SEASON 1 – ABC
Theme song: “Hooperman Theme” by Mike Post
- 001. Hooperman (Pilot) – 9/23/1987
- Inspector Harry Hooperman (John Ritter) is a plainclothes officer for the San Francisco Police Department, living alone in a dilapidated apartment. He has a close relationship with his elderly landlady Estelle Metzler (Maxine Stuart). Among his co-workers are his steely Captain Celeste “C.Z.” Stern (Barbara Basson), his partner Inspector Clarence McNeil (Felton Perry), dispatcher Betty Bushkin (Alix Elias), conservative Inspector Boris “Bobo” Pritzger (Clarence Felder), gay officer Rick Silardi (Joseph Gian), and officer Maureen “Mo” DeMott (Sydney Walsh), who is intent on dating Silardi. After having his car broken into, Hooperman helps get suicidal 16-year old Roger Bayshore (Philip Tanzini) off a ledge by dropping a watermelon onto the street. Once he gets to the station, he hears of the homicide of his landlady Mrs. Metezler during a robbery. Hooperman inherits the apartment building and her disagreeable Jack Russell Terrier Bijoux, which he has no place to take except for the station. When Silardi and DeMott arrest a man named Cripps (Ned Bellamy) for burglary, Bijoux tries to attack him, leading Hooperman to believe that he is the killer of Mrs. Metzler. Hooperman is able to get a warrant to search Cripps’ apartment from Judge Shinley (David Byrd) under the guise that the informant’s name is a man “B. Joux”, and finds the gun and a piece of Estelle’s jewelry. Despite the efforts of District Attorney Kimmel (Michael Holden), the Defense Attorney (Amy Aquino) and Judge Janice Neiman (Eric Yohn) get the case thrown out because the chief witness was a dog. However Hooperman is able to rouse the Cripps to anger and force him to admit that he “should have killed the dog too.” A woman named Susan Smith (Debrah Farentino) answers Hooperman’s ad for a building managers and shows up to meet him, amid a sea of complaining tenants, including T.J. (Paul Linke) and Rudy (Rod Gist). 3/23/15
- 002. The Answer My Friend Is Passing in the Wind – 9/30/1987
- Hooperman is hauled into court when the flatulent Bijoux bites mailman Mr. Stillwell. His attorney Josh Melman (Bruce Ornstein) alludes to the fact that Bijoux is a drug detection dog and that the mailman might have been carrying a parcel with drugs in it, so Judge Oliver Blaustein (Robert Ellenstein) stays the case until they can show a demonstration. The next day Bijoux attacks Melman’s briefcase and cocaine is found in it. This gets Hooperman’s charges dropped, but he arrests Melman, stipulating that if he fingers his supplier, they will let him off. This leads to the arrest of the dealer (John Idakitis). Meanwhile Hooperman goes out to dinner with Susan, with her stipulation that it is not a date. During the dinner, the restaurant is robbed and Susan is disappointed that Hooperman doesn’t go after the robber (Jeremy Roberts). He later finds out that she writes police novels, with the character Johnny Bigg romanticizing violent cops. He explains that this isn’t the way cops look at violence in the real world. She realizes that he is a special man and they almost share a kiss, but they are interrupted by Bijoux. C.Z.’s husband leaves her for a younger woman and Hooperman comforts her until they both break down crying, much to the consternation of Bobo. Mo brings Silardi to a family wedding, and her mother encourages her to try to marry him. Myra Turley is one of the apartment tenants. Kim Ameen is the District Attorney. 3/23/15
- 003. Don We Now Our Gay Apparel – 10/7/1987
- Susan tells Harry that she doesn’t want to date, but rather focus on her career. He later responds to a suicide call and saves a black jumper named Mr. Turner (J. Jay Saunders). Newscaster Allison Ivy (Jeannie Wilson) is impressed by Hooperman and asks him on a date. Susan is visibly jealous, but Harry assures her that he couldn’t sleep with someone else when he can only think of her, leading to a passionate kiss between them… and Susan ultimately kicking him out. Meanwhile Mo and Rick are asked to take actor Vincent Corral (Geoffrey Scott) on a ride-along so he can research his next role. To prove that she can ask someone attainable out, Mo asks Corral for a date. He declines, and later asks out Rick. C.Z.’s husband Lou (Dan Lauria) shows up at the station pleading for her to take him back, apologizing for his affair. Ray Girardin and Marianne Muellerleile are the fighting Murphys. 5/22/15
- 004. Aria da Capo – 10/14/1987
- A woman named Cora Donnelly (Susan Barnes) is savagely beaten and raped in a bar. Hooperman picks up suspect Carmine Caspido (Joe Restivo), who flaunts his crime and taunts the police. They are forced to let him go when FBI agent Chapell (John Mahon) notifies them that Caspido is in witness protection custody because he was a chauffeur for some mob kingpins. Hooperman is forced to lie and tell Cora that they had picked up the wrong man. Worse yet, Hooperman, McNeil, and Pritzger are forced to protect him in a seedy motel. When a pizza delivery man turns out to be an assassin, he is arrested and Hooperman negotiates turning him over since he has more evidence to put away the mobsters, in exchange for Caspido, so he can stand trial for the rape. Hooperman swears never to lie again, but then has to tell Susan how bad the poetry is that she has been working on. 5/23/15
- 005. John Doe, We Hardly Knew Ye – 10/28/1987
- Hooperman has a new tenant named Mrs. Peralta (Eda Reiss Merin) who claims to be a psychic and is conducting a seance with the other tenants. She later admits to Hooperman that she lost her gift long ago, but he gives her a chance to give her input on a John Doe case, in which the police found a body in the bay that had been stabbed. Meanwhile a man named Eliot Winfield (Kurt Fuller), who claims to be Mrs. Metzler’s nephew shows up with his lawyer Gail (Lee Garlington) threatening to contest the will and take over the property. Mrs. Peralta’s visions of seeing the John Doe in water with a chain, leads him to investigate a shipyard and end up coming up with the victim’s name and the killer (Andrew Divoff). Captain Stern is irritated that the Hooperman, McNeil, and Pritzger had used a psychic, but when Mrs. Peralta warns her about her ex-husband, she ends making an appointment with her. Mrs. Peralta also points Hooperman in the right directions of figuring out that Eliot was actually only a nephew by marriage and has a sordid record of fraudulent activity. He leaves immediately when he finds out that Hooperman is a cop. Myra Turley is a tenant. 7/14/15
- 006. The Shooting – 11/4/1987
- Hooperman stakes out a grocery store with McNeil and Pritzger in hopes of catching a repeat robber named Getz, and when they do, Harry’s reluctance to shoot allows him to get away. Harry then apprehends him on his own while shopping, but the judge sets bail at a low amount and he is back on the streets. Captain Stern assigns Hooperman and Pritzger on another stakeout, and this time Pritzger shoots and kills a different robber when he turns his gun on Harry. Pritzger and Hooperman’s testimonies indicate that Pritzger acted within policy, but although he talks tough, he ends up breaking down and crying… even apologizing to Silardi for a snide comment he made earlier. Meanwhile Susan calls in a plumber (Norman Alden) to check out the boiler and Harry is told it would cost $4000 to fix. Susan finds some art prints that belonged to Estelle and sells them to an art dealer for $3800. Hooperman purchases the boiler, and then later finds out that the dealer sold them for $56,000. Susan is surprised when he doesn’t get upset, but then he reminds her that what the dealer did is illegal, and he would be paying her a visit. Steve Vinovich is Getz’s defense attorney. John Apicella is an I.A. investigator. 7/15/15
