By this time in the series Romano was shot at least twice. Once in the shoulder once in the gut clearly during this episode you can see no scars
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Romano
michael-campbell-297-54162920 August 2020
Romano Gets His Shorts Stuffed
JasonDanielBaker4 April 2014
Officer Vince Romano (Adrian Zmed) goes undercover as a male stripper to investigate a cocaine ring dealing out of a club called 'The Male Room' (...Really?! C'mon! You gotta come up with a better name than that!). The whistle blower is the ex-girlfriend of Toby (Nicholas Campbell) a male stripper who is also a coke dealer.
Toby kills her before she can give Romano photo evidence on the ring. But she is able to forward the evidence to her deaf sister who holds it for Romano. Veteran cop Sgt. T.J.Hooker (William Shatner) and Romano's other colleagues Officer Jim Corrigan (James Darren) and Officer Stacy Sheridan (Heather Locklear) help him follow up and discover a past association that ties the ring together.
Adrian Zmed had portrayed Hooker's young partner Vince Romano and much of his job was to entice a young female audience in to watching the show. The most overt attempt at pandering to women was this episode wherein he was called upon to strip down to a speedo. But ultimately a violent cop show with a chunky fifty-plus actor (William Shatner) portraying the title character around which the show revolves has a low-ceiling of appeal to that audience. Women may have watched this one episode and then never tuned in again.
Heather Locklear was seen to be going undercover as a stripper (a clip of which became a part of the opening credits montage), a porn actress, a prostitute and a fashion model during her run on the series. Young guys like me understandably had little problem with that. It didn't appear as sensationalistic to guys as it did to women particularly back in the mid 1980s.
As far as seeing guys strip men tend to be put off by it and I speak from experience. But I don't look at it as objectification or exploitation. A lot of women sure seem to like those words when it comes to expressing disapproval of seeing females in various states of undress. As a guy I am comfortable with saying I find male nudity gross. I don't need to attach words like 'objectification' or 'exploitation'. I am secure enough to state my real, selfish, petty reason.
Toby kills her before she can give Romano photo evidence on the ring. But she is able to forward the evidence to her deaf sister who holds it for Romano. Veteran cop Sgt. T.J.Hooker (William Shatner) and Romano's other colleagues Officer Jim Corrigan (James Darren) and Officer Stacy Sheridan (Heather Locklear) help him follow up and discover a past association that ties the ring together.
Adrian Zmed had portrayed Hooker's young partner Vince Romano and much of his job was to entice a young female audience in to watching the show. The most overt attempt at pandering to women was this episode wherein he was called upon to strip down to a speedo. But ultimately a violent cop show with a chunky fifty-plus actor (William Shatner) portraying the title character around which the show revolves has a low-ceiling of appeal to that audience. Women may have watched this one episode and then never tuned in again.
Heather Locklear was seen to be going undercover as a stripper (a clip of which became a part of the opening credits montage), a porn actress, a prostitute and a fashion model during her run on the series. Young guys like me understandably had little problem with that. It didn't appear as sensationalistic to guys as it did to women particularly back in the mid 1980s.
As far as seeing guys strip men tend to be put off by it and I speak from experience. But I don't look at it as objectification or exploitation. A lot of women sure seem to like those words when it comes to expressing disapproval of seeing females in various states of undress. As a guy I am comfortable with saying I find male nudity gross. I don't need to attach words like 'objectification' or 'exploitation'. I am secure enough to state my real, selfish, petty reason.
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