About this season
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
Episodes (22)
1. Overnight Sensation
1.0Aired 27 September 1986 • 60 min
Reporter Raul Mercado has made it his mission to put an end to Hunter's career, putting the detective square in the crosshairs when someone makes an attempt on the reporter's life.
2. Change Partners and Dance
Aired 4 October 1986 • 60 min
Detectives Hunter and McCall must work individually to investigate the killing of a police officer after their new precinct leader separates them.
3. Crime of Passion
Aired 11 October 1986 • 60 min
The seemingly straightforward murder of a woman in the middle of an ugly divorce gets complicated when Hunter and McCall discover that the woman's new boyfriend is involved in another terrible crime.
4. The Castro Connection
Aired 1 November 1986 • 60 min
Hunter and McCall attempt to break a cocaine syndicate, apparently being run by one of Hunter's most trusted ex-partners.
5. High Noon in L.A.
10.0Aired 8 November 1986 • 60 min
Carlos Mariano, brother of a man Hunter murdered in an act of vengeance, arrives in LA looking for his own revenge against Hunter and McCall.
6. From San Francisco With Love
Aired 15 November 1986 • 60 min
A beautiful San Francisco police detective aids Hunter and McCall in solving a series of puzzling murders apparently connected to the estate of a deceased millionaire.
7. True Confessions
Aired 22 November 1986 • 60 min
After a teenage girl dies from a drug overdose during a high school party and the boys who drugged her are released on a technicality, the girl's sister is blamed for the boys' murders.
8. Love, Hate and Sporty James
9.0Aired 6 December 1986 • 60 min
Hunter and McCall try to protect their long-time informant Sporty James from his own greed after he blackmails a ruthless cocaine dealer.
9. The Contract
Aired 13 December 1986 • 60 min
A wealthy woman's gardener is killed when he attempts to save her from a kidnapping, putting Hunter's and McCall's suspicions on high alert when her husband quickly pays the ransom and attempts to avoid an investigation after her safe return.
10. The Cradle Will Rock
Aired 3 January 1987 • 60 min
McCall goes undercover as a dance club singer to solve a murder.
11. Bad Company
Aired 10 January 1987 • 60 min
Facing off against a gang of Neo-Nazis responsible for a deadly robbery, Hunter and McCall get help from an unlikely ally in their attempt to escape the violent terrorists.
12. Down and Under
Aired 17 January 1987 • 60 min
Hunter travels to Australia to help solve a murder case involving a former girlfriend who has been missing for three years.
13. Straight to the Heart
Aired 24 January 1987 • 60 min
Hunter goes on an enforced vacation and falls for a beautiful model staying at his hotel, unaware that she was actually sent to kill him.
14. Requiem for Sergeant McCall
Aired 7 February 1987 • 60 min
McCall lands in hot water after she reopens the case her husband was working when he was killed.
15. Double Exposure
10.0Aired 14 February 1987 • 60 min
McCall goes undercover as a model to investigate a modeling agency's shady practices.
16. The Girl Next Door
Aired 21 February 1987 • 60 min
Hunter and McCall pose as husband and wife to investigate the murder of a young girl whose death exposes a Soviet plot to relocate secret agents in the United States.
17. Any Second Now
Aired 28 February 1987 • 60 min
In this episode, inspired by the chilling and real-life stalking of Theresa Saldana, a psychopath protected by the technicalities of the law makes a pianist's life a living hell while Hunter and McCall spend their off-duty hours desperately trying to protect the victim.
18. A Child is Born
Aired 14 March 1987 • 60 min
McCall wants to adopt a baby girl whose mother was shot and left braindead in a case of mistaken identity.
19. Crossfire
Aired 11 April 1987 • 60 min
McCall fears that Hunter's temper will outweigh his judgement when his former girlfriend is murdered and Hunter thinks he knows the identity of the killer.
20. Hot Pursuit (1)
1.0Aired 2 May 1987 • 60 min
McCall must fight to survive in surgery after an attempt on her life, while rage-blind Hunter confronts the man he believes is responsible for ordering the hit.
21. Hot Pursuit (2)
Aired 9 May 1987 • 60 min
Knowing he has the motive, police in Beverly Hills pin the homicide of Big Jack Hemmings on Hunter, but the detective believes he knows the real culprit.
22. Shades
Aired 18 July 1987 • 60 min
When Hunter disappears during an investigation of organized crime, McCall and her new partner must find him before he's killed.