Hunter
Hunter
Genre	Drama
Running time	1 hour
Creator(s)	Frank Lupo
Starring	Fred Dryer Stepfanie Kramer Charles Hallahan John Amos Bruce Davison Darlanne Fluegel Lauren Lane Arthur Rosenburg John Shearin Garrett Morris James Whitmore Jr. Ruby Ramos Perry Cook Richard Beauchamp Courtney Barilla
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	NBC
Original run	September 18, 1984–April 26, 1991
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IMDb profile

Hunter was a police drama television series starring Fred Dryer which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. The titular character, Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and oftentimes rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Stepfanie Kramer co-starred in the first six of the series' seven seasons as Hunter's female partner Dee Dee McCall. Fred Dryer (born July 6, 1946 in Hawthorne, California) is an American actor and former American football player in the National Football League (NFL). ... NBC, (Formerly an acronym for the National Broadcasting Company until 2004), is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Parker Center-LAPDs Headquarters LAPD redirects here. ... Stepfanie Kramer (born August 6, 1956 Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and singer. ...

Created by Frank Lupo, the show in its early episodes played as television's answer to Dirty Harry. Even after the show's violence was toned down, Hunter and McCall still managed to resolve many cases the old-fashioned way, by shooting the perpetrators dead. Frank Lupo is an American television writer and producer. ... Harry Callahan, portrayed by Clint Eastwood. ...

The show's co-executive producer was noted producer Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series. It was co-produced by Lorimar Productions. Stephen J. Cannell (born May 2, 1941) (pronounced CAN-ULL) is an Emmy award winning television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor from the USA. Noted for sophisticated, character-driven writing within genre formats, Cannell has created or co-created nearly 40 different shows, including The Rockford Files, The Greatest... Lorimar Productions was an American television production company, active from 1968-1994. ...

Show history

Season 1 (1984-1985)

Initially placed in a Friday-night slot against the then-popular Dallas, the show struggled to find an audience and drew criticism for its often graphic depiction of violence. In the first season, the producers sought to create a hook by giving the main character a catchphrase, "Works for me", which was sometimes used two or three times an episode and was even tacked on to the end of Mike Post and Pete Carpenter's opening theme music. Several early episodes featured montages set to popular songs from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The Southfork Ranch, home of the Ewing family The original cast of Dallas. ... A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ... Mike Post (born Leland Michael Postil on September 29, 1944) is a Grammy and Emmy award-winning composer of music and theme songs for many of the most popular TV dramas first shown in the United States. ...

Fred Dryer & Stepfanie Kramer

Mid-way through the first season, with ratings showing no sign of improvement, Cannell gave network chief Brandon Tartikoff a private screening of a two-part episode ("The Snow Queen") that had yet to air and asked him to give the show time to find its feet. Tartikoff liked what he saw and put the show on hiatus until a better time slot could be found. Two months later, Hunter returned to the screens on Saturday nights and viewership slowly started to rise. The first season ended in joint 79th place in the Nielsen Ratings. Image File history File links Hunter_Cast. ... Image File history File links Hunter_Cast. ... Brandon Tartikoff (July 13, 1949 – August 27, 1997) was a popular NBC executive who was credited with turning around NBCs low prime-time reputation with such hit series as Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Miami Vice, The Golden Girls, Knight Rider, The... When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention ratings they are generally referring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. ...

Season 2 (1985-1986)

For its second season, Cannell brought in his mentor, Roy Huggins, best known for his work on Maverick and The Rockford Files, to refine the show. As the new executive producer, Huggins toned down the violence, softened the main character's fractious relationship with his superiors, dropped a backstory concerning Hunter's family ties to the mob, and played up the chemistry between Hunter and McCall. Huggins also moved the show's setting out of the back streets and into the more desirable areas of Los Angeles. Emboldened, Dryer and Kramer frequently toyed with the scripts by ad-libbing, and the Hunter character broke the fourth wall for the first time with an aside to viewers at the end of the two-parter "The Beautiful And The Dead". Viewers responded to the changes, and the show's second season ended in 38th place in the Nielsen Ratings. Hunter continued this progress to become a mainstay of NBC's Saturday night schedule. Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 – April 3, 2002) was a novelist and an influential writer and producer of humorous, character-driven US television series. ... Maverick is a comedy-western television series created by Roy Huggins that ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and featured James Garner, Roger Moore, and Jack Kelly as poker-playing travelling gamblers. ... The Rockford Files was an American detective (private investigator) television drama that had its first run on the NBC television network between 1974 and 1980 and has been in constant syndication to the present day. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... The fourth wall is the imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. ...

Season 3 (1986-1987)

Just before work on the third season began, Dryer threatened to walk out unless his salary, reportedly US$21,000 per episode, was raised and creative changes were made. Cannell hit back with a US$20 million breach-of-contract suit. A compromise was reached, with Dryer reportedly landing a new deal worth US$50,000 per episode. The third season, again helmed by Huggins, saw the arrival of Charles Hallahan as Captain Charlie Devane. Charles Hallahan (b. ...

Season 4 (1987-1988)

Huggins retired at the end of the fourth season, which placed 18th in the Nielsen Ratings.

Season 5 (1988-1989)

For the fifth season, George Geiger took on the role of executive producer, having worked in the same capacity on Scarecrow and Mrs. King and as co-executive producer on Miami Vice. In the first four seasons, Hunter and McCall typically worked on cases together, allowing the producers to showcase the chemistry between the actors. But the fifth season increasingly had them working apart, ostensibly to lessen the workload of Dryer and Kramer and to allow richer, more complex stories. Scarecrow and Mrs. ... Miami Vice was a popular television series (five seasons on NBC from 1984-1989) starring Don Johnson (James Sonny Crockett) and Philip Michael Thomas (Ricardo Rico Tubbs) as two Miami police detectives working undercover. ...

