Hunter - Season 3

First aired: 9/27/1986 22 episodes

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Episodes

1. Overnight Sensation

Aired: 9/27/1986

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

2. Change Partners and Dance

Aired: 10/4/1986

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

3. Crime of Passion

Aired: 10/11/1986

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

4. The Castro Connection

Aired: 11/1/1986

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

5. High Noon in L.A.

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.

6. From San Francisco With Love

Aired: 11/15/1986

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

7. True Confessions

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.

8. Love, Hate and Sporty James

Aired: 12/6/1986

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

9. Contract

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.

10. The Cradle Will Rock

Aired: 1/3/1987

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

11. Bad Company

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.

12. Down and Under

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.

13. Straight to the Heart

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.

14. Requiem for Sergeant McCall

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.

15. Double Exposure

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.

16. The Girl Next Door

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.

17. Any Second Now

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.

18. A Child Is Born

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.

19. Crossfire

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.

20. Hot Pursuit (1)

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).

21. Hot Pursuit (2)

Aired: 5/9/1987

22. Shades

Aired: 7/18/1987

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