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. Heir of Neglect
9.0Aired 29 October 1988 • 60 min
Hunter investigates the case of a teenage boy who mistakenly shot his parents during what he claimed was a home invasion.
2. The Baby Game
9.0Aired 5 November 1988 • 60 min
Hunter and McCall enter the world of baby brokering when they find the murdered body of an expensive call girl, and a two-year-old toddler left unharmed in front of the woman's television set.
3. Dead on Target (1)
8.0Aired 12 November 1988 • 60 min
While investigating the apparent suicide of Hunter's friend from the Vietnam War, Hunter and McCall uncover a twenty-year-old betrayal with a rising body count.
4. Dead on Target (2)
8.0Aired 19 November 1988 • 60 min
Hunter uncovers a gem-smuggling operation while investigating his war buddy's death.
5. Presumed Guilty
8.0Aired 26 November 1988 • 60 min
McCall finds her loyalties sharply divided when an important murder case being prosecuted by her lover is jeopardized by Hunter, who thinks the defendant is innocent.
6. No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished
8.0Aired 3 December 1988 • 60 min
Mysterious tape recordings accusing a powerful company of illegally dumping toxic waste seem like a prank, until Hunter and McCall find that someone is willing to kill to conceal the truth.
7. Honorable Profession
8.0Aired 10 December 1988 • 60 min
Hunter puts his job on the line when he defends a female officer wounded and possibly killed in the line of duty.
8. Payback
8.0Aired 17 December 1988 • 60 min
Hunter and McCall try to solve a bank robbery and murder, while attempting to cope with the double and triple-crossing schemes of a small time criminal who once saved Hunter's life and won't let him forget it.
9. Partners
8.0Aired 7 January 1989 • 60 min
When the husband of a policewoman is murdered, evidence of wife abuse makes Hunter and McCall suspect the woman's patrol partner who knew about the beatings.
10. The Pit
9.0Aired 14 January 1989 • 60 min
The son of an LAPD dispatcher lands himself in hot water when he accumulates gambling debts.
11. City Under Siege (1)
Aired 4 February 1989 • 60 min
Hunter and McCall track a pair of killers through a Los Angeles suburb where a crime wave and backlash vigilantism threaten to tear the community apart.
12. City Under Siege (2)
Aired 11 February 1989 • 60 min
An escaped killer continues to stalk Hunter; a desperate vigilante fights crime in his neighborhood.
13. City Under Siege (3)
Aired 18 February 1989 • 60 min
Hunter nabs an escaped convict after a neighborhood vigilante is found dead.
14. Me, Myself & Die
Aired 25 February 1989 • 60 min
A woman is the prime suspect in a brutal murder case after she stops taking her experimental medication.
15. Informant
Aired 18 March 1989 • 60 min
An informant to whom Hunter promised anonymity seven years earlier represents himself when his case is re-tried.
16. Blood Line
Aired 1 April 1989 • 60 min
Hunter and McCall follow the trail of revenge and fraud while investigating the murder of a thoroughbred racehorse.
17. Shoot to Kill
Aired 8 April 1989 • 60 min
McCall is suspected of having shot an innocent man during a shootout in an alley and fights to clear her name with help from Hunter and Sporty James. While helping McCall, they discover a ring of jewel thieves.
18. Code 3
Aired 15 April 1989 • 60 min
When a nurse she recently befriended is killed in a car accident related to alcohol just a few days later, McCall suspects foul play. She is even more convinced of that after learning the nurse was pregnant, and would not have mixed alcohol with the morning sickness medication she was taking.
19. Ring of Honor
Aired 29 April 1989 • 60 min
When a series of murders hits the prize-fighting community, a boxing trainer helps Hunter and McCall investigate. Boxing turns deadly when the manager of promising fighter Sonny Ruiz and a doctor are both murdered. Hunter penetrates the world of prizefighting.
20. Teen Dreams
1.0Aired 6 May 1989 • 60 min
Prostitutes are being murdered by a man who lures them disguised as a police officer. When McCall's friend Debbie Small (from the "City Under Siege" saga) returns to the profession, she may be the next target.
21. Last Run
Aired 13 May 1989 • 60 min
Hunter and McCall try to rescue an undercover female agent who was kidnapped during an investigation into money laundering, and have to deal with interference from the girl's father, who's a cop himself.
22. Return of White Cloud
Aired 21 May 1989 • 60 min
Hunter and McCall investigate the murder of an art gallery owner involved in illegal sales of Native American artifacts, and find themselves drawn into a mysterious world of Native American politics.