The BEST episodes of Hunter season 5
Every episode of Hunter season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Hunter season 5!
Hunter is an American police television drama created by Frank Lupo, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. It starred Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolved many of their cases by lethal force, but no more so than many other related television dramas.
#1 - Dead on Target (1)
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/12/1988
Several Veterans from Hunter's squad in Vietnam are murdered during the search for emeralds that were brought back to the United States when they returned from their tour of duty.
#2 - The Pit
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/14/1989
A police dispatcher is pressured to assist robbers because his son is indebted to loan sharks due to his gambling.
#3 - The Baby Game
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/5/1988
A two-year-old girl sleeps while her mother is murdered.
#4 - Heir of Neglect
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/29/1988
Hunter investigates the case of a teenage boy who mistakenly shot his parents during what he claimed was a home invasion.
#5 - City Under Siege (1)
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/4/1989
#6 - City Under Siege (2)
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/11/1989
#7 - Informant
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/18/1989
An informant to whom Hunter promised anonymity seven years earlier represents himself when his case is re-tried.
#8 - Ring of Honor
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/29/1989
Boxing turns deadly when the manager of promising fighter Sonny Ruiz and a doctor are both murdered. Hunter to penetrates the world of prizefighting with the help of a trainer named Benny Shaffer.
#9 - Dead on Target (2)
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/1988
#10 - Code 3
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/1989
When a nurse she recently befriended is killed in a car accident related to alcohol just a few days later, McCall suspects foul play. She is even more convinced of that after learning the nurse was pregnant, and would not have mixed alcohol with the morning sickness medication she was taking.
#11 - Last Run
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1989
Hunter and McCall try to rescue an undercover female agent who was kidnapped during an investigation into money laundering, and have to deal with interference from the girl's father, who's a cop himself.
#12 - Teen Dreams
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/6/1989
Prostitutes are being murdered by a man who lures them disguised as a police officer. When McCall's friend Debbie Small (from the "City Under Siege" saga) returns to the profession, she may be the next target.
#13 - Shoot to Kill
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/8/1989
McCall is suspected of having shot an innocent man during a shootout in an alley and fights to clear her name with help from Hunter and Sporty James. While helping McCall, they discover a ring of jewel thieves.
#14 - City Under Siege (3)
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/18/1989
#15 - Presumed Guilty
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/26/1988
McCall's current boyfriend disagrees with Hunter's belief that a suspect is guilty of burglary but not murder.
#16 - No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/3/1988
An anonymous tip leads McCall to believe that an explosion in her art class was an attempt to kill a murder witness.
#17 - Honorable Profession
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/10/1988
Hunter puts his job on the line when he defends a female officer, wounded and possibly killed in the line of duty, against accusations of employing improper procedures during a Chinatown shooting.
#18 - Partners
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/7/1989
Hunter and McCall investigate the murder of an Immigration Agent.
#19 - Me, Myself & Die
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/25/1989
A woman is the prime suspect in a brutal murder case after she stops taking her experimental medication.
#20 - Blood Line
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/1/1989
A suspect is poisoned while Hunter and McCall are investigating a race horse groom's death. They attempt to unravel the revenge and fraud behind the murder in order to find a motive.
#21 - Return of White Cloud
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/21/1989
Hunter and McCall investigate the murder of an art gallery owner involved in illegal sales of Native American artifacts, and find themselves drawn into a mysterious world of Native American politics.
#22 - Payback
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/17/1988
A bank robber turns to Hunter for a favor once he learns that the bank he robbed is owned by the mob.