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T.J. Hooker Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1983 - 1984
Episode 1
The Return
Sat, Oct 1, 198349 mins
The bank robber who killed Hooker's partner 5 years ago returns. And Hooker is determined not to let him get away.
Episode 2
Carnal Express
Sat, Oct 8, 198349 mins
When a girl Hooker and Stacy knows goes missing, she goes undercover as an exotic dancer at a club she applied to.
Episode 3
Chinatown
Sat, Oct 15, 198349 mins
While Hooker is looking for an arms dealer, the trail leads him to Chinatown where he comes face to face with a man whose wife Hooker was involved with years ago, when she thought her husband was dead. Hooker is unaware that this is the actually man he is looking for. While in Chinatown, Hooker also encounters the daughter of the woman, and realizes that, based on the timeframe of their relationship, she could be his child.
Episode 4
The Cheerleader Murder
Sat, Oct 22, 198349 mins
Hooker and Romano set out to break up a porn ring.
Episode 5
The Shadow of Truth
Sat, Oct 29, 198349 mins
Someone trying to kill Lisa Jericho, a reporter who is relentless in her pursuit of the truth and a friend of Hooker. They try to make it appear that one of the persons she was writing about was the target but failed. Hooker senses this and tries to find out who has it in for her.
Episode 6
Walk a Straight Line
Sat, Nov 5, 198349 mins
When a cop is killed, his partner who is an alcoholic tries to get the man but his addiction impedes him. Hooker tries to get him to get help but he won't admit to his problem.
Episode 7
A Child Is Missing
Sat, Nov 12, 198349 mins
A guy who robs a jewelry store also kidnaps his son to get back at his ex-wife. Hooker vows to get the boy back. Hooker thinks the man is in Mexico so he goes there and works with a local cop who's a bit laid back in his approach.
Episode 8
The Trial
Sat, Nov 19, 198349 mins
When Hooker and Romano respond to a robbery with two other cops. Romano and one of the cops who came are shot. And the other cop, a woman is accused of not coming to backing them up, because of an incident from her past. When she is about to face a board of inquiry, she asks Hooker to be her advocate and Romano feels like Hooker is betraying him.
Episode 9
Matter of Passion
Sat, Nov 26, 198349 mins
Hooker probes the death of a girl whose body he found while jogging on the beach.
Episode 10
Blue Murder
Sat, Dec 3, 198349 mins
When several criminals are being gunned down, everyone wonders who is doing it. And when Hooker was with one of them before he was taken out, even he wonders. He gets a line on a possible witness and they find her, she says that the man was killed by a pair of cops. Later they use Hooker to get one of their targets that's when he sets out to get them.
Episode 11
Undercover Affair
Sat, Dec 10, 198349 mins
A cop now a fed whom Hooker knows has gotten close to a major drug dealer. The Feds want to bust on major deal but they're worried that if any of his small operations are busted that he won't push through with the deal so they tell the police to back off but people are dying from his drugs. So Hooker tries to find a way to do both.
Episode 12
Slay Ride
Sat, Dec 17, 198349 mins
Hooker, Romano, Sheridan and Corrigan are staking out a Christmas tree lot. A robbery goes down and as Hooker (dressed as Santa Claus) and Romano move in, Stacy and Jim are cut off by a young couple in a vehicle. As Hooker pursues one of the fleeing men Stacy and Jim move in, and the young couple flees. The same couple later robs a convenience store and shoots the clerk, and the baby they were with is soon abandoned in a church. While the couple, and the robber who escaped Hooker's pursuit, go on a crime spree, Stacy takes the baby into custody so it can be put up for adoption. While visiting the church with the baby, Stacy is confronted by the child's mother - and subsequently, the 2 robbers, just as Hooker, Romano and Corrigan arrive. One of the men - the child's father - tries to take Stacy hostage, but that fails when Stacy sinks her teeth into his arm, forcing him to let go and allow Hooker a clear shot. As Corrigan and Romano arrest him, the second robber flees in a car, and Hooker pursues him. After a wild car chase through hilly terrain, the thief loses control and crashes, allowing Hooker to catch up and arrest him.
