7.7/10109 votes#1 - Overnight Sensation
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1986
A TV reporter accuses Hunter of unjustly firing his weapon . Capt. Wyler is promoted to Deputy Chief.
Director: Tony Mordente
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10100 votes
#2 - Change Partners and Dance
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1986
A cop is murdered after making arrangements to meet with Hunter.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1099 votes
#3 - Crime of Passion
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1986
McCall believes a man suspected of murdering his wife is innocent.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1093 votes
#4 - The Castro Connection
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/1986
Hunter witnesses the shooting of a DEA agent, but the body disappears.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: N/A
7.8/1099 votes#5 - High Noon in L.A.
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/8/1986
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.
Director: Michael Preece, James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Howard Chesley
- 7.8/1098 votes
#6 - From San Francisco With Love
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1986
A San Francisco cop joins Hunter and McCall in investigating a case after someone attempts to shoot his son.
Director: Tony Mordente
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1096 votes
#7 - True Confessions
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/1986
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1099 votes#8 - Love, Hate and Sporty James
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1986
Police informant, Sporty James, believes that he will receive a large sum of money after witnessing a murder.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: Marianne Clarkson
- 7.9/1094 votes
#9 - Contract
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/1986
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.
Director: Les Sheldon
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10108 votes
#10 - The Cradle Will Rock
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/3/1987
McCall's friend and the rock star ex-husband of a singer vanish.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Roy Huggins
- 7.5/1094 votes
#11 - Bad Company
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/10/1987
A group of supremacists rob a gun shop and leave an injured partner behind. Hunter's attempt to get information from her fails.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10104 votes
#12 - Down and Under
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/1987
Hunter travels to Sydney, Australia in an attempt to find clues regarding the disappearnce of an old flame three years ago.
Director: James Darren, Tony Mordente
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10110 votes
#13 - Straight to the Heart
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/1987
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.
Director: Tony Mordente
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1094 votes
#14 - Requiem for Sergeant McCall
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/1987
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Joe Gannon
- 7.5/10101 votes
#15 - Double Exposure
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/14/1987
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.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1089 votes
#16 - The Girl Next Door
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/21/1987
Detective Sergeant Coslin is on the run after witnessing his girlfriend's murder and planting evidence of the crime in Hunter's house.
Director: James Darren
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1094 votes
#17 - Any Second Now
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/28/1987
A fan who was convicted of attacking a pianist is released from prison and is, once again, a threat to the pianist.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1093 votes
#18 - A Child Is Born
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/14/1987
Hunter must indentify the victim of a shooting in order to save the baby of a pregnant woman who was mistakenly shot.
Director: Tony Mordente
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1086 votes
#19 - Crossfire
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/11/1987
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.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1097 votes
#20 - Hot Pursuit (1)
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1987
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).
Director: Michael Preece
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1088 votes
#21 - Hot Pursuit (2)
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1987
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).
Director: Stepfanie Kramer
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1099 votes
#22 - Shades
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 7/18/1987
McCall's life is saved by a mysterious gunman and Hunter is missing.
Director: James Darren
Writer: N/A
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!
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Overnight Sensation" is the best rated episode of "Hunter" season 3. It scored 7.7/10 based on 109 votes. Directed by Tony Mordente and written by N/A, it aired on 9/27/1986. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Change Partners and Dance".