Brash detectives Rick Hunter & Dee Dee McCall team up to catch a psychopathic serial murderer, eventually found to be a colleague.Brash detectives Rick Hunter & Dee Dee McCall team up to catch a psychopathic serial murderer, eventually found to be a colleague.Brash detectives Rick Hunter & Dee Dee McCall team up to catch a psychopathic serial murderer, eventually found to be a colleague.
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- TriviaDue to the run time being 1 hour and 36 minutes, in syndication this is televised as two one-hour shows, part 1 and part 2. Part 1 ends with Hunter leaving Dr. Boland's office. The opening and end credits are the same for both.
- GoofsHunter is an officer for the Police Department of the City of Los Angeles. However, in the briefing room, seen while the Captain is haranguing his detectives, the wall map behind the lectern is clearly of Orange County, which is an entirely different jurisdiction.
- ConnectionsFollowed by The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A. (1995)
- SoundtracksEasy Ride
(uncredited)
Performed and Written by Herb Pedersen
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Well Punk, ya gonna go for it?
In this pilot for the highly popular TV series loose cannon Los Angeles cop Sgt. Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) is investigating serial murders of attractive blonde women who frequent a country western bar. He would have an easier time doing his job if police bureaucracy i.e. his superior Captain Cain didn't interfere.
Hunter is ordered (department regulations) to see police shrink Doctor Bolin (Brian Dennehy) a duplicitous quack colluding with Captain Cain to get Hunter thrown off the force.
Meanwhile Hunter, having been paired with Bernie Terwiliger (James Whitmore Jr.) an incompetent yo-yo he loathes strikes an arrangement with outcast cop Sgt. Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) - a trigger-happy, Lynda Carter lookalike referred to as "The Brass Cupcake" by her more sexist colleagues like Terwiliger.
They will 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 others reports and vouch for one another conducting investigations separately. But somehow they manage to co-operate long enough to catch the killer.
The biggest criticism of the show was the acting chops or lack thereof of ex-pro football player Fred Dryer. Dryer actually appeared to be affecting an impression of Eastwood with an angry glare and clenched teeth sneering his lines early in the series. That worked quite well for the role and the simplistically formulaic rip-off of "Dirty Harry" made the show popular as a vapid guilty pleasure.
The fantastic performance given by Brian Dennehy makes this episode worth watching all the more. Dennehy is the type of actor who might be seen in Bronson/Eastwood vigilante action movies and was thus an impeccable casting choice who fit the formula perfectly.
The series production team should have gotten more supporting cast members from Bronson/Eastwood movies - as many as they could and copied the plot-lines of those films as they appeared to be doing in the first couple of seasons and in this episode.
Hunter is ordered (department regulations) to see police shrink Doctor Bolin (Brian Dennehy) a duplicitous quack colluding with Captain Cain to get Hunter thrown off the force.
Meanwhile Hunter, having been paired with Bernie Terwiliger (James Whitmore Jr.) an incompetent yo-yo he loathes strikes an arrangement with outcast cop Sgt. Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) - a trigger-happy, Lynda Carter lookalike referred to as "The Brass Cupcake" by her more sexist colleagues like Terwiliger.
They will 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 others reports and vouch for one another conducting investigations separately. But somehow they manage to co-operate long enough to catch the killer.
The biggest criticism of the show was the acting chops or lack thereof of ex-pro football player Fred Dryer. Dryer actually appeared to be affecting an impression of Eastwood with an angry glare and clenched teeth sneering his lines early in the series. That worked quite well for the role and the simplistically formulaic rip-off of "Dirty Harry" made the show popular as a vapid guilty pleasure.
The fantastic performance given by Brian Dennehy makes this episode worth watching all the more. Dennehy is the type of actor who might be seen in Bronson/Eastwood vigilante action movies and was thus an impeccable casting choice who fit the formula perfectly.
The series production team should have gotten more supporting cast members from Bronson/Eastwood movies - as many as they could and copied the plot-lines of those films as they appeared to be doing in the first couple of seasons and in this episode.
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- JasonDanielBaker
- Sep 6, 2012
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What is the broadcast (satellite or terrestrial TV) release date of Hunter (1984) in Australia?
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