Hunter — Season 5
22 Episodes · Premiered October 29, 1988 · Ended May 21, 1989
Episodes
Hunter investigates the case of a teenage boy who mistakenly shot his parents during what he claimed was a home invasion.
Hunter and McCall enter the world of baby brokering when they find the murdered body of an expensive call girl, and a two year old toddler left unharmed in front of the woman's television set.
While investigating the apparent suicide of Hunter's friend from the Vietnam War, Hunter and McCall uncover a 20 year old betrayal that is still killing people today.
Convinced his buddy was murdered, Hunter investigates other war pals and uncovers ties to gem smuggling.
McCall's current boyfriend disagrees with Hunter's belief that a suspect is guilty of burglary but not murder.
Mysterious tape recordings accusing a powerful company of illegally dumping toxic waste seem like a prank--until Hunter and McCall find that someone is willing to kill to conceal the truth.
Hunter puts his job on the line when he defends a female officer, critically wounded in the line of duty, against accusations of employing improper procedures during a Chinatown shooting.
Hunter and McCall try to solve a bank robbery and murder, while attempting to cope with the double and triple-crossing schemes of a small time criminal who once saved Hunter's life and won't let him forget it.
When the husband of a policewoman is murdered, evidence of wife abuse makes Hunter and McCall suspect the woman's patrol partner who knew about the beatings.
A police dispatcher is pressured to assist robbers because his son is indebted to loan sharks due to his gambling.
An escaped death row inmate seeks revenge on Hunter, while McCall poses as a teacher to probe links between the convict and a teacher's murder.
The escaped murderer continues to stalk Hunter; a vigilante desperately tries to stop crime in his neighborhood.
The death of a neighborhood vigilante helps Hunter track down the escaped murderer; McCall works to bust the leader of a high school pornography film operation.
A woman is the prime suspect in a brutal murder case after she stops taking her experimental medication.
When a convicted murderer is let out on bail pending a new trial in which he intends to defend himself, Hunter puts his career at risk to protect the identity of the informant to whom he had promised anonymity seven years earlier.
Hunter and McCall find a web of vengeance and fraud when they investigate the killing of a thoroughbred racehorse.
McCall is suspected of having shot an innocent man during a shootout in an alley and fights to clear her name with help from Hunter and Sporty James. While helping McCall, they discover a ring of jewel thieves.
When a nurse she recently befriended is killed in a car accident related to alcohol just a few days later, McCall suspects foul play. She is even more convinced of that after learning the nurse was pregnant, and would not have mixed alcohol with the morning sickness medication she was taking.
Boxing turns deadly when the manager of promising fighter Sonny Ruiz and a doctor are both murdered. Hunter penetrates the world of prizefighting with the help of a trainer named Benny Shaffer.
Prostitutes are being murdered by a man who lures them disguised as a police officer. When McCall's friend Debbie Small returns to the profession, she may be the next target.
After a series of arson murders, Hunter learns the the case involves the kidnapping of an undercover agent. Another cop interferes with the investigation.
Hunter and McCall investigate the murder of an art gallery owner involved in illegal sales of Indian artifacts and find themselves drawn into a mysterious world of native American politics.