Lot of plot holes
First off its a TV show, but you'd think some of the plot holes could have been avoided.
1. In the first two seasons, we learn Hooker is a divorce' but his wife and family still lives in town, and Hooker babysits alot. By the second season, near the end, they seem to almost forget the two divorced and start calling Fran "his wife" again. Then the next episode they're divorced again, as Hooker is hitting on a cop that lost her leg. Then Hooker is all depressed in the third season living in a hotel because Fran left with the kids. Wait a second, they had already been divorced for years, and Hooker is shacked up in a hotel at the start of Season 3? I should also mention that Hooker has three kids, including a teenage adult daughter, that vanished after her one episode. The two kids (the little girl and boy) and a new actress playing Fran does show up in the 5th season, but she shows nothing but distain for Hooker, while in Season 1 and 2 it was pretty civil. Whatever.
2. The first season tried to be a serious show. With a lot of political messages (Hooker: Do you know what a conservative is? A liberal that has been mugged.) By the Locklear era of her as a cop, Shatner is campy as hell (Hooker: Where's the smack. Where's the SMACK?)
3. In the fourth season, the last episode of the season doesn't even have the cast. I'm not sure if it was a pilot for a new show that failed or what, as Hooker happily takes back his detective badge and gets shipped to Chicago, where he hangs out with a black/African-American cop and overacts even more than usual. (White punk: All he needed was a fix. [Hooker looks at punk kid and dead punk kid] Hooker: A FIX! A FIX! HE'S FIXED NOW!) The show was cancled from ABC and sent to CBS and more or less this episode and Vincent Romero were erased from history. So by the start of the CBS fifth season, nobody knows if Hooker's a detective or not and they confuse it even more at the start of the fifth season as Jim, Stacy, and Hooker are all using undercover gear for the entire episode, but then the next episode they're all back in patrol gear. And they do another episode where a woman talks about Hooker "giving up the gold shield." Which time, lady? The first time when his partner (seen in season 3) was killed, or from the Chicago trip (season 4). Damn its only a early 80's TV cop drama, but my head hurts. (Sadly the show got reall dull in the last year without the comedy banter from Hooker and Romerano and the show actually got serious again and they even tried to make things interesting by giving Hooker a cop dad that gets back in action because he's dying of cancer; and Jim and Stacy get romantic - only to no sell the romance after Hooker tells them to cool it.
That's it for now.