Hunter Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Hunter: Season 7 (1990 - 1991)

• Season 7 Episode 22: Little Man With a Big Reputation

  A highway hijacking operation may involve an ex-convict in whose wedding Devane is best man.

• Season 7 Episode 21: Ex Marks the Spot

  Robberies besiege a dry-cleaning chain that could be laundering money; guest Don Rickles.

• Season 7 Episode 20: Cries of Silence

  Novak helps a deaf woman (Phyllis Frelich) search for her runaway daughter; Hunter investigates murder linked to a weapons cartel.

• Season 7 Episode 19: All That Glitters

  Hunter delves into a victim's background to find a murderer with a love of gold coins.

• Season 7 Episode 18: The Grab

  Novak's daughter is kidnapped as part of a counterfeiting scheme involving Novak's ex (Robin Thomas).

• Season 7 Episode 17: Shadows of the Past

  The appearance of her estranged father draws Novak and Hunter closer.

• Season 7 Episode 16: Room Service

  Hunter is temporarily paired with Novak's ex (Robin Thomas), who resents him for dating his ex-wife.

• Season 7 Episode 15: The Reporter

  Novak's cocaine-addicted reporter friend hinders a robbery investigation.

• Season 7 Episode 14: Under Suspicion

  Hunter and Novak (Lauren Lane) vie with a bounty hunter to catch a bail jumper; the detectives spend a night on the town.

• Season 7 Episode 13: Fatal Obsession - Part 2

  Hunter and a detective (Lauren Lane) investigate a series of campus murders in which a professor is implicated.

• Season 7 Episode 12: Fatal Obsession - Part 1

  Hunter and a detective (Lauren Lane) investigate a series of campus murders in which a professor is implicated.

• Season 7 Episode 11: Acapulco Holiday

  A lawsuit accuses Hunter of false arrest during the investigation of a series of automatic-teller robberies.

• Season 7 Episode 10: La Familia

  Hunter tries to help a youth break a family tradition of street gang violence.

• Season 7 Episode 9: This Is My Gun

  During the investigation of a series of art thefts, Molenski's gun is stolen and used as a murder weapon.

• Season 7 Episode 8: Usual Suspects

  Hunter investigates a murder that may be linked to the accidental release of petty criminals from the county jail.

• Season 7 Episode 7: When the Shark Bites

  Hunter confronts Capt. Devane about apparent ties to a loan-sharking operation.

• Season 7 Episode 6: A Snitch'll Break Your Heart

  Molenski fights for a longtime informant's protection; Hunter reopens the 17-year-old case of an infant's murder.

• Season 7 Episode 5: The Incident

  Hunter clashes with the leader of a neighborhood watch group that attacked an innocent youth.

• Season 7 Episode 4: The Kill Zone

  A childhood trauma may hamper Molenski's ability to investigate a series of murders involving rape.

• Season 7 Episode 3: Where Echoes End

  Hunter and Molenski investigate a murder in which the prime suspect is his former partner, an Alzheimer's victim.

• Season 7 Episode 2: Deadly Encounters - Part 2

  Capt. Devane is appointed to metro division; Hunter and Molenski (Darlanne Fluegel) become partners.

• Season 7 Episode 1: Deadly Encounters - Part 1

  Appalachians are tied to Romanian immigrants; Capt. Devane is appointed to metro division; Hunter and Molenski (Darlanne Fluegel) become partners.

Hunter: Season 6 (1989 - 1990)

• Season 6 Episode 22: Street Wise - Part 2

  A fencing operation is responsible for Hunter's mentor's death; McCall marries and moves to London.

• Season 6 Episode 21: Street Wise - Part 1

  Hunter tracks a man obsessed with harassing a homeless man; McCall renews an old romance.

• Season 6 Episode 20: Second Sight

  Hunter and McCall doubt information offered by a psychic on serial murders, until he predicts McCall as next victim.

• Season 6 Episode 19: Sudden Withdrawal

  A series of bank robberies may be linked to a seductress who dates bankers.

• Season 6 Episode 18: Blind Ambition

  A man whose brother was sent to prison by McCall's boyfriend takes the couple hostage.

• Season 6 Episode 17: Final Confession

  A serial killer confesses to a priest, a former accomplice who is in line for murder.

• Season 6 Episode 16: Lullaby

  A famous British photographer is the prime suspect in the murders of prostitutes.