- 007. Hot Wired – 11/18/1987
- When it becomes nearly impossible to get a witness to testify, Hoooperman goes undercover with a wire to sting a dangerous loan shark Mr. Bern (Richard Portnow). He finally gains their confidence but is approached by an ex-girlfriend named Damita (Shannon Tweed) who blows his cover. His fellow police are able to save him, and the fact that the gangsters have stripped him nude, and the police have overheard Damita’s hot remembrances with him has nearly left Hooperman a legend. Meanwhile Captain Stern turns to an escort agency for a date to a dinner function in Chinatown, and her date turns out to be Pritzger, with who she has been butting heads and has agreed to transfer. At the dinner shooters attempt to assassinate Chinatown Councilman Chang, but the attempt is foiled by Stern. Pritzger is impressed and takes back his request for transfer… which was going to be to Chinatown. 9/13/15
- 008. Baby Talk – 11/25/1987
- Hooperman is assigned to chaperone a 19-year old princess Kihana (Kim Delaney) who is the daughter of an important Shiek Eben Bahaja (Alexander Zale) who is visiting America. This makes Susan quite jealous when Harry has to cancel a dinner date with her in order to tend to the Princess. Kihana wants to run wild and eventually sneaks away from Harry. When Hooperman and McNeil search for her, they end up in a bar fight and McNeil is stabbed in the arm. Harry berates Kihana, which cause her to kiss him and later propose marriage to Harry in front of Susan, who is quite relieved when he turns her down. Meanwhile Salardi and DeMott are sent undercover as a married couple to bait an agency who sells babies. They meet with Mr. Gonzales (Hector Elias) from the agency, who gives them a baby and is arrested. Both Salardi and DeMott lament that they will never have their own child, Salardi because he is gay, and DeMott because she is married to her job. Mitch Pileggi is a biker. 9/18/15
- 009. Blues for Danny Welles – 12/2/1987
- Hooperman is called to the scene of a hostage situation and goes in to find Danny Welles (Dennis Christopher), an angry ex-con who had done the maximum sentence for driving a getaway car, now dying of AIDS after having been raped in prison. Harry talks him out of it and works with the judge to set him up in Hospice where he can encourage others not to follow his path of crime. Eventually he has another breakdown and claims to have another hostage. Harry enters the bar to find no one and decides to walk away from the situation. Danny follows him outside and is shot and killed by the police. Meanwhile Natalie Sandoval (Nana Visitor), the girlfriend of Stern’s husband Lou, is arrested for causing a scene at Sachs. When Stern finds out, she talks to Natalie and finds out that Lou has brought her back to the Stern house and has a fetish for being treated like a dog. Stern arrests Lou and brings him in, where her berating him turns him on. She decides to file for divorce and has now lost all respect for him. Harry gets irritated when Susan goes on a date with another man to a ballet. Richard Partlow is the SWAT team leader. Lora Staley is the public defender. Susan Krebs is the judge. 12/12/15
- 010. I, Witness – 12/9/1987
- While investigating an store armed robbery that led to the murder of the store clerk, Hooperman runs into an old annoyance named Max Estron (Jack Gilford), who attempts to shoplift right in front of Harry, who blows him off. Later Max is brought to the station for shoplifting salami, and again is dismissed. Max then states that he witnessed the identity of the murderer but after looking through countless mug shots, he is sent home. His next cry for attention is to go on TV and claim he saw the murderer. Max confesses that he feels no one pays attention to old people. The police try to get him to attend a press conference and admit he lied, but they won’t accept his ridiculous conditions. Harry then stakes out his apartment and eventually captures the masked killer who comes after Max since he believes he can identify him. Meanwhile Harry gets angry at Susan for denying her feelings toward him. She eventually decides to open up a bit and consider the notion of them dating… after accidentally spilling her feelings to Max. Max claims he is going to move into their apartment building. David Dunard is shoplifting victim Arnold Grant. Mitchell Laurance is the newscaster. 12/12/15
- 011. Deck the Cells with Bars of Folly – 12/23/1987
- Captain Stern hosts an open house at the police station on Christmas Eve, which yields a variety of visitors. Among them are a grouchy homeless bum (Seymour Cassel) who complains about everything and ends up dying in the station, a female wrestler (Rhonda Bates) who attacks and wrestles Pritzger and later goes on a date with him, a gay man (Ian Blackman) who has been ostracized by his family who tells his story to Silardi who strangely doesn’t tell him that he himself is gay, a man (Richard Kind) dressed as a reindeer who confesses to killing a man during a fight eight years earlier in Seattle, a sixteen-year old first-time prostitute (Susan Rinell) who is coached by DeMott to return to her family, a child thief (Darius McCrary) who tries to swipe a toy for his younger brother for Christmas and is given community service of wrapping gifts McNeil who is dressed like Santa, and a woman (Lisa Blake Richards) whose husband left her nine Christmases ago who gets sympathy from Stern. After doing some research Harry finds that there is in fact a warrant out of the reindeer man and reads him his Miranda rights. Hooperman returns home after a long day and finds that Susan has sold her Johnny Bigg story and now that she feels successful is ready to move forward with a relationship with Harry. Patrick Thomas O’Brien leads a group of drunk visitors. 2/11/16
- 012. The Naked and the Dead – 1/6/1988
- While Hooperman, Pritzger, and McNeil stakeout a funeral home for a thief stealing from the corpses, they encounter a woman named Peaches Markowicz (Lorna Luft) who tries to steal the urn of her late married boyfriend Larry Broder. Larry’s wife (Barbara Tarbuck) responds by flushing his remains down the toilet at the police station. Meanwhile Susan finds out that her publisher has been bought out by a conglomerate and her novel publication is off. Feeling distraught, she turns to a more serious work, an auto-biographical story about a young artist’s liberation. Unfortunately, it limits her time with Harry again. Lou tries to work with C.Z. to divide up their assets, specifically her share of Lou’s business Stern Brothers Security and Alarm. C.Z. meets with Lou’s brother Buddy (Bill Hayes) to discuss the business and ends up expressing his desire for C.Z., also offering twice anything Lou offers her for her share. She ends up selling to Lou if he matches his brother’s price out of respect for the good times that they had. The officers stake out the funeral home again, this time capturing the thief… who dies of a heart attack when Harry sits up in the coffin and nabs him. After a physical, Harry tells Susan that he is dying of alopecia. At first she says she wants to spend all of her time with him, until she realizes that alopecia is baldness, and he gets thrown out again. Rebecca Schull, Howard Mann, and Rochelle Ashana are funeral home employees. 2/13/16
- 013. The Snitch – 1/13/1988
