Hooperman (1987)
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.
Seasons & Episode
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.