T.J Hooker

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Watching this right now on the Sony Channel. I know the back story, he was a detective who willingly chose to demote to his previous rank of Sergeant after his partner was killed to train new recruits at the police academy. entertaining police action series.

My issue is with the types of crimes he investigates, most of which wouldn’t be in the remit for a uniformed police officer. These at the very minimum would come under the remit of a Detective, Lieutenant or in some cases the crimes perpetrated would be federal crimes.

Quite a demotion from Captain of the Enterprise. He even got demoted in Star Trek IV iirc.

It was after the cancellation of T.J Hooker that he really let himself go gorging the carbohydrates.

Duckworth_Luas

Montage of Feck

Preferred him in Baywatch to be honest.

Bob Harris

Keith Wood was a better hooker than him.

Bob Harris

Bob Harris wrote: »

Keith Wood was a better hooker than him.

Divine Browne was better than both of them.

Wayne Jarvis

Jonathan Banks who plays Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul was in an one episode of season 1 playing a bad guy and then in one episode of season 2 playing a completely different bad guy. The casting director didn't give a fook!

Force Carrier

One guy/lady on the case. The stories protagonist. Universal trope and plot device in police/detective movies/tv series.

Much less interesting to an audience would be the real world conference room where the investigation of significant crimes are spliced into dozens or hundreds of jobs and farmed out to a legion of cops. None of whom give a sh1t about their job. Their marriages are in reasonable to good shape. They will happily clock off early and aren't particularily pushed on whether the bad guy gets caught. They may even feel an affinity or sneaking regard for them. There isn't stand up rows in the office or dramatic shouting matches. Instead people harbor long term petty resentments. Talk about people behind their backs etc. But that makes less interesting viewing for a potential tv audience.

Wayne Jarvis

Also look at this! It's glorious!





That's even better than Liam Neeson jumping a fence in Taken 3

kneemos

What was the one where the guy used to live in a ratty caravan on the side of a hill?

sideshowbob321

We used to call it TJ Hooker the Big Fat Fooker ...... *we were gas laugh

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kneemos wrote: »

What was the one where the guy used to live in a ratty caravan on the side of a hill?

The Fall Guy?

Del2005

kneemos wrote: »

What was the one where the guy used to live in a ratty caravan on the side of a hill?

The Fall Guy

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Guy Person wrote: »

Jonathan Banks who plays Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul was in an one episode of season 1 playing a bad guy and then in one episode of season 2 playing a completely different bad guy. The casting director didn't give a fook!

That happened all the time. If you look up IMDB for the roles played by some actors, they might have played two or three different characters over the years in Law & Order, or Midsomer Murders, or any of those long-running programmes. Even The Bill, Casualty, or Coronation Street.

kneemos

Del2005 wrote: »

The Fall Guy

No. He was a detective. Long before the Fall Guy I'd say.

TheValeyard

Severe lack of Gorn fights in that show.

Alf Veedersane

Guy Person wrote: »

Jonathan Banks who plays Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul was in an one episode of season 1 playing a bad guy and then in one episode of season 2 playing a completely different bad guy. The casting director didn't give a fook!

If Mike tells you he wants a second episode, you don't refuse.

SmartinMartin

kneemos wrote: »

No. He was a detective. Long before the Fall Guy I'd say.

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kneemos

SmartinMartin wrote: »

The Rockford Files

Aw yeah .James Garner.

KungPao

I always preferred TJ Lazer myself.

Big Nasty

Heather Locklear though lads

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Big Nasty wrote: »

Heather Locklear though lads

Melrose Place was peak Heather Locklear

Greyfox

Guy Person wrote: »

Jonathan Banks who plays Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul was in an one episode of season 1 playing a bad guy and then in one episode of season 2 playing a completely different bad guy. The casting director didn't give a fook!

Haha. Mike Ehrmantraut was amazing in breaking bad and Better call Saul

I used to love some of the one-liners he could pull out when "busting a punk". Like he'd rugby tackle some teenage mugger on the beach and just as he'd slip the handcuffs on he says something like "let's go, punk, there's already enough trash on this beach". Sort of like I imagine the Gardaí might once have been in the far off distant days before the courts started asserting the human rights of the criminal.

touts

James T Kirk. TJ Hooker. Danny Crane.

For all the questions about his dubious acting ability Shatner racked up a few memorable roles on the old CV.

Danny Crane was still the best though.

inforfun

Boston Legal is where he is at his best.
James Spader is fantastic in it as well.

Conall Cernach

inforfun wrote: »

Boston Legal is where he is at his best.
James Spader is fantastic in it as well.

He was the killer in two separate Columbos, one from the classic era and one from when it came back in the late 80s and early 90s.

inforfun

Columbo....

Thought that series run for decades and i was right, 1971 till 2003. Only 13 seasons though. But those were basically movies, those episodes.
With the current amount of commercials on tv, 1 Columbo episode would last all evening.

Beanntraigheach

kneemos wrote: »

What was the one where the guy used to live in a ratty caravan on the side of a hill?

T.J. Knacker

mikhail

touts wrote: »

James T Kirk. TJ Hooker. Danny Crane.

For all the questions about his dubious acting ability Shatner racked up a few memorable roles on the old CV.

Danny Crane was still the best though.

Denny Crane. He said his name constantly - how'd you get it wrong? :P

Shatner is from an older more theatrical tradition that looks hammier to a modern audience that it would have in his youth. He could act subtly enough when he felt like it, and his comic timing in Boston Legal was great.

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