• Season 6 Episode 15: Unfinished Business

  McCall and Hunter consult the police psychologist about feelings from their past romance.

• Season 6 Episode 14: Unacceptable Loss

  Hunter and McCall discover the prime suspects in a toxic waste-dumping scheme may also be involved in a series of murders.

• Season 6 Episode 13: Son and Heir

  McCall and Hunter learn an undercover officer may have been murdered by his mobster half brother; guest Jerry Orbach.

• Season 6 Episode 12: Broken Dreams

  Hunter's high-school friend (Cristina Raines Crowe) won't cooperate after witnessing a murder.

• Season 6 Episode 11: The Nightmare

  McCall and Hunter learn the murder of McCall's housekeeper is tied to a deposed Latin American regime.

• Season 6 Episode 10: Brotherly Love

  McCall and Hunter investigate the death of a drug dealer with ties to a teenage addict.

• Season 6 Episode 9: The Fifth Victim

  Several police officers become suspects in the reopened case of the serial murders of homosexuals.

• Season 6 Episode 8: Shield of Honor

  Despite an apparently glowing record, a detective trainee exhibits flaws that endanger Hunter.

• Season 6 Episode 7: Yesterday's Child

  Hunter learns he fathered a child during the Vietnam War and tries to rescue the boy from a murder charge, without revealing his secret.

• Season 6 Episode 6: The Legion Of Hate - Part 2

  Hunter stalks the white supremacists who took McCall hostage; McCall considers leaving the force.

• Season 6 Episode 5: The Legion Of Hate - Part 1

  A former colleague interferes in McCall and Hunter's investigation of a white supremacist's escape from prison.

• Season 6 Episode 4: A Girl Named Hunter

  An illegal adoption ring may be responsible for the death of the mother of an infant Hunter delivered.

• Season 6 Episode 3: Investment in Death

  An investigation into the gang killing of a college student leads McCall and Hunter to white-collar fraud.

• Season 6 Episode 2: Shillelagh

  A murdered Irish terrorist may be connected to the family of Capt. Devane's fiancee.

• Season 6 Episode 1: On the Air

  Hunter poses as a radio talk-show host's lover to solve a series of murders involving her ex-boyfriends.

Hunter: Season 5 (1988 - 1989)

• Season 5 Episode 22: The Return of Whitecloud

  McCall and Hunter investigate the murder of a gallery owner involved in the illegal sale of Indian artifacts.

• Season 5 Episode 21: Last Run

  Several arson/murders may be related to a money-laundering scheme and the kidnapping of an undercover agent.

• Season 5 Episode 20: Teen Dreams

  McCall and Hunter suspect someone posing as a policeman is killing teenage prostitutes.

• Season 5 Episode 19: Ring of Honor

  A trainer (Sammy Davis Jr.) helps McCall and Hunter investigate a series of murders in the world of boxing.

• Season 5 Episode 18: Code 3

  McCall and Hunter suspect an emergency-room doctor murdered a nurse to cover up foul play in the hospital.

• Season 5 Episode 17: Shoot to Kill

  In a jewel robbery, McCall shoots a suspect who may be innocent.

• Season 5 Episode 16: Blood Lines

  McCall and Hunter uncover fraud and revenge while investigating the slaying of a Thoroughbred.

• Season 5 Episode 15: Informant

  A court orders Hunter to produce an informant in a murder case, which he defies when the killer is released on bail.

• Season 5 Episode 14: Me, Myself and Die

  Hunter and McCall suspect an accused murderer has been framed by psychiatrists who administered psychosis-inducing drugs.

• Season 5 Episode 13: City Under Siege - Part 3

  Hunter nabs an escaped convict after a neighborhood vigilante is found dead.

• Season 5 Episode 12: City Under Siege - Part 2

  An escaped killer continues to stalk Hunter; a desperate vigilante fights crime in his neighborhood.

• Season 5 Episode 11: City Under Siege - Part 1

  An escaped death-row inmate seeks revenge on Hunter, while McCall poses as a teacher to probe links between the convict and a teacher's murder.

• Season 5 Episode 10: The Pit

  Dee Dee and Rick uncover foul play in their own department during the investigation of a multimillion-dollar heist.

• Season 5 Episode 9: Partners

  McCall and Hunter investigate a good friend and colleague in the murder of her husband.

