T.J. Hooker Assigned to the Big Screen

T.J. Hooker is primed to drop his pension and come out of retirement to resume patrol in a larger neighborhood.

Variety is reporting David Foster and Ryan Heppe, currently working on another “why?” remake of Short Circuit, have teamed with series creator Rick Husky to produce a big screen version of T.J. Hooker as an “action comedy” centered around the title character and his father.


T.J. Hooker ran five seasons and starred William Shatner as the venerable cop, a very blond Heather Locklear unafraid to don short shorts, Adrian Zmed, Richard Herd and James Darren.

Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson, also working on Short Circuit, are on board to pen the script with Chuck Russell of The Scorpion King fame in negotiations to direct.

I put the odds of Shatner placing a phone call to play the “father” character at or around 1 to 1.

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