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List Price: $24.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 16956
Released: August 9, 2005 |
| Our Price: $14.65 |
| Used Price: $14.65 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A street cop who gives a damn! The cop drama series T.J. HOOKER starred William Shatner as a police detective who turned his back on a gold badge and went back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. The long-running series also starred Adrian Zmed, James Darren, and launched the career of sexy Heather Locklear. Highlights include the show's original pilot and a special guest appearance by Leonard Nimoy!
Description of TJ Hooker - The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons:
Florid of face and flamboyant of voice, William Shatner oozes smarmy self-importance with the barest sliver of irony...yet that sliver transforms him from unbearable to bizarrely charming. Mock him all you want--and you will--but the man is unstoppable; T. J. Hooker was his fifth TV series (not counting assorted mini-series or the animated version of Star Trek), with more to come. As a freshly-divorced, middle-aged cop who--out of either proletariat zeal or just a bad attitude--would rather pound a beat than be a detective, Shatner swaggers around in a sausage-tight uniform and lush wig of curly hair, casually spouting right-wing speeches and fearlessly hurling himself onto moving vehicles. With cocky Adrian Zmed (Bachelor Party) and mischievous Heather Locklear (another TV diehard, co-starring in this show and Dynasty simultaneously) as co-stars/eye-candy, T. J. Hooker is a glorious slice of Aaron Spelling cheese.
The brief first season--only five episodes--delved into the dark side of Hooker's character, brooding over booze and mounting debts, riding his recruits because of his own regrets. All that went out the window as the second season roared into action, turning Hooker into a standard tough guy with a heart of gold. But the classic Spelling elements were there from the start: Almost every case involves a relative or an old friend; the bad guys announce their sleaziness from the moment they appear; and no opportunity to show a little skin is missed (short-shorts and tight, nipple-emphasizing tops are de rigueur). Featuring street gangs, snipers, Bible-toting psychos, baby-faced arsonists (a very young David Caruso, NYPD Blue), and vengeful cops (Shatner's old pal Leonard Nimoy), T. J. Hooker had no pretensions to anything but roiling melodrama with some midlevel stunts thrown in every few episodes. It all rests on whether or not you like Shatner. If you do, you'll hug yourself when Hooker's ex-wife tells him, as if intoning a zen koan, "You'll do your best, and I know you already have, because you always do." No commentaries, alas; the only extra is a pointless compilation of "Next week on T. J. Hooker" snippets. --Bret Fetzer
TJ Hooker - The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons Reviews:
Great Show 
2009-11-04 - I remember watching this show as a kid. I watched some reruns recently, and I forgot how good this show is. The show was made differently, than your boring cop shows today.
TJ Hooker DVD Complete Seasons
2009-11-04 - This DVD is great. If you ever seen this television show you, this is a must have DVD set. If you hae never seen the television show, you need to buy this DVD.
Excellent Series - Where are the other season's?
2009-10-11 - "TJ Hooker" is an excellent series, the best cop series I have seen and it's a pity that more seasons have not been put on DVD - I would definitely buy the rest.
However considering the 1st and 2nd series was released in 2005, it does not look as if any more of the series are going to come . A great pity. I hope Sony will consider putting the rest of the series on DVD. This show was made in the days when good TV mattered. It has good acting, good scripts and plenty of action. The DVDs themselves are excellent quality with good sound and picture.
Sony does not deliver 
2009-09-28 - This item is inaccurately represented by Sony. The box set is suppose to contain the complete Seasons 1 and 2. However, when scrolling through the DVD's episode menu, at least two episodes are missing from each of the six DVD's. I've written Sony in an attempt for them to make good on the sale. If they do nothing about the missing episodes then I will contact the Attorney General.
What has me really upset is that I cannot purchase future DVD's of T.J. Hooker or any other T.V series that Sony may produce on DVD. I like the old TV series, but will not purchase any until Sony corrects their "mistake" I'm sure I'm not the only one who has brought this to their attention. The DVD's should of been pulled and the missing episodes added.
ANXIOUSLY AWAITING SEASON 3
2009-07-05 - This was one of the best TV series ever. William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear and James Darren are super actors. James Darren is just as handsome as he was in the 60's movies he starred in. He seems to be like a fine wine that improves with age.
The episodes were always interesting, with a lot of twists and turns that keep you guessing. I wish there were more TV shows like this today, but unfortunately there is not.
One drawback is that the episodes listed on the box do not match the one's on the DVD, so you have to hunt for a certain episode. Another reviewer mentioned this as well, but they are all included.
I hope season 3 will be available as it is long overdue.
