Pilot
Hunter launches its seven-season run with the series’ two-hour pilot, starring former football proFred Dryer as Rick Hunter, a mobster’s son who has grown up to become a thoroughly incorruptible LAPD detective sergeant. Hunter’s “Dirty Harry” tactics and his flagrant flouting of the rules have earned him thousands of loyal supporters and an equal number of bitter enemies–the latter on both sides of the law. Though the higher-ups would prefer that Hunter pack up his bottomless arsenal of weaponry and his pithy “Make my day”-style catchphrases (notably “Works for me”) and leave town, he is obviously the one man capable of trapping an elusive murderer who is holding the city in thrall. Teaming up with Hunter for the first time in this episode is his friendly enemy, Sgt. Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer), better known as “the brass cupcake.” Michael Cavanaugh appears as Captain Lester Cain, a role taken over in subsequent episodes by Arthur Rosenberg., Hunter hooks up with McCall to set a trap for a murderer. Dr. Bolin: Brian Dennehy. Captain Cain: Michael Cavanaugh. Dr. Kettering: Joanna Kerns. Hayes: Steven Williams. Terwilliger: James Whitmore Jr.
