Hooperman is an ABC television series starring John Ritter that had a two-year run from 1987 to 1989. It is perhaps best categorised as comedy-drama.

Ritter played San Francisco plainclothes police officer Harry Hooperman. Hooperman owns a rundown apartment building together with his girlfriend Susan Smith (played by Debrah Farentino) and his dog Bijoux - a Jack Russell terrier.

Also starring on the show was Alix Elias as the cheerful and bubbly police dispatcher, Betty Bushkin; Barbara Bosson was Hooperman's divorced superior, Capt. Celeste "C.Z" Stern; Harry's partner, Inspector Clarence McNeil (Felton Perry); Clarence Felder as redneck inspector Bobo Pritzger; and Joseph Gian as Rick Silardi, a gay cop, who had to fend off unwanted advances by his partner, Maureen "Mo" DeMott, (Sydney Walsh).

The show was filmed rather than taped, giving it a better production quality than many conventional (i.e., studiobound) sitcoms. The brainchild of Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue) and Terry-Louise Fisher (L.A. Law), the show was good-natured and often quite funny. The main theme was composed by Mike Post.

Free-wheeling San Francisco cop Harry Hooperman inherits a run down apartment building, and the building owner's mean, hateful and just plain annoying dog Bijoux. Not having the time to maintain the building and tend to his police work, Hooperman hires feisty aspiring writer Susan Smith as his superintendent/maintenance person. He and Smith soon begin a relationship, and the series chronicles the ups and downs of the relationship, along with Hooperman's efforts as a policeman. Written by Jason A. Cormier