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T. J. Hooker (1982)

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T. J. Hooker (1982)

Overview

Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

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Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional

Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Trans: Negative

Viewer Rating
6.2

Overview

Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

Fandango
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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Traditional

Primary

The show consistently champions a 'law and order' ethos, portraying police as heroic protectors and focusing on individual responsibility for crime, aligning with conservative values.

The movie exhibits traditional casting with a predominantly white main cast and no explicit race or gender swaps of established roles. Its narrative maintains a neutral to positive framing of traditional identities, focusing on standard police procedural themes without incorporating explicit DEI critiques or themes.

Secondary

T. J. Hooker includes an episode where a transsexual woman is murdered, serving as a victim in a crime investigation. Her identity is primarily contextualized within prostitution and violence, reflecting problematic tropes that link trans identity to marginalized lifestyles and tragedy without offering affirming portrayals.

The series 'T.J. Hooker', a police procedural from the early 1980s, does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative focus did not encompass queer representation, aligning with the typical television landscape of its era.

While female characters like Officer Stacy Sheridan are active in police work and often involved in dangerous situations, the show does not feature scenes where they decisively defeat one or more male opponents in direct physical combat through skill or strength.

T.J. Hooker is an original television series, not an adaptation or reboot of pre-existing characters. All characters were created for the show, thus there is no prior canon from which a gender swap could occur.

T.J. Hooker is an original television series from the 1980s, not an adaptation of prior source material, a biopic, or a reboot of pre-existing characters. Therefore, no characters had an established race before the show's creation that could be subject to a race swap.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.2

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.1
The Movie Database logo
6.4

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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