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Hunter Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1986 - 1987
Episode 1
Overnight Sensation
Sat, Sep 27, 198660 mins
When Hunter & McCall pursue a vehicle seen leaving the scene of a robbery, they give chase. Unfortunately, so does a local news van & reporter Raul Mercado. The robbers fire at them and one is subsequently killed by Hunter. When the van gets in the way Hunter arrests the reporter for interference, only to find himself an unwilling celebrity on the news and in the doghouse with Captain Devane. Hunter soon finds that Mercado is engaging in a vendetta against him, trying to get him fired, despite Mercado's characterization of his crusade as a 'public service'. When someone starts making attempts on Mercado's life, Mercado suspects Hunter. But when the bullets do not match Hunter's gun, he & McCall are asked to investigate. Things get uglier when a car-bomb kills Mercado, and the murderer may be closer than anyone thought...
Episode 2
Change Partners and Dance
Sat, Oct 4, 198660 mins
Detectives Hunter and McCall must work individually to investigate the killing of a police officer after they are separated as partners by their new precinct leader.
Episode 3
Crime of Passion
Sat, Oct 11, 198660 mins
In this episode, Hunter & McCall are called to a high-rise to investigate the smothering death of a woman. Two immediate suspects are found; the woman's soon-to-be ex-husband, and her boyfriend, a movie director. When the boyfriend subsequently turns up dead, attention shifts to HIS wife. Hunter soon finds out that a limo driver employed by the director's wife falsely fingered the ex-husband - who McCall was having an affair with - and soon arrests him. The woman is arrested as well, and the motive soon becomes clear; the director had been molesting his wife's teenage daughter with her mother's approval, and the girl had told the woman who was murdered what was going on...
Episode 4
The Castro Connection
Sat, Nov 1, 198660 mins
Hunter and McCall attempt to break a cocaine syndicate apparently being run by one of Hunter's most trusted ex-partners.
Episode 5
High Noon in L.A.
Sat, Nov 8, 198660 mins
In Season 2 of Hunter, Dee Dee was savagely raped by a psychopathic diplomat named Raoul Mariano. Raoul was deported back to his home country and killed by Sgt. Hunter after trying to kill Hunter himself. Now, Carlos Mariano - Raoul's brother - has come to L.A. to seek revenge against Hunter for Raoul's death. Hunter, McCall and Captain Devane soon discover that they are again handicapped by the nonsense known as 'diplomatic immunity' and the arrogance of State Department officials and the Curuguayan Consul, Mariano's employer. Hunter is kidnapped by the psychopathic Mariano and two of his thugs, who turn out to be security officials from the embassy and who do not have diplomatic immunity. Can McCall and Capt. Devane get around the bureaucratic ineptitude and find Hunter before he falls prey to Carlos Mariano's demented plans?
Episode 6
From San Francisco with Love
Sat, Nov 15, 198660 mins
A beautiful San Francisco police detective aids Hunter and McCall in solving a series of puzzling murders apparently connected to the estate of a deceased millionaire.
Episode 7
True Confessions
Sat, Nov 22, 198660 mins
When a teenage girl dies of a drug overdose while at a party, the ones who gave her the drugs are arrested, but because they were not properly mirandized they're released. Later one of them is killed, and although Hunter thinks it's the girl's sister, he doesn't have enough evidence to arrest her. . McCall thinks it might have something to do with an inheritance the man was about to get.
Episode 8
Love, Hate and Sporty James
Sat, Dec 6, 198660 mins
Hunter and McCall try to protect their informant, Sporty James, from his own greed after he blackmails a ruthless cocaine dealer who's responsible for a murder.
Episode 9
The Contract
Sat, Dec 13, 198649 mins
When the wife of a wealthy man is kidnapped and the gardener who tried to save her is killed, Hunter and McCall investigate. Her husband insists on paying the ransom and she's returned. When they try to question her, the husband runs interference. They suspect that someone on the inside might be involved.
Episode 10
The Cradle Will Rock
Sat, Jan 3, 198760 mins
McCall goes undercover as a danceclub singer to solve a murder.