• Season 5 Episode 8: Payback

  Rick unwittingly helps counterfeiters when he comes to the aid of a petty thief charged with murder.

• Season 5 Episode 7: An Honorable Profession

  Rick risks his career trying to clear the name of a colleague left comatose by a Chinatown shootout.

• Season 5 Episode 6: No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished

  McCall and Hunter learn the suspicious explosion that nearly killed her was intended for a powerful businessman's devious mistress.

• Season 5 Episode 5: Presumed Guilty

  McCall's lover (Dack Rambo), a prosecutor, and Hunter clash over a wealthy woman's murderer.

• Season 5 Episode 4: Dead On Target - Part 2

  Convinced his buddy was murdered, Hunter investigates other war pals and uncovers ties to gem smuggling.

• Season 5 Episode 3: Dead On Target - Part 1

  Hunter and McCall investigate the suspicious death of Hunter's old Marine buddy (Dirk Blocker).

• Season 5 Episode 2: The Baby Game

  A senator comes under scrutiny when the prostitute who was blackmailing him over an illegitimate child is murdered.

• Season 5 Episode 1: Heir of Neglect

  Hunter and McCall's only lead in an accountant's slaying is his son (Chad Allen), who appears too traumatized to help.

Hunter: Season 4 (1987 - 1988)

• Season 4 Episode 22: Silver Bullet

  The only clue in a serial murder case, a trail of police-issued ammunition, leads McCall and Hunter to suspect a colleague.

• Season 4 Episode 21: Murder He Wrote

  A multimillionaire's (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) murder casts the shadow of suspicion on his four heirs.

• Season 4 Episode 20: The Fourth Man

  Missing money from a 6-year-old drug bust stains Hunter's reputation, so he and McCall search for the loot.

• Season 4 Episode 19: Boomerang

  A woman is suspected in the death of her businessman husband because she was recently written out of his will.

• Season 4 Episode 18: Death Signs

  Hunter and McCall's only lead in a deaf man's stabbing is a message in sign language given before he died.

• Season 4 Episode 17: Bogota's Million

  Sporty James becomes the subject of a manhunt by both Hunter and the killers of a Colombian drug dealer Sporty once swindled.

• Season 4 Episode 16: Girl on the Beach

  After trying to take Hunter and McCall off the case, Capt. Devane violates his forced leave of absence by pursuing his ex-wife's killer.

• Season 4 Episode 15: Naked Justice - Part 2

  While Hunter trails a hit man into Mexico, a private detective hired by the victim's sister falls under suspicion.

• Season 4 Episode 14: Naked Justice - Part 1

  Rick and Dee Dee's investigation of an actress's mysterious demise uncovers a sister very eager to collect the inheritance.

• Season 4 Episode 13: The Black Dahlia

  McCall and Hunter wonder whether a recently discovered skeleton is that of an actress brutally murdered 41 years ago.

• Season 4 Episode 12: Renegade

  Hunter's ex-partner (James McEachin) becomes a prime suspect in the murders of drug dealers Rick was investigating.

• Season 4 Episode 11: Allegra

  Hunter and McCall investigate the death of his ex-flame, a beautiful heiress whose new boyfriend lied about their relationship.

• Season 4 Episode 10: Hot Prowl

  McCall and Hunter are suspicious when a Bel Air housewife refuses to identify the thief of a $1 million necklace.

• Season 4 Episode 9: Turning Point

  A reporter's death leads the detectives to an extortion plot involving a wealthy industrialist and the victim's wife.

• Season 4 Episode 5: Night on Bald Mountain

  A wealthy financier's murder forces Rick and Dee Dee to spend Halloween in the victim's mansion with a family of suspects.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Flashpoint

  Rick and Dee Dee investigate when racial tensions increase after the accidental shooting of an Hispanic councilman's son.

• Season 4 Episode 3: The Jade Woman

  Hunter helps a war buddy (Dirk Blocker) find his kidnapped mail-order bride, but the routine probe soon turns to murder.

• Season 4 Episode 2: Playing God

  Hunter and McCall face ethical questions when they ponder freeing the murderer of a notorious crime boss.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Not Just Another John Doe

  The partners uncover espionage when they investigate a killing witnessed by an elderly bag lady (Beah Richards).

Hunter: Season 3 (1986 - 1987)

• Season 3 Episode 22: Shades

  McCall teams with a new partner to find Hunter, abducted after taping a mob boss's deathbed confession.

