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every saturday night my mother and i sat down to watch this show and i loved it then and i love it still.having just done star trek II, shatner stared in this pilot that got picked up and became his second hit show(i know star trek wasn't a hit at the time it aired but by this time it was a touch stone of the t.v. world)!
a throw back to the 70's cop shows and dirty harry,t.j.(never found out what the t. j. stood for)hooker is a cop who turns down a gold shield to work the streets. when we first meet him he is coming back after being shot and getting into a shooting with "bad guys"(or scum as he calls them) and is training new cops. in the first "season"(5 shows and the pilot) hooker is bitter and a little of a drunk off duty. his partner is rookie adrian zemd, and together they wipe crime away like bug guts on the windsheild! after the first season it settled down into a standerd cop show and began a long run.
to be fair, if you like shatner then you will love this show,if you don't like him,then don't get this set. i know shatner is a grade a sugarcured ham,but he still makes you watch him and really i think that is part of his charm and if you watch you can see even he winks at how hammy he is sometimes.
as we have seen in the last few years with "boston legal" shatner (with two emmy wins ) there is more than ham in his blood!
this is a great 80's flashback and will make you very happy to sit back and watch hooker bust the "scum" and keep us safe,till next week!
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The show is awkwardly charming at times, but William Shatner's greedy need to be a superhero with all the lines and all the action scenes drags the show down. I'm surprised he didn't demand the ability to fly on the show. Everytime a bad guy needs to get caught, Shatner sends his underutilized partner Adrian Zmed to do some menial chore, so he can be the hero (EVERY SHOW!). If this weren't bad enough, all the stories are basically the same; very uncreative. The show opens with the bad guys doing something bad, then Shatner and Zmed chase and lose them, then Shatner's superhero police skills slowly but surely lead him to the bad guys, then he tells Zmed to call for back up while he singlehandedly jumps on buses, grabs onto helicopters, uses sharpshooting skills, ju-jitsu skills, and his holier-than-thou speeches to get the "scumbags" and "maggots." If Adrian Zmed is lucky, he gets an action seen where he gets to tackle someone, or he gets shot in the arm by the bad guy. The show is totally ridiculous, totally repetetive, and simply a vehicle to propel William Shatner to Clint Eastwood-like status. I love the 80s, and I thought this would be good (I have good memories of it)...but it's pretty bad. Watch the pilot (it's very good), maybe the first 6 or 7 episodes (they're decent) and then move on to Airwolf or something.
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i watched this show every saturday night growing up and loved it,so when this came out i grabed one up. cheesy and a little silly sometimes it still holds up well. shatner is the hole ball game here. if you like him you will like the show, but if you don't then stay away. his scene chewing is famous, but thats part of the charm of the show. he delivers some of the most trival lines like they were shakespear and always with the air of a cop who would rather shoot than arrest someone. with at least one car chase and wreak per show,and at least one monolog about the system helping the bad guy more than the good guys,it was always enteraining, if a little cheesey. it is fun to watch and never boring. check it out.
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I in joy it very very much its great.
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William Shatner, JAmes Darin, and Heather Locklear did a great job in this tv cop show and they deserve a lot of credit because of the way most peoplt thought about women in the police force.
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