Hunter: The Complete Series [DVD]

Well, I had purchased this when the price range was between $55-$60 in August, I received this in tact earlier this week, who knew that it would have a prophetic telling by the end of the week! Before, I say anything more, to those who know & those who don't, Emmy-winning writer, producer Stephen J. Cannell passed away on Friday the 1st. He will be forever know as the man who gave us thousands of hours worth of entertainment for television, a prolific author with several books released, an advocate for dyslexia. He will be truly missed, thanks for all the memories! The packaging is a oversized plastic clamshell case with a slipcase that holds 28 paper disc envelopes! Now if you planned ahead such as I did, I bought a few multiple disc cases to safely transfer the discs & prevent any damage. Of course, I'm sure if there are persons who are proficient enough to remove & then replace the disc from the envelope without damaging it, I salute you! It has been a thumbrule of mine that envelopes are more trouble than anything else! Mill Creek is at their packaging best once again! So, we have 28 discs, 152 episodes, an episode on the first disc's label again says "Hard Contact" & should read "Hard Contract"! Mill Creek, please assign new personnel in Quality Control! It appears Mill Creek has a problem with the word "Contract". The episode entitled "The Contract" is labelled on the disc as "The Contact". The episodes appear to run uncut with a few exceptions. Due to music rights, certain songs have been removed or replaced. It also appears that the episode featuring Chaka Khan, has been heavily edited to a running time of under 42 minutes! Usually, a typical episode runs at least 48mins. Once I complete the entire series, I will post all the episodes' individual running times for all. Each season is colourcoded, so there won't be any mixup when viewing the discs. So what else is there left to say, well I would like to get the three reunion movies & the short-lived revival series & that would make my Hunter collection complete. This is for fans of the series who watched every week to see L.A.'s finest in action, it is also for those who are new to the series to enjoy! This is a must buy for all collectors. Highly recommended! Final update! Here's the complete episode listings & running times for the entire series: Season 1 Pilot 1:35:46 Hard Contract 48:32 The Hot Grounder 48:02 A Long way From L.A. 46:57 Legacy 45:42 Flight On A Dead Pigeon 47:06 Pen Pals 49:53 Dead Or Alive 47:41 High Bleacher Man 46:10 The Shooter 46:43 The Garbage Man 48:03 The Avenging Man 48:17 The Snow Queen Pt. 1 44:10 The Snow Queen Pt. 2 47:55 The Beachboy 46:58 Guilty 47:19 The Last Kill 48:13 Fireman 48:49 Sniper 48:23 Please note that it appears that in "The Snow Queen" episodes, the musical performances by Stepfanie Kramer have been edited. Season 2 Case X 48:10 Night of The Dragons 47:02 The Biggest Man In Town 46:02 Rich Girl 48:23 Killer In The Halloween Mask 47:58 Rape & Revenge Pt.1 47:52 Rape & Revenge Pt.2 48:43 Million Dollar Understanding 46:39 The Big Fall 48:13 Waiting For Mr. Wrong 48:38 Think Blue 48:26 Blow-up 47:09 War Zone 46:45 Burned 47:27 Scrap Metal 46:51 Fagin 1986 46:22 62 Hours of Terror 47:54 Death Machine 46:53 The Set Up 48:04 The Beautiful & The Dead Pt.1 48:12 The Beautiful & The Dead Pt.2 45:41 The Return Of Typhoon Thompson 47:06 Saturday Night Special 47:59 In Season 2, we also had the introduction of Sporty James, who would be making very prominent appearances for the next few seasons. It was the beginning of "hell" for Dee Dee McCall with the 2- part episode "Rape & Revenge". With end of the first two seasons, Mike Post & the late Pete Carpenter, had a "re-tooling" of the opening & closing theme music. These new opening & closing themes would continue for the next two seasons. Season 3 Overnight Sensation 48:27 Change Partners & Dance 47:37 Crime of Passion 48:49 The Castro Connection 47:22 High Noon In L.A. 48:35 From San Francisco With Love 48:41 True Confessions 48:23 Love,Hate & Sporty James 47:29 The Contract 48:24 The Cradle Will Rock 40:59 Bad Company 47:06 Down & Under 48:46 Straight To The Heart 47:51 