• Season 3 Episode 19: Crossfire

  McCall fears Hunter will take justice into his own hands after his former flame is murdered.

• Season 3 Episode 18: A Child Is Born

  Hunter seeks the assailant of a comatose pregnant woman whose unborn child McCall wants to adopt; guest Leif Garrett.

• Season 3 Episode 17: Any Second Now

  A knife-attack victim (Theresa Saldana) is again in danger when her vengeful assailant is released.

• Season 3 Episode 16: The Girl Next Door

  Rick and Dee Dee pose as parents of a girl whose death by torture exposed a Soviet plot to ferret out secret agents.

• Season 3 Episode 15: Double Exposure

  McCall goes under cover in the fashion world to investigate reports of models moonlighting as burglars.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Requiem for Sergeant McCall

  After the parole of her husband's killer, McCall sets out to solve her husband's unfinished last case, a murder.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Straight to the Heart

  While on a mountain retreat, future court witness Hunter meets a beautiful woman assigned to kill him.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Down and Under

  Hunter ventures to Australia to solve a murder involving a girlfriend, missing for three years.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Bad Companions

  A group of neo-Nazis planning a raid takes Hunter and McCall captive; guests Dean Stockwell, Big John Studd.

• Season 3 Episode 10: The Cradle Will Rock

  Dee Dee poses as a rock singer to help solve a drug-related murder; guest Chaka Khan.

• Season 3 Episode 9: The Contract

  A rich industrialist (Peter Haskell) impedes Hunter and McCall's investigation of the kidnapping of his wife.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Love, Hate and Sporty James

  Rick and Dee Dee must protect murder witness Sporty James from a cocaine dealer he tried to blackmail; guest Jack Bannon.

• Season 3 Episode 7: True Confessions

  Hunter and McCall seek a woman (Lauren Tewes) suspected of killing two men believed responsible for her sister's cocaine-related death.

• Season 3 Episode 6: From San Francisco With Love

  A San Francisco detective helps Hunter and McCall probe murders linked to a dead millionaire's estate.

• Season 3 Episode 5: High Noon in L.A.

  A foreign diplomat determined to avenge the death of his brother, McCall's rapist, challenges Hunter to a quick-draw showdown.

• Season 3 Episode 4: The Castro Connection

  The reported death of Hunter's friend, a DEA agent suspected of corruption, sends Rick and Dee Dee on a crusade to clear the man's name.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Crime of Passion

  McCall falls in love with an architect who is suspected of slaying a beautiful interior decorator.

• Season 3 Episode 2: Change Partners and Dance

  Believing McCall and Hunter are too close, Devane splits the team; guests Tim Thomerson, Martin E. Brooks.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Overnight Sensation

  After killing a robber, Hunter becomes the target of an ambitious TV news reporter's campaign against police brutality.

Hunter: Season 2 (1985 - 1986)

• Season 2 Episode 23: Saturday Night Special

  A drug addict's account of a Skid Row murder leads Hunter and McCall to suspect a reporter claiming inside scoops.

• Season 2 Episode 22: The Return of Typhoon Thompson

  Typhoon Thompson (Isaac Hayes) leaves prison after eight years and seeks the person who framed him for murder.

• Season 2 Episode 19: The Setup

  Hunter must prove an elusive international criminal set him up for an assault charge.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Death Machine

  Hunter dons outrageous garb to follow a punker (John Matuszak) hired by a mobster to avenge a robbery.

• Season 2 Episode 17: 62 Hours of Terror

  Though foreign revolutionaries claim responsibility for an ambassador's murder, Hunter suspects a routine homicide.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Fagin, 1986

  A modern Fagin assembles a band of teenage hoodlums protected by youthful offender status.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Scrap Metal

  An old friend (Kay Lenz) faces murder because she saw the contract killing of Hunter's father 15 years before.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Burned

  Dee Dee glimpses a criminal lawyer six months after he supposedly died in a car crash; guest Jane Russell.

• Season 2 Episode 13: War Zone

  Hunter and McCall trail combat-experienced mercenaries planning to break a drug dealer out of prison.

• Season 2 Episode 12: Blow Up

  Psychotic demolitionist Otto Minsky (Anthony James) terrorizes the city to get even with Hunter.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Think Blue

  A gang member's death seems related to the death of the wife of Hunter's friend (Ramon Bieri).

