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Season guide

T. J. Hooker: Season 2

22 episodes Premiered Sep 25, 1982
Previously on T. J. Hooker

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of T. J. Hooker Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (5): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (17): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Second Chance

Sep 25, 1982

The murder of a dancer who has had a lock of her hair cut off signifies to Hooker that a serial killer he pursed eight years previously is back in operation. Hooker is concerned fo

S2·E2 Core

King of the Hill

Oct 2, 1982

The latest in a series of armed robberies on super-markets leaves a young cashier possibly paralysed when the thieves take her hostage and then push her from their speeding car to

S2·E3 Core

The Empty Gun

Oct 16, 1982

Two armed juveniles rob a liquor store, and the ensuing Police pursuit results in an Officer being shot dead. Romano waits until the killer is out of bullets before he corners and

S2·E4 Core

Blind Justice [a.k.a. Blind Watch]

Oct 23, 1982

When two thugs rob a cinema box office, leaving the cashier seriously wounded, a passing woman is the only witness. Hooker tries to question her on what she saw, only to find that

S2·E5 Core

Big Foot

Oct 30, 1982

When a man attacks and rapes a young female jogger, Hooker and Romano find themselves on the trail of a serial rapist who has left behind only one clue: a size 13 shoe-print.

S2·E6 Core

Terror at the Academy

Nov 6, 1982

When a highly-trained sniper takes out a patrol car's front tyre, sending it crashing off the highway, the tactics used suggest to Hooker and Romano that the attacker is an ex-Viet

S2·E7 Core

The Survival Syndrome

Nov 13, 1982

A traffic hold-up leads by chance to Romano spotting a freshly stolen car, and when he goes to approach, one of the offenders opens fire, badly wounding him. As the juvenile roped

S2·E8 Core

Deadly Ambition

Nov 20, 1982

After a security guard is shot down when trying to stop a diamond vault robbery, the investigating detective is determined to prove that the guard had taken a bribe from the robber

S2·E9 Core

A Cry for Help

Nov 27, 1982

After arresting a teenager who's been left to take the rap for a murder by his fellow gang members, Hooker discovers that the youth is hearing impared. Convinced of the boy's innoc

S2·E10 Core

Thieves' Highway

Dec 4, 1982

Hooker and Romano get caught up in the dispute between an independent trucker and the ruthless wholesaler who is sabotaging the trucker's operations. Against the wishes of his supe

S2·E11 Core

The Connection

Dec 18, 1982

Saving a teenage girl high on drugs from jumping off the high-school roof, Hooker is concerned that there is a new supplier of PCP on the streets that is dealing to the students. W

S2·E12 Core

The Fast Lane

Jan 8, 1983

After a fatal drink-driving crash, Hooker and Romano set out to track down the gang who are making liquor robberies and then selling it to local youths. But Romano has a personal c

S2·E13 Core

Too Late for Love

Jan 15, 1983

As Hooker and Romano pursue a pair of thieves who have stolen a batch of valuable new furs, Hooker rescues the robbers' hostage - a model who turns out to be an ex-girlfriend of Ro

S2·E14 Mytharc

The Decoy

Jan 22, 1983

The latest victim of a serial murderer known as the ""Surfside Killer"" turns out to be a police officer. Stacy, a close friend of the murdered girl, fits the description of each o

S2·E15 Core

The Mumbler

Jan 29, 1983

As Hooker and Romano examine the scene where a trio made an attempt to hold up an armoured bank van, Hooker finds a pigeon leg band dropped by one of the thieves. A pigeon breeding

S2·E16 Core

Vengeance is Mine

Feb 5, 1983

Hooker and Romano are just finishing working on a case with Lt. Paul McGuire, a close friend and colleague of Hooker's, when they respond to a reported rape - in which the victim t

S2·E17 Core

Sweet Sixteen and Dead

Feb 12, 1983

An ex-prostitute is trying to convince a young girl new on the game to give it up, when the pair unwittingly stumble onto a mobster's back-street deal, who with his henchman, goes

S2·E18 Core

Raw Deal

Feb 19, 1983

When Hooker and Romano spot a cocaine deal taking place and intervene, they are surprised to find that the supplier is a family man with no prior convictions. With the help of an o

S2·E19 Mytharc

Requiem for a Cop

Feb 26, 1983

The hunt for a serial arsonist that is torching condemned buildings intensifies when a Private Investigator, who is an ex-cop and an old friend of Hooker's, is murdered. Certain th

S2·E20 Core

The Hostages

Mar 5, 1983

After Hooker and Romano foil an armed robbery committed by a family of robbers, which leaves the father wounded in hospital and the daughter held in custody, the two sons take the

S2·E21 Mytharc

Payday Pirates

Apr 30, 1983

On Stacy's first week of field training, Hooker assigns her to be partnered with tough veteran officer Jim Corrigan, who has low opinion of female cops after his former parter was

S2·E22 Mytharc

Lady in Blue

May 7, 1983

Hooker holds himself personally to blame when a female rookie cop that he trained is seriously wounded in a confrontation with a pair of fleeing gun-shop robbers. With the officer

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