TMC
04-20-2023, 02:52 AM
http://thelandofwhatever.blogspot.com/2023/04/what-mightve-been-hooperman-1987.html
They say that the word, "dramedy", was coined in reviews of Hooperman (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125301/http://www.jumptheshark.com/h/hooperman.htm), a 2-season comedy-drama from Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher (L. A. Law) for ABC, marking the return of John Ritter after a couple of years spent making movies after Three's a Crowd, the successor to Three's Company, had ended.
Ritter has the title role as San Francisco police inspector Harry Hooperman, who balances his police work with an additional responsibility as a landlord. Barbara Bosson (fresh from Hill Street Blues) is part of the ensemble.
Before we go further, we could retroactively use "dramedy" to describe earlier comedy-dramas such as Room 222 and M*A*S*H, both of which came from the same studio as Hooperman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooperman), 20th Century Fox.
Anyway, in this season 2 installment, Harry gets a little star struck when a filmmaker (special guest star Mark Hamill) decides to use Harry's building for a movie......
I think this marked Hamill's return to primetime, as he had cut his teeth years earlier on the short-lived Texas Wheelers, among others. Of course, his career would come completely full circle three years later, when he did a deep dive into cartoons (i.e. Batman: The Animated Series).
Surprisingly, Hooperman didn't draw any interest from my parents when this was on the air. Their interests laid elsewhere at the time.
They say that the word, "dramedy", was coined in reviews of Hooperman (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125301/http://www.jumptheshark.com/h/hooperman.htm), a 2-season comedy-drama from Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher (L. A. Law) for ABC, marking the return of John Ritter after a couple of years spent making movies after Three's a Crowd, the successor to Three's Company, had ended.
Ritter has the title role as San Francisco police inspector Harry Hooperman, who balances his police work with an additional responsibility as a landlord. Barbara Bosson (fresh from Hill Street Blues) is part of the ensemble.
Before we go further, we could retroactively use "dramedy" to describe earlier comedy-dramas such as Room 222 and M*A*S*H, both of which came from the same studio as Hooperman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooperman), 20th Century Fox.
Anyway, in this season 2 installment, Harry gets a little star struck when a filmmaker (special guest star Mark Hamill) decides to use Harry's building for a movie......
I think this marked Hamill's return to primetime, as he had cut his teeth years earlier on the short-lived Texas Wheelers, among others. Of course, his career would come completely full circle three years later, when he did a deep dive into cartoons (i.e. Batman: The Animated Series).
Surprisingly, Hooperman didn't draw any interest from my parents when this was on the air. Their interests laid elsewhere at the time.