The Name

I loved watching this great show and had, myself, wondered what "T.J." stood for. Interesting.

Though in one episode they refer to the "Los Angeles County Sheriff's" while discussing a case outside thier fictional city of "L.C." Also, Sharon Stone guest starred on an episode and was a Detective with the "Hollywood PD" as in Hollywood, California. Another fictional police dept. When James Darren became Heather Locklear's partner, and episodes after that, he occasionally makes comments on how he used to work "upstate" for San Fransisco PD, before transferring to the LCPD. Did we really think he was going to leave in the middle of season 4 to be a professor at a college, nah. What I did not agree with was the end of season 4, when Adrian Zmed left the show, but they make absolutely NO reference to it in the series! No goodbye party, no drama, nothing. Hooker is "on temporary assignment" in Chicago helping them out, as if Chicago PD detectives did not have enogh man power in 1985. At the end of the episode, he makes a comment that he got his "gold shield" (promoted to detective) and stays in Chicago to help them out for a while. In the beginning of season 5, he is back in uniform mninus his partner Romano, like nothing happened. The whole season 5 they do not make reference or comment of the vacany of Vince Romano. It was exposed after the series ended that they attempted to film a season 6 with the return of Vince Romano, who returns to LCPD after transfering to Philadelpia, PA police, to live in his hometown to help his ailing mother (who is mentioned to be dead in the very first episode of the show, just his brother and dad are alive at the time) and he apparently married his high school sweetheart back home, and is now divorced. Anyway, it was supposed to pick up and continue with Romano's return. They were also supposed to kill off Richard Herd as Captain Sheridan that season. Damn useless information, where do I get it from?????????