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(September 18, 1984)
Hunter
Hunter and McCall talk the Captain into making them partners so they can catch a psychopathic murderer later found to be a colleague.
Hard Contract
September 28, 1984
McCall tries to stop her old partner from a killer-for-hire assignment.
The Hot Grounder
October 5, 1984
When the police commissioner's wife mysteriously dies in an explosion, Hunter and McCall are in hot water when the commissioner becomes the chief suspect.
A Long Way From L.A.
October 26, 1984
A woman's beating is connected to a pickpocket Hunter caught, that he told the sheriff to lock up.
Legacy
November 2, 1984
Hunter must find a witness that can provide testimony to prevent a gang war.
Flight On A Dead Pigeon
November 9, 1984
A little girl is the target of kidnappers when she reports her uncle's carrier pigeons stolen.
Pen Pals
November 16, 1984
Hunter is put in jail after a man he arrested is mysteriously killed with Hunter's gun.
Dead Or Alive
November 30, 1984
Hunter and McCall follow a bounty hunter.
High Bleacher Man
December 7, 1984
Hunter is assigned to protect a robber who has become a target for turning state's evidence.
This episode guest starred former pro-football quarterback Alan Autry, who was playing on the opposing team, the Green Bay Packers, in the game where Fred Dryer set the NFL record for the most safeties in a single game.
The Shooter
January 4, 1985
A cop is shot with a bullet similar to the one that killed McCall's husband.
The Garbage Man
January 11, 1985
Hunter and the friend of a parole officer trail a killer.
The Avenging Angel
January 18, 1985
When a murder witness is bought off, a surveillence expert takes matters into his own hands.
The Snow Queen
PART ONE: March 23, 1985
PART TWO: March 30, 1985
A cocane dealer from New York escapes from her escort, who wants her dead. Hunter and Molinas team up for a major drug bust, whil Dee Dee's cover may be blown.
The Beach Boy
April 6, 1985
Drug dealers lives may be in jeopardy because of a supplier they refused.
Guilty
April 13, 1985
Hunter and McCall are assigned to chase muggers, but they disobey orders when they investigate a possible connection between two murders.
The Last Kill
May 4, 1985
An old girlfriend of Hunter's follows her husband to a trashy hotel because she suspects he's cheating and becomes the prime suspect in a murder.
Fire Man
May 4, 1985
When a TV news crew identifies an arsonist, they get in the way of the next investigation.
Sniper
May 11, 1985
The chief suspect of a sniper attack commits suicide, leaving a snag in the investigation.
Case X
September 21, 1985
A photographer uses a model as a front for his pornography ring, but when the porn stars start turning up dead, McCall goes undercover.
Night Of The Dragons
September 28, 1985
When Hunter and McCall witness a shooting in Chinatown, they follo up on it on their off time. However, the officer in charge resents their meddling.
The Biggest Man In Town
October 5, 1985
When a gang-type murder for which there is no obvious motive is committed, Dee Dee goes undercover as a singer and is an instant sensation.
Rich Girl
October 19, 1985
The wife of a millionaire commits suicide after she's acquitted of an attelpt on his life. But when Hunter suspects the guilty party, he has trouble proving it.
Killer In A Halloween Mask
October 26, 1985
Hunter and McCall are assigned to be technical advisors for a TV show. But their assignment turns into a case when the show's star is murdered.
Rape & Revenge
PART ONE: November 2, 1985
PART TWO: November 9, 1985
Dee Dee is beaten and raped in her own home. When the police can do nothing since the man has claimed diplomatic immunity, Hunter is outraged and takes matters into his own hands.
Million Dollar Misunderstanding
November 16, 1985
Car thieves steal a car which was used in a robbery.
The Big Fall
November 23, 1985
The target of a hit contract is at the mercy of an alcoholic cop.
Waiting For Mr. Wrong
December 7, 1985
Hunter becomes involved with a model who is the only lead to a robbery-murder suspect.