Requiem For Sergeant McCall 48:55 Double Exposure 48:22 The Girl Next Door 47:19 Any Second Now 47:10 A Child Is Born 48:45 Crossfire 48:35 Hot Pursuit Pt. 1 48:57 Hot Pursuit Pt. 2 47:12 Shades 48:39 Season 4 Not Just Another John Doe 48:12 Playing God 48:17 The Jade Woman 47:35 Flashpoint 47:44 Night On Bald Mountain 48:36 City of Passion Pt.1 48:52 City of Passion Pt. 2 48:09 City of Passion Pt. 3 49:14 Turning Point 48:39 Hot Prowl 48:38 Allegra 47:37 Renegade 48:38 The Black Dahlia 48:35 Naked Justice Pt. 1 47:51 Naked Justice Pt. 2 47:53 Girl On The Beach 47:46 The Bogota Million 47:56 Death Signs 47:35 Boomerang 46:59 The Fourth Man 48:37 Murder He Wrote 48:36 Silver Bullet 48:27 Please note that there were several musical performances by both Chaka Khan & Stephanie Kramer that were edited from the episode "The Cradle Will Rock". It looked like McCall's "hell" would continue in "Hot Pursuit" & "City of Passion". We finally get a Captain of the Division who stayed on until the very end of the series. The late Charles Hallahan portrayed Captain Charles Devane. Also, Lt. Ambrose Finn who would be ever so prominent in these two seasons, would be written out by the end of the fourth season. The team of Mike Post & Pete Carpenter would retool the opening & closing themes for the last remaining seasons. The fifth season would be heavy in electric guitar, the sixth heavy in percussion instruments & the final season would sort of laid back western style. Season 5 Heir of Neglect 46:49 The Baby Game 45:53 Dead On Target Pt. 1 48:07 Dead On Target Pt. 2 45:40 Presumed Guilty 47:00 No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished 45:32 Honorable Profession 45:36 Payback 47:55 Partners 45:53 The Pit 46:16 City Under Siege Pt. 1 48:24 City Under Siege Pt. 2 47:47 City Under Siege Pt. 3 47:19 Me, Myself & Die 47:10 Informant 46:41 Bloodline 46:04 Shoot To Kill 46:37 Code 3 46:46 Ring of Honor 46:29 Teen Dreams 45:43 Last Run 48:28 Return of White Cloud 47:29 Season 6 On Air 47:54 Shillelagh 46:28 Investment In Death 46:23 A Girl Named Hunter 46:58 The Legion Pt. 1 46:51 The Legion Pt. 2 48:05 Yesterday's Child 48:05 Shield of Honor 46:27 The Fifth Victim 47:49 Brotherly Love 46:26 The Nightmare 46:04 Broken Dreams 46:38 Son & Heir 46:29 Unacceptable Loss 47:12 Unfinished Business 49:06 Lullaby 46:55 Final Confession 47:10 Blind Ambition 47:44 Sudden Withdrawal 46:40 Second Sight 47:19 Street Wise Pt. 1 46:48 Street Wise Pt. 2 48:40 At this point, the end of the sixth year, Stepfanie Kramer had enough & gracefully left the series. The series would never be the same again, with the seventh & final season. Also note, "Street Wise Pt. 1" is the only episode that does not have an episodic preview, it just goes straight to the action. Season 7 Deadly Encounters Pt. 1 46:00 Deadly Encounters Pt. 2 48:10 Where Echoes End 42:39 Kill Zone 46:13 The Incident 48:25 A Snitch'll Break Your Heart 47:49 Oh The Shark Bites! 46:46 The Usual Suspects 46:40 This Is My Gun 47:54 La Familia 47:49 Acapulco Holiday 46:48 Fatal Obsession Pt. 1 46:49 Fatal Obsession Pt. 2 48:06 Under Suspicion 48:05 The Reporter 45:56 Room Service 48:57 Shadow of the Past 48:16 The Grab 46:17 All That Glitters 46:30 Cries of Silence 48:22 Ex Marks The Spot 48:17 Little Man With a Big Reputation 46:15 With the absence of Stepfanie Kramer, what could go wrong, did go wrong. Ratings began to slide, two female co-stars were brought in after the first one cited creative differences & would be written out midway through the season. It was never the same ever again & the series was finally cancelled. Anyway, that's the 152 episodes that are contained in the boxset. Enjoy! Really, final update!!! I have not experienced, thankfully, the duplication of discs issue or any of the discs "freezing" during playback. I can only say two things about the two aformentioned issues. Firstly, Mill Creek's quality control department could hire some of us to prevent any further disappointments, by also offering quick replacements, & secondly, older dvd players could be experiencing & may need replacing or upgrading where possible. I have been using a Momitsu BDP899 & a Toshiba HD-D3 without any problems.

