# T.J. Hooker is Back!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 9, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790 "2005-09-09T06:22:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/1 "2005-09-09T06:22:31Z")
[T.J.](http://www.aetv.com/global/listings/series_showcase.jsp?EGrpType=Series&Id=12326934&NetwCode=AEN) [Hooker](http://www.tj-hooker.com/) is back on the air in syndication on A&E.
However, it’s on at 3 or 4 am.
Please send A&E a kind email asking them to move this great show to a more reasonable hour.
Thank you.
(Man, I need TIVO!)
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/2 "2005-09-09T06:26:33Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#):
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> [T.J.](http://www.aetv.com/global/listings/series_showcase.jsp?EGrpType=Series&Id=12326934&NetwCode=AEN) [Hooker](http://www.tj-hooker.com/) is back on the air in syndication on A&E.
Call me Officer TJ Hooker…_Sheriff_ Officer TJ Hooker. And this is my deputy, McMillan & Wife.
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/3 "2005-09-09T07:52:28Z")
No more dilly-dallying. You can currently get a TiVo box for $49.99 after a mail-in rebate (1-year TiVo service commitment required). That’s $150 off the retail price.
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/4 "2005-09-09T08:04:08Z")
> [@](#):
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> T.J. Hooker is Back!
For some odd reason, I read that as “T.J. Hooker is BLack!”
I have no idea why.
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### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/5 "2005-09-09T12:03:13Z")
Mmmm… a young Heather Locklear…
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### Author:  [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/6 "2005-09-09T12:34:42Z")
uh oh
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/7 "2005-09-09T13:29:03Z")
For no particular reason, I feel compelled to mention that Richard Herd, who played the police captain on _TJH_, was seated in the same row of a flight I was on once.
Other than that, I got nothin’.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/8 "2005-09-09T13:40:27Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> For no particular reason, I feel compelled to mention that Richard Herd, who played the police captain on _TJH_, was seated in the same row of a flight I was on once.
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> Other than that, I got nothin’.
Coach or business?
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/9 "2005-09-09T13:54:43Z")
I wouldn’t have learned how to trip a running man with a thrown baton, but for T.J.
Nor how to jump onto the hood of a moving car.
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### Author:  [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/10 "2005-09-09T15:10:57Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#):
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> I wouldn’t have learned how to trip a running man with a thrown baton, but for T.J.
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> Nor how to jump onto the hood of a moving car.
Or how to stop a runaway school bus.
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### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/11 "2005-09-09T15:14:21Z")
So, did T. J. Hooker ever get this shirt ripped in the line of duty?
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/12 "2005-09-09T15:35:39Z")
A&E is an interesting channel to show it, since _TJH_ barely qualifies as Art or Entertainment (except in the basest sense).
But a 21-year old Heather Locklear. :sigh:
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/13 "2005-09-09T16:17:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> Coach or business?
Biz, and I was only there because the company, which normally would try to send people air freight if they thought they could get away with it, was unable to book a coach seat.
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/14 "2005-09-09T19:11:13Z")
A friend of mine played a murder suspect on _T.J. Hooker_, and got to punch William Shatner. Or his stand-in.
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/15 "2005-09-09T22:50:40Z")
Before I went to bed, I saw a preview of the episode they were about to run, in which Heather Locklear’s character gets _amnesia_ in a car accident, and coincidentally falls into the caretaking hands of a brutal criminal.
Classic TV. Classic.
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### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/16 "2005-09-09T23:06:08Z")
> [@Walloon](#):
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> A friend of mine played a murder suspect on _T.J. Hooker_, and got to punch William Shatner. Or his stand-in.
Why? Would it have cost him too much to punch Shatner himself?
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### Author:  [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/17 "2005-09-10T00:38:42Z")
Does it make you feel better or worse to know that it’s been on for quite some time in the wee hours of the morning? I’ve come across it before when I can’t sleep. I’m not much of a fan so I’ve kept flipping.
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/18 "2005-09-10T05:36:15Z")
> [@JThunder](#):
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> Would it have cost him too much to punch Shatner himself?
The line of people waiting to punch the real Shatner was too long.
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### Author:  [@The\_New\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_New_Guy)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/19 "2005-09-10T07:24:15Z")
I remember an episode of T.J. Hooker where Hooker punched a suspect so hard that the suspect fell through a wall and ended up inside a jail cell, and Hooker said something to the effect of: “Good, that’s where you belong.”
Stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.
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### Author:  [@deadeyesdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deadeyesdad)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2005, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-j-hooker-is-back/320790/20 "2005-09-10T07:56:35Z")
Funny that this comes up now. Heather Locklear is going to be on whatever show Shatner is on now. Deadeye’s Mom saw the preview and yelled across the room “TJ Hooker is back”.
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