Every season of Hunter ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Hunter!

Former NFL player Fred Dryer is Det.Sgt. Rick Hunter, a mobster's son turned cop, cut in the ""Dirty Harry"" mold. Hassled by his by-the-book captain (played by Michael Cavanaugh in the opener), Hunter enlists another maverick, brassy Det. Sgt. Dee Dee McCall to set a trap for a brutal murderer.

Hunter

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.

Hard Contract

The Police Commissioner is the main suspect in the murder of his wife.

The Hot Grounder

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.

A Long Way From L.A.

A gangster was killed. Now Terwilliger believes that it was a burglar who did but Hunter finds a few loose ends. Now the eldest son, Nick, who is a carouser fears what will happen if the girl whom he came home with the night his father was killed is found. Hunter and McCall eventually learn about her and find her she tells them that when they arrived at the house his father was upset with him and a fight broke out and then she heard the shot then the alarm. Which leads them to think that maybe Nick was the one who killed his father. However, the captain doesn't think that she's a credible witness, because she was drunk and was going to go bed with him.  When she calls Nick demanding some hush money they agree to meet when Nick arrives someone shoots him and Hunter finds that he was going to pay her. Hunter then realizes that it was the other son, Billy who did it. He finds the girl with at the hospital and holds her hostage when Hunter arrives and manages to shoot him.

Legacy

A little girl has faith in the carrier pigeons, so she reports them stolen. No one listens until she is the target of a kidnapper.

Flight on a Dead Pigeon

When a kid dies from smoking a joint laced with PCP, Hunter tracks down the slime-ball responsible.  Hunter is then for murder.  Dee Dee has to deal with a new partner and try to prove Hunter's innocence.  Meanwhile, Hunter has to survive the attempts by the Hammer and his three lackeys to kill him.

Pen Pals

Hunter and McCall track a bounty hunter who is not fussy about the condition of his prey.

Dead or Alive

Hunter and McCall arrest a man named Gavin, who is a street thug. They are then shocked to learn that the D.A. has made a deal with him. It seems that Gavin can link crime boss Nate Demarest to four murders. And Hunter is not pleased with it, cause if they let Gavin go, he will kill someone eventually. After an attempt is made on Gavin, Hunter suggests that they limit the knowledge of Gavin's whereabouts to just two people, and Gavin says that he wants Hunter and McCall to be those two. Cause he knows that they only way Hunter can prove that he didn't sell Gavin out, is to take a bullet for him. And it is while they are protecting Gavin that McCall recalls an old case wherein she and her partner were investigating Demarest for murdering an undercover Fed. McCall begins by talking to the man's wife and tells about a girl named Crissy who worked for Demarest, whom her husband took an interest in. Hunter then goes to talk to a man who once worked for Demarest, Whitey McPhee. And when he g

High Bleacher Man

A motorcycle cop is shot with a special armor penetrating bullet similar to the one that killed McCall's husband.

The Shooter

Hunter and a friend of the victim, a parole officer, are both on the trail of the killer, only to cause a lot of problems for Hunter along the way.

The Garbage Man

A surveillance expert decides to punish a murder suspect and the witness who was bought off.

The Avenging Angel

A cocaine dealer from New York escapes from the escort, who wants her dead. Hunter and Molinas team up for a major drug bust.  Dee Dee's cover may be blown.

The Snow Queen (1)

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.

The Snow Queen (2)

Drug dealers are feeling the wrath of a supplier they refused and the penalty is death.

The Beach Boy

Hunter and McCall disobey orders and investigate a possible connection between two homicides instead of chasing muggers.

Guilty

Hunter and McCall trail a hit man who leaves a napkin with a purple circle on it at the scene of each crime. Hunter believes that the killer is the husband of his former girlfriend, a former magazine model. McCall believes Hunter is focusing on the husband of his ex out of jelousy. And Hunter's ex believes her husband is cheating on her, never suspecting the true nature of her spouse's activities.

The Last Kill

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.

Fire Man

Hunter,and McCall investigate the mysterious Sniper shootings of blond women.Meanwhie,the Police Department personnel is being audited by a most efficient IRS Agent.

Sniper

A modeling agent is a front for a photographer's personal pornography ring, and when the female porn stars start turning up dead, McCall goes undercover.

Case X

Hunter and McCall witness a shooting in Chinatown and follow up on their off time, but the officer-in-charge resents their meddling.

Night of the Dragons

The murder looks like a professional execution.  But why would a small time accountant be killed when he is eighty miles from home and using an alias?  For Hunter and Dee Dee the only clue is to go to the source—a small, wealthy resort community that is controlled by one man.  Hunter can feel this guy is responsible but proving it is a deadly proposition.

