T. J. Hooker - Episode Guide

Pending investigation of a shooting in which he was involved, Hooker is assigned to train recruits. Hooker's recruits have to learn fast when they go up against a pair of cold-blooded killers on a crime spree.

Hooker and Romano track down the "Bible Mugger," a sociopath who attacks women at knifepoint and leaves a Bible as his calling card. Dogging the police investigation is a pesky television reporter.

Busting a heroin ring becomes personal for Hooker when he discovers the dealers are selling smack at his daughter's high school.

A motorcycle gang is dealing in weapons, arming the streets with illegal guns. Hooker and Romano tap informants and follow the leads to uncover the kingpin at the top.

An attractive young woman witnesses a murder, but her married boss dissuades her from going to the Police in fear that it will uncover their affair. Hooker must try and persuade the frightened girl to help them and testify against the psychotic killer, but the murderer intends to see that she never makes it that far.

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.

Hooker works to clear an old racing buddy arrested in connection with thieves using loot to rebuild race cars.

Romano struggles with the cold hard reality of being a cop on the street when he fails to shoot a cop killer. When the killer gets released on a bargained down technicality by lying, Hooker and Romano strive to bring him to justice.

Hooker and Romano try to protect a frightened robbery witness from the culprits — who don't know she's blind.

A large footprint is Hooker and Romano's only clue to a man who has been sexually assaulting women joggers.

A vengeful sniper who has been shooting at police cars is planning to attack the police academy.

Hooker is accused of killing an unarmed youth during a shootout that put Romano in the hospital.

A detective is out to nail Hooker's friend on a charge of aiding jewel thieves while working as a security guard.

An ambitious drug lord directs a street gang to deal high grade heroin in Hooker's beat, meanwhile setting up a hearing impaired teenage gang member to take a murder rap, but Hooker suspects the boy is innocent and vows to help him.

Hooker tries to avert a war between independent truckers and a produce wholesaler who's been sabotaging their trucks.

Hooker and Romano will stop at nothing to squash a PCP operation after a schoolgirl hallucinating on angel dust tries to fly from atop her high school and a rookie cop friend of Romano's is almost killed when acting as an undercover narc.

The tragedy of teenage drinking hits Romano in the heart when he learns the young son of his fallen war buddy is an alcoholic supporting his habit by selling booze to his high school classmates and who is now escalating into bigger crimes.

Romano's in love with a fashion model and deaf to Hooker's suspicions that she's a member of a ruthless ring of fur coat thieves.

Much to Hooker's discomfort, Stacy volunteers to be a decoy when a series of murders plagues the marina area.

While investigating armored car thefts, Hooker sympathizes with the sister of one of the suspects.

Hooker confronts an old buddy, Lt. Paul McGuire, seeking revenge against a rapist.

Hooker sets out to capture the murderer of a young woman who witnessed a payoff to a city councilman.

Hooker and Romano team up with a Gamblers Anonymous counselor to bust a drug lord who blackmails compulsive gamblers into serving as drug mules.

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.

Sibling robbers hold Stacy, Fran and several hospital patients Including a little girl urgently needing heart surgery in exchange for their wounded father.

On Stacy's first week of field training, Hooker assigns her to tough veteran officer Jim Corrigan, who has a low opinion of female cops after his former partner 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.

Hooker holds himself personally to blame when a female rookie cop that he trained is seriously wounded in a confrontation with a pair of fleeing gun shop robbers. With the officer needing her leg amputated as a result of the wound, Hooker and Romano investigate the gun thieves who are selling their hauls to a back street crime baron.

Hooker, still haunted by the murder of his former partner five years previously, is determined to catch an un-apprehendable band of bank robbers whose leader matches the description and tactics used by the his partner's killer.

When a young female singer whom Hooker has got cleaned up on a drug reform program is kidnapped, Stacy goes to work undercover as an exotic dancer at the club that they suspect to be a front for a white slavery ring that is dealing in attractive young women.

