22 episodes in the catalogue. Explore the stories and air dates, then choose an episode to open FRAME’s player.
Air date: 1983-10-01 · 60 min
Hooker, still haunted by the murder of his former partner five years previously, is determined to catch an un-apprehendable band of bank robbers whose leader matches the description and tactics used by the his partner's killer.
Open episode 1 ↗Air date: 1983-10-08 · 60 min
When a young female singer whom Hooker has got cleaned up on a drug reform program is kidnapped, Stacy goes to work undercover as an exotic dancer at the club that they suspect to be a front for a white slavery ring that is dealing in attractive young women.
Open episode 2 ↗Air date: 1983-10-15 · 60 min
While Hooker is looking for an arms dealer, the trail leads him to Chinatown where he comes face to face with a man whose wife Hooker was involved with years ago, when she thought her husband was dead. Hooker is unaware that this is the actually man he is looking for. While in Chinatown, Hooker also encounters the daughter of the woman, and realizes that, based on the timeframe of their relationship, she could be his child.
Open episode 3 ↗Air date: 1983-10-22 · 60 min
The murder of a high school cheerleader leads Hooker to an illegal abortion clinic and a pornographic film ring.
Open episode 4 ↗Air date: 1983-10-29 · 60 min
Two separate murders occur near a muckraking reporter, and Hooker suspects that she was the target.
Open episode 5 ↗Air date: 1983-11-05 · 60 min
An alcoholic officer interrupts Hooker's stakeout to seek revenge on the robber who wounded his partner.
Open episode 6 ↗Air date: 1983-11-12 · 60 min
A guy who robs a jewelry store also kidnaps his son to get back at his ex-wife. Hooker vows to get the boy back. Hooker thinks the man is in Mexico so he goes there and works with a local cop who's a bit laid back in his approach.
Open episode 7 ↗Air date: 1983-11-19 · 60 min
Romano feels betrayed when Hooker defends an officer charged with cowardice in an incident that left Romano wounded.
Open episode 8 ↗Air date: 1983-11-26 · 60 min
Hooker probes the death of a girl whose body he found while jogging on the beach, which leads Hooker to a drug money laundering ring.
Open episode 9 ↗Air date: 1983-12-03 · 60 min
When a pimp who has escaped charge on a technicality is shot dead, Hooker and Romano are on the alert for a vigilante group. But when a prostitute who witnessed the killing tells them that the killers were cops, it becomes apparent that two officers from an adjoining Police precinct are taking the law into their own hands.
Open episode 10 ↗Air date: 1983-12-10 · 60 min
Hooker is suspended when his pursuit of heroin pushers interferes with federal agents who are after the ring's supplier.
Open episode 11 ↗Air date: 1983-12-17 · 60 min
Stacy becomes emotionally attached to a sick baby abandoned by a couple involved in armed robberies.
Open episode 12 ↗Air date: 1984-01-07 · 60 min
A series of young nurses are being murdered and a witness places another nurse at the scene. Hooker discovers some similarities to a previous case he had worked 6 years before, but the killer was never apprehended. It is soon discovered that the suspect may not be a woman at all, but a man dressing as a woman - specifically, a nurse.
Open episode 13 ↗Air date: 1984-01-14 · 60 min
Hooker and Corrigan go undercover as drug dealers to nail the kingpins of a cocaine ring.
Open episode 14 ↗Air date: 1984-01-28 · 60 min
In pursuit of a trio of diamond thieves who escape via helicopter, Hooker is devastated when he accidentally shoots a 9 year old boy, leaving the youngster critical in hospital. Meanwhile, Corrigan is concerned when his steady girlfriend Jill starts acting strangely before abruptly breaking off their relationship. The girl is actually being blackmailed by the trio of robbers; and when her body is found washed up from the ocean, Stacy goes undercover at the aerobics gym where Jill worked to try and get a lead, endangering herself in doing so.
Open episode 15 ↗Air date: 1984-02-04 · 60 min
An inside leak in the investigation of a crime boss causes an informant's death and endangers a witness.
Open episode 16 ↗Air date: 1984-02-25 · 60 min
Stacy's future, which includes prospects of marriage, looks bright until she is implicated in the disappearance of two kilograms of heroin from a major bust.
Open episode 17 ↗Air date: 1984-03-03 · 60 min
Although the man implicated in a series of rapes and robberies is dead, Hooker isn't convinced the case is closed.
Open episode 18 ↗Air date: 1984-03-10 · 60 min
Romano poses as a stripper in a club where the owner and a dancer are suspects in a cocaine ring.
Open episode 19 ↗Air date: 1984-03-24 · 60 min
A psychic who predicts Hooker's death also helps him search for a kidnapped girl.
Open episode 20 ↗Air date: 1984-05-05 · 60 min
With two barrio gangs threatening to launch an all out war, Hooker pursues the real cause of unrest — an illegal arms dealer who would profit handsomely.
Open episode 21 ↗Air date: 1984-05-12 · 60 min
After interrupting a weapons heist, Romano is wounded and Hooker – who knows his own revolver is empty – is trapped in an elevator in a guns drawn test of wills with one of the thieves.
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