- A reliable snitch named Maurice “Shadow” Van Zandt (Dennis Dugan) gets marked for being hit and gets stabbed while meeting with Hooperman and McNeil. The chief won’t spring for any police protection, so Shadow, his wife Magda (Debbie Pollack), and his son Maurice Jr., all move in with Hooperman. Susan takes a job in Napa Valley in order to get away from Harry so that she can concentrate on her writing. Susan interviews prospective replacements as building managers, including hard-nosed Judith Fletcher (Mona Lyden) and the flighty Eva Parker (Conchata Ferrell). Harry can’t stand being in the apartment with the Van Zandts so he spends the night with Susan, and they renew their romance. Captain Stern comes through with a ticket for Shadow to get a job with her cousin in Tucson, but as Harry escorts him to the bus terminal, Shadow is shot and killed… but it is revealed that it was faked. Before Shadow leaves, he confesses that Stern had hired him to track her husband so that is why she did him the favor. Susan decides not to leave because she can’t stand to be away from Harry, and their romance is back on. Rick and Mo arrest a man for domestic violence who attacked his wife with a lamb shank. Pritzger eats part of it and sends the rest home for Hooperman’s dog, where Rick and Mo finally track down their missing evidence. 5/7/16
- 014. Chariots of Fire – 1/20/1988
- Hooperman and McNeil arrest a drug dealer named Jerry Lusk (Ben Mittleman), and Hooperman falls in love with his 1965 Corvette Stingray. With Lusk needing assets to pay his expensive but slimy lawyer Scott Kappas (Miguel Ferrer), he offers to sell Hooperman the car for only $5000. Hooperman tries to get McNeil to talk him out of buying it, but his bad feeling is too vague. Hooperman visits a credit union agent (Susan Davis), and she allows him to put up the apartment for collateral. Almost immediately Hooperman catches thugs planting a bomb on his car, and the head of the bomb squad (Steven Barr) can’t get it diffused so they are forced to blow up the car. Hooperman tells this to Lusk and warns him that if he is released these men who obviously still thought the car belonged to him would soon be after him. This persuades Lusk to turn in other deals in exchange for protection. Meanwhile Susan sells a story to The Chronicle about the wives of police officers and Hooperman helps find her some subjects (Elena Stiteler aka Elena Wohl, Ruth Britt, Kate McGregor-Stewart). All of their stories are so harrowing that it makes Susan question whether or not she actually has a future with Harry. Captain Stern wins a makeover in an auction and offers it to Bushkin, who convinces her to use it herself. The results are so stunning that she is followed by a suitor named Karl Winchell (Bill Daily) and accepts a date with him. 5/7/16
- 015. High Noon – 2/3/1988
- Stoolie Floyd Kelson (Michael Champion) gives Hooperman a tip that a convict named Lucius Cane (John de Lancie) whom Harry had sent up has been released from prison, making everyone nervous because he had threatened Harry’s life. His fellow officers try to get him to leave town and buy him a ticket to Reno, but he refuses. Susan finds out that he is wearing a bulletproof vest and forces him to tell her what is going on. When she tells the tenants, they ask that he move out of the building for their safety. Meanwhile Hooperman, McNeil, and Pritzger set up an expensive fencing front in order to stake out some hijackers. Just when they think they’ve found the hijacker (Arthur Taxier), they come in to find that all of their inventory has been stolen. While lamenting their loss at a bar, Hooperman encounters Lucius Cane, who has gone through part of a sex change operation. He delivers Hooperman a thank you and a kiss because it was in prison that he realized that he wanted to become a woman… in addition to a punch in the face for sending him up. The Captain punishes Hooperman, McNeil, and Pritzger with some unpaid overtime duty on traffic patrol. Don Cheadle is a guy peddling hot merchandise. John LaMotta is a guy peddling lobster. Andrew Schneider is a tenant. 8/13/16
- 016. Blaste from the Past – 2/10/1988
- While Hooperman is shopping for a new suit, he runs into an old girlfriend named Cheryl Blaste (Joanna Kerns), now divorced. She gives him a passionate kiss and stirs up feelings again, and when Susan goes on a series of dates with her friend Reed (Greg Montgomery), Hooperman decides to pursue Cheryl…but she turns him down. Meanwhile the department brings in psychologist Dr. Kenwood (Stanley Kamel), and he talks to Stern about her self-esteem issues and Pritzger about his anger issues, but just as he is about to have a breakthrough with Harry as he talks about his failed love life, McNeil fingers him as a bunco artist. However Harry is able to use parts of the ‘therapy’ he received to calm down a giant man (John Bloom) who was shot by a guy (Herb Mitchell) who thought he was Bigfoot. Things get awkward between Harry and Susan as they go on their separate dates. When a Councilman dies of a heart attack with a prostitute (Dawn Abraham), Harry goes to arrest the house mother of the whorehouse and finds that she is Cheryl. Harry and Susan get into a wicked argument and end up in a passionate kiss. Rick Lieberman is the suit salesman. 8/13/16
- 017. Tomato Can – 3/9/1988
- When Hooperman is punched out by a pickpocket (Mike Muscat), he hits the gym and is offered the services of a losing boxer named Freddie “Tomato Can” Lopez (Scott Colomby). Freddie is interested in joining the police force but Hooperman finds out that he can’t read or write and has to tell him that these are requirements. Meanwhile McNeil goes on the game show Pot o’ Gold, and is so nervous that he fails to react when the current champion Carl Dorfman (James F. Dean) attacks the host Peter Amery (Rod McCary) when he fails to answer a question. Hooperman jumps down from the audience and proudly punches out Dorfman. Tomato Can’s girlfriend Maria (Dyana Ortelli) approaches Hooperman and tells him that Freddie is going to rob a jewelry store. Hooperman is able to intercept Tomato Can and talk him out of participating while the other perpetrators are arrested. Captain Stern is forced to admit that she wasn’t accepted on the game show. 10/22/16
- 018. Me and Mr. Magoo – 3/18/1988
- McNeil struggles with degraded vision, which nearly causes him to shoot Hooperman when they make a robbery arrest. Bushkin asks Hooperman to talk to a mother named Miriam (Nora Heflin) and her son Anthony (Barret Oliver), who are being abused by the father. They will not report anything, and eventually Anthony runs away. Hooperman becomes obsessed with firing him and uses airplane pilot C.J. Huffaker (Terry Kiser) who was arrested for pulling a banner and is awaiting FAA intervention at the police station, to communicate with Anthony. He eventually finds his way to Hooperman’s apartment, where Harry offers him some words of advice that will hopefully convince him that he deserves to enjoy his childhood and not be scared of his father. Susan attempts to collect rent checks form the tenants, but gets more excuses than money. 10/23/16
- 019. Baby on Board – 4/6/1988
