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.
A precinct-wide sleep-deprivation experiment withholds sweet slumber from Hooperman, but something in the sleeplessness makes DeMott seem suddenly seductive.
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.
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.
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.
A ventriloquist asks Hooperman to retrieve a stolen dummy, and Hooperman seeks professional help when Bijoux won't stop biting Alex.
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.
Hooperman and McNeil must cart around a corpse during a transportation strike.
Hooperman's colleagues are furious with him after he persuades them to join him in an investment scheme.
Hooperman is in love with a new woman; a nun.
Star-struck Hooperman allows a movie producer fresh out of film school to use the apartment building as a set for a gory movie.
When his girlfriend goes out of town to visit her parents, Hooperman is left dateless for the annual policeman's ball.
Hooperman falls for Lisa's roommate and doesn't know how to handle it. A bunco artist zeros in on elderly women.
Hooperman is found in a compromising position with a female suspect whose retelling of the incident differs wildly from his.
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 figures- wrongly- that renting an apartment to McNeil will prevent a big headache.
A former inmate released from prison harasses Hooperman to put him back in the slammer.
Hooperman must appear on TV to recover an ungrateful Bijoux. Also, Hooperman goes undercover in drag to hunt down a slasher.
Hooperman gets a hernia and won't have it treated because he doesn't trust hospitals or surgeons.
Grief over the loss of their unborn child leads to a fight between Hooperman and Smith and a hasty proposal from Hooperman.
Harry must deliver the eulogy for a despised colleague and a cop killer is tricked with a winning Lotto ticket.
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.
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