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The Best Episodes of Hunter Season 3

Every episode of Hunter Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Hunter Season 3!

The Best Episodes of Hunter Season 3

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....

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  1. Background image for Overnight Sensation
    7.7/10(119 votes)

    #1 - Overnight Sensation

    S3:E1

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

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    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Change Partners and Dance
    7.9/10(110 votes)

    #2 - Change Partners and Dance

    S3:E2

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

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  3. Background image for Crime of Passion
    7.3/10(107 votes)

    #3 - Crime of Passion

    S3:E3

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Castro Connection
    7.6/10(102 votes)

    #4 - The Castro Connection

    S3:E4

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for High Noon in L.A.
    7.8/10(108 votes)

    #5 - High Noon in L.A.

    S3:E5

    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.

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  6. Background image for From San Francisco With Love
    7.8/10(108 votes)

    #6 - From San Francisco With Love

    S3:E6

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

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    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for True Confessions
    7.9/10(104 votes)

    #7 - True Confessions

    S3:E7

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Love, Hate and Sporty James
    7.8/10(109 votes)

    #8 - Love, Hate and Sporty James

    S3:E8

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

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  10. Background image for Contract
    7.9/10(100 votes)

    #9 - Contract

    S3:E9

    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.

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    Director:Les Sheldon
  11. Background image for The Cradle Will Rock
    7.7/10(113 votes)

    #10 - The Cradle Will Rock

    S3:E10

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

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    Director:Kim Manners
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    7.3/10(100 votes)

    #11 - Bad Company

    S3:E11

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Down and Under
    7.4/10(111 votes)

    #12 - Down and Under

    S3:E12

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

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  14. Background image for Straight to the Heart
    7.9/10(116 votes)

    #13 - Straight to the Heart

    S3:E13

    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.

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    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Requiem for Sergeant McCall
    7.7/10(103 votes)

    #14 - Requiem for Sergeant McCall

    S3:E14

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Joe Gannon
  16. Background image for Double Exposure
    7.4/10(108 votes)

    #15 - Double Exposure

    S3:E15

    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.

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    7.8/10(97 votes)

    #16 - The Girl Next Door

    S3:E16

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

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    Director:James Darren
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Any Second Now
    8.1/10(101 votes)

    #17 - Any Second Now

    S3:E17

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

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  19. Background image for A Child Is Born
    7.6/10(102 votes)

    #18 - A Child Is Born

    S3:E18

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

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    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Crossfire
    7.7/10(93 votes)

    #19 - Crossfire

    S3:E19

    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.

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    8.0/10(105 votes)

    #20 - Hot Pursuit (1)

    S3:E20

    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).

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    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Hot Pursuit (2)
    8.0/10(96 votes)

    #21 - Hot Pursuit (2)

    S3:E21

    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).

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    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Shades
    7.7/10(107 votes)

    #22 - Shades

    S3:E22

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

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    Director:James Darren
    Writer:Unknown

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Overnight Sensation" is the best rated episode of "Hunter" season 3. It scored 7.7/10 based on 119 votes. Directed by Tony Mordente and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/27/1986. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Change Partners and Dance".