- Harry is startled when he finds out that Susan is pregnant. Meanwhile Pritzger brings in the victim of a beating named Mr. Schryker (Phil Proctor) who has been maced, chained, graffiti, and left naked in a shopping cart. When other cases like this start popping up in other precinct, Hooperman and McNeil start looking for a connection. Hooperman figures out that they were all attacked near their homes, and all had been questioned in child abuse cases at two local hospitals. Hooperman is able to get some information from Nurse Belzer (Kit McDonough), and a get further information from a female victim (Elizabeth Norment) who smelled perfume on her attacker. Hooperman deduces that Nurse Belzer was behind the attacks and she readily admits it. Hooperman is irritated when Reed (now played by Michael Scott King) visits Susan, and they get into an argument about whether or not she will have the baby. They later make up and decide to have the baby, but she gives Hooperman nine months to convince her that they should get married. Mo pleads with Silardi to accompany her to her high school reunion and eventually he gives in. Matthew Brooks is Danny. 2/20/17
- 020. Trudy and Clyde – 4/13/1988
- Hooperman and McNeil stake out Trudy (Leslie Bevis), the girlfriend of a bank teller named Clyde (Stuart Pankin) who robbed his own bank, and find that she does nude aerobics. Meanwhile Susan gets tired of Hooperman always being busy, so he promises to spends some quality time with her. When Hooperman and Pritzger are called by Trudy to come over, they show up and are held hostage by her, and then Hooperman is kidnapped by both her and Clyde. When the domineering Trudy tries to intercept a robbery getaway to steal their money as well before fleeing to Canada, Hooperman finally stand up to the kidnappers and tells them that they can’t let the robbers (Albie Selznick, Charles Stransky) go. When Trudy orders Clyde to shoot Hooperman, he turns on her and they point their guns at each other… just as the police show up to arrest everyone. Although everything ended well, Susan is still freaked out about Hooperman being kidnapped and again says she may not be able to be with someone with such a dangerous job. In bed they discuss how they disagree about everything. Captain Stern nurses a bad cold and ends up drunk off Bushkin’s ancient remedy. 2/21/17
- 021. Nick Derringer, P.I. – 5/4/1988
- Hooperman promises he will help British midget private investigator Nick Derringer (David Rappaport) get his license after he saves Hooperman from being attacked by a criminal (Greg Collins) at the station. Meanwhile Hooperman meets Susan’s mother Amanda (Barbara Rush) and reveals to her that he is in love with Susan and that she is pregnant, much to the irritation of Susan. She acts supportive at first… then offers Hooperman a half-million dollars to leave the building and Susan behind. Derringer is arrested after a traffic accident and admits that he’s been tracking murder Ernie Sadler (Michael Crabtree), a major mob figure. Hooperman becomes suspicious of Derringer when he is caught sneaking out his hotel without paying his bill. During a stakeout, Derringer flirts with Stern and starts to soften her up when Sadler’s contact enters, prompting Derringer to beat up Sadler. However it turns out that Sadler was only after the ‘contact’, actually his wife (Jillie Mack) whom he hopes to get back from Sadler. Derringer is unsuccessful at winning his wife back, but she does agree to roll over on Sadler. Harry takes pity on Derringer and issues him his P.I. license. Derringer promises to stay within the law… but is immediately chased by a man whom he double-crossed. Laura Bassett is Derringer’s secretary Yolanda. Barry Dennen is the hotel clerk. Nicholas Worth is the driver. Wally Crowder is the toilet cop. 5/8/17
- 022. Surprise Party – 5/18/1988
- Silardi’s twin brother Bobby (Joseph Gian), also a cop from Bayonne, New Jersey, comes to San Francisco to pick up a prisoner, and it soon becomes obvious that he has a problem with his brother’s homosexuality… especially when he punches a former date of Rick’s, who happens to be a deputy district attorney (John Furey). Meanwhile Susan is convinced that one of the strange tenants named Trevor Johnson (Randy Schneider) has murdered his mother, especially when he begins selling off her jewelry. Susan also has to deal with her mother, who is pushing for an abortion and telling Susan that Hooperman is out of her class, as Susan’s father was to her. The precinct throws Harry a surprise birthday party, and Harry encourages Rick to try and patch things up with his brother. He is able to get the D.A. to not press charges and he and Bobby make amends. In one of many scenes reminiscent of Psycho, Hooperman and Susan find Trevor’s mother (Anne Merman)… alive, having just gone through plastic surgery for which she needed Trevor to sell off her jewelry to pay for it. Stern is taken home from Hooperman’s party by Nick Derringer, and finds herself in his bed the next morning. Mariann Alda is McNeil’s date. Randy Harrington is the bartender. 5/8/17
SEASON 2
- 023. Requiem for an S.O.B. – 11/30/1988
- Hooperman and is team are assigned to work with the bristling and bossy Archie Greenwood (Merritt Butrick) on a narcotics case, and is quickly shot and killed when he performs a reckless entry at a drug house. Hooperman had tried to stop him, and Greenwood sarcastically told him that if he was killed he wanted Hooperman to deliver his eulogy. Meanwhile Pritzger pursues a bail bondswoman named Beverly (Jennifer Warren), and tries to show her his sensitive side by bawling at Greenwood’s funeral during Hooperman’s charitable eulogy. The ruse works and Pritzger and Beverly end up having sex in the hearse, as Hooperman stops the eulogy and says how he really felt about Greenwood, although vowing to catch the man who shot him. A convenience store clerk (Marcelo Tubert) identifies the killer Crowell (J.E. Freeman) as a man who bought a lottery ticket in his store. Hooperman goes on the Golden State Lottery TV program and announces that Crowell’s ticket is a 28 million dollar winner. The team stakes out the store, posing as a news crew, and arrests Crowell when he shows up. As he’s making the arrest, Hooperman gets a call that Smith is in the hospital and has had a miscarriage. When he goes to visit her, she tells him that she wants to have another baby right away. John Petlock is the man who drops his golf clubs out the window. Jan Pessano is Mrs. Greenwood. Nick Schuller is the Reverend. 1/1/18
- 024. We’ll Always Have Paris – 12/7/1988
- Despite his best efforts to console Smith and move on following the miscarriage, Smith doesn’t want to be consoled and asks for space from Harry. This escalates to an argument, and a spur-of-the-moment proposal from Harry to run off and get married. When they can’t find a place to do it that night, they start to discuss longer, more elaborate plans, but it eventually comes back to Smith’s constant worry about Hooperman’s occupational hazards. Meanwhile Beverly breaks it off with Pritzger, but he is able to secure another date by using his sensitive act. When the date goes poorly, Pritzger comes clean about his manly conservative side… and his honesty finally turns her back on. An escape artist named the Amazing Belmondo is arrested but refuses to come out of the safe he’s locked in. He continues to taunt the police from inside the safe, and after numerous attempts, makes a plea with a safecracker (Tony Amendola) to open the safe. When they open it, they find the safe empty save for a water bottle. Smith and Hooperman end their relationship and Smith heads off to New York. Jerome Guardino is the officer attempting to open the safe. Paul Anthony Weber is the safecracker’s lawyer. NOTE: This is Debrah Farentino’s final episode. 1/1/18
- 025. Who Do You Truss? – 12/14/1988
