Netflix Developing a Movie Based on TV Classic T J Hooker

Attention, criminal scum! Your days are numbered, because Los Angeles County’s toughest uniformed officer is about to walk the beat again.

Netflix is developing an action-comedy film based on T. J. Hooker, the classic TV crime drama starring William Shatner as the titular cop.  The movie adaptation is being written by Jarrad Paul and Andy Mogel.

Hooker premiered on ABC in 1982, where it ran for three seasons before moving to CBS for one more season. Shatner starred as former plainclothes detective T.J. Hooker, who decides to return to uniformed police work after his partner is killed in the line of duty. Working alongside newer officers Stacy Sheridan (Heather Locklear), Vince Romano (Adrian Zmed), and Jim Corrigan (James Darren), Hooker dedicates himself to ridding the streets of Los Angeles of dangerous criminals, one collar at a time.

Writers Paul and Mogel — who created Rob Lowe’s woefully short-lived Fox comedy The Grinder — should have no trouble transforming T. J. Hooker into an action-comedy, because the show itself was often hilarious… even if unintentionally. For example, please check out Hooker’s sick baton skills:

Thanks to its melodramatic storylines and Shatner’s over-the-top performance, T. J. Hooker became a pop culture punchline — though Shatner maintained a sense of humor about the show. In 1986, the year Hooker went off the air, the actor reprised the character in a sketch while hosting Saturday Night Live

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