Episode 11
Bad Company
Sat, Jan 10, 198748 mins
A group of psychopathic neo-Nazis rob a gun store, leaving the shop owner and one of the robbers dead. When Hunter & McCall investigate they find out that a woman who was wounded during the shootout is the daughter of the group's leader. They subsequently head out to the compound to investigate further but are kidnapped by the neo-Nazis. During their captivity the leader's daughter helps them escape, and they soon find themselves fleeing up a mountain face while the terrorists use the weapons they stole against Hunter, McCall and their new ally. Will the three of them escape?
Episode 12
Down and Under
Sat, Jan 17, 198760 mins
Hunter travels to Australia to help solve a murder case involving a former girlfriend who has been missing for three years.
Episode 13
Straight to the Heart
Sat, Jan 24, 198748 mins
Hunter goes on an enforced vacation and falls for a beautiful model staying at his hotel, unaware that she was actually sent to kill him.
Episode 14
Requiem for Sergeant McCall
Sat, Feb 7, 198749 mins
McCall lands in hot water after she reopens the case her husband was working on when he was killed.
Episode 15
Double Exposure
Sat, Feb 14, 198748 mins
McCall goes undercover as a model to investigate a modeling agency's shady practices.
Episode 16
The Girl Next Door
Sat, Feb 21, 198747 mins
Hunter and McCall pose as husband and wife to investigate the murder of a young girl whose death exposes a Soviet plot to relocate secret agents in the United States.
Episode 17
Any Second Now
Sat, Feb 28, 198748 mins
Real-life stalking victim Theresa Saldana plays a brilliant pianist who is being stalked by a psychopath who has vowed to finish what he failed to do years before; eliminate her. In a manner chillingly similar to Saldana's real-life story, this monster makes her life a living hell. McCall & Hunter are handcuffed by the laws that protect this sociopath, paroled for his attempt on her life, so they start providing protection for her in their off-duty hours. Frustrated at his failure to kill his victim, the man soon goes after McCall, and Hunter must track down this lowlife before he gets them both...
Episode 18
A Child Is Born
Sat, Mar 14, 198749 mins
McCall wants to adopt a baby girl whose mother was shot and left braindead in a case of mistaken identity.
Episode 19
Crossfire
Sat, Apr 11, 198749 mins
McCall fears that Hunter's temper will outweigh his judgement when his former girlfriend is murdered and Hunter thinks he knows the identity of the killer.
Episode 20
Hot Pursuit: Part 1
Sat, May 2, 198749 mins
McCall is shot and seriously wounded, and her friend is killed as Hunter & McCall were investigating a prostitution ring. The trail soon leads to a pimp named Big Jack Hemmings, whom Hunter suspects ordered the hit on McCall. While McCall fights to survive as surgeons prepare to take the bullet out, Hunter confronts the pimp he suspects is responsible.
Episode 21
Hot Pursuit: Part 2
Sat, May 9, 198747 mins
As McCall is taken to surgery to have the bullet taken out of her spine, Hunter goes to meet Big Jack Hemmings, who he suspects tried to have McCall murdered. Minutes after Hunter drives away from Hemmings' mansion, he is arrested by Beverly Hills Police on a murder charge. Hunter calls Capt. Devane after being booked, who calls Hunter's old nemesis, defense attorney Mike Snow, to represent Hunter. In a meeting with the A.D.A., it becomes apparent to Hunter that the Beverly Hills homicide officers are attempting to pin the homicide on Hunter any way they can, for political reasons. The D.A. decides not to charge Hunter yet, and Hunter soon discovers the real suspect is much closer to Hemmings than the Beverly Hills P.D. had thought - it is Hemmings' wife, who is planning to flee the country. Hunter must race against time to stop the real killer from getting out of the country while the Beverly Hills P.D. try to pin the crime on him.
Episode 22
Shades
Sat, Jul 18, 198749 mins
Hunter is kidnapped and presumed dead after he travels to visit a sick family friend. McCall must control her frustration when she is paired up with a fashion conscious female partner.