- While arresting a fat suspect, Harry pulls his groin, which his doctor (Kenneth Kimmins) diagnoses as a hernia. After proving that Harry can’t bend over, Captain Stern forces him onto leave so that he can have it addressed. Harry is nervous in the hospital, and an elderly lady (Meg Wyllie), a kindly nurse (Nancy Morgan), and obnoxious neighbor Jeff Johnson (Fred Applegate) all warn him that personal items are coming up missing. After meeting his catatonic roommate Mr. Ellis, Harry nearly escapes the hospital, but is brought back by the nurse. His groin is shaved by Nurse Jordan (Lu Leonard) and afterward his watch disappears. Mo comes to visit him and Harry expresses his concerns about dying on the table. Just as he is about to go under the knife, he has a revelation to the female Dr. Platt (Pamela Bowen) that it is Mr. Johnson who is committing the robberies. Once he is out of surgery, he catches Johnson in the act, and the two have a very slow chase through the hospital. Harry is able to catch him by using a young boy’s (J.B. Quon) remote control car to trip him up. As he is leaving, Dr. Platt visits him and accepts a date, after which he gets a thumbs-up from Mr. Ellis. 9/3/18
- 026. In Search of Bijoux – 12/21/1988
- As Hooperman and officers are investigate the robberies of local transvestites who are getting slashed with a knife and robbed of their wigs, he comes home and finds that Bijoux is missing. He quickly realizes that he misses the dog, and takes out an ad, which prompts many people to show up at the station with the wrong dog. As he is visiting the animal shelter he finds a little girl named Lisa Thomas (Jandi Swanson) and her father (Jerry Prell) who have just bought Bijoux, having picked it up from the shelter after he had been there eight days. Hooperman goes undercover dressed as a red-headed transvestite and lures the slasher (James McIntire) into an alley and is able to defend himself, beat him up, and arrest him. Gail offers to represent Hooperman to get Bijoux back, but it ends up being on The People’s Forum TV show. Judge Wagner (Michael Currie) find in favor of the Thomases. After being interviewed by the show’s host (Tom Hallick), Hooperman talks to Lisa and clears it up that she doesn’t really care for the dog, but just doesn’t want to hurt her father’s feelings since he bought it for her. Hooperman agrees to buy Lisa a shar pei in exchange for getting Bijoux back. Meanwhile Stern sees a psychologist to try and be more sensitive. Aixa Clemente is the animal shelter clerk. Mario Roccuzzo is man trying to claim the reward. Loren Freeman is Gail’s client. Dave Alan Johnson is the slasher’s victim. 9/3/18
- 027. Look Homeward, Dirtbag – 1/11/1989
- The team has an arsonist murder named Hank Lovelace (Al Israel) in custody, but his lawyer Loretta Todd (Janet Hubert), with whom Stern has a heated rivalry, is making a case that mobster Stark (Peter White) hired him to burn down a building and that he had no idea there were people inside. When the officers bring him a sandwich that has a rat in it, Lovelace loses confidence that the police can protect him, so Hooperman gets approval for $25,000 in funding to protect him. Lovelace gets the star treatment including a prostitute ‘manicurist’ named Denise (Dallas Cole). Despite the increased protection, a bomb goes off at the hotel and breaks Pritzger’s nose. Lovelace becomes adamant about not testifying. Meanwhile ex-con Larry Harbin (William Sadler) wants to goes back into the slammer, so he handcuffs himself to Hooperman until someone will listen to him. Once he is cut free, Hooperman gives him some money out of the $25K for a fresh start. Larry later shows up at Hooperman’s apartment telling him he is considering robbing a store to get back into San Quentin because he can’t make it on the outside. Larry finally gets himself arrested, and when he is brought to the station. Lovelace recognizes him as an old friend and has him room in the cell with him. Hooperman is furious and goes to visit Stark and threaten to be on his case for the rest of his career. While they are having a heated conversation, Larry enters the restaurant and assassinates Stark. Jeanne Mori is newscaster Bobbi. Doug Dale is Stark’s henchman Kevin. 5/29/19
- 028. Nightmare in Apartment One – 1/18/1989
- At the same time Harry is trying to fill Smith’s old apartment again, Clarence is being forced out of his apartment because it is becoming a condo. However, Clarence doesn’t think his apartment is a good fit… but Hooperman makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Soon though Clarence is making numerous demands on fixing up the place and having late night parties, driving Hooperman crazy. Meanwhile, Hooperman and Clarence identify the body of local mobster Johnny Guerrero and fear there will be a war on the street. They bring in Guererro’s mistress Angela (Gwen Banta) and she fingers Jimmy Lennox as Johnny’s killer. Lennox’s lawyer Jason Sugarman (Dusty Rhoads) arranges for the cops to meet Lennox (Larry O’Williams), a fifteen-year-old who claims no responsibility. While trailing him, he is shot by another youth (Erick Ornelas) from the Guerrero family but survives because he has a bullet proof vest on. Hooperman promises to lean on both of them until they rat each other out about their criminal activity. Clarence finds another apartment but refuses to leave Harry in the lurch, but Harry has had enough and kicks him out. They both realize that the arrangement was hurting their friendship. Hooperman ends up renting out the room to his old friend Yolanda, the midget detective Derringer’s secretary. Hooperman is happy because she mentions having a lot of female friends who will be over. A sex therapist named Elbert Wexler (Armin Shimerman) faces multiple complaints from touching people’s genitals during their therapy, but one complainant (Jordana Capra) eventually becomes engaged to him. 2/14/2020
- 029. Hooperman Goes to Hell in a Handcart – 1/25/1989
- After Hooperman buys his dream collectible comic book – Victor Buzzbomb and the Moonpatrol! #12 – he is forced to chase a purse snatcher into an abandoned building, where the perpetrator takes a shot at him. He falls into a shopping cart and goes done a flight of stairs. When he wakes up, he is changed to a brick wall and man dressed as the devil (Stuart Pankin) claims that Hooperman was shot in the head and that he is in hell. At first, he believes he is in a coma, but the comes to realize that he is just a madman who intends to torture him, and in the process shoots up Hooperman’s new comic book. Stern puts out an APB on Hooperman, and Pritzger and McNeil start to investigate. The elderly lady (Viola Kates Stimpson) who had her purse stolen gives them so clues as to Harry’s whereabouts. Harry delays his torture by telling his captor that he is actually the devil, bringing up events from the captor’s life by clues he’s picked up on, namely that he had burned down his house and killed his parents. Following the clues, the officers find Harry and the captor just as the devil has started a fire. In order to avoid true hell, the devil has let Hooperman go and they have escaped just in time. Meanwhile on the anniversary of their partnership, Mo finds out that Rick has applied for the task force and been accepted, and after they take down a dirtbag (Rick Post), Mo tries to convince him to change his mind… and he eventually does. However, Mo gets angry when Stern reveals that she had made a mistake, and Rick had already known he wasn’t accepted after all. Milton James is the comic book dealer. 5/29/19
- 030. Rashomanny – 2/1/1989
