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Hunter

1984–1991 · Ended · 7 seasons

Drama Crime Adventure Action Thriller Mystery
First aired
Sep 18, 1984
Last aired
Apr 26, 1991
IMDb rating
6.9 / 10 6,467 votes
Recall rating
5.0 / 10 1 rating

Overview

Hunter is an American police television drama created by Frank Lupo, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. It starred Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolved many of their cases by lethal force, but no more so than many other related television dramas.

Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. 2 wins & 7 nominations total

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Episodes

Season 6 · 22 episodes

  • E1 On Air
    Oct 14, 1989 45 min

    A radio show host is being stalked and the men in her life are being murdered. Hunter pretends to be her lover in order to catch the killer.

  • Oct 21, 1989 45 min

    Devane's girlfriend's brother makes a highly publicized visit from Ireland, which is soon discovered to be an assassination plot.

  • Oct 28, 1989 45 min

    After leaving a gang, the former member is the victim of a drive-by shooting.

  • Nov 4, 1989 45 min

    Hunter delivers a baby for Cheryl Donavan, a runaway from San Diego, who decides to name her girl after him. When Cheryl winds up dead, Hunter uncovers a baby-breeding operation that sells infants as though they were property.

  • Nov 11, 1989 45 min

    Hunter and McCall must track down the leader of the White Supremacists after he escapes from prison. Problems arise when a friend of McCall's, her former training officer, tries to help and is charged with obstruction of justice. McCall tries to help him overcome his depression over his loneliness, but she is not able to help in time to prevent his suicide.

  • Nov 18, 1989 45 min
  • Nov 25, 1989 45 min

    Hunter thinks a Vietnamese-American teenager may be his son, and believes the boy when he claims to be an innocent bystander during a car theft that results in a murder.

  • Dec 2, 1989 45 min

    A man is robbing and murdering businessmen when they are taking receipts to the bank. The incompetent rookie assigned to work with Hunter on the case is the son of Hunter's training officer.

  • Dec 9, 1989 45 min

    Hunter and McCall track down a departmental leak in the investigation of a serial killer targeting homosexuals. A local painter confesses to committing all but one of the murders.

  • Jan 6, 1990 45 min

    A young drug user who accidentally murders his pusher and then steals $200,000 in mob money from him is pursued by the pushers' drug supplier; the user's brother tries to save him.

  • Jan 13, 1990 45 min

    McCall returns home to find her young Latino cleaning lady murdered. Old scars on the young woman's body reveal that she was a torture victim.

  • Jan 27, 1990 45 min

    Hunter attempts to protect his high school sweetheart after she witnesses a murder. Her unemployed husband convinces her to take part in blackmail instead of cooperating with Hunter.

  • Feb 3, 1990 45 min

    Hunter's investigation of a murdered cop reveals that the victim was the illegitimate son of a Mafia boss and that the killer was the man's brother.

  • Feb 10, 1990 45 min

    A child is dead after inhaling fumes from illegally dumped cyanide, and Hunter and McCall work to charge a chemical company with second degree murder.

  • Feb 24, 1990 45 min

    Hunter and McCall have unresolved issues with regard to their previous love affair when Hunter's former co-worker is assigned to help with the investigation of a robber turned murderer.

  • E16 Lullaby
    Mar 3, 1990 45 min

    A Scotland Yard inspector comes to town when the murder of a british prostitute resembles a string of similar murders in the U.K.

  • Mar 17, 1990 45 min

    Hunter and McCall suspect that two murders were committed as an act of revenge by a man who was recently paroled. They become frustrated when they discover that a Catholic priest knows the identity of the killer, but refuses to break his vow of confession and tell them who it is.

  • Mar 31, 1990 45 min

    McCall and her boyfriend, a judge, are held captive in his house by the brother of a man whom the judge convicted and who had committed suicide in prison.

  • Apr 16, 1990 45 min

    Hunter and McCall suspect that a bank manager is part of two bank robberies.

  • Apr 23, 1990 45 min

    A man claims to have seen two murders in psychic visions. Hunter and McCall are skeptical until he proclaims that McCall is the next victim.

  • Apr 30, 1990 45 min

    McCall leaves the police force after rekindling a romance with an old flame. Hunter investigates a thief who is terrorizing homeless veterans.

  • May 7, 1990 45 min

Cast 8

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