Main Cast: Fred Dryer, Stephanie Kramer, Charles Hallahan
Release Year: 1988
Country: US
Run Time: 60 minutes
Plot
Now executive-produced by George Geiger, who this year replaces the veteran Roy Huggins, the fifth season of the NBC cop drama Hunter opens with the episode "Heir of Neglect", in which LAPD homicide detectives Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) and Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) come to the aid of a troubled teenager who is trying to cope with unpleasant revelations about his late dad's private life. Similarly, Hunter's sentimental side is exposed for all to see in "The Baby Game", as he protects a 2-year-old girl who may have witnessed her mother's murder. Later, "Shoot to Kill" poses a question that was virtually obligatory on cop shows of the 1980s: did an overzealous McCall shoot an unarmed suspect? And in "Ring of Honor", Sammy Davis Jr. makes one of his final TV appearances as a long-suffering boxing manager. Other Season Five highlights include the two-part "Dead of Target", in which a long-ago mission in Vietnam comes back to haunt war vet Hunter when several of his former comrades in arms are systematically murdered; and the three-part "City Under Siege", wherein Hunter joins a new task force designed to control crime in specially selected neighborhoods. This last-named multiparter features a rare acting appearance by onetime LA Police Chief Daryl Gates. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
