Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Hunter' from 1970-1982:
- James Franciscus as James Hunter (1977)
- Linda Evans as Marty Shaw (1977)
- Ralph Bellamy as Harold Baker (1977)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Hunter':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Seth Freeman D: Gerald Mayer
With Edward Mulhare (Colin Berne), Lee de Broux (Paul Schiff), Paul Mantee (Lawrence). Series premiere. James Franciscus and Linda Evans star as a secret agent and his roommate. In tonight's episode, Hunter's nemesis, a killer named Bluebird, returns, leaving a trail of victims that leads Hunter and Marty to the discovery of a Russian plot to discredit the design of an American nuclear power plant.
Season 1, episode 2
W: David Karp D: Bruce Bilson
With Diana Muldaur (Frieda Scott), Whitney Blake (Dr. Fearing), Richard Mulligan (Dr. Harter), Geoffrey Lewis (Danzig). A Soviet double of Hunter -- created through the use of plastic surgery -- arrives to carry out a plot to kill General Baker and frame Hunter for the murder. But first he has to fool Marty into believing that he is the real Hunter.
Season 1, episode 3
W: David Karp D: Barry Crane
With William Windom (Josef Patel), Byron Morrow (Admiral Young), Christopher Stone (Condon), William Wellman Jr. (Chip Davis), Don Fenwick (Grogan). After a mad scientist programs an American agent to kill Hunter, he then arranges for Marty Shaw to have a car accident. The scientist treats her injuries and uses the opportunity to program her to kill her uncle, an influential admiral in the United States Navy, with her programming to be triggered when she gets the news that Hunter is dead.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Parke Perine D: Harry Harris
With Nehemiah Persoff (Sheik Farakbi), Andrew Prine (Arthur Hillman), Jim Davis (Raymond Spencer), George DiCenzo (Rafik Saraffi), Marc Alaimo (Lawson). After a hitman dies during a car chase, Hunter takes his place and sets out to find who hired the hitman and who the hitman's target was -- and soon realizes that he was to be the target of the hit.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Gregory S. Dinallo D: Barry Crane
With Donald O'Connor, Susan Anton (Cissy), Ken Swofford (Beerwood), Gary Lockwood (John DeLacey), Stephen Boyd (Garth Roberts), Naomi Stevens (Mrs. Teller), Pat Renella (Augie). After a witness for a Senate committee investigating a connection between organized crime and a U.S. government intelligence agency is murdered, Hunter and Marty face the challenge of convincing the last surviving witness that they can protect him if he testifies. A retired song-and-dance man becomes a key figure in their search for the assassin.
Season 1, episode 6
W: David Karp D: Gary Nelson
With Vic Morrow (Victor), James Luisi (Caldwell), Camilla Sparv (Katrin), Gregory Sierra, Zohra Lampert (Deedee), Dean Jagger (Arthur Nelson Page), Jane Actman (Julie), Eric Server (MacLain), Lincoln Kilpatrick (Jackson). Hunter becomes a wary ally of an East German spy who shot his fiancee to death nine years earlier. After the East German is killed at a film festival in Los Angeles, Hunter and the agency try to figure out who killed him.
Season 1, episode 7
W: David Karp D: Gary Nelson
With Vic Morrow (Victor), James Luisi (Caldwell), Camilla Sparv (Katrin), Gregory Sierra, Zohra Lampert (Deedee), Dean Jagger (Arthur Nelson Page), Jane Actman (Julie), Eric Server (MacLain), Lincoln Kilpatrick (Jackson). When Hunter, Marty and Baker try to stop renegade American agents from assassinating a United States government official, Hunter's adversary, seeking political asylum in the United States, offers to betray the group that hired him to assassinate the dignitary.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Brian Cassidy D: Robert Douglas
With David Wayne, Mlton Selzer, Marcel Hillaire, Robert Middleton. When Hunter helps with the exchange of a U.S.-held Communist spy for a Communist-held American spy, persons unknown intervene in the exchange and kidnap both of the spies. Hunter and Marty are assigned to find the missing American spy, and Hunter begins to suspect that a traitor in his own agency is responsible for the kidnapping. (Last show of the series.)