| Hooperman | |
|---|---|
| Format | Comedy/Drama |
| Created by | Steven Bochco Terry Louise Fisher |
| Starring | John Ritter Felton Perry Debrah Farentino Dan Lauria |
| Opening theme | Hooperman Theme by Mike Post |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 42 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Robert M. Myman |
| Running time | 30 min. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | September 23 1987 – July 26 1989 |
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| TV.com summary | |
Hooperman is an ABC television series starring John Ritter that had a two-year run from 1987 to 1989. It is perhaps best categorised as comedy-drama. Ritter played San Francisco plainclothes police officer Harry Hooperman. Hooperman owns a rundown apartment building together with his girlfriend Susan Smith (played by Debrah Farentino) and his dog Bijoux – a Jack Russell terrier. 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 Bobo Pritzger; and Joseph Gian as Rick Silardi, a gay cop, who had to fend off unwanted advances by his partner, Maureen "Mo" DeMott, (Sydney Walsh). The show was filmed rather than taped, giving it a better production quality than many conventional (i.e., studiobound) sitcoms. The brainchild of Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue) and Terry-Louise Fisher (L.A. Law), the show was good-natured and often quite funny. The main theme was composed by Mike Post.