Think Blue
December 14, 1985
When a sergent misfiles burglary reports, he becomes accused of murdering his wife.
Blow-Up
January 8, 1986
Hunter suspects the person who bombed an angel on a grave is the same man he arrested a long time ago.
War Zone
Januart 11, 1986
The murder of a hooker and the theft at a pharmaceutical are connected.
Burned
January 18, 1986
A Lawyer fakes his own death after he's indicted for bribing a juror.
Scrap Metal
February 1, 1986
A hitman on his deathbed give Hunter some crucial information.
Fagin 1986
February 1, 1986
Hunter is in hot water when he accidentally kills a 16-year-old boy in defense of McCall.
62 Hrs. Of Terror
February 15, 1986, 1986
A diplomat is held hostage by terrorists.
Death Machine
March 11, 1986
Hunter goes undercover as a punker to catch another punker who was working for a jewlery fence.
The Setup
March 25, 1986
Hunter recognizes a murder victim as the former mistress of the man who was suspected of murdering his old partner 3 years earlier.
The Beautiful & The Dead
PART ONE: April 1, 1986
PART TWO: April 8, 1986
Hunter finds a dead body in his apartment. When it disappears, he suspects a connection between a Russian defector and unidentified agents. Hunter is attacked by thugs who steal the evidence.
The Return Of Typhoon Thompson
May 6, 1986
When an ex-con returns to town, Hunter suspects he may try to get even with the ones who convicted him.
Saturday Night Special
May 20, 1986
A reporter tries to help a serial murderer cover his tracks.
Overnight Sensation
September 27, 1986
Hunter is accused of unjustly firing his weapon.
Change Partners And Dance
October 4, 1986
A cop who is supposed to be meeting Hunter is murdered.
Crime Of Passion
October 11, 1986
When a man is accused of murdering his wife, McCall believes he's innocent.
The Castro Connection
High Noon In L.A.
From San Francisco With Love
True Confessions
Love, Hate And Sporty James
Contract
The Cradle Will Rock
Bad Company
Down And Under
Straight To The Heart
Requiem For Sergent McCall
Double Exposure
The Girl Next Door
Any Second Now
A Child Is Born
Crossfire
Hot Pursuit
Shades
Not Just Another John Doe
Playing God
The Jade Woman
Flashpoint
Night On Bald Mountain
City Of Passion
Turning Point
Hot Prowl
Allegra
Renegade
The Black Dahlia
Naked Justice
Girl On The Beach
The Bogota Million
Death Signs
Boomerang
Fourth Man
Murder He Wrote
Silver Bullet
Heir Of Neglect
The Baby Game
Dead On Target
Presumed Guilty
No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished
Honorable Profession
Payback
Partners
The Pit
City Under Siege
Me, Myself & Die
Informant
Blood Line
Shoot To Kill
Code 3
Ring Of Honor
Teen Dreams
Last Run
The Return Of White Cloud
On Air
Shillalagh (Pronounced SHI-LAY-LUH)
Investment In Death
A Girl Named Hunter
The Legion (AKA: "The Legion Of Hate")
Yesterday's Child
Shield Of Honor
Fifth Victim
Brotherly Love
The Nightmare
Broken Dreams
Son And Heir
Unacceptable Loss
Unfinished Business
Lullaby
Final Confession
Blind Ambition
Sudden Withdrawl
Second Sight
Street Wise
Deadly Encounters
Where Echoes End
Kill Zone
The Incident
A Snitch'll Break Your Heart
Oh, The Shark Bites!
The Usual Suspects
This Is My Gun
La Familia
Acapulco Holiday
Fatal Obsession
Under Suspicion
The Reporter
Room Service
Shadows Of The Past
The Grab
All That Glitters
Cries Of Silence
Ex Marks The Spot
Little Man With A Big Reputation
The Return Of Hunter: Everyone Walks In L.A.
When Hunter witnesses the murder of his former partner, he's unable to find the body.
November 6, 1986
The brother of the diplomat Hunter killed for raping Dee Dee comes to San Francisco seeknig revenge.
