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Hunter Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
19 Episodes 1984 - 1985
Episode 1
Hunter
Tue, Sep 18, 198496 mins
This was the pilot to the long running series, about a cop, Rick Hunter, who has two things going against him. The first is that his family is involved with organized crime. So, most of the cops don't trust him. And most of his partners get seriously injured. Now his commanding officer, Captain Cain, has it in for him. Currently, he is forcing him to see a psychiatrist, and that if he wants to work in the field, he has to have a partner and the only one who is willing to work with him, Bernie Terwilleger, a less than competent cop. Hunter then decides to team with the only other cop, who has a hard time with partners, too, Dee Dee McCall. Currently, they are working on a case involving a possible serial killer, but since Terwilliger was the first cop at the scene, it's his case. But Hunter sensing that Terwilliger will not give it his all, decides to investigate on his own.
Episode 2
Hard Contract
Fri, Sep 28, 198449 mins
Hunter & McCall make a pact of protectiveness and loyalty toward each other when she is nearly killed by her old partner after she tries to stop him from a killer-for-hire assignment.
Episode 3
The Hot Grounder
Fri, Oct 5, 198449 mins
When the wife of the commissioner is killed in car bomb that was planted in the commissioner's car, Hunter is assigned the case knowing well that he could get booted out. When Hunter arrives, he discovers a few anomalies like how his car was parked like he wanted his wife to move it and his attitude when they arrive. The chief intercedes on his behalf threatening to have Hunter booted if he keeps doing this. But Hunter nevertheless still perseveres and finds a secret the man wanted to keep quiet.
Episode 4
A Long Way from L.A.
Fri, Oct 26, 198449 mins
Hunter and McCall are transporting a prisoner back to L.A. when they have to stop at a small town. They place their prisoner in the custody of the Sheriff. Later that evening after the waitress from the local café brings the prisoner his dinner she's attacked and at the same time the prisoner's cell is opened. He runs out and everyone assumes he attacked her. However Hunter and McCall think the Sheriff had something to do with it. When they try to question him, they learn the Sheriff is the step-son of the town's wealthiest man.
Episode 5
Legacy
Fri, Nov 2, 198446 mins
When a mobster is killed, Hunter who knew the man, checks it out. Everybody thinks that he was killed by a burglar. But they later learn that one of the man's sons who is wild playboy brought home a girl. When his father saw him, they had an argument then he was killed. Hunter finds the girl, but her account of what happened is a bit off. He thinks there's more going on.
Episode 6
Flight on a Dead Pigeon
Fri, Nov 9, 198447 mins
Hunter and McCall try to help a young girl whose Uncle was killed. It seems the man races pigeons and they're missing. Later someone tries to grab the girl, Hunter and McCall try to find out why.
Episode 7
Pen Pals
Fri, Nov 16, 198460 mins
Hunter does not receive a warm welcome when he is imprisoned over false allegations.
Episode 8
Dead or Alive
Fri, Nov 30, 198448 mins
Bounty Hunter Jimmie Joe Walker is in Los Angeles to collect bounties on three men, the only problem is he is trigger-happy narcissistic, psychopath preferring to bring in them in dead instead of alive. Hunter and McCall must try to stop him from killing anymore of his "bounties".
Episode 9
High Bleacher Man
Fri, Dec 7, 198447 mins
Hunter and McCall apprehend Gavin, a murdering street punk. They later learn that he made a deal with the D.A. to implicate a mobster, Nate Demarest for four murders. Hunter knows if Gavin is back on the streets he will kill again. When Demarest tries to get Gavin, Hunter suggests limiting the number of people who knows his location and Gavin wants Hunter to be that person because he knows if anything happens to him Hunter will be under suspicion. It's while watching Gavin that McCall recalls she once investigated Demarest for killing a Fed but it went cold. Hunter asks her to reopen it cause it could give the D.A. Demarest without Gavin's testimony.
Episode 10
The Shooter
Fri, Jan 4, 198547 mins
When cop is killed, Hunter and McCall investigate. A cigarette found at the scene leads them to think the shooter was on a motorcycle. They learn the cop got into it with a guy at a bar. They bring him in and he denies killing the cop. When they see what cigarettes he smokes, which doesn't match what was found at the scene, they know it's not him. Later another cop is killed. McCall then recalls something at the bar that gives them a lead on who the killer is and why he's going after them. Hunter decides to make himself a target.
Episode 11
The Garbage Man
Fri, Jan 11, 198548 mins
When a parole officer is killed, the prime suspect is one of his charges. While Hunter and McCall try to find him, another parole officer is also trying to find and is going to extreme measures to find him. When Hunter finds the man, he tells Hunter that his parole suspected that another parole officer is killing other parolees so his parole officer asked him to help. So he altered his file to make it appear he's a violent criminal. Hunter thinks he knows who the killer is.
Episode 12
The Avenging Angel
Fri, Jan 18, 198549 mins
Hunter gets an anonymous tip involving a man who killed his wife. After investigating and arresting the man, he is tried but the key witness against him changes his testimony; suggesting that the defendant managed to indirectly sway the testimony of the witness. When Hunter gets proof, he arrests him but a bomb goes off killing the man and later someone runs over the witness. Hunter gets a call from someone claiming to be the one who sent him the tip, claiming to also have killed the two men. It seems obvious that this guy is fixated on Hunter, even idolizes him which is why he sent him the tip. While Hunter tries to find out who he is, the defense lawyer who defended the man comes onto him.
Episode 13
The Snow Queen: Part 1
Sat, Mar 23, 198548 mins
McCall's prime informant in the case against a drug merchant is a young cocaine supplier who's being extradited as a murder witness by a New York policeman who seems mysteriously intent on killing her.
Episode 14
The Snow Queen: Part 2
Sat, Mar 30, 198548 mins
Dee Dee's in danger as she moves closer to exposing a ruthless drug dealer, while Hunter fights to keep a rogue policeman from killing a material witness.
Episode 15
The Beach Boy
Sat, Apr 6, 198547 mins
The Beach Boy arrives in Los Angeles from Hawaii, picks up his luggage and heads for his car. The next day, he arrives at Eddy Marks' house and promply machine guns him down in his kitchen. Eddy's girlfriend, relaxing in the jacuzzi, hides but sees the killer.
Episode 16
Guilty
Sat, Apr 13, 198547 mins
Some people are being killed and just before they are killed they get a phone call from someone who utters the word "guilty". Hunter and McCall investigate and learn that the people who were killed served on a jury wherein the defendant was found guilty. Hunter and McCall trace the man and bring him in but they are told he can't speak because he was stabbed in the throat while in prison. They think he can speak but is keeping it a secret,problem is how to prove it.
Episode 17
The Last Kill
Sat, Apr 20, 198548 mins
Hunter and McCall go after a contract killer who is making hits throughout the city in order to ingratiate himself with a criminal kingpin in order to kill him.
Episode 18
Fire Man
Sat, May 11, 198549 mins
Hunter and McCall are brought in to help solve an arson/murder case. Someone has been setting fires to empty warehouses all over the city.
Episode 19
Sniper
Sat, May 18, 198548 mins
Hunter is looking for a sniper who is killing women who look similar. He thinks the man has military training so he goes to the base and butts heads with a sergeant. At the same an IRS man shows up at the station to talk to Hunter about a unusual deduction he made.