The Worst Episodes of Hunter
Every episode of Hunter ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Hunter!
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.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Hunter" is "Flight on a Dead Pigeon", rated 6.8/10 from 162 user votes. It was directed by Michael Preece and written by E. Nick Alexander. "Flight on a Dead Pigeon" aired on 11/9/1984 and is rated 0.0 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "High Bleacher Man".
6.8/10 162 votes#1 - Flight on a Dead Pigeon
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1984
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.
Director: Michael Preece
Writer: E. Nick Alexander
6.8/10 135 votes#2 - High Bleacher Man
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1984
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
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/10 130 votes
#3 - The Beach Boy
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/6/1985
Drug dealers are feeling the wrath of a supplier they refused and the penalty is death.
Director: Richard A. Colla
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/10 164 votes
#4 - Legacy
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1984
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.
Director: Ron Satlof
Writer: Chris Bunch, Allan Cole
- 6.9/10 159 votes
#5 - Pen Pals
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1984
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.
Director: Larry Stewart
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10 122 votes
#6 - Fire Man
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/4/1985
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.
Director: Tony Mordente
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10 70 votes
#7 - The Incident
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1990
No description available
Director: Fred Dryer
Writer: Kathy McCormick
7.1/10 186 votes#8 - A Long Way From L.A.
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1984
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.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.1/10 155 votes#9 - Dead or Alive
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1984
Hunter and McCall track a bounty hunter who is not fussy about the condition of his prey.
Director: Guy Magar
Writer: Frank Lupo
- 7.1/10 117 votes
#10 - Sniper
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/11/1985
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.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Sidney Ellis
- 7.1/10 131 votes
#11 - Rich Girl
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1985
Hunter,and McCall investigate the attempted shooting of a wealthy businessman.The man's young wife was the prime suspect when arrested,put on trial,and aquitted for the crime(lack of proof).The young woman then dies,the victim of an apparent suicide.Hunter,and McCall then shifts their investigation to another suspect somebody that they had not previously suspected.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10 101 votes
#12 - 62 Hrs. of Terror
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/15/1986
No description available
Director: Michael Preece
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10 78 votes
#13 - Return of White Cloud
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/21/1989
No description available
Director: Stepfanie Kramer
Writer: Stepfanie Kramer
7.2/10 194 votes#14 - Hard Contract
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1984
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.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo
- 7.2/10 145 votes
#15 - The Garbage Man
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/11/1985
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.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10 126 votes
#16 - Guilty
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/13/1985
Hunter and McCall disobey orders and investigate a possible connection between two homicides instead of chasing muggers.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 65 votes#17 - Where Echoes End
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1990
No description available
Director: James Darren
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10 65 votes
#18 - Kill Zone
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1990
No description available
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10 67 votes
#19 - The Usual Suspects
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1990
No description available
Director: Alan Myerson
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 182 votes#20 - The Hot Grounder
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1984
The Police Commissioner is the main suspect in the murder of his wife.
Director: Bill Duke
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
- 7.3/10 134 votes
#21 - The Avenging Angel
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/1985
A surveillance expert decides to punish a murder suspect and the witness who was bought off.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 124 votes
#22 - Case X
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1985
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.
Director: David Soul
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 118 votes
#23 - Night of the Dragons
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1985
Hunter and McCall witness a shooting in Chinatown and follow up on their off time, but the officer-in-charge resents their meddling.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Herbert Wright
- 7.3/10 102 votes
#24 - War Zone
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1986
A hooker's murder and a pharmaceutical theft are connected.
Director: Bob Bralver
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 108 votes#25 - Death Machine
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/11/1986
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!
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A