The Manhunter

Season

1974

6.9

Set during the Depression. Dave Barrett, a farmer, works as a bounty hunter to help his family.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Pilot

1934: Ex-marine Dave Barrett returns from army service in China to his family farm outside of Cleary, Idaho. When gangster Frank Clinger and his gang rob the local bank killing a friend of Dave's, he sets out in pursuit.

S1 • E1

The Ma Gantry Gang

Ma Gantry, the iron-willed matriarch of a crime family whose business is robbing trains, and definitely gives Dave a run for his money!

S1 • E2

The Man Who Thought He Was Dillinger

S1 • E3

The Baby-Faced Killers

S1 • E4

Death on the Run

A criminal and his gang spring a member of the gang who's in police custody because he was the one who hid the money from one of their jobs. But the man is shot in the process so they take him to a nearby doctor. Dave brings in his father who was in an accident. The criminal holds them there till the doctor can work on his man. But someone is trying to make sure the man doesn't live.

S1 • E5

Trackdown

S1 • E6

Terror from the Skies

S1 • E7

The Doomsday Gang

S1 • E8

The Deadly Brothers

S1 • E9

The Truck Murders

Dave is upset by the murder of a friend from his Marine service and investigates the circumstances. He learns his buddy was involved in a theatrical troupe which is staging a comeback of former star Clara.

S1 • E10

Jackknife

S1 • E11

The Carnival Story

S1 • E12

The Lodester Ambush

Dave Barrett is transporting one of the Hobson brothers to face justice. But in a small town Barrett is ambushed by Hobson''s vicious sibling. Barrett and his prisoner take refuge with the townfolk afraid to help.

S1 • E13

A.W.O.L. to Kill

S1 • E14

Flight to Nowhere

S1 • E15

Web of Fear

S1 • E16

Day of Execution

S1 • E17

Man in a Cage

Sent to a brutal prison on trumped-up charges, Dave escapes from the encampment with a fellow prisoner, and they find themselves pursued by the crooked warden and his assistants.

S1 • E18

The Seventh Man

S1 • E19

The Wrong Man

Barrett goes after a gangster who's life is in danger because of double crossing some of his partners.

S1 • E20

The Death Watch

Barrett investigates when his good friend Paul Tate is critically injured in a blast; he meets a beautiful woman, Liz Butler, who is convinced that the bomb was meant to eliminate her.

S1 • E21

To Kill a Tiger

A flamboyant Governor who's running for re-election hires Dave to protect him from an elusive assassin. The candidate fancies himself as a 'man of the people' and refuses to curtail his personal appearances, making Dave's job all the more difficult.