Hunter

Season

1976

USA

6.6

This series centered around the cases of US Government special agents James Hunter and Marty Shaw who cover the world of contemporary espionage. His cover was operating a Santa Monica book store, hers posing as a model.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Bluebird Is Back

Hunter's nemesis, a killer named Bluebird, returns, leaving a toll of victims that leads Hunter and Marty to discover a Russian plot to discredits the design of an electric plant using nuclear power.

S1 • E2

Mirror Image

A Russian agent who is a double for Marty must fool Hunter in order to carry out her assignment to kill Gen. Baker and frame Hunter for the murder.

S1 • E3

The Lysenko Syndrome

A plot to assassinate an Admiral involves brainwashing Marty. And also involves Hunter getting killed.

S1 • E4

The Hit

A professional killer dies during a car chase. Hunter assumes the man's identity in order to find out who hired the killer and who he was supposed to kill.

S1 • E5

The Costa Rican Connection

A witness testifying before a Senate committee investigating ties between organized crime and the GIA is murdered. Hunter and Marty must persuade the remaining witness that they can protect him if he testifies.

S1 • E6

The K Group: Part 1

Hunter and the agency try to find out who killed an East German spy at an L.A. film festival.

S1 • E7

The K Group: Part 2

Hunter, Marty and Baker set out to stop renegade American agents from assassinating a government official.

S1 • E8

The Barking Dog

S1 • E9

Yesterday, Upon the Stair

Hunter is assigned to aid with a spy exchange involving a veteran spy who was his mentor. However, during the exchange the spies from both sides suddenly disappear, having been kidnapped by a third unknown party.

S1 • E10

The Backup

While escorting a Chinese defector to a safe house, an American agent disappears, as does the defector. Hunter is assigned to find out what happened and retrieve both the agent and the defector.

S1 • E11

The Chand is Burning

After an American agent - a friend of Hunter's named Bill Wells - with information about the (fictional) African Republic of Chand is killed in Los Angeles while conducting an investigation, Hunter decides to continue the investigation that Wells started.

S1 • E12

The Lovejoy File

A file that is meant to only be seen by the President turns up missing. A shadowy group makes a deal to return the file in exchange for payment, but when Hunter and another government agent arrive to retrieve it, it is stolen by a different group.