Hooked On T.J. Hooker

Hooked On T.J. Hooker

A podcast dedicated to the amazingly fascinating copaganda show T.J. Hooker (1982 - 1986) hosted by Eric Szyszka and Ben Worcester. Hear the guys and the occasional guest star discuss William Shatner in all of his glory. Anything you hear may be used against you in a court of law.

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April 30, 2025 82 mins

WARNING: Gun shots are used in this episode. We will be discontinuing them going forward! Now that that's out of the way, on this new edition of Hooked on T.J. Hooker we investigate the backdoor pilot episode Hollywood Starr! Sharon Stone guest stars as Dani Starr. She's a detective in the faraway town of Hollywood. Hooker transports a criminal and loses him then forces himself into Starr's case and life. Starr has a pet turtle and...

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Hooked on T.J. Hooker has returned with a love story called Love Story! It’s Los Santos, so even a romantic episode about Hooker meeting a lady has to still be about a rape/rob/murder gang. Hey, Miguel Ferrer! Romano sidelined! Corrigan sidelined! Stacy sidelined! Whale pendant! Whale… restaurant? Bee corpse!!! We also talk the State of the Pod, flattering invitations, and how we will try to move forward.

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September 29, 2024 82 mins

Has T.J. Hooker been taking bribes and writing bad checks all over town? Our hero battles Internal Affairs and an evil prostitution and heroin peddling Las Vegas crime syndicate. It’s a good episode, folks, and on Tubi! Meanwhile Romano and Corrigan are helping an illegal immigrant (I’m mentioning this plot-line for the algorithm - it loves talk about “the illegals.”) This episode is dedicated to James Darren. We salute you as anot...

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July 27, 2024 71 mins

We apologize for audio inconsistencies on this episode but we're here! And you thought we'd never be back. Well, here we are! It's Outcall! This is an episode about Chinatown, Vietnamese death squads, massage parlors and a fella named "Blood." So much to unpack here including T.J. vs a snake. Plus we travel to the world of Teej Peaks. Tune in and tune out. 

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June 4, 2024 72 mins

We're back in blue with a great episode on "Trackdown." Robert Hatch (Tom Zarek, Captain Apollo, Robert Marshall) is our killer of the week and he sure does love what he does. Hooker is an eternal force dating back before the founding of Los Santos. We hope you enjoy and we hope it gels! 

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December 22, 2023 87 mins

Merry Bluemas, Bluesuits! It's a new episode of your favorite T.J. Hooker recap show, Hooked on T.J. Hooker! The episode in question is The Surrogate where Old Teej is trailing a woman killer - specifically he kills women who cheat on their husbands AND listen to a Dr. Ruth-like Radio Sex Show. And guess who gets to have sex with the Dr. Ruth stand in played by Belinda Montgomery? You guessed it - Old Teej. Plus things get steamy b...

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June 29, 2023 75 mins

We are back in the squad car and putting Stacy on the streets as bait. We're also learning a lot about the vanished Hooker family! Learn what Fran, Tommy, and Chrissie have been up to! Plus the Mall! Hot dogs! Chinese food! Answering machines! We're firmly in 1985.

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Enjoy a brief vacation on Long Island with this 2011 episode on the once popular conspiracy theory: The Montauk Project. 

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Warning: This episode of 1984 television uses the word "Gypsy" ad nauseam. Due to that, it is in clips and said several times throughout the show. We apologize for any preceived insensitivity. With that in mind, sit back and enjoy Tori Spelling, Delta Burke, and Andrew Jupin on this episode!

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We time warp back to this 2013 episode as the squad car receives new shocks. 

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January 31, 2023 69 mins

We got death squad leading mercenaries prowling Los Santos raping and robbing women who use ATMs. Big yikes. So strap into the squad car and let's talk Law and Order SVU style barbarism with a dash of God. Yes, T.J. Hooker obviously knows a priest who is a victim... leading to a confession. 

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December 6, 2022 79 mins

The squad car rides again. Corrigan's brain gets broken and he starts beating people. A serial killer strangler walks the streets of Los Santos. We dredge the depths of the T.J. Past. And there's even mud wrestling. This episode has it all. 

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We talked about the moon landing and how it's possibly fake on this BIOOS Classic, case file #6901. Come for the illuminating information, stay for the joke references to the 2012 Presidential Election.

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Fresh from November 27th, 2012 it's Blame It On Outer Space! Featuring a favorite guest, Justin J. Case discussing if the Government has musicians killed.  Could there be more at play here than drugs? Which brand of toilet is best for Americans abroad? And apologies for the negative remarks regarding the Juggalo community, we have since realized these were wrong. 

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August 22, 2022 77 mins

This episode was recorded in a field.

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As the 10 year anniversary looms, we bring you a classic episode of Blame It On Outer Space. For those unfamiliar, this was the original podcast in which Eric Szyszka and Ben Worcester collaborated. Whenever we miss a show, we will upload a BIOOS Classic. Original air date: November 14th, 2012. It's case file #7839 - The Reptilian Agenda. Pull up a couch and fill your mug with a tall glass of water and tune into our Conspiracy Theo...

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May 19, 2022 60 mins
The squad pod car rolls into a banger of an episode, it's Target: Hooker! Old Teej is targeted by a friend of a man he sent up the river. So naturally this involves fire bombs and car explodey shenanigans! Vince Romano loses his eyesight, girlfriend (Toasty!), and nearly everything in a heated act of revenge. We hang out by a power plant, the Scandals club, Bill Maher's house, and find a few locations based on clues hidden in lands...
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March 28, 2022 70 mins
We're lost in the weeds of a barebones T.J. Hooker episode. Jim Brown does respawn as the guest star but he doesn't want to be there. He teams up with Teej to take down a heroin ring but learns even his own family is entangled in its webs. Then the spiders come. We're putting up a picture of William Shatner from the movie “Kingdom of the Spiders” on TJHookerPodcast.com 
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This month on the show we're joined by Angelica Jade Bastién (Vulture, HBO Max's Station Eleven podcast) to talk about a crazy episode of T.J. Hooker. Dennis Franz plays a pornographer and folks, he nails it. Heather Thomas does not nail her turn as Sandy the criminal partner of Hooker but at least porn ring enforcer Moloch thrills us with his shotgun antics. Join us as we navigate these bumpy roads of 1980's television.
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January 27, 2022 75 mins
On this episode we triumphantly return to the squad pod car and hit the reds. Cats come out of the bag. Secrets are revealed. Romano gets set on fire. Hooker gets laid. This is a big episode full of spills and thrills. Policenauts and police nuts get stimulated. “Bonnie and Clyde” hit a few banks, steal a car, and we all debate “hot pursuits” - should cops actually chase people? This commentator says no. 
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