November 15, 1986
Hunter and McCall are joined by another cop investigating aa suicide.
November 22, 1986
A woman kills the three men who drugged, raped and killed her sister after they're all released on a technicality.
December 6, 1986
Sporty James believes he's coming into money after witnessing a murder.
December 13, 1986
The chief witness of a murder demands a share of the ransom from the kidnapping he botched up.
January 3, 1987
Dee Dee goes undercover as a nightclub singer in hopes of finding her missing friend.
(Songs CLOSER and WOUNDED TO THE HEART written and performed by Stepfanie Kramer.)
January 10, 1987
Hunter tries to get information from a woman whose partners left her for dead after a robbery.
January 17, 1987
When Hunter fins a photo in a murdered woman's effects, he travels to Australia to solve the case.
January 24, 1987
While vacationing in the country prior to testifying before the grand jury, Hunter meets a beautiful model who, unaware to him, has been sent to kill him.
Song STRAIGHT TO THE HEART sung by Stepfanie Kramer.
February 7, 1987
When the murderer who killed McCall's husband is paroled, she reopens the case he was working on at the time of his death.
(HISTORIC MOMENT: This episode contains a flashback scene of where Hunter and McCall met for the first time.)
February 14, 1987
Dee Dee goes undercover as a model to stop a modeling agency's crooked tactics.
February 21, 1987
A friend of Hunter and McCall sees his girlfriend being murdered and goes on the run after planting evidence in Hunter's apartment.
February 28, 1987
A man imprisoned for brutally attacking a female pianist 12 years earlier is released and vows revenge, however, there's not much the police can really do. But when the case cuts a little into McCall's past, she takes matters into her own hands.
The female pianist in this episode is portrayed by real-life attack victim Teresa Saldana.
March 14, 1987
McCall wants to adopt a baby whos mother was shot by mistake.
April 11, 1987
Hunter follows a robbery/murder suspect, released for lack of evidence.
PART ONE: May 2, 1987
PART TWO: May 9, 1987
An informant tips Dee Dee off to a prostitution ring run out of RVs. But when Hunter goes to Mexico to meet the pimp, he's accused of his murder. Dee Dee's life is in jeopardy after being shot in the back.
July 18, 1987
Hunter is abducted and presumed dead after he travels to Fulsom Prison to visit an old friend of his Father's.
(1987-1988)
September 26, 1987
An elusive fed may be the only one who knows a murder victim, whose murderer is on skid row.
October 3, 1987
Hunter and McCall consider leaving the force when evidence surfaces concerning the murder of a community leader.
October 17, 1987
Hunter's friend asks for his help when his mail-order bride disappears.
October 24, 1987
When Angelo cops are accused of the murder of the son of a Hispanic Mayoral candidate, a riot is set off.
October 31, 1987
When Hunter and McCall travel to a mountain lodge to solve a murder, they're forced to stay there due to the snowstorm - with the victim's entire family.
PART ONE: November 7, 1987
PART TWO: November 14, 1987
PART THREE: November 23, 1987
An LAPD Sergeant must cope with some marital problems while a series of Satanic murders rips through L.A. and McCall is nearly the next victim of a cerial rapist.
Stepfanie Kramer threatened to quit HUNTER unless producers changed the script of this episode. The original script called for Dee Dee McCall to be raped again, but Stepfanie refused.
November 28, 1987
An innocent man is killed with a car bomb meant for a newspaper reporter.
December 8, 1987
After his house is robbed, a man kills the burglar, who he thought was having an affair with his wife.
December 29, 1987
An old flame of Hunter's mysteriously dies, leaving Hunter to solve the case.
January 5, 1988
The son of Hunter's old partner hijacks a cocane delivery. They follow him home, where his mother is accidentally shot.
January 12, 1988
The infamous Black Dahlia case is the basis for this episode. Click here for a detailed description.
PART ONE: February 2, 1988
PART TWO: February 9, 1988
A homeless man provides information about a movie star's death.
