T.J. Hooker/Slay Ride

Slay Ride
Season 3, Episode 12
Airdate	December 17, 1983
Written by	Rick Husky
Directed by	Bruce Kessler
Produced by	Jeffrey Hayes
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T.J. Hooker — Season Three

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Slay Ride is the twelfth episode of the third season of T.J. Hooker, and the thirty-ninth episode overall.

Starring: William Shatner (Sgt. T.J. Hooker), Adrian Zmed (Officer Vince Romano), Heather Locklear (Officer Stacy Sheridan)

and James Darren (Officer Jim Corrigan)

Guest Starring: Robert Dryer (Troy Eldridge), Philece Sampler (Sue Ann Eldridge), John McLiam (Father DeMarco)

and Marjoe Gortner (George Marino)

Co-Starring: Stack Pierce (Eddie Sutton), Sandra Kronemeyer (Barmaid), Betty Ann Carr (Policewoman), Jake Dengel (Danny the Gip), Sharon Hughes (Carlita), Terry Burns (Harv Preston)

Featuring: Charles Knapp (Santa Claus), Fred Daniel Scott (Al Franks), Robert Vega (Intern), Fred D. Scott (Al Franks)

Plot Overview

During the Christmas season, a young couple from Texas goes on an armed robbery spree. They leave their adorable baby girl on a church doorstep, and Stacy becomes attached to her and wants to adopt her. Hooker and his team go after the robbers. Also, Romano and Corrigan try to bring up the spirits of both Stacy (who's mourning a broken romance) and Hooker (who's missing his kids).

Trivia

The Show

This episode is one of several episodes that are partial remakes of scripts that Rick Husky previously wrote for other series. In this case, it's a redo of the The Mod Squad episode "Shockwave", from that series' fourth season. Here, Husky added the Christmas elements and also gave the episode a somewhat happier ending... The Mod Squad episode ends with Julie walking away from the church crying when she learns she cannot adopt the baby.