A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.
It was the mid-90s and people still got their news from the radio and newspapers...and sitcoms were still filmed in front a live studio audience. Luckily this show has big time comic heavyweights so the laughs were genuine.
- Bob Grogan, one of the detectives who worked on the Hillside Strangler case in Los Angeles, was hired as a technical advisor for the show, but was fired when he criticized rewrites of his ideas.
- Shatner has been busy on the web, garnering a Streamy for best reality or documentary web series with "The Shatner Project"
T.J. Hooker
Rating: Not RatedGenre: Action
Synopsis: There’s never been more cop clichés packed into one man than T.J. Hooker. He’s a street-wise veteran (with a dead partner and a living ex-wife) who plays by his own rules and always gets his man.
Starring: William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear, James Darren, Richard Herd
"The Protectors" - Maybe J.J Abrams will remake this too. With a crime-wave sweeping the city, a new police program has been formed to fast-track recruits to get them patrolling on the streets, and it's up to tough veteran cop Sergeant T.J. Hooker to bring them up to scratch.