February 16, 1988
Captain Devane orders Hunter and McCall to stay off the case of his Ex-Wife's murder.
March 1, 1988
When Sporty James is accused of murder and robbery, he becomes the target of the police and mob pursuers.
March 12, 1988
A deaf man is murdered and his wife becomes the chief suspect.
March 19, 1988
A woman fears she'll be blamed when here husband dies in a boating accident.
March 26, 1988
Hunter's old partner is murdered, renewing suspicions about a drug bust five years earlier.
April 30, 1988
A wealthy millionaire believes his heirs want him dead when the brakes on his car mysteriously go out.
May 7, 1988
Hunter and McCall try to solve the case of a serial murderer who uses police issue bullets. Lieutennant Finn looses his wife to cancer and is killed in the line of duty the very next day.
(1988-1989)
October 29, 1988
A teenage boy shoots his parents amd makes it look like a robbery, so they won't send him off to live with a relative.
November 9, 1988
A two-year-old girl sleeps through her mother's murder and Hunter assumes responsibility until suitable guardians are found.
PART ONE: November 12, 1988
PART TWO: November 19, 1988
Hunter's Marine reunion is overshadowed by guilty feelings over a mission gone wrong when they were in the Vietnam War.
November 26, 1988
McCall's boyfriend, a District Attorney, believes a man she and Hunter arested for burglary is also guilty of murder.
December 3, 1988
An explosion in McCall's art class is believed to be an attempt on a witness' life.
December 10, 1988
Hunter puts his job on the line to defend a rookie cop wounded and possibly killed in the line of duty.
December 17, 1988
A crook who used to know Hunter asks him for a favor.
January 7, 1989
There are two possible reasons for am immigration agent.
January 14, 1989
The LAPD dispatcher may be in trouble for helping to cover up a robbery in order to keep her son out of trouble.
PART ONE: February 4, 1989
PART TWO: February 11, 1989
PART THREE: February 18, 1989
McCall goes undercover replacing a murdered teacher as part of the establishment of a task force used to control crime in certain neighborhoods. The effect of the task force causes mixed feelings with the town, but in the end, it proves effective.
February 25, 1989
Hunter and McCall must solve the case of a mentally unstable woman accused of killing a man.
March 18, 1989
Hunter is jailed for refusing to reveal the identity of an informant who gave him the information he needed to arrest a man seven years earlier, who is up for re-trial.
April 1, 1989
The death of a thoroughbred horse and its groom leads to a string of mysterious murders.
April 8, 1989
McCall is in hot water for shooting a man who may not have been the one she was after.
April 15, 1989
McCall gets a call from a doctor, who mysteriously dies before she can talk to him.
April 29, 1989
A boxing manager and his partner have mixed feelings over their "golden boy", who is wanted by a big time promoter.
May 6, 1989
A teenage friend of McCall's comes to town and quickly becomes the target of a serial murderer who poses as a police officer.
May 13, 1989
Hunter chases the man who is interfearing in his investigation of an arson case.
May 21, 1989
An art dealer runs into some big trouble over her collection of Indian masks.
(1989-1990)
October 14, 1989
Hunter becomes attracted to a radio talk show host he is assigned to protect against a crazed fan.
October 21, 1989
Captain Devane's girlfriend's irish activist brother is the target of an assassination plot.
October 28, 1989
The victim of a drive-by-shooting in a ritzy neighborhood is a former gang member.
November 4, 1989
Hunter must solve the murder of a teenage girl whose baby he delivered.
PART ONE: November 11, 1989
PART TWO: November 18, 1989
The leader of a White Supremist group escapes from prison and uses his inside help to gain freedom for his brother. When they discover Hunter and Dee Dee are on to them, they kidnap Dee Dee and hold her hostage. Dee Dee must cope with the suicide of her old training officer.
November 25, 1989
Hunter gets the shock of his life when he discovers that a Vietnamese teenager falsely accused of murdering a car salesman is the son he never knew he had.