- Hooperman brings in a female shoplifter named Miss Bleckner (Jennifer Darling) who asks to be questioned in a private room, and although Hooperman asks Mo to sit in with her, she is busy, and he has to go into the room alone with her. While Commissioner Farrel (Nicolas Coster) is visiting the station, Bleckner screams, and everyone witnesses Hooperman on top of her. The Commissioner insists that Hooperman go on desk duty while the case gets turned over to the Office of Citizens Complaints. In front of the Board, Bleckner tells her version of the story of Hooperman acting masculine, rude, and then assaulting her. The other officers all testify on Hooperman’s behalf. Hooperman then tells his version: Bleckner tries to come on to him and grabbed him the crotch. Meanwhile Pritzger is worried that he is losing Beverly, so he stakes her out and sure enough finds her in the arms of another man. He takes off after witnessing this. Beverly comes to see him at the office the next day and he tearfully breaks it off with her in the witness room, while Hooperman witness the whole thing. Hooperman suddenly remembers that an elderly man named Manny (Ralph Manza) was sitting on the other side of the two-way mirror during Hooperman’s encounter with Bleckner. In the third version of the story, Manny relates what he saw – apparently with them speaking with Jewish accents – to the Board. The head panelist (Mary Gregory) apologizes for putting Hooperman through the trial. Manny asks Hooperman to do him a favor and hook him with the same panelist. Beverly comes around to Pritzger’s window at night and serenades him with a mariachi band and promises to be exclusive to him. 2/14/20
- 031. In the Still of My Pants – 2/8/1989
- Hooperman picks up his date Lisa (Kathleen Layman) and finds not only that she is being stalked by her strange but friendly ex-boyfriend Roy Andrews (Kevin Scannell), but that Hooperman is attracted to Lisa’s roommate Alex (Daphne Ashbrook). Meanwhile Captain Stern is trying to nail a conman who is preying on elderly women and selling them fake insurance policies, but she can’t get any of the three ladies (Ann Nelson, Carol Bruce, Marie Denn) to testify against the perpetrator because they were so charmed by him. Stern goes undercover looking older at a Bingo game and meets the perpetrator who is using the name Wendell Niles (John DeMita). As soon as he sells her the insurance, she places him under arrest… even if it does interrupt Bobo’s Bingo game. He is quickly back on the streets when he fakes a heart attack and cons an elderly nurse to release him. Alex won’t date Hooperman since he is dating her roommate, so after an invasive visit by Roy, Hooperman talks him into going back with her. He then goes to break up with Lisa, only to find she wants to break up with him so she can then properly break up with Roy. However, she becomes furious and throws Hooperman out when she realizes he wants to date Alex. Hooperman then invites Alex to his house to dinner since his car is in the shop. The evening heats up and they are about to make love, when they realize they have no protection. Harry takes Alex’s car to the drug store, where he spots Niles charming another elderly woman (Natalie Core) and after an internal struggle on what to do, attempts to arrest him. He and the old lady flee, and crash into Alex’s car. When he returns to his apartment with the protection, she is already naked so he decides to wait to tell her about her car. Lesley Boone is the drug store clerk. Bill Morrison is the Bingo caller. Ellen Albertini Dow is credited but her scenes were likely cut. 9/8/20
- 032. The Dating Game – 2/15/1989
- With the policemen’s ball coming up and Alex out of town, Hooperman has no date. Bushkin has a date with Don Deamer (Ned Bellamy) from North Beach Homicide, a guy no one else can stand. Mo has a date with her dream guy Dan, and Rick refuses to go because he feels if he brings a man, it will jeopardizes his career. Captain Stern asks Hooperman to go with her, but to get out of it, he tells her that he is already going with Mo. Pritzger’s girlfriend Beverly’s brother Carl (Roger Nolan) is in town and has fallen off a cable car and now has his jaw wired shut and is bandaged all over his body, and Pritzger fears that looking after him will interfere with him going to the ball. Since Harry can’t talk Alex into skipping her plans, so he bribes Mo into canceling her dream date and going with him. However when he realizes that she is the only one who Rick would have gone with since they are friends, Hooperman insists that Mo go with Rick. Hooperman then tells the captain that he is available, but she already has a date with Carl. Meanwhile McNeil gets the invitation to sit at the Commissioner’s table, and despite the fact that Stern is disappointed it wasn’t her, she gives him advice on how advance his career out of the opportunity. Hooperman decides to have a party at his place instead of going to the ball. Initially it is only him and Bijoux, but then Alex returns home early… followed by most everyone from the station. The ball ended up being a bust and McNeil threw up on the Commissioner after eating bad Rumaki. With his house full of people, it is all he can do to keep Alex from leaving. Ed Williams is the man caught having sex with pastry. 5/24/20
- 033. Intolerance – 2/22/1989
- Hooperman comes home one night and finds an enthusiastic producer named Gary Bockstein (Mark Hamill) and his spaced-out director Europa Charles (Beth Broderick), who are scouting his apartment for a horror movie shoot called Tenement of Blood. Receiving $800 per day, getting a new paint job, and walk-on in the movie seems too good to be true, so he snatches up the offer. Meanwhile Hooperman and McNeil question a man named Mr. Hamburg (Randy Oglesby) about his missing wife Sandra, who was last seen via camera entering and art studio but never leaving, although Hamburg has been seen coming or going. A search of the building has yielded nothing. Back at the movie shoot, several of Hooperman’s co-workers including Mo, Rick, Bobo, and Betty have all stopped by and gotten roles. The apartment gradually gets more and more damaged every day. Europa acts more and more spaced out and claims that the severed torso is real before kissing Hooperman, the actor Bob (Tom McCleister) who plays the killer has a crisis of confidence, and Bockstein tells Hooperman that he has no ending to the film. Hooperman suggests to Bob that he deserves better and that he should quit, but this infuriates Bob who pushes him down and says that he will never leave the movies. Europa is taken out on a stretcher, and Hooperman helps Bockstein devise and ending… which gives him a theory about the murder case he is working on. Hooperman has the studio searched again and finds that Hamburg has hidden his dead wife inside one of the statue sculptures. He returns home that night and finds Yolanda cleaning up the apartment, and she tells him that the production was shut down and no money had been left for Hooperman. 5/24/20
- 034. The Nun and I – 3/1/1989
