ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that closet television provides a useful rubric through which to understand a cluster of related television phenomena, including unaired pilots, lost episodes of series, and non-conventionally archived programming. With an emphasis on affective attachments to such material, the chapter turns to a close reading of police procedural Hooperman, the explicitly gay aspects of whose representations contribute to a multivalent queerness far more curious than what its gayness, narrowly construed, appears to accomplish. In the process, the chapter advocates the rewards of close(t) attention to now closet(ed) television, mostly inaccessible and largely viewed in coterie or solitary ways.
