Editing Heather Locklear (section)

===1982-1992: Breakthrough with ''Dynasty'' and ''T.J. Hooker''===
In 1982, Locklear began a long term association with television producer [[Aaron Spelling]]. First, she was cast in a recurring role as [[Sammy Jo Dean]] on Spelling's ''[[Dynasty (1981 TV series)|Dynasty]]''. The following year, while still appearing on ''Dynasty'', Locklear took on a starring role as Officer Stacy Sheridan on the police drama ''[[T.J. Hooker]]''. She would shuffle between both series until 1986, when ''T.J. Hooker'' was cancelled; after that, Locklear became a full-time member of the cast of ''Dynasty'' and would stay with the series until its conclusion in 1989. 

At a fan convention in Florida in 2024, Locklear described how the process of moving her from series to series worked:
{{cquote|I'd be in my police uniform, padded bra, all that s***, and then I'd have to be all glammed up, and they’d drive me to the Dynasty set, and so it kind of went back and forth...I just had two jobs!<ref>[https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/19488/heather-locklear-dynasty-t-j-hooker-joan-collins-william-shatner-tom-cruise-tommy-lee/ Heather Locklear Talks ‘Dynasty,’ ‘T.J. Hooker,’ Joan Collins & Not Really Dating Tom Cruise at 90s Con, Sept. 16, 2024, by Gabrielle Moss]</ref>|}}

Following ''Dynasty'''s success, Locklear appeared in her first starring film as [[Drew Barrymore]]'s mother in ''[[Firestarter (1984 film)|Firestarter]]'' (1984). 

Locklear had a leading role in the 1989 film ''[[The Return of Swamp Thing]]'', for which she won the satirical [[Razzie Award]] for Worst Actress).<ref name="razzie">{{cite web|url= http://www.razzies.com/asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=29|title= Razzie Awards 1989|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160104201355/http://www.razzies.com/asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=29|archive-date= January 4, 2016|df= mdy-all|publisher=Razzies Awards}}</ref> She also starred in the short-lived sitcom ''[[Going Places (American TV series)|Going Places]]'' created for the [[TGIF (TV programming block)|TGIF]] block. It was her "first time filming in front of a live audience", she said in an interview with [[Barry Roskin Blake]] on [[Inside Entertainment]] in 1990.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsYiDUez76M Heather Locklear And Barry Roskin Blake Inside Entertainment 1990, YouTube]</ref>