Hooked On T.j. Hooker

On the season 3 finale of T.J. Hooker, it's a full moon and we get one of the most interesting episodes of the series. A police uniformed criminal named Rollins (Dennis Lipscomb) gives ol' Teej the battle of his life all contained within a department store. We got our bottle episode! Romano gets shot! Again! Plus Eric annoys Ben with the squad car's latest addition: a soundboard.

We are delighted to be joined by Angelica Jade Bastién (Vulture and much more) to discuss the all around sub-par episode Gang War! T.J. Christer appears to help two rival gangs in the Barrio neighborhood. A young woman named Julie is trying to set up an organization to help the community but becomes a love interest, for some reason, to a man 23 years older named T.J. Hooker (William Shatner directed this episode.) Plus Eric notices Krull arcade machine!

We receive a new theme song from a listener named Tom. The supernatural finally arrives in Los Santos. Spooky music, psychic abilities, and the Almighty Bruce Glover becomes TJ's Joker. The Shat Attack's wife Marcy Lafferty at the time also guests stars as a psychic that helps guide Teej to success. We pitch Hungry Man Dinners: The TV Show.

We are joined today by comedian Sean Sullivan! T.J. Hooker and Romano have to save a girl Romano was dating, but after she dies, Romano dates the sister, until she is kidnapped, but then they save her so they can date again. Cocaine and photographic MacGuffins abound, plus criminal ex-Navy frogmen! Romano undercover as a male stripper! We also ask the big important questions, such as: Are those you kill in this life your servants in Hell?

Happy Blue Year's Eve! This month we're talking about a low point in the show: Death on the Line. The creative team behind T.J. Hooker are in over their heads trying to cover a rape / murder / robbery duo in the form of two telephone pole linemen. We instead mostly end up talking about house fetishists and of course, our pitch for a new Air Bud movie. Air Bud: Dog Podcaster. Stay safe, we'll see you in 2021.

The one with the 45th President of the United States.

Stephen Sajdak (We Hate Movies) joins us in the squad car. Tom Atkins (Halloween III: Season of the Witch) guest stars as our authority figure of the month to be thwarted by the mighty Hooker. Not only that, his old pal, Alex Rocco, is not one to be trifled with either. It all comes to a head with T.J. building a Mad Max style battle van in a surreal yet duller episode. 

T.J. Hooker shoots a kid. Corrigan is briefly in a relationship with a woman who is being blackmailed over pornography. Until she dies. But hey, the kid lives. The tonal shifts are so raucous that the episode even forgets to flesh out the criminals of the week, which include Robert Davi! Donation link to Black Lives Matter and adjacent charities: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ab_mn

We're back in a decomissioned squad car! To make a donation to the charities mentioned on today's show check out this ActBlue Link. Remember to enjoy a ridiculous show like T.J. Hooker responsibly. This is not real life and this show and shows like it help perpetuate the ideals that favor police over citizen. If you disagree with some of the sentiments expressed please make time for internal reflection. On today's episode! SNOW GAME! It's a Scarface riff wherein Teej and the gang go undercover, but perhaps too far undercover. Directed by William Shatner. 

On this exciting edition of T.J. Hooker our hero (question mark?) faces up against a serial killer right out of a 80's slasher film and that makes sense since this is our first episode in 1984! Who wins in this battle of horror? The Maniac Cop or the Psycho who dresses like his mother and hits women with mallets? Plus Stacy Sheridan's love life and let's pour one out for Divorced Guys. This is an insane episode we encourage you to check out before listening! Also consider making a donation to an organization such as the Minnesota Freedom Fund or anyone helping out protestors right now.

This is the one about the bean dinner. It's a Quarantined Christmas in Los Santos!

Get set to wear the blue-bonic plague. Special episode featuring a COVID-19 called in on the radio. We discuss another riveting entry into the life of Television J. Hooker who is up against a drug racket, the FBI, and his own libido. Whatever happened to his family in Oregon? Will the Safari Inn be around forever? A purse snatching! And some lockdown movie recommendations. Stay safe, hotshot blue suits!

We got some rotten apples in the Los Santos Police Department! That's right, there's vigilantism afoot and we all know T.J. Hooker cannot stand for cops who go rogue, unless it's him! That's his thing, not theirs! It's no fair they get to kill people and T.J. wasn't invited! I just don't understand how you cannot invite T.J. Into this cabal of murder and death. Oh, right. This is a written description for a podcast and not a podcast itself. Also a racquetball scene!

On this thrilling edition of the podcast Eric and Ben square off in regards to their famous Twitter falling out. T.J. Hooker discovers a corpse on the beach, which he uh... falls in love with? We agree this is a great episode you should try to see for yourself! All clues (twinkle noise) end up leading towards Dean Wormer from Animal House (John Vernon in a great guest starring role.) Also the Safari Inn gets destroyed and so much more.

This exciting edition of T.J. Hooker features everything justice lovers have been looking for under their tree: vindication for a wrongly accused female officer. Romano has been shot in the head, again, and he misunderstands what happened during the shooting so he wrongly points his finger at Gina, a cop friend of Stacy's and someone who she's been trying to hook him up with. Corrigan commits HR violations and the triumphant return of Sherry's Bar! Also Bluestar Galacticop.

A child goes missing and isn't it the darnedest thing, it results in T.J. Hooker becoming a one man army invasion force. Old Teej has not only a child to save but a jewel heistin' deadbeatin' dad to crack down upon. So going to Mexico and becoming a vigilante makes sense! This is a scattered episode with many tentacles such as Popeye's Exotic Dance Club to William Forsythe as a jewel thief to Hooker being furious at a fridge. Henry Darrow plays a Mexican cop who assists Hooker. This is a wild one. Strap in!

We welcome Nathan Rabin (The Weird Accordion to Al) to discuss a PCP, angel dust, and sherm in both a drug and alcohol heavy episode depending on who you talk to. It's Nathan's first T.J. Hooker episode and we cover all the bases. T.J. confronts a Detective who is drinking on the job and it just might lead to a whole heap of trouble. Cowboy buys sherm from Pinwheel, the drug bridge is invented, Adrian Zmed is hosting a disco cruise, and so much more.

On this addition of Hooked on T.J. Hooker we get a prolonged addition of TJ Dater and we are here for it! Life at the Safari Inn is explored as his girlfriend, Lisa Jericho (Helen Shaver), is nearly exploded. We get murderous building tycoons, mafia drywall suppliers, and so much more! Also the police force might be up to no good, you know, the usual shit. Lisa reports on it and that makes some cops sad. Poor guys! However, don't fret - Hooker is here to sort out the universe.

On the latest Blue Suit Dispatch, we're reading your emails, joking about T.J. Hooker while also investigating the growing problems we face as a nation. Why wasn't there a crossover with other major 1980's TV shows? Also: James Darren who portrayed Corrigan is famously afraid of birds. 

On this episode of Hooked On T.J. Hooker we dig into The Cheerleader Murder! Hey, why's it called this when the subject is teen porn? This is a doozy of an episode that really highlights the extremities of the show: fun light-hearted banter and the brutality of a society that preys on young people. Hooker's past is illuminated slightly further with the friendship he has with an adult film actress. Romano's in a sling and Corrigan takes a back seat.