Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Second, as yet another cop—Officer Carl Winslow—on the TGIF sitcom Family Matters, which ran as part of ABC’s Friday night lineup for almost a decade starting in 1989. Advertisement More recently, VelJohnson has reprised yet another role: That of one-time Detective David “Dave” Sutton for the new Disney+ reboot of Turner & Hooch. VelJohnson first played the role opposite Tom Hanks and a slobbery dog in the 1989 film, and has come back—albeit as an elected official—for the television series. The A.V. Club talked to him about that role, as well as a number of others from his long and varied career