Hunter - The Complete Third Season (1984)

Three Seasons Down/Four More Seasons To Go

This 1986-87 Season wasn't too shabby,but could've done better. The 3rd Season is also the season when Los Angeles police Capt. Charlie Devane(Charles Hallahan) joins the cast and crew of Hunter replacing Los Angeles Police Capt. Wyler(Bruce Davison) making Devane Hunter and McCall's new boss along with the fact that Capt. Devane was the most successful, most sophisticated, and smartest captain on Hunter and had been on this show the longest out of all 4 of the captains Hunter and McCall had throughout Hunter's whole 7-year run on NBC, since Devane lasted on the show from the 3rd Season all the way to the 7th Season.

In addition, the 1986-87 Season was also the season when Hunter & McCall's informant buddy Sporty James(Garrett Morris) joins the cast and crew of the show and when Hunter & McCall's doofus fellow officer Los Angeles police Detective Bernie Terwilliger(James Whitmore, Jr.) departs the show with the exception of the "Overnight Sensation" episode, which was the Season Premiere to Hunter's Third Season, plus this was also the season when Los Angeles police Lt. Finn(John Shearin) started coming out more often helping Hunter & McCall out on their homicide investigations as well as the season that showed Lt. Finn the most.

I was also intrigued in the "Requim Of Sgt. McCall" episode when Hunter and McCall got reunited with their former Captain(Deputy Chief Wyler)who helps Hunter, McCall and Capt. Devane out on a homicide investigation that backtracks all the way back to when McCall's husband was killed in the line of duty explaining how Hunter(Fred Dryer) and McCall(Stepfanie Kramer) met before they were even partners when McCall was a patrol sergeant in uniform before her days of even working investigations while Hunter was already a detective sergeant.

I also agree with Rykre that Hunter's 4th Season should be released on DVD and that the 1987-88 Season of Hunter should've been relased a long time ago, since Hunter's 1986-87 Season has already been on DVD for nearly 3 years now along with the fact the first 3 season of Hunter have already been on DVD now for the longest time among other things.

Therefore, I can hardly wait till Hunter's Fourth Season comes out on DVD, since they've already got the first 3 seasons on DVD and since it's been about 2 years since Hunter-Season 3 has been on DVD, so I don't see what's taking them so long to bring Hunter's 1987-88 Season out on DVD, especially since the Fourth Season of Hunter is even better and a lot more upgraded than the first 3 seasons along with the fact that this season takes me all the way back to memory lane when NBC's motto was "COME HOME TO NBC".

As a matter of fact, a Hunter-Season Four DVD would make a nice X-Mas gift this year if it were to get released by early December of 2008. June 30, 2008

So, where's Season Four? It's been over a year now since this one was released on DVD?

This is one of those great shows whose consecutive releases on to DVD may be halted because most fans of the show believed that the show was getting better and stronger later into the future seasons. With only a mild appeal for the first few seasons, it's very likely that Anchor Bay feels that the show isn't selling well enough with the first few seasons so they may have decided to give up continuing the releases on DVD.

That's a shame, because many of us "Hunter" fans felt the the best episodes were when we were getting use to Charles Callahan as Hunter and McCall's boss. The earlier shows showed that Rick Hunter wasn't treated with any respect from his boss or the police station in general. This was a bad start for the show. If Rick Hunter's superiors had no respect for him, how could we, the viewer, find respect for him? The first few seasons conveyed a bad image for Rick Hunter although I still appreciated the show. If it wasn't for the gorgeous Stepfanie Kramer as Dee Dee McCall, I would have given the first two seasons a miss. So, simply put, when Rick Hunter got more respect, the show became more respectable. And enjoyable.

I hope season four will come out soon. This is where the show just keeps getting better and better. We Hunter fans need to keep voicing our concern for this show or they may just scrub the whole project altogether. May 22, 2007

The best season yet!

Of the three seasons of Hunter released, so far this is the best. The action no longer takes place in the slums and alleys of los angeles as in the first two seasons of the show, but now the neighborhoods of the rich and famous are Hunter's playground. Good stories and beautifuls locales abound in Hunter: Season 3. March 7, 2007

Mindless, Shameless, Fun

Hunter was one of the last successful crime show television series that did not try to be an accurate (or more accurate than normal)police procedural.

Former LA Rams football player Fred Dryer plays Rick Hunter, a tough-as-nails LA homicide detective partnered with DeeDee McCall, an undercover specialist.

The two were as Mutt and Jeff as you can get, and the plots and acting could be downright silly, but it was a fun and entertaining graduate of the Aaron Spelling school of crime drama, and as such, it has its own intrinsic value which is one judged properly by the common TV viewer, not highbrow TV critics who would recommend program that Hunter fans wouldn't watch it they were paid to do so.

It's nice to have this series available on DVD. November 4, 2006

Awesome Show

I have everyone of the DVD`s of Hunter so far and I can`t wait for the next one. It was absolutely one of my favorite TV shows and anyone who is a Fred Dryer and/or Stepfanie Kramer fan will love these DVD`s. Buy it, I promise you won`t be disappointed. August 22, 2006

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