The Biggest Man in Town

Hunter and McCall investigate the shooting of a wealthy businessman. The man's young wife was the prime suspect but is arrested, put on trial, and acquitted for the crime.

Rich Girl

The Captain sends Hunter and McCall to serve as technical advisors for a television police show to keep them out of trouble. Unfortunately, the star of the show is killed, placing Hunter and McCall in the middle of another high-profile murder investigation.

Killer in a Halloween Mask

McCall is raped and beaten by a diplomat who has a strange opinion of the way to treat women. Hunter is angry, but can do nothing when the culprit claims diplomatic immunity. McCall is appalled to find that the man's father shares his attitude toward women.

Rape and Revenge (1)

Hunter ends up in San Pablo wanting to shoot Raul Mariano, the man who raped McCall and shot Hunter. McCall comes and tries to stop Hunter from killing Mariano. She fails, and Hunter shoots Mariano four times. After, Hunter and McCall must escape from an army that is trying to kill them.

Rape and Revenge (2)

A ruthless robbery of an armoured car goes awry when Dunbar, the leader of the gang, kills his partner only to have his car stolen with the $1,000,000 in the trunk.  When the owner of the car is later killed, Hunter and McCall find themselves on a case that gets deadlier at every turn.

Million Dollar Misunderstanding

Hunter and McCall are one of the teams assigned to protect a government witness.  But when he is thrown out the window of the hotel room, Hunter and Dee Dee are in the middle of a Bullit-style conspiracy of deadly double crosses.  Someone in the department killed the witness and Rick and McCall must find out who and why before Hunter is pinned to the wall for murder one.

The Big Fall

A flashy yet deadly jewelry store robbery leaves Hunter and McCall with a dead body and a cold trail.  When Angelita, a beautiful young model who is their only connection to one of the killers, boards a train to San Diego, Hunter is right behind her.

Waiting for Mr. Wrong

A corrupt group of cops are stealing electronics and murder a street gang member who sees them. Meanwhile, Hunter tries to help out a friend, Charlie, another cop, who is accused of murdering his philandering wife.

Think Blue

Someone bombs the angel on a grave and Hunter thinks it was done by a man he arrested a long time ago.

Blow-up

A hooker's murder and a pharmaceutical theft are connected.

War Zone

A lawyer who was indicted for bribing a juror fakes his death.

Burned

A dying criminal sends for Hunter and says that he's the man who killed Hunter's father, and that he was paid to do it by his father's partner. Hunter goes to the man who was originally convicted for the murder and asks him if he did it or not; he says he was just trying to rob the place when the police came and assumed he did it. So Hunter sets out to find if his father's partner did have his father killed.

Scrap Metal

A juvenille is killed during a robbery attempt and Hunter discovers that he was part of a gang led by an adult.

Fagin 1986

Hunter and McCall investigate a series of bombings, seen as possibly political and related to the Student Revolutionary League, a student protest group—but Hunter thinks the political angle is a misdirect.

62 Hrs. of Terror

A couple of young punks rip off the house of Lucky Lacy, an underworld jewelry connection, and get away with $2,000,000 in jewels.  But when Lacy hires Lincoln, a huge punk killer to find them, dead bodies start piling up and Hunter and McCall are up against their biggest foe yet!

Death Machine

A beautiful young woman is killed in a very professional style and Hunter knows her death is a link to a three-year-old case of an elusive international criminal named Varn.  But before Hunter and McCall can piece together the case, Hunter is framed for a brutal assualt.  Why would the victim finger Hunter?  Who killed the young woman?  Where is Varn?  Hunter and McCall must find the answers before Rick takes the fall and Varn disappears forever

The Setup

She is exquisitely beautiful with perfect features.  She is sitting in Hunter's chair waiting for him to come home.  She is also dead!  A clean professional hit in an adult motel throws Rick and Dee Dee into a case that includes Russian and Federal Agents, espionage, and a strangely intriguing, nameless beauty who is the final piece in a jigsaw puzzle that won't come together

The Beautiful & the Dead (1)

A body disappears from Hunter's apartment, and as he and McCall investigate they find that a Russian defector and Federal agents are connected to the case.

