• Air date: 27 Sep '86 22 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (22)
    • 1. Overnight Sensation

      27 Sep '86
      A TV reporter accuses Hunter of unjustly firing his weapon . Capt. Wyler is promoted to Deputy Chief.
    • 2. Change Partners and Dance

      04 Oct '86
      A cop is murdered after making arrangements to meet with Hunter.
    • 3. Crime of Passion

      11 Oct '86
      McCall believes a man suspected of murdering his wife is innocent.
    • 4. The Castro Connection

      01 Nov '86
      Hunter witnesses the shooting of a DEA agent, but the body disappears.
    • 5. High Noon in L.A.

      08 Nov '86
      Carlos Mariano, the brother of Raul Mariano, the man who raped McCall and shot Hunter, whom Hunter would eventually kill, (see Rape and Revenge) has come to L.A. to get Hunter for killing his brother. And just like his brother, is shielded by diplomatic immunity. The State Department man warns him not to do anything, because his country is a vital ally to the U.S. Hunter tries to reason with him by saying what his brother did and that he killed his brother in self-defense but is unmoved. He even
    • 6. From San Francisco With Love

      15 Nov '86
      A San Francisco cop joins Hunter and McCall in investigating a case after someone attempts to shoot his son.
    • 7. True Confessions

      22 Nov '86
      When Jeffrey Wyatt, Robert Kephart, and Philip Epperson are involved in the drugging and rape of a young woman, Rhonda Burke, Hunter and McCall have to investigate the woman's grief-stricken older sister, who is furious when the three young men are acquited on a technicality...a young officer did not read them the Miranda warning before Jeffrey Wyatt confessed. Hunter maintains his suspicions of Sheila, even though he sympathizes with her frustration and continually advises her to plead insanity
    • 8. Love, Hate and Sporty James

      06 Dec '86
      Police informant, Sporty James, believes that he will receive a large sum of money after witnessing a murder.
    • 9. Contract

      13 Dec '86
      The wife of a wealthy man is kidnapped and the gardener is killed trying to save her. Hunter and McCall investigate but the husband just wants his wife back, so he agrees to pay the ransom and his wife is returned. Hunter and McCall question her but get nothing. She later meets her lover, the kidnapper. And she's despondent over the gardener. But he reminds her of why they did it--the prenup her husband that her husband made her sign. Her husband's secretary figurs out what theyn did and tries t
    • 10. The Cradle Will Rock

      03 Jan '87
      McCall's friend and the rock star ex-husband of a singer vanish.
    • 11. Bad Company

      10 Jan '87
      A group of supremacists rob a gun shop and leave an injured partner behind. Hunter's attempt to get information from her fails.
    • 12. Down and Under

      17 Jan '87
      Hunter travels to Sydney, Australia in an attempt to find clues regarding the disappearnce of an old flame three years ago.
    • 13. Straight to the Heart

      24 Jan '87
      While Hunter is on leave preparing to testify before a grand jury, he becomes involved with a woman who is the girlfriend of the accused.
    • 14. Requiem for Sergeant McCall

      07 Feb '87
      McCall opposes the parole of an inmate who shot and killed her husband five years before. Against her judgement, he is released and she begins to tail him hoping to gather more evidence against him for a different crime that he possibly committed, but the plan backfires when she is set up similar to that of her late husband.
    • 15. Double Exposure

      14 Feb '87
      McCall goes undercover as a fashion model to bust a ring of thieves hitting lonely business men in their hotels. When Sporty James shows up and inadvertantly blows McCalls cover, Hunter attempts to get there in time to keep them from getting killed.
    • 16. The Girl Next Door

      21 Feb '87
      Detective Sergeant Coslin is on the run after witnessing his girlfriend's murder and planting evidence of the crime in Hunter's house.
    • 17. Any Second Now

      28 Feb '87
      A fan who was convicted of attacking a pianist is released from prison and is, once again, a threat to the pianist.
    • 18. A Child Is Born

      14 Mar '87
      Hunter must indentify the victim of a shooting in order to save the baby of a pregnant woman who was mistakenly shot.
    • 19. Crossfire

      11 Apr '87
      Hunter finds that an old girlfriend is being hunted by a cocaine dealer while he is tailing a robbery and murder suspect who was released due to a lack of evidence.
    • 20. Hot Pursuit (1)

      02 May '87
      McCall and an informant are shot after the informant gives her information regarding a prostitution ring being run along truck routes. Hunter is accused of murder when he travels to Mexico to meet with the pimp (part 1 of 2).
    • 21. Hot Pursuit (2)

      09 May '87
      McCall and an informant are shot after the informant gives her information regarding a prostitution ring being run along truck routes. Hunter is accused of murder when he travels to Mexico to meet with the pimp (part 2 of 2).
    • 22. Shades

      18 Jul '87
      McCall's life is saved by a mysterious gunman and Hunter is missing.