Season 6 (1989-1990)

By the sixth season, Dryer's growing influence had won him the role of executive producer. The sixth season featured one episode ("Unfinished Business") in which it was revealed that Hunter and McCall had once slept together. At the end of the sixth season, which placed in the top 25 of the Nielsen Ratings, Kramer left to pursue a career in music. In the season's final episode, McCall was shown marrying an old flame.

Season 7 (1990-1991)

For the seventh and final season, the producers moved the lead character from homicide to metro division, and NBC shifted the show to 10 p.m. on Wednesdays. A new female co-star, Darlanne Fluegel, was brought in, only to leave halfway through the season. Her replacement was Lauren Lane. Darlanne Fluegel is an American actress, born 25 November 1958. ... Lauren Lane (born February 2, 1961 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an actress, best known for her portrayal of C.C. Babcock in the 1990s sitcom, The Nanny. ...

Revivals

A revival TV movie, The Return of Hunter: Everybody Walks in L.A., saw Dryer and Hallahan reprise their roles. Airing on NBC in April 1995, the movie took the O.J. Simpson case as its inspiration. Kramer, pregnant at the time, did not appear. Orenthal James Simpson (b. ...

In November 2002, eleven years after the original series ended, the TV movie Hunter: Return to Justice made its premiere to strong ratings. Kramer returned to her role of McCall, but the show's setting switched from Los Angeles to San Diego. Flag Seal Nickname: Americas Finest City Location Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates , Government County San Diego Mayor City Attorney         City Council District One District Two District Three District Four District Five District Six District Seven District Eight Jerry Sanders (R) Michael Aguirre Scott Peters Kevin...

Given the success of the revival, Cannell, Dryer and NBC attempted to bring back Hunter as a regular series. In the weeks following the airing in April 2003 of another TV movie, Hunter: Back in Force, the network broadcast three new one-hour episodes of Hunter. Another two episodes were filmed but never shown in the U.S, likely because the ratings demographics for the one-hour episodes skewed toward older viewers. Dryer subsequently cited creative difficulties and budget constraints.

Firearms

In the pilot episode, Rick Hunter used a Desert Eagle in .44 Magnum and Dee Dee McCall used a Walther PPK in .32 ACP. The Desert Eagle, Deagle, or simply Eagle is a large calibre gas-operated semi-automatic pistol manufactured in Israel by IMI (Israel Military Industries) for Magnum Research, Inc. ... .44 Magnum The . ... The Walther PP is a pistol made in Germany, France and the United States (PPK only) at various times. ... The . ...

In the first season and for several subsequent seasons, the pistol that Hunter carries is a Heckler and Koch P9S with a muzzle compensator attached. It is also the pistol in the title introduction. It is unclear what caliber it is, but the sound effects indicate (as well as testosterone) that it is in .45ACP. This pistol was more commonly encountered in 9mm, however. It is also interesting to note the variations in McCall's firearms. She even used a stainless Beretta Model 90 in the first season. The Walther PPK that McCall uses is most likely a PPK/S, because the PPK was not available in stainless in the US until 1986. The Desert Eagle that he uses in the occasional episode was a gift from his Mafia father for graduating.

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During seasons 3 and 4, both Rick and Dee Dee used Smith & Wesson Model 629 in .44 Magnum. A Modern Smith & Wesson Revolver (Model 629) Smith & Wesson NASDAQ: SWHC is the largest manufacturer of handguns in the United States. ... .44 Magnum The . ...

During seasons 5 through 7, Rick used a Beretta 92F/FS in 9mm Luger, while during seasons 5 through 6 Dee Dee used a Smith & Wesson Model 629 in .44 Magnum, this time in Stainless Steel. The Beretta 92SB-F (later renamed Beretta 92F), Beretta 92FS, Beretta 92G, and Beretta 92FS Inox are a series of semi-automatic, locked-breech delayed recoil operated, double/single action pistols, chambered for the 9 mm Parabellum cartridge, designed and manufactured by Beretta. ... ball and hollowpoint 9mm Luger rounds are popular handgun ammunition. ... A Modern Smith & Wesson Revolver (Model 629) Smith & Wesson NASDAQ: SWHC is the largest manufacturer of handguns in the United States. ... .44 Magnum The . ... The 630 foot high, stainless-clad (type 304) Gateway Arch defines St. ...

International airings

• In Barbados, the show was shown on CBC TV.
• In France, the show was shown on TF1.
• In Germany, the show was shown on SAT.1.
• In Sweden, the show was shown on TV4.
• In The Netherlands, the show was shown on SBS 6.
• In the United Kingdom, the first two seasons aired on terrestrial broadcaster ITV, the remainder on satellite channel Sky One.
• In Hong Kong, ATV broadcast the show.
• In China, STV aired a version of the show dubbed in Standard Mandarin. Hunter was one of the first US series to air regularly in China. Although Dryer is still widely recognised in China, his efforts to set a Hunter movie there in the late 1990s did not bear fruit. http://www.shtong.gov.cn/node2/node2245/node4510/node11098/node11142/node63818/userobject1ai12617.html

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DVD releases

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External links

• Hunter at the Internet Movie Database
• Hunter at TV.com
• The Wonderful World of Hunter
• Fanpage with english and german episodelist