• Season 2 Episode 10: Waiting for Mr. Wrong

  McCall warns Hunter against becoming involved with a model who consorts with a murderous jewel thief.

• Season 2 Episode 9: The Big Fall

  Hunter and McCall work through the maze of double-crosses surrounding the fatal plunge of a government witness.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Million Dollar Misunderstanding

  A thief who killed his accomplices suspects McCall and Hunter stole $6 million from his impounded getaway car.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Rape and Revenge - Part 2

  McCall's attacker flees to his native country and the protection of his powerful father (Michael Ansara).

• Season 2 Episode 6: Rape and Revenge - Part 1

  Dee Dee falls victim to an attache who has already raped and killed a woman under the shield of diplomatic immunity.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Killer in the Halloween Mask

  An attacker wielding an acid-filled gun stalks stars of a TV show employing Rick and Dee Dee as technical advisers; guest Jan Murray.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Rich Girl

  The detectives suspect a greedy heir is behind the attempted murder of a rich, elderly man and the successful murder of his wife.

• Season 2 Episode 3: The Biggest Man in Town

  Hunter and McCall travel to a resort to find evidence in the murder of a blackmailer; guests Don Stroud, Stuart Whitman.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Night of the Dragons

  After murder interrupts their Chinatown dinner, Rick and Dee Dee suspect a neighborhood war; guest Clyde Kusatsu.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Case X

  Hunter fears for McCall's life when a pornographic filmmaker, suspected of two murders, lures her to his beachhouse.

Hunter: Season 1 (1984 - 1985)

• Season 1 Episode 19: Sniper

  A sniper killing blondes leads Hunter and McCall to a trail of similar murders stretching back 18 years; guest James Cromwell.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Fire Man

  A TV reporter's persistence complicates the search for a murderous arsonist; guests Robert Desiderio, William Russ.

• Season 1 Episode 17: The Last Kill

  McCall and Hunter discover an assassin's victims were all involved in the same blackmail ring.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Guilty

  Hunter and McCall try to outguess an ex-convict stalking jurors who found him guilty of murder; guest Devon Ericson.

• Season 1 Episode 15: The Beach Boy

  A colorful shirt and a unique machine gun lead Hunter and McCall to a hired killer stalking double-dealing drug pushers.

• Season 1 Episode 14: The Snow Queen - Part 2

  A New York officer comes to extradite a dealer (Lycia Naff) who could lead the team to a cocaine-ring boss.

• Season 1 Episode 13: The Snow Queen - Part 1

  New York detective Jack Molinas (Dennis Franz) leads Hunter to a mobster holding Dee Dee and Sally (Lycia Naff) captive.

• Season 1 Episode 12: The Avenging Angel

  A self-styled crime fighter tracks Hunter and McCall to create a list of suspects to execute; guest Nancy Stafford.

• Season 1 Episode 11: The Garbage Man

  A parole officer's murder leads to an ex-convict who claims his cohorts are being systematically slain.

• Season 1 Episode 10: The Shooter

  A motorcyclist murders all those who beat him at a fast-draw arcade game; guests Robert Dryer, Shawn Weatherly.

• Season 1 Episode 9: High Bleacher Man

  Dee Dee and Rick decide to find a substitute trial witness when they must protect a sleazy mobster who turned state's evidence.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Dead or Alive

  Rick and Dee Dee must stop a bounty hunter (Wings Hauser) from capturing a bank robber.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Pen Pals

  Rick is arrested for the murder of a drug dealer he was pursuing for selling to high-school students.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Flight on a Dead Pigeon

  Rick and Dee Dee's only clues to solving a murder are missing homing pigeons and a dead man's niece (Marissa Mendenhall).

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Legacy

  Rick and Dee Dee use a woman to lure a man suspected of killing his crime-boss father; guest Vincent Baggetta.

• Season 1 Episode 4: A Long Way From L.A.

  A small-town sheriff (Bo Svenson) accuses his jail's overnight occupant, McCall and Hunter's prisoner, of assault.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Hot Grounder

  The death of the police commissioner's (William Windom) wife in a car explosion uncovers a scandal; guest Sam T. Jones.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Hard Contract

  Dee Dee tries to persuade her ex-partner (David Ackroyd) not to use his skills to become an assassin.