAll shows have stolen things from other shows, especially the Aaron Spelling shows. There are a couple different T.J. Hooker episodes that took stories from Starsky and Hutch. It's still a great show and I don't know why people have to put it down and call it a comedy. It was a great action show and had good characters that were hero like. It's totally different from the so-called real life crap you see on tv today.
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It makes sense they would borrow from these other shows. They were all produced by Aaron Spelling.
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Loved watching this when i was a kid back in the late 80's. Locklear was so damn hot.
shareHad not seen it since the 80's its a laugh to watch now. but has a good moral message.
I liked the hill racers episode. with the bad guy trying to look mean and brooding
Eat the Neocons.
I don't know why so many people make fun of older shows. They are 10 times better and more entertaining than the trash on tv today.
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I stumbled on the Pilot recently and as I've always been curious about the show gave it a go - and 15-20 minutes later (maybe sooner) gave up. Not just because it's dated horribly but also the utter ridiculousness of William Shatner as a drill sergeant type training instructor and the caricatured/cliched trainee cops. He seemed so camp the only people I could see him drilling (strictly in the training sense) would be The Village People.
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