Hunter

Hunter

1984
Hunter
Hunter

Hunter

6.9 | TV-14 | en | Drama

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.

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EP22  Little Man With a Big Reputation
Apr. 26,1991
Little Man With a Big Reputation

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EP21  Ex Marks the Spot
Apr. 05,1991
Ex Marks the Spot

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EP20  Cries of Silence
Mar. 15,1991
Cries of Silence

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EP19  All That Glitters
Mar. 08,1991
All That Glitters

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EP18  The Grab
Mar. 02,1991
The Grab

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EP17  Shadows of the Past
Feb. 20,1991
Shadows of the Past

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EP16  Room Service
Feb. 13,1991
Room Service

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EP15  The Reporter
Jan. 30,1991
The Reporter

Novak's reporter friend (Kelly Curtis) uses cocaine to boost the excitement of tagging along on a robbery investigation for her story on Novak. Griffin: Arlen Dean Snyder. Bell: David A. Kimball. Jordan: Joey Aresco. Hamilton: Don Fischer. Novak: Lauren Lane.

EP14  Under Suspicion
Jan. 16,1991
Under Suspicion

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EP13  Fatal Obsession (2)
Jan. 09,1991
Fatal Obsession (2)

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EP12  Fatal Obsession (1)
Jan. 09,1991
Fatal Obsession (1)

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EP11  Acapulco Holiday
Dec. 12,1990
Acapulco Holiday

A falsely accused man is persuaded to sue the city---and Hunter---by a lawyer who's traveled that road before, and left casualties.

EP10  La Familia
Dec. 05,1990
La Familia

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EP9  This Is My Gun
Nov. 28,1990
This Is My Gun

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EP8  The Usual Suspects
Nov. 14,1990
The Usual Suspects

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EP7  Oh, the Shark Bites!
Nov. 07,1990
Oh, the Shark Bites!

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EP6  A Snitch'll Break Your Heart
Oct. 31,1990
A Snitch'll Break Your Heart

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EP5  The Incident
Oct. 24,1990
The Incident

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EP4  Kill Zone
Oct. 10,1990
Kill Zone

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EP3  Where Echoes End
Oct. 03,1990
Where Echoes End

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EP2  Deadly Encounters (2)
Sep. 26,1990
Deadly Encounters (2)

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EP1  Deadly Encounters (1)
Sep. 19,1990
Deadly Encounters (1)

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6.9 | TV-14 | en | Drama , Action & Adventure | More Info
Released: 1984-09-18 | Released Producted By: NBC Productions , Stephen J. Cannell Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

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.