- Sister Ann Denise (Brenda Strong) leads a group of nuns (Melba Englander, Lorna Scott) in rebelling against their Mother Superior (Lorinne Vozoff) when she wants to modernize things at the convent too much to their liking, by staging an occupation of the convent. Hooperman goes in to talk to them, and they insist on being arrested and taken out in handcuffs. Having a fight with Alex, Hooperman is wildly attracted to Sister Ann and has fantasies about her. Meanwhile Captain Stern’s friend Cecilia (Irene DeBari) asks her to babysit her baby son Hector while she goes to an INS appointment, where she is mistakenly arrested. Captain Stern relies on Bushkin and Hooperman to watch the baby at the station, and is up all night with him until Cecilia is released and returns to pick him up. By then she has grown somewhat attached to Hector and gets her picture taken with him. After the nuns are released, Sister Ann leads them in more civil disobedience, this time an idea gotten from a discussion with Hooperman to sit in the street and block traffic. The Mother Superior is unwilling to negotiate since all directives come from the church, but Hooperman has Silardi call his Italian uncle who knows the Pope and is able to arrange a conversation with the Pope and Mother Superior to allow her to negotiate with the sisters. With all settled, Hooperman has to ask Sister Ann what the penalty would be if she leaves the sisterhood. He realizes he has no chance when she mentions her immortal soul. 9/9/20
- 035. The Sure Thing – 3/15/1989
- When Hooperman and Felder encounter a nude adult film star known as Candy Delight (Kathleen Garrett) holding her producer Leonard (David Paymer) at gunpoint because he won’t give her an audition, Hooperman de-escalates the situation by reading with her. Leonard eventually drops the charges and offers Hooperman an acting job. Meanwhile, one of Hooperman’s old frat brothers Gilbert (John Doolittle) visits him and recommends that he buy some stock in Mega 7 wrinkle cream. When Hooperman makes a thousand dollars in five days, his co-workers want in on it. He invites them and his tenant Rudy, who insists on using a manly voice, to his apartment to sing them into a partnership agreement. However, when the FDA fails to approve the drug due to its side effects, the stock tanks, everyone seems to suffer the side effects, and everyone holds Hooperman responsible. Candy Delight, who admits her name is Patricia Nixon, stops by to drop off his jacket, and tell him that she’s getting out of the business and going to school for psychology. She also offers to talk to him about his friends and comes to the conclusion that they are jerks. The next day when Hooperman arrives at work, everyone has changed their tunes because the FDA found a component of the skin cream that heals burns, and the stock price quadrupled. Hooperman made a killing, but when Gilbert stops by, he reminds Hooperman that he neglected to turn in their partnership agreement, so no one else made any money. April Tatro is Marilyn the contortionist. Conrad Hurtt is a police officer. 12/27/20
- 036. The Long So Long – 3/22/1989
- Hooperman and Felder respond to a call to find a dead man lying shot in the street, whom they identify as hit man Alvin “Bullseye” Beaubrick (Oz Tortora). Unfortunately, with the ambulance drivers on strike, the officers are unable to get a pickup of Bullseye, so they load him into their car… which then proceeds to roll down the street and crash. Before they can get to the scene, hoodlums remove the body from the car and steal Bullseye’s pants. They spend all of their money to get a cab driver (Martin Azarow) to take him to the hospital. The admitting nurse (Sally Champlin) turns him over to Dr. Libinski (Jim Jansen), who says they will bag the body, but can’t leave him onsite. Luke (Jorge Gil), the laundry truck driver, agrees to transport him to Muir, but before they leave, they realize they now have a dead black woman in their possession. They return the body and demand that Libinski find Bullseye, but before he can locate him, they see a nurse (Lisa Mende) wheeling him in for x-rays. They steal the body and bring it back to headquarters. Meanwhile it is Captain Stern’s birthday, but she has demanded that Bushkin not tell anyone because she has had a series of bad birthdays. However when Bushkin tells everyone not to make a big deal, Pritzger assumes that she doesn’t mean it and hires her singing gorilla… whom Stern promptly knocks out. She later apologizes to everyone, and thanks them for their kind thought. Rick and Mo have also gotten her a singing gorilla, but Stern directs it to the interrogation room, which is where Hooperman is storing Bullseye, who also happens to have died on his birthday on that day. Hooperman and Felder join the gorilla in singing Happy Birthday to Bullseye. 12/27/20
- 037. Stakeout – 6/14/1989
- Everyone at the station is looking forward to welcoming a new detective named Officer Sweeney, but the job is given to the police commissioner’s nephew Roy Andrews (Kevin Scannell), and old childhood friend of Hooperman’s. Since Andrews claims that his friendship with Hooperman is the reason he asked his Uncle Arnie to send him there, so Stern gives Hooperman the assignment of breaking him in on a stakeout of criminal Mesaros. Also, because Roy has a gut feeling that Hooperman has been staking out the wrong location. he talks Stern into switching their locations. Roy is more annoying than Hooperman can imagine and talks incessantly, and brings along his dog Ed Henderson on the stakeout. Ed routinely seems to die, but then can be revived by yelling in his ear. When Roy shows up at Hooperman’s apartment the morning after the stakeout, Hooperman throws him out, and plans to get him thrown off the case. Roy delivers Hooperman a touching story about how he can never keep a friend. Stern wants to get Sweeney to come onboard, so she gives Hooperman the opportunity to write up a report stating that Roy is incompetent. Hooperman takes pity and keeps him onboard. The next night on the stakeout, Ed needs jump-started again, but then they spot Mesaros making the drop that they were hoping for, and they both make the arrest. Meanwhile Hooperman has apartment redecorated by interior decorator Annie (Jane Leeves). When Ed accuses Hooperman of never taking risks, Hooperman gives Annie instruction to paint his apartment peach. 4/21/21
- 038. Dog Day Afternoon, Morning, and Night – 6/21/1989
- Bijoux won’t stop attacking Alex, and it comes to the point where Alex tells Hooperman that he needs to make a choice between them. Roy tells Hooperman that he had once taken his dog Ed to therapy, while another cop named Sully (Bruce A. Young) thinks he is nuts. Nevertheless Hooperman make an appointment with pet therapist Dr. Lazlo (Sam Anderson). Meanwhile, a ventriloquist named Pete Cosgrove (Norman Fell) reports that his dummy Bob was taken when his car was stolen. Since he used to perform in the Pete and Bob act, Hooperman humors him and puts out an APB. At Lazlo’s office, Hooperman runs into a strange dog owner (Eric Poppick) and a woman named Mrs. Skyles (Marianne McAndrew) with a swearing parrot and nymphomaniac dog. Dr. Lazlo is rather accusatory about how Hooperman treats Bijoux, and also diagnoses that the problem lies between Hooperman and Alex. He suggests that Hooperman spend more time talking to Bijoux, so Hooperman takes the dog to work. When Bijoux still bites Alex on the ankle, she joins Hooperman and Bijoux in therapy. Hooperman takes to the streets and meets with petty thief Jerry (Terrance Ellis) and his gang member (Lance Wilson-White) to try and find information about Bob. They wind up finding Bob in pieces. Hooperman gets another dummy for Pete, and although he declines taking him, the two soon strike up a ‘conversation’ and Pete accepts his new partner Arnie. Hooperman finally figures out that Bijoux is pregnant with Ed’s puppies, which accounts for her behavior. Roy tells Ed that he can move in with Hooperman and Bijoux in order to help raise his puppies. Alex is now able to make peace with Bijoux, while Hooperman takes delight in throwing Roy out of his apartment. 4/21/21