The Beautiful & the Dead (2)

Jerome Typhoon Thompson a once famous Middle-weight prizefighter is realeased from Prison after serving 5-years of a life sentence.He was convicted of murdering his manager,a charge that he says is false.Because of good behavior he was paroled.Once outside he is greetd by Hunter,who warns Typhoon not to seek revenge on those he feels had set him up.However Typhoon will not listen.He immediatly looks around,hoping to get information on the people that he knows are responsible for his imprisonment.His quest gets the attention of two people on motocycles who try to kill him .Foretunatly Hunter,and McCall were there(they were keeping  surveillance on Typhoon)they arrested the would be killers.Hunter who earlier thought Typhoon was guilty isn't so sure now.He,and McCall will continue their investigation until something comes out .

The Return of Typhoon Thompson

A series of murders on skid row smash across the headlines.  But when Hunter and McCall dig into the case, they discover a witness who swears the killer is a reporter covering the story

Saturday Night Special

A TV reporter accuses Hunter of unjustly firing his weapon . Capt. Wyler is promoted to Deputy Chief.

Overnight Sensation

A cop is murdered after making arrangements to meet with Hunter.

Change Partners and Dance

McCall believes a man suspected of murdering his wife is innocent.

Crime of Passion

Hunter witnesses the shooting of a DEA agent, but the body disappears.

The Castro Connection

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 eventually abducts Hunter and taunts him first, eventually Hunter gets free and only wounds him. Hunter turns him in and because of what he did, the country can have deported.  At the airport,  he tries to make sure that he has given up his quest for vengeance.

High Noon in L.A.

A San Francisco cop joins Hunter and McCall in investigating a case after someone attempts to shoot his son.

From San Francisco With Love

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. McCall is convinced of the woman's innocence, and turns her attention to the older brother of one of the victims, David Kephart, who will be in charge of a sizable fortune with his younger half-brother Robert out of the way. When first Epperson then Kephart are shot and killed, Wyatt isn't sure who to turn to...and ends up trusting the wrong person.

True Confessions

Police informant, Sporty James, believes that he will receive a large sum of money after witnessing a murder.

Love, Hate and Sporty James

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 to blackmail them but he kills her. Later when she decides to come forward he tries to kill her but Hunter saves her. Later her husband tells them that he will use everything at his disposal to defend her cause he blames himself for what happened.

Contract

McCall's friend and the rock star ex-husband of a singer vanish.

The Cradle Will Rock

A group of supremacists rob a gun shop and leave an injured partner behind. Hunter's attempt to get information from her fails.

Bad Company

Hunter travels to Sydney, Australia in an attempt to find clues regarding the disappearnce of an old flame three years ago.

Down and Under

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.

Straight to the Heart

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.

Requiem for Sergeant McCall

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.

Double Exposure

Detective Sergeant Coslin is on the run after witnessing his girlfriend's murder and planting evidence of the crime in Hunter's house.

The Girl Next Door

A fan who was convicted of attacking a pianist is released from prison and is, once again, a threat to the pianist.

Any Second Now

Hunter must indentify the victim of a shooting in order to save the baby of a pregnant woman who was mistakenly shot.

A Child Is Born

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.

Crossfire

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).

Hot Pursuit (1)

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).

Hot Pursuit (2)

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

Shades

When Hunter and McCall investigate the murder of an unidentified man, their interest is piqued because the victim seemingly never existed -- and the killing appears to be a professional murder.

Not Just Another John Doe

After learning the circumstances leading up to the murder of a notorious Latino crime boss, Hunter and McCallface an ethical dilemma: whether to arrest the killer or let him go free.

Playing God

Hunter investigates the disappearance of a friend's mail-order bride while he is off duty. The case becomes a homicide investagation when the marriage broker is murdered.

The Jade Woman

A city councilman's son is killed in a botched traffic stop and he holds the LAPD responsible, citing racism.

Flash Point

When Hunter & McCall travel to a mountaintop mansion to investigate a murder, they are trapped there overnight with the victim's entire family in the midst of a massive snowstorm.

Night On Bald Mountain

Hunter and McCall investigate a series of bizarre murders, which take on the appearance of the result of a Satanic cult rite. Based on a book by Dallas Barnes.

City of Passion (1)

Hunter spends the night at McCall's house after she receives a threatening phone call from the man known as "Bigfoot," whom they were investigating for the rapes. Brad Navarro's wife kicks him out of the house and hits the LAPD with a massive and somewhat humorous lawsuit, claiming their marriage was failing because of Brad's "unusual appetite for sex" due to being paired up with attractive female partners. Hunter's investigation of a missing girl uncovers a local satanic cult, led by the very judge McCall arrested. The LAPD conduct a stakeout in an attempt to catch "Bigfoot," but he outsmarts them and nearly claims Sgt. McCall as his next victim.