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Cast

Fred Dryer , Stepfanie Kramer , Charles Hallahan

Director

Grace Curcio

Producted By

NBC Productions , Stephen J. Cannell Productions

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Jason Daniel Baker Rugged anti-hero/loose cannon Los Angeles cop Sgt. Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) didn't get into law enforcement for the meagre paycheck, or the long hours or the instability in his relationships, or the constant threat of death. He got into it because there are some bad guys out there who need to get taken down hard and he is just the bucko ta do it! Hunter's original arrangement with partner Dee Dee McCall (A trigger-happy, Lynda Carter lookalike referred to as "The Brass Cupcake" by her more sexist colleagues) was that they would be partners in name only .Since neither could keep a partner and they both worked better on their own the arrangement appeared to make sense. They would sign each other's reports and vouch for one another conducting investigations separately.But each brought out the best in the other making inroads into crime heightening the danger with their very progress. They would come to need each other's presence up until they acknowledged they really were partners.There was big money in the vigilante cop formula and Hunter which ran for 152 episodes didn't disappoint giving audiences their fix of gritty cop show action. Hunter was essentially "Dirty Harry for TV" and was cast with ex-pro football player Fred Dryer who sort of resembled Clint Eastwood though unlike Eastwood Dryer couldn't act and was balding even more rapidly than Eastwood.Dryer actually appeared to be affecting an impression of Eastwwod with an angry glare and clenched teeth sneering his lines early in the series. Hunter had the same trigger-happy gunslinger attitude as Dirty Harry and the familiar difficulty dealing with a police bureaucracy obsessed with public relations, red tape and prospects for career advancement.Hunter also famously had a habit of physically abusing suspects of African-American, Asian and Latino persuasion. Hunter's partner Dee Dee McCall often came close to being raped and murdered on a show which narrowly avoided being classified as the most violent on network TV simply because Miami Vice and the A-Team (NBC took over from ABC as the network with the most violent programming) were still on the air. Think of all of that what you will.Very little of what was shown in the murder mysteries was all that complicated and the one-dimensional characters never challenged audiences much. The quality of the production actually deteriorated as it went. There was never an examination of light and shade in the characters. There was not the slightest hint of moral subjectivity in the performances. There was merely good destroying evil.The Hunter character was much like those portrayed by John Wayne or Randolph Scott in Westerns; One who exerts brute force in the same way a bullying thug might but is insulated by his own righteousness. It is of little challenge to an actor and as such Dryer was much more effective early in the series when he was not called upon to emote on camera.Reviews of this show at the time it came out were almost uniformly negative. Nobody liked this show...With the exception of the actual public.
Bolesroor "Hunter" was a TV series so predictable, so banal, so obvious that you've already seen every episode. It isn't hard to imagine the meetings that went into the creation of this show: "How about a Dirty Harry for the small-screen... with a beautiful babe as his partner?" "Works for me." When pro-football player Fred Dryer retired and took up a career in acting, he displayed a remarkable gift, rare for even lifelong professional actors... he had a flare for comedy. He was so funny, in fact, that he came *this* close to getting the role of Sam Malone in Cheers... even when it went to Ted Danson the producers had Dryer on numerous times in guest-appearances that became classics. The bold move for him and his agent would have been to find or create a TV series that put his talents to use, a show that highlighted his tough-guy/teddy-bear persona. Instead Fred copped out."Hunter" was the cop show that defined the whole genre of bad 80's cop-shows... a rebel detective that exacts his own brand of justice, a loose cannon who fights with the chief and carries a gun so big it belongs on a battleship. Dryer allowed his uncanny resemblance to Clint Eastwood to be exploited in a mindless show that can best be described as "filler." See him squint and fire a warning shot... watch him cuff a street punk so he can get a lead on who killed a hooker... Wasted was a man capable of delivering a punchline, playing a romantic lead, or exposing the sensitivity beneath the rough exterior. Instead we get a walking cliché, complete with his own "Make-my-day" catchphrase: "Works for me."Stepfanie Kramer, a beautiful cream-puff of a girl, portrays Hunter's partner Dee Dee. The woman was so gorgeous, so soft, so feminine, that it was often comical watching her play a police officer... even when she was shooting at bad guys you had an irresistible urge to hug her. Kramer evidently tried to counter her natural squishiness by POINTING at things when she was trying to express anger or determination. She pointed at suspects, fellow officers, guns... we still loved her.This is not to say the show itself is terrible. Dryer is good in the lead, but only good. He shares a wonderful chemistry with the stunning Kramer, and most episodes are decent and watchable. A great TV show, however, needs more than a passing grade. I'm only passionate about Hunter because I feel Fred Dryer was capable of so much more... instead of a classic sitcom that challenged a gifted actor (or even a cop show that redefined the genre), we're stuck with seven seasons of sirens, silencers and shootouts. Most people don't even remember the show or the actors, and there's a reason for that. "Hunter" spoiled the career of Fred Dryer, and that does not work for me.
RyuO Hunter was a conventional detective show in most respects, but had an innovation that advanced the genre to new levels: the laws of physics were changed so that when cars crashed, they spiraled upwards at a 45 degree angle. You could count on this happening at least once per show, and always at the same point in the soundtrack.The only detective series to better Hunter in repeatable phenomena was Mannix, a forgotten show from the 60s. Not only would a car drive off the same cliff at least once per show, but Mannix would be whacked on the brain stem at the exact same point in the show every week, and display no ill effects. Or, come to think of it, maybe that was why the dialog was so bad...
Brassy This was the all time best cop show made. Fred Dryer and Stepfanie Kramer were matched perfectly and Charles was great as the captain. If you have never seen it you missed out. The story lines were great and the show was kept realistic.