December 2, 1989
Hunter is assigned to train the rookie cop son of his old training officer.
December 9, 1989
A man confesses to committing all but one murder involving gays.
January 6, 1990
A yound drug addict kills his pusher and steals $200,000 in mob money.
January 15, 1990
McCall goes home and finds her cleaning lady murdered in her kitchen.
January 27, 1990
When a woman witnesses a crime, her husband prefers blackmail over testimony.
February 3, 1990
A man operating an illegal sideline kills a cop, unaware that it was his illegitimate brother.
February 10, 1990
When a child is killed due to illegal dumping of cyanide, Hunter and McCall are determined to charge the suspect with second degree murder.
February 24, 1990
A robbery investigation causes friction between Hunter and McCall, stemming from an unresolved one-night-stand they had three years earlier.
March 3, 1990
A Scotland Yard inspector comes to L.A. chasing a serial murderer.
March 17, 1990
An ex member of a hold-up gang is out on parole and kills his old gangmates.
March 31, 1990
McCall and her boyfriend, a judge, are held hostage by the brother of a man the judge convicted, who committed suicide.
April 16, 1990
The manager of a bank may have been the cause of a robbery there.
April 23, 1990
A man claiming to be psychic goes to Hunter and McCall claiming he foresaw three murders.
PART ONE: April 30, 1990
PART TWO: May 7, 1990
Hunter and Dee Dee chase a criminal who stole a homeless man's medal of honor and uncover a fencing operation. Hunter is dealt two major blows. First, his mentor is murdered on his way home from dinner with him and in an emotional scene, Hunter and Dee Dee say farewell when she marries and moves to London.
(1990-1991)
PART ONE: September 19, 1990
PART TWO: September 26, 1990
A family of robbers kill two Romanians in a holdup and are chased by an intrenational killer.Hunter and Charlie Devane are transfered to Metro Division.
October 3, 1990
An undercover cop witnesses a treasury agent's murder, but his superiors question his honesty when he hands in an incomplete report.
October 10, 1990
Molenski has trouble dealing with a murder/rape case and confides in Hunter.
October 26, 1990
A vigilante group interfears in a police investigation.
October 31, 1990
Hunter reopens the case of a child possibly murdered 17 years earlier and Molenski tries to save a snitch.
November 7, 1990
Devane tries to protect his past when his father's name turns up on a debtor's list found on a murdered mob accountant.
November 14, 1990
A DA office worker uses a computer to free some people arrested the night before because she wants to hire one.
November 28, 1990
Molenski is in trouble when she's mugged and her gun is stolen and used in a robbery/murder.
December 5, 1990
A man tries to get his mobster son ,who was just released from prison, to stay in the family business.
December 12, 1990
A falsely arrested suspect tries to sue Hunter and the police.
TWO-HOUR TV MOVIE: January 9, 1991
A young coed is hit and killed by a drunk driver. A serial killer kills cops and steals their badges.
(Officer Molenski is shot and killed in this episdoe.)
January 16, 1991
A computer expert helps Novak to get a lead on some burglars.
January 30, 1991
A reporter friend of Novak's comes to town to investigate a chain of hold-ups and Novak later discovers the woman is addicted to cocaine.
February 13, 1991
A man and woman lure a man to a hotel room. They rob and murder him, but he may not have died.
February 20, 1991
When Novak is one protecting a murder witness, some federal agents show interest, including her estranged father.
March 2, 1991
The Secret Service is involved in a murder.
March 8, 1991
A hooker is chased for stealing a rare coin from a coin thief.
March 15, 1991
A deaf woman's runaway daughter is the key witness in Hunter's latest case.
April 5, 1991
A dry cleaner is robbed by his ex-wife, who accidentally takes some mob money.
April 26, 1991
Captain Devane has been chosen by a small-time crook to be his best man.
(March 6, 1995)
Lieutennant Rick Hunter must solve his fiance's murder. Click here for a detailed description.