Hooperman
Hooperman is an American television series which ran on ABC from September 23, 1987 until July 26, 1989. A comedy-drama, the show centered around the professional and personal lives of San Francisco plainclothes detective Harry Hooperman, played by John Ritter. The series was created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, who were the team responsible for creating L.A. Law.
Harry must deliver the eulogy for a despised colleague and a cop killer is tricked with a winning Lotto ticket.
Grief over the loss of their unborn child leads to a fight between Hooperman and Smith and a hasty proposal from Hooperman.
Hooperman gets a hernia and won't have it treated because he doesn't trust hospitals or surgeons.
Hooperman must appear on TV to recover an ungrateful Bijoux. Also, Hooperman goes undercover in drag to hunt down a slasher.
A former inmate released from prison harasses Hooperman to put him back in the slammer.
Hooperman figures- wrongly- that renting an apartment to McNeil will prevent a big headache.
When a gunshot sends Hooperman falling down a flight of stairs and into unconsciousness, he wakes up to discover that he is chained to a wall in a tacky underworld whose only other inhabitant is a red-suited demon who takes devilish delight in playing Pat Boone's 'April Love' on an old phonograph.
Hooperman is found in a compromising position with a female suspect whose retelling of the incident differs wildly from his.
Hooperman falls for Lisa's roommate and doesn't know how to handle it. A bunco artist zeros in on elderly women.
When his girlfriend goes out of town to visit her parents, Hooperman is left dateless for the annual policeman's ball.
Star-struck Hooperman allows a movie producer fresh out of film school to use the apartment building as a set for a gory movie.
Hooperman is in love with a new woman; a nun.
Hooperman's colleagues are furious with him after he persuades them to join him in an investment scheme.
Hooperman and McNeil must cart around a corpse during a transportation strike.
Hooperman is forced on a stakeout with a good-natured lout, but must bite his tongue because his new partner is the Commissioner's nephew.
A ventriloquist asks Hooperman to retrieve a stolen dummy, and Hooperman seeks professional help when Bijoux won't stop biting Alex.
Hooperman sets up a love connection between a convicted computer criminal and the woman who spurned his advances, but used his crooked program for her own profit.
Two renters in the building are at each other's throats after one puts down a deposit on an apartment that the other won't vacate. Also, a building inspector finds numerous violations and Mrs. Davis offers to buy the apartment building. Hooperman confronts a pregnant thief.
While moonlighting as a jazz saxophonist, Hooperman considers trading his life as a cop for a life of music. Also, DeMott is guilt-ridden after accidentally shooting Silardi.
A precinct-wide sleep-deprivation experiment withholds sweet slumber from Hooperman, but something in the sleeplessness makes DeMott seem suddenly seductive.
The beloved owner of the apartment building is killed by a burglar and Hooperman inherits both the building and her dog, Bijoux.
Bijoux is on trial. Hooperman claims Bijoux is a 'police sniffer' and has 24 hours to prove it.
Things start warming up between Hooperman and his fix-it person and DeMott is again a victim of cupid's arrow.
A witness in the Federal Witness Protection Program rapes a woman and Hooperman is ordered to look the other way.
A psychic tenant helps identify an unidentified body found at the docks. Also, a 'nephew' claims he is entitled to the apartment.
Hooperman can't bring himself to shoot an escaping robbery suspect.
Hooperman gets all wired up to go undercover.
Hooperman is assigned to baby-sit an Arab sheik's spoiled daughter while DeMott and Silardi pose as a couple to catch a baby broker who steals children.
Hooperman befriends an inmate with AIDS.
Hooperman and Stern dismiss a lonely old man's claim that he can identify a masked murderer- until he calls a press conference.
The precinct is in the holiday spirit and holds an open house for a colorful array of petty criminals.
Hooperman is after the thief who's robbing stiffs from a cemetery, and Susan's dead sure that her new novel will make a killing.
Hooperman's informant is petrified of tattling on thugs and needs police protection.
Hooperman buys a vintage sports car from a convicted drug dealer and Susan is writing an article about women involved with cops.
While working undercover as a fence, Hopperman discovers that a convict who threatened to kill him has just escaped from prison.
Love draws Stern to a precinct shrink, Susan to a muscle-bound airhead, and Hooperman to a recently divorced ex-girlfriend.
Hooperman befriends an illiterate boxer who wants to be a cop and McNeil gets a bad case of the jitters right before he's to appear on a game show.
Hooperman enlists the aid of an eccentric pilot when a child-abuse case calls for some airbourne assistance.
Hoopperman learns he's the father of Susan's unborn child.
Stakeout experts Hooperman and Pritzger spend days ogling a robbery suspect's girlfriend who does aerobics in the buff, until she calls for help and pulls a gun on them.
Out to nail an elusive drug dealer, Hooperman sides with a pint-size private eye who makes short shrift of his clients and the police department.
It's showdown time when Silardi's homophobic twin brother and Susan's Hooperphobic mother both show up in time to celebrate Hooperman's birthday.
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| Language | English |
| Release | 1987-09-23 |
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