Episode 13
The Lipstick Killer
Sat, Jan 7, 198449 mins
A series of young nurses are being murdered and a witness places another nurse at the scene. Hooker discovers some similarities to a previous case he had worked 6 years before, but the killer was never apprehended. It is soon discovered that the suspect may not be a woman at all, but a man dressing as a woman - specifically, a nurse. Hooker consults a young psychiatrist to develop a profile of the killer, but even as that is in the works, the fiend strikes again. Soon, Hooker will confront the fiend known as the 'Lipstick Killer'.
Episode 14
The Snow Game
Sat, Jan 14, 198449 mins
A drug ring is responsible for the execution-style murder of narcotics officer.
Episode 15
Exercise in Murder
Sat, Jan 28, 198449 mins
Stacy disappears while posing as a TV aerobics dance instructor to help crack a series of murders and thefts.
Episode 16
Hooker's Run
Sat, Feb 4, 198449 mins
Hooker tries to get something on a criminal whom they have trouble getting anything on. When the informant he sends gets killed Hooker tries to get his ex, a hooker to testify against him. They later learn that the criminal has someone on the inside looking after him, someone he knew since he was a kid. When the safe house is hit Hooker and the girl go on the run. But they have to find some insulin for her cause she's a diabetic.
Episode 17
Hot Property
Sat, Feb 25, 198449 mins
Hooker and his colleagues take part in a drugs raid at a scrapyard. Afterwards, the body of a policeman is found; he wasn't involved in the raid and Hooker begins to suspect the officer was corrupt. Meanwhile, Stacy, who logged in the heroin seized, crosses paths with her former fiance, a lawyer who (unbeknown to her) has links to the same drugs gang. When he engineers a switch whilst the drugs are in transit to the LCPD laboratory, Stacy is suspended and eventually decides to quit the force. Hooker must solve the case, whilst saving both Stacy's career and her life.
Episode 18
Death on the Line
Sat, Mar 3, 198449 mins
The latest victim of the Marina Rapist - and the first to survive - is known to Hooker, but she resists his request to admit what really happened for fear of losing her boyfriend. Even when one suspect is killed whilst trying to escape a crime scene, Hooker isn't convinced the Marina Rapist's crime career is concluded.
Episode 19
Death Strip
Sat, Mar 10, 198449 mins
To uncover a drug ring, Romano is working undercover as a stripper. His informant in the club is murdered but the murderer is killed running from the club. Hooker and Romano are determined to find out who ordered the killing. It turns out that the murder is over a photograph that shows a drug deal. A new shipment of drugs leads Hooker and the team to a shoot out with the dealers. The dealers manage to escape but are on the run. A tip off leads to a shootout and a successful conclusion.
Episode 20
Psychic Terror
Sat, Mar 24, 198449 mins
Hooker and the team are investigating a kidnapped girl. The family employ a psychic to help them find her. Hooker is ordered to work with the psychic but he is very sceptical of her abilities. She seems to be able to see where the child is but she also keeps seeing Hooker being shot. The team manage to determine who the likely kidnappers are but it is a matter of finding them in time. Hooker acts as bait to eventually save the girl.
Episode 21
Gang War
Sat, May 5, 198449 mins
Hooker and the department have been working on getting two Hispanic gangs to settle their differences. But when an attempt is made on one the gang leaders and the ones who did it were wearing the colors of the other gang but the other gang swears they didn't do it. But when more attempts on other gang members are made a war is brewing. Hooker tries to get them to calm down. What they don't know is that an arms dealer wants them to go to war so he can sell them weapons.
Episode 22
Deadlock
Sat, May 12, 198449 mins
Hooker and Romano come across what appears to be a robbery in progress. they go in and when they confirm it, they try to call for back up but some kids who were spray painting take the cruiser leaving them with no way to call for back up. They confront them and eventually Romano is hit and Hooker gets trapped in the elevator with one of them with no ammunition.
