- Hooperman
infobox television
show_name = Hooperman
caption =
format =Comedy /Drama
runtime = 30 min.
creator =Steven Bochco
Terry Louise Fisher
starring =John Ritter
Felton Perry
Debrah Farentino
Dan Lauria
Barbara Bosson
Joseph Gian
country = USA
executive_producer =Robert M. Myman
network = ABC
opentheme = "Hooperman Theme" byMike Post
camera =
first_aired =September 23 1987
last_aired =July 26 1989
num_episodes = 42
num_seasons = 2
tv_com_id = 380
imdb_id = 0092373
website ="Hooperman" is a U.S. television series starring
John Ritter . It ran for two seasons on ABC, from 1987 to 1989. A comedy-drama, the series was created bySteven Bochco andTerry Louise Fisher who were the team responsible for creating "L.A. Law ".Ritter played San Francisco plainclothes police officer "Harry Hooperman". In the first episode, Hooperman inherits the rundown apartment building he lives in when his elderly landlady is killed. He also inherits her temperamental pet
Jack Russell terrier , Bijoux. Due to the demands of his job as a police officer, he hires Susan Smith (played byDebrah Farentino ) to be the building manager, and the pair become romantically involved.Also starring on the show was Alix Elias as the cheerful and bubbly police dispatcher, Betty Bushkin;
Barbara Bosson was Hooperman's divorced superior, Capt. Celeste "C.Z." Stern; Harry's partner, Inspector Clarence McNeil (Felton Perry); Clarence Felder as redneck inspector Boris "Bobo" Pritzger;Joseph Gian as Rick Silardi, a gay cop, and Sydney Walsh as officer Maureen "Mo" DeMott, his patrol partner intent on "saving" him from being gay by making unwanted passes.Dan Lauria (later of the series, "The Wonder Years ") played Celeste's former husband, Lou Stern.Like Bochco's other hit series' "
Hill Street Blues " and "L.A. Law ", the theme music was composed byMike Post who would also go on to compose the theme for Bochco's 90s hit series "NYPD Blue ".External links
* [http://hooperman.tvheaven.com Hooperman Page]
*imdb title|id=0092373
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