While Hooker is looking for an arms dealer, the trail leads him to Chinatown where he comes face to face with a man whose wife Hooker was involved with years ago, when she thought her husband was dead. Hooker is unaware that this is the actually man he is looking for. While in Chinatown, Hooker also encounters the daughter of the woman, and realizes that, based on the timeframe of their relationship, she could be his child.

The murder of a high school cheerleader leads Hooker to an illegal abortion clinic and a pornographic film ring.

Two separate murders occur near a muckraking reporter, and Hooker suspects that she was the target.

An alcoholic officer interrupts Hooker's stakeout to seek revenge on the robber who wounded his partner.

A guy who robs a jewelry store also kidnaps his son to get back at his ex-wife. Hooker vows to get the boy back. Hooker thinks the man is in Mexico so he goes there and works with a local cop who's a bit laid back in his approach.

Romano feels betrayed when Hooker defends an officer charged with cowardice in an incident that left Romano wounded.

Hooker probes the death of a girl whose body he found while jogging on the beach, which leads Hooker to a drug money laundering ring.

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.

Hooker is suspended when his pursuit of heroin pushers interferes with federal agents who are after the ring's supplier.

Stacy becomes emotionally attached to a sick baby abandoned by a couple involved in armed robberies.

A series of young nurses are being murdered and a witness places another nurse at the scene. Hooker discovers some similarities to a previous case he had worked 6 years before, but the killer was never apprehended. It is soon discovered that the suspect may not be a woman at all, but a man dressing as a woman - specifically, a nurse. 

Hooker and Corrigan go undercover as drug dealers to nail the kingpins of a cocaine ring.

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.

An inside leak in the investigation of a crime boss causes an informant's death and endangers a witness.

Stacy's future, which includes prospects of marriage, looks bright until she is implicated in the disappearance of two kilograms of heroin from a major bust.

Although the man implicated in a series of rapes and robberies is dead, Hooker isn't convinced the case is closed.

Romano poses as a stripper in a club where the owner and a dancer are suspects in a cocaine ring.

A psychic who predicts Hooker's death also helps him search for a kidnapped girl.

With two barrio gangs threatening to launch an all out war, Hooker pursues the real cause of unrest — an illegal arms dealer who would profit handsomely.

After interrupting a weapons heist, Romano is wounded and Hooker – who knows his own revolver is empty – is trapped in an elevator in a guns drawn test of wills with one of the thieves.

On routine patrol with Corrigan, Stacy is shot when unwittingly walking in on an armed robbery, leaving her hospitalised in a coma and with a bullet lodged dangerously close to her heart. With Stacy facing precarious surgery, Hooker, Corrigan and Romano search out the robbers, who are armed with armour piercing bullets. But Hooker's determination to catch the thugs, no matter what, sees him putting his career on the line.

A teenaged prostitute is targeted by a pair of psychotic killers who know she can identify them in the murder of another girl.

Hooker and the department draw the fire of a city councilman over their use of high speed pursuit after a bank holdup hostage loses her unborn child during a chase.

A friend of Hooker's who is working vice is shot and killed. Investigations show that he appears to be on the take. Hooker doesn't believe it and is determined to clear his friend's reputation, helped by a former prostitute.

Hooker and former partner Jim Cody investigate a drug related homicide only to discover that Cody's daughter is involved.

Romano faces the possibly permanent loss of his sight, and his girlfriend dies, when Hooker becomes the target of a vengeful killer.

Stacy poses as a model to help Hooker uncover the identity of the murderer of a high-fashion model who also worked as a prostitute.

Corrigan's behavior changes drastically after he receives a blow on the head during an undercover investigation of bag lady murders.

Hooker pursues the man who raped a female priest, but he's stymied by the victim, who won't testify after hearing her attacker's confession.

Romano's sports car is stolen, but the 10 year old who witnessed the crime and the subsequent murder of her uncle won't talk.

