T.J. Hooker (TV Series) Too Late for Love (1983) User Reviews

The Fast and the Furriest

[Fluke_Skywalker · 6/10 · 27 June 2017]

Plot; A cabal of fur coat thieves include a beautiful young fashion model, a love interest of Hooker's partner officer Romano.

Fur coat thieves. Not exactly the stuff of hard hitting crime drama. But despite this seemingly...fluffy...premise and the hammier aspects of the series (like Bill Shatner running and tumbling at the drop of a hat), isn't quite the cheesefest it would seem to be. Make no mistake, this ain't Hill Street Blues, but neither is it Poochinski. As always, Shatner makes everything better. Well, maybe not Heather Locklear's acting.

Too late for Love

[coltras35 · 6/10 · 29 August 2022]

Romano falls in love with a fashion model (Barbara Stock), but Hooker believes a cop and a fashion model doesn't mix. Here, Hooker comes across a little judgemental and grumpy, but later he gets suspicious. When he learns that she's in league with a member of a ruthless ring of fur coat thieves, he tells Romano, but predictably it falls on deaf ears and he gets a punch in the mouth for his trouble.

Quite a decent episode with Thom Christopher ( Hawk from Buck Rogers) making a guest appearance. Barbara Stock oozes hotness. You can understand why Romano goes ga-ga over her. Some ok action scenes, hooker on top of a van while the crooks are threatening to throw Stock out is a standout scene.

Naughty Girls Need Love Too

[JasonDanielBaker · 6 April 2014]

Veteran cop Sgt. T.J.Hooker (William Shatner) and his young partner Vince Romano (Adrian Zmed) just happen to be in the local garment district when armed burglars heist fur coats from a struggling furrier. The hostage they take to get away just happens to be Romano's supermodel ex-girlfriend Amy (Barbara Stock). All evidence suggests she was in on it.

A love interest blatantly using a hero cop whilst engaged in criminal enterprise is a tired TV cop show cliché. This show had all of the most melodramatic cop show clichés at one time or another and handled them reasonably well. But if the series ever broke any new ground I never saw it.

At very least the Amy character had some subtext which hinted at her beginnings and what her ambitions had become. Few episodes of the show ever really delved in to the psyche of the criminal balancing out the narrative. It was almost exclusively an unsubtle indefatigable good vs murky evil dialectic and villains carried with them an 'otherness' for lack of a better word.

This episode is chiefly of interest for its superior list of guest-stars which included Barbara Stock, MC Gainey, Thom Christopher and Theresa Saldana. These are excellent actors who sadly weren't given much of a script to work with.

It wasn't very often that a female guest star on this show was better looking than series regular Heather Locklear. Barbara Stock was, and the tall, dark, voluptuous starlet was one of about a thousand TV crushes I had growing up.