Hooperman

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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	Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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
External links
IMDb profile
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.