After the third in a series of murders on attractive young blonde women, Stacy goes undercover to work as a salesgirl at a shopping mall store where each of the girls had worked, to act as bait to try and lure out the killer.

Hooker tries to persuade a radio sex therapist to help him search for the killer of four unfaithful wives---all of whom were callers to her program.

A psychopathic killer uses his female captive to lure unsuspecting women into a deadly trap.

Hooker races to save Stacy's life when mobsters detect her undercover assignment as a massage parlor employee.

After being ousted from the force for taking bribes, Hooker goes to Las Vegas as part of a plan to clear his name.

Hooker's pursuit of the gang behind a series of rapes and robberies may be motivated more by revenge than duty.

Hooker teams up with a young Hollywood detective in search of a jewel thief wanted for murder and other felonies.

Note: Filmed as a back door pilot featuring Sharon Stone that was not picked up.

Stacy and a seriously wounded Corrigan are taken hostage by a trio who take refuge in a church, demanding a $100,000 ransom and safe passage to Mexico.

Hooker's vacation with his children is interrupted by a racetrack robbery that leaves an officer dead.

Hooker's investigation into a series of grisly murders by a pair of religious crazies is accompanied by Sergeant Leigh Stockwell, a close, old friend, whom is somewhat his protégé. But Stacy becomes suspicious that Leigh is using cocaine, an addiction which not only jeopardizes the case and Leigh's job, but also Hooker's life.

Stacy loses her confidence after a procedural lapse with a suspect nearly costs her her life.

Hooker tries to prove Corrigan innocent of shooting a suspect with a gun stolen from a police property room.

A "three-hour" extradition trip to Chicago becomes an extended stay for Hooker when he goes undercover to nail a heroin dealer. William Shatner is the only regular cast member to appear in this episode, which was to relocate Hooker to Chicago to work alongside a new partner in a new environment. The proposed reboot was dropped when ABC cancelled the series.

Hooker's daughter is kidnapped by an ex-cop who demands to know the whereabouts of his own family — relocated by the FBI after he was sentenced to prison.

Hooker's dad, a retired cop, arrives unexpectedly and shows more than a passing interest in Hooker's current case.

A released prisoner hunts down the policeman he blames for his conviction.

The investigation of a porno actress's murder is hampered by her uncle, a cop obsessed with finding the killers.

A man Hooker served with in Vietnam is out to assassinate a Soviet trade delegate.

Hooker clashes with a Fed out to bust the drug dealer who killed one of Hooker's cops in a sting operation.

Corrigan gives serious consideration to leaving the force after pulling the trigger in two fatal shootings.

Arriving at the scene of the brutal murder of a college girl, Hooker recognizes the method of murder as used by a serial killer dubbed "The Night Ripper", who was behind a spree of six grisly sex murders four years previously and was never caught. With the psychotic killer terrorizing the city once more, Hooker is under pressure to uncover his identity and get him off the streets.

Armed robbers take Stacy hostage, and one of the suspects has personal ties to the mayor.

Hooker insists on spearheading the investigation when an old flame, a police intelligence officer, is reported killed in a shootout.

Semiconscious after an auto accident, Stacy is taken in by an escaped mental patient claiming to be a doctor.

Stacy's job performance is hampered by the fear that she'll be the next victim of a murderous gang of bank robbers.

Hooker searches for a murderer whose victims all were female lawyers who attended the same law school.

Hooker considers the future of Stacy and Corrigan's partnership after friendship becomes confused with romance.

A paramilitary group targets people they deem "threats to society".

Hooker, Corrigan and Sheridan travel to Hawaii on special assignment to protect the life of a U.S. Senator and his family who are threatened by terrorists.

Hooker crosses the mob and the FBI while investigating a robbery where a former police officer is shot.

The main clue in a robbery homicide is a laser aimed gun similar to that used by a comic strip character.