I have been watching old TJ Hooker shows on Universal HD Channel.
In the episode Requiem for a Cop (with David Carusso as an arsonist) Carusso planted a bomb in hookers car.
I saw the same explosion scene in another episode with slight dialogue editing, unfortionately I missed the name of that episode.
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I saw that episode to. I saw another show, where Stacy and Corrigan jumped out of a car that went off the same parking structure and flipped exactlly the same, but I thought it was a different car.
shareI am glad I'm not the only one that noticed them re-using footage. The bomb on the police car was reused and you could tell because Romano's hair was different the next season.
The car jumping off the parking lot to the ground I think was the same scene re used.
Also I believe they reused a scene where Hooker and Romano chase a guy into a junkyard and get an assist from a helicopter at night to catch him. I just saw this episode and I believe they used it twice also.
I know there are long shots of the police cars they re-use. My favorite one is where they are chasing someone and make a hard left turn past Safeway.
I still love this show and wish they would release the rest of the seasons on DVD. HD Universal does not even show uncut episodes.
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If you freeze the DVR just as the car turns on its side, you can see the helmet of the stunt driver. If the impact with the front of that station wagon was the cause of the flip, that station wagon did not even move a bit. Frontal impacts like that would not cause the car to flip over. CHIPS loved those phony car flips on many shows.
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Cops my only shoot at fleeing felon's if they have reason to believe that their escape poses an immediate threat to the life or lifes of the public. It would have to be a violent felony. In Hoooker's case, it ususally is. It is true that most cops go through a 30 year career never discharging their firearm other than on the range. None of the officer's wear a bullet proof vest on that show and they were being used in Law Enforcement way before the Hooker show came to life. Yet every one of the characters have been shot more than once. Guess they didn't learn the first times.
I've never hear of a car exploding after a crash. Sometimes they catch fire, but don't explode. The other day, I saw Ramono warn Hooker that the guy was shooting at the gas tank of the car Hooker was taking cover behind. The guy was shooting at the area of the fuel door, even though the gas tank is under the car. Had the tank actually been shoot, it still would not explode, but in this case it did.
Nothing is realistic on Hooker,but just for entertainment purposes. If they had a law enforcement tech adviser on that show, he or she knew nothing about actual police work. Just a fun show to watch!
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Saw them all wearing a vest the other day for the first time, but they were assisting the SWAT team at a junk yard on a raid. They were all in SWAT uniforms with vests on outside their uniforms. They actually had assult rifles instead of 38's or the Remmington 12 guage shot guns.
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They did use the car chase in to the junk yard twice. The episode "The Rip Off" started out with the same chase, with a red Camaro that turns into a red Dodge Charger. They edited out Ramono for the chase, since he was off the show by then. Used the same roof top on "To Kill a Cop" as a previous show, which I can't recall. This was also the same show that shows Hooker shooting the barrel that springs a leak, that was also used before. I guess their budget was pretty tight.
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This one was classic . . . in Season 5 (I believe the episode was "Shootout" or something along those lines), Stacy attends the funeral for a cop who died in her arms. They re-used footage from Season 2's "The Decoy." What makes this one so amusing is that Officer Romano is sitting right next to Stacy during the funeral. In some of the distance shots you can see him sitting next to her, and then when they go for the close-ups, although he's not on screen, his arm is around her. In those same distance shots, you can also see Captain Sheridan sitting at the end of the row near Hooker. They actually use some of the footage where Hooker hands the Captain a folded flag, but they cut the shot short before Sheridan turns around.
So it appears that Romano was in Season Five after all . . .
To add to the list, there was another scene that was reused. A white Dodge Dart goes under a semi trailer and the top is sheered off.
Reuse of scenes was popular in the 70's and 80's to keep production costs down. It was also common to use stock footage. You could see the same scene in a movie as well as a series or two. Viewers are too savvy nowadays. The internet and larger budgets keep production editors honest.
It was the era of stock footage. Reuse stock shots, scenes from other series and films.
I remember an episode of MacGuyver where they used scenes from The Italian Job!
Its that man again!!
What about that long shot of the cruiser driving down the street where the large 50s panel truck moves to the right in front of the red Chevette. I think I've seen in in at least a dozen episodes.
shareIt seems that most action sequences in Season 5 were scenes from all previous seasons. It seems season 5 was made with the lowest possible budget (and it does show).. Binge watching series like that these days makes you painfully aware of the reusage of sets/scenes.. Watch a Starsky and hutch, and you'll see most sets being reused every episode, but with a slightly different look..
shareI hate this about TV, and movies. I saw a michael jackson 1992 concert and for some reason they edited in a shot of a girl crying in the audience and it was from his 1988 concert. I felt so betrayed.
I've also noticed in cheaper shows/movies you'll see the same extras all the time in different episodes.
But for me, the show 'Growing Pains' takes the cake for using actor Dan Lauria (father from wonder years) as two different characters in different episodes. In one he was a guy on the plane with them and his wife goes into labor,and then in another episode he is the sons ice hockey coach and punches the father in the face.
The show also recycled a "grumpy old man" who appeared as different characters in different episodes. It's insulting to the audience's intelligence to recycle actors. TV isn't stage where actors can play multiple roles.