City of Passion (2)

McCall's fight to appeal her entrapment accusation uncovers corruption at the hands of the LAPD commander, who resigns amid the controversy. The teenage girl Hunter had been keeping tabs on is murdered by a member of Judge Unger's cult. The judge is arrested by Hunter. Kathy Navarro drops her lawsuit against the LAPD and she and Brad reconcile. Lloyd Fredericks, known as "Bigfoot," is arrested after he beats and nearly rapes Sgt. McCall; Mrs. Fredericks takes her own course of action against him.

City of Passion (3)

Hunter and McCall investigate a car bomb that explodes in a reporter's car, killing someone else.

Turning Point

The victim of a robbery attempts to buy the stolen item from the robber without reporting him to the police.

Hot Prowl

Hunter struggles with some emotions when the victim of his latest murder investigation is an old flame.

Allegra

When Hunter investigates a drug ring, his ex-partner, Frank Garriman, becomes a suspect in the murder of the dealers.

Renegade

Hunter & McCall post a (fictitious) conclusion to the Black Dahlia murder case, the most famous unsolved murder in the history of the LAPD.

Black Dahlia

Hunter and McCall investigate the mysterious death of a famous movie actress and encounter a surviving sister hungry for the inheritance.

Naked Justice (1)

A homeless person provides information about the murder of a movie star.

Naked Justice (2)

Captain Devane's ex-wife is convinced that she killed a woman while driving under the influence of alcohol, until a second body is found.

Girl On the Beach

The mobsters are pursuing Sporty James because they think he stole a million dollars from them. The police are pursuing him because they think he killed one of the mobsters.

Bogota's Million

Hunter is assisted in a murder investigation by a sign language interpreter when the murder victim is a deaf man.

Death Signs

A woman fears that she will be the prime suspect when her husband is killed in a boating accident.

Boomerang

Years ago Hunter was part of a group who busted a drug ring. Now the sole survivor of the gang claims that some money, four million dollars was missing from what they turned in. Now internal affairs, more or less deduced that three members of the group were involved but, they believed that because four million was missing that there was a fourth member, who took part in it. Initially Hunter was under suspicion but no sufficient evidence was found. Now that the man who claimed that there was four million dollars missing is out on parole, and the three cops who were under suspicion are turning up dead. It's now being assumed that the gang member is taking them out and taking the money that they got, or the fourth man is. And again Hunter is the prime suspect.

Fourth Man

Hunter and McCall have dinner with a millionaire who thinks that his heirs are plotting his murder.

Murder He Wrote

When Hunter & McCall investigate a series of murders committed with police-issued bullets, the main suspect is closer than they think.

Silver Bullet

Hunter investigates the case of a teenage boy who mistakenly shot his parents during what he claimed was a home invasion.

Heir of Neglect

Hunter and McCall enter the world of baby brokering when they find the murdered body of an expensive call girl, and a two-year-old toddler left unharmed in front of the woman's television set.

The Baby Game

While investigating the apparent suicide of Hunter's friend from his days in Vietnam, Hunter and McCall uncover a 20-year-old betrayal that is still killing people today.

Dead On Target (1)

Dead On Target (2)

McCall finds her loyalties sharply divided when an important murder case--being prosecuted by the Assistant District Attorney with whom she is in love--is jeopardized by Hunter, who thinks the defendant is innocent.

Presumed Guilty

Mysterious tape recordings accusing a powerful company of illegally dumping toxic waste seem like a prank--until Hunter and McCall find that someone is willing to kill to conceal the truth.

No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished

Hunter puts his job on the line when he defends a female officer wounded and possibly killed in the line of duty.

Honorable Profession

Hunter and McCall try to solve a bank robbery and murder, while attempting to cope with the double and triple-crossing schemes of a small time criminal who once saved Hunter's life and won't let him forget it.

Payback

When the husband of a policewoman is murdered, evidence of wife abuse makes Hunter and McCall suspect the woman's patrol partner who knew about the beatings.

Partners

The son of an LAPD dispatcher lands himself in hot water when he accumulates gambling debts.

The Pit

Hunter and McCall track a pair of killers through a Los Angeles suburb where a crime wave and backlash vigilantism threaten to tear the community apart.

City Under Siege (1)

City Under Siege (2)

City Under Siege (3)

A woman is the prime suspect in a brutal murder case after she stops taking her experimental medication.

Me, Myself & Die

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.

The Best Seasons of Hunter

The Best Seasons of Hunter

Season 6

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 2

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Season 1