Our cable service was playing up again the other night so the only channels that were working were the 'on demand' channels, so we really had no choice but to watch another episode of T J Hooker.
(I realise we could have done something else but we'd already played three rounds of Barry Norman's film quiz and it was raining outside)
We selected an episode based on the ridiculous title 'Sweet Sixteen....and Dead' as that promised the camp melodrama the show excels at. The story involved two teen runaways who had become 'working girls' and witnessed a city official being bribed by a pimp. The pimp then set his henchman (a wonderfully Afro-ed thug) after the girls to eliminate them. Pretty serious stuff.
Ignoring Shatner's poor acting (a difficult task - he was hard to distinguish from a line of trees at one point, such is his wooden style), the gravity of the main plot was undermined by the frivolity of the subplot. Light-hearted subplots occur in several shows, for example Monk usually involves a sideline about the Captain, Randy or Monk's assistant.
The sub-plot involved girl scount cookies, namely Romano being tricked into selling them for Hooker's daughter. It was too much of a contrast with the main plot, given almost as much screentime and frankly, it took the biscuit!
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