Hunter

Seasons

1967

8.5

Drama series following the adventures of special agent John Hunter, on the lookout for espionage along the eastern coast of Australia.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Tolhurst File: Part 1

Hunter is investigating the mysterious suicide of scientist Dr Brian Tolhurst who was working on an anti-missile project. Following a lead that Tolhurt's car contains evidence of foul play, Hunter comes within seconds of death,

S1 • E2

The Tolhurst File: Part 2

Learning that Dr Tolhurst has a secret association with a showgirl Rosie Glow, she now becomes the only lead in the investigation of Dr Tolhurst's death. Hunter and Eve Halliday go undercover and follow Rosie to Surfer's Paradise.

S1 • E3

The Tolhurst File: Part 3

Rosie confesses that she helped CUCW agents fake divorce evidence against Dr Tolhurst. Bettman plots Hunter's death in an aircraft accident and Kragg makes another attempt to kill Rosie.

S1 • E4

The Tolhurst File: Part 4

After attempting to kill Hunter in a plane crash, Hunter overpowers Bettman and takes him to Melbourne. Mrs Tolhurst gives Hunter a letter asking her late husband to visit Solomon, an Opal dealer in Andamooka, South Australia.

S1 • E5

The Prometheus File: Part 1

Mrs Tolhurst and Eve are kidnapped and held aboard a yacht in Melbourne by CUCW agents who use a repair shop replacing eyes in toy dolls as a cover. Hunter is tricked into visiting an opal dealer where an attempt is made to kill him.

S1 • E6

The Prometheus File: Part 2

Hunter tries to prevent CUCW agents Kragg and Zhadov from sabotaging the firing of a Prometheus anti-missile weapon at the Woomera Rocket Range.

S1 • E7

The Prometheus File: Part 3

Hunter and astronaut Col. Benedict see the firing of the Prometheus weapon. Hunter is assigned to protect Benedict on his Australian tour. In order to sabotage a planned four-man space probe, Kragg and Smith plot to kidnap Benedict.

S1 • E8

The Benedict File: Part 1

After kidnapping Col. Benedict, the CUCW deceives a student group into hiding him. Hunter traces Benedict to Melbourne's outer suburbs and finds Kragg, disguised as a left-wing journalist, attempting to murder Benedict in a car accident.

S1 • E9

The Benedict File: Part 2

Hunter saves Colonel Benedict's life after Kragg has abandoned him in a van careering down a hillside. Hunter meets members of the Australian Student Protest whose lives are threatened because of CUCW reaction.

S1 • E10

The Benedict File: Part 3

Kragg deceives Australian Student Protest member Jamie Porter into believing that Australian and US security agents arranged the murder of his friend Kelly, and that he is next on the list.

S1 • E11

The Benedict File: Part 4

Student Jamie Porter is drugged and goaded into assassinating Colonel Benedict as he drives through Melbourne's streets in the Moomba procession. Hunter intercepts Porter on top of a building overlooking the CBD.

S1 • E12

The Singapore File: Part 1

Hunter, disguised as a navy commander, and Eve go to Singapore where a major disarmament conference is to be held between the West and Russia. The CUCW intend to sabotage the conference by murdering a Russian agent and blaming the British.

S1 • E13

The Singapore File: Part 2

Russian agents kidnap Eve, believing British and Australian agents kidnapped Loschenko. Hunter traces him to a sampam on Singapore Harbour, where he is held captive by the CUCW, but the boat carrying the drugged Loschenko has a bomb.

S1 • E14

The Singapore File: Part 3

Kragg is ordered to kill Andrea, a girl employed by the Russian Embassy, who had been giving information to the CUCW for sabotaging the conference. Hunter has his first encounter with Kragg when they fight on a taxiing aircraft.

S1 • E15

The Vaughn Jackson File

S1 • E16

The Cornucopia File

S1 • E17

The Martin Brenzer File

S1 • E18

The Bob Kitchen File

S1 • E19

The Vargon File

S1 • E20

The Snowy Mountains File: Part 1

S1 • E21

The Snowy Mountains File: Part 2

S1 • E22

The Kauffman File

S1 • E23

The Mirage File: Part 1

S1 • E24

The Mirage File: Part 2

S1 • E25

The Friend in Need File

S1 • E26

The Hans Felburg File

S1 • E27

The Krystina File

S1 • E28

The Jackpot File

S1 • E29

Doves in the East

S1 • E30

The Kragg File

S1 • E31

A Reason for Dying

S1 • E32

A Job for Kragg

S1 • E33

The Comeback

S1 • E34

War Hawks

S1 • E35

The Chameleon

S1 • E36

Breaking Point

S1 • E37

Operation Judas

S1 • E38

Soft Back

S1 • E39

Death Watch

S1 • E40

The Late John Hunter

S1 • E41

Counterfeit

S1 • E42

A Dark Reunion

Hunter is sent to Adelaide to investigate a girl working at the Woomera Rocket Range who has been giving out classified information to "Napoleon", an enemy agent under cover as a fashion designer. Hunter works with Leigh Sullivan, with whom he had a romance in London nine years earlier. They broke up after Hunter found Sullivan with another man, but now he realises that she was an MI-5 agent all along, and the love affair is rekindled, but ends in tragedy with her murder.