- 039. Love Bytes – 1/28/1989
- Hooperman takes his blue Nova in to a body shop because the window won’t roll down, and when he goes to pick it up from Falstead’s (Raymond O’Connor) garage, he finds out a bumbling Albanian mechanic named Hesperian took out the motor. Meanwhile back at the station, a computer hacker named Russell Stover (Robert Schenkkan) who is currently serving time, tips off the cops that he believes the thief is his former girlfriend Dorothy Petteger (Carol Huston) committed the hack and the theft, a skill she learned from watching him. He agrees to help implicate her if Stern works with the Attorney General to get some time shaved off his sentence. Since Dorothy broke up with him because he was never romantic and wouldn’t return dedicating songs to her on K-LOVE radio, Hooperman helps him write a dedication to smoke her out. She eventually contacts him and then comes to see him, but she thinks he is insincere and has other motives, so she punches him and walks out. Meanwhile, Falstead’s puts the engine back in the car, but Hesperian accidentally puts in on the used car lot and it is sold. They retrieve it, but it has been stripped and turned into a flashy purple show car. Hooperman suggests that Russell commit to Dorothy and ask her to marry him, so he arranges another date, with Hooperman acting as the driver of a horse and buggy. She accepts the offer, but when he starts talking about her money again, she kicks him out of the carriage. Hopoerman intervenes and tells her that she should cut him some slack since he agreed to marriage, so she changes her mind and the wedding is back own…. and then Hooperman arrests her. Falstead finally retrieves the blue Nova, which Hesperian had accidentally drive home. Hooperman is thrilled with engine… but the windows still don’t work. Falstead puts another man on the job, and Hooperman drives the horse and carriage and puts a sign on the back that he is driving that because he took his car to Falstead’s. 8/16/21
- 040. Take My Building, Please – 7/5/1989
- A woman named Miss Davis (Marge Redmond) is robbed of her purse by a guy driving a red Chrysler LeBaron, and it is especially traumatic since her husband was recently killed during a robbery, and now she has lost her wedding ring. Although Hooperman had a fancy date planned with Alex, they both agree that Miss Davis shouldn’t be alone, so they offer her one of the spare rooms in Harry’s building, then cancel the date so they can have dinner with her. Hooperman is also being hounded by the city building inspector Larkin (Rob Neukirch), based on complaints by T.J. the tenant. Larkin gives Harry two days to bring everything up to code. Meanwhile there is another robbery using the same car identified in Davis’s robbery. Harry visits a Chinese beauty parlor along with Officers Sully Sullivan and Roy Andrews where the robbery took place, but they offer little help. Sully later find the LeBaron, and locks the suspect Howard (Jack Kutcher) in the trunk nude. When Harry and Roy arrive on the scene, they won’t give him his clothes back until he gives up his cohorts. A team of officers arrive on the scene and catch the robbers, but also find a woman named Frankie (Loanne Bishop) in labor, and Hooperman has to deliver the baby. Harry returns to the apartment and tells Miss Davis that he recovered her purse, but they have to keep it as evidence for the perpetrators’ trial… however he has taken out the ring and gives it to her. Larkin has also returned ready to hand out fines, and Miss Davis makes Harry an offer to buy the building. After some haggling, they both come to a price they agree on. Harry takes his fines, and tells Larkin that he’ll have to give the fines to Miss Davis from now on. She tells him that everything is fixed and directs him to the faucet… which promptly erupts into Larkin’s face. George Pentecost is the dentist who hates cops. Raymond Ma is the salon manager. Jane Chung, Lang Yun, and Nancy Yee are salon customers. 8/17/21
- 041. Some of That Jazz – 7/12/1989
- During a warehouse raid, Mo accidentally shoots Silardi in the rear end. Although the other guys make jokes, it is not laughing matter to Silardi, and he has a hard time trusting Mo again. She feels bad enough, and his lack of trust makes matters even worse. Things don’t get any better when he arrives home and finds out that the apartment has no heat. Rudy and T.J. won’t get off his case, and they insist he stay home and work on the problem even though he is playing sax in the jazz club that night. He winds up sneaking out so he can play. He talks to the club owner Max (Jim Haynie) about how much he is starting to hate his job. Although Hooperman finds out that the bartender (Barbara Alyn Woods) is a prostitute, he still takes interest in buying into the club with Max and becoming a co-owner so that he can quit his job, especially after finding out that the warehouse thieves got out on bail. As Hooperman and Max get closer to reaching a deal, he notices from the stage when Buddy (Sami Chester) passes off a package to a customer. Hooperman later sees the customer brought into the station with an untraceable weapon. He guesses that the criminal may have gotten the weapon from Buddy, so he and Pritzger arrange a sting, and have Buddy arrested. Although Max wasn’t involved in the crime, and he is glad justice was served, he tells Hooperman that it is better if he isn’t involved with the club any longer, even playing in the band. Mo gets a painful tattoo of a target on her hip as an apology to Silardi. Terrah Bennet Smith is the lady at the club who Clarence hits on. 2/15/22
- 042. Goodnight, Sweet Hooperman – 7/26/1989
- Hooperman and fifteen other officers, nearly everyone but Pritzger, have volunteered to participate in a fatigue test, whereby they go without sleep for sixty hours. Most of the participants have started to really show the effects, with McNeil completely zoned out and hallucinating. Just when Hooperman thinks he’s hitting the threshold, he sees a giant cup of coffee enter the building. It turns out he’s not seeing things, as it is one half of a father/son team of coffee and creamer who were doing street performances, and the robbed the audience. The father (William Utay) managed to escape and tells the police that if they don’t release his son (Robert Romanus), he will kidnap someone. The police won’t give in to his demands, but the son has faith in his father and won’t divulge his location. Eventually the father turns himself in, still dressed as the creamer. The sleep project coordinator (Steven Culp) and doctor (Fern Fitzgerald), who themselves are having an affair, initially declare that Salardi will be the last man standing, but he hits a threshold and decides to go home. He waits outside the police station for a bus, despite the fact that there is no bus stop there. Mo and Hooperman then become the final two, and they are fading fast. The project team challenger her to make a sandwich, and she can’t get the task done in a half hour. Mo and Hooperman’s inhibitions start to drop, and they make out in the bathroom before they are caught by the doctor. Once the contest ends, and their precinct’s division is declared to have fared the worst, Mo and Hooperman decide whether to act on their impulses. As they start to kiss, they quickly change their mind, and decide to put makeup on Clarence, who has fallen asleep on the sink. Chris Hebert and Tisha Putnam are the teens with the locked braces. Paul Anthony Weber is the coffee mug’s lawyer. 2/15/22
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