Very good show

If I could give it another 5 stars for the closed captions/ subtitles I would !! I accidently found this here on Amazon after it came out and checked it out and seen that it was supposed to have closed captions. I was almost afraid to order it and afraid that it might not have the closed captions like it said it did but I went on and ordered it anyways. I'm glad I did and it turned out to be a HAPPY accident afterall.When I got my order shipped to my home, I opened it up and played the last disc first to see if it did have closed captions/subtitles all the way through the series and it did !!!After all these years just waiting for the complete series of Hunter I finally got it and with closed captions/ subtitles !!! I was born hard of hearing and I'm almost deaf so I need to have closed captions/ subtitles in order to watch TV and movies and old TV series like Hunter So if any other customers that are hard of hearing or deaf want to order Hunter the complete series you should do so, it's well worth the price and it comes with closed captions/subtitles !!!! The reason I was almost afraid to order it is because it was made by VEI, Visual Entertainment Incorporated, the same company that made Nash Bridges the complete series. Nash Bridges was only half way closed captioned for the first 3 seasons but not closed captioned for seasons 4,5 and 6 which was very disappointing. I feared it might be that way with Hunter but it wasn't which surprised me. Some companies like to play GOD with the closed captioning/subtitles deciding which TV shows or movies get it and which ones don't get it which is very wrong to do. Closed captioning and subtitles were invented for a reason, that is to give the hard of hearing and deaf people a way to enjoy watching TV, TV series and movies With Hunter the complete series all of the disc played good but there were a few imperfections because of aging that couldn't be corrected. But it was well woth the price to be able to watch and enjoy watching this old TV show series again after all these years AND with closed captions/ subtitles !!!!!!

What can I say my husband wanted it we bought it we watched it it works he likes it.

Super

good condition with a nice case

THE STORY: Rick Hunter, (played by former L.A. Rams football defensive end-turned actor Fred Dryer), is the son of a mobster. Hunter turned his back on the family business and joined "the other side" as an L.A. police homicide detective. In order to take down the creeps and clean up the streets Hunter does whatever it takes. This lone wolf attitude doesn't sit well with the big brass so they're always on his case - even though he gets results. To keep them off the scent, Hunter convinces hard-nosed undercover female detective Dee Dee McCall to be his partner. It's supposed to be a union of convenience so that their bosses will think the two are playing fair and leave them alone. They intend show up for roll call together and then go their own way during the day, meeting up again only at the end of the shift to compare notes & get their stories straight, and appease their superiors. The two are surprised to discover that they work quite well together. So much so that they decide to become legitimate partners... and the bad guys had better watch out! THOUGHTS: The show was created as a direct response to cash in on the success of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry films in general, and the big box office smash of SUDDEN IMPACT, ("Go ahead, make my day."), in particular. 6' 6" Freddie Dryer was a sizably impressive Eastwood clone, and the show's initial success was due to the unique mixture off that vibe combined with the flashy eye-candy stuntwork seen in The A-Team and other Stephen J. Cannell-produced shows. Starting with season three however, HUNTER was slowly re-tooled into more of a genuinely authentic police show instead of a Dirty Harry wannbe. Playing Hunter's partner for the first six seasons was beautiful brunette Stefanie Kramer, with her big 80's hairdo & equally big shoulder-padded suits. She was every bit as tough as Hunter and the two had excellent on-screen chemistry. She left at the end of season six to pursue a singing career and focus on her personal life. Season 7 saw two different partners for Hunter. Darlanne Fluegel played Joanne Miolenski during the first half of season seven. Rumor is that she & Dryer did not work well together however, and her character was killed off midway thru the season and Hunter ended up partnering with an ex-girlfriend, detective Chris Novak, played by Lauren Lane. Stylistic changes make season seven look different from the others. IMHO it's easily the weakest of the seasons and was a hollow way to end the series. Even so, HUNTER is a solid TV buddy-cop show, with an emphasis on two-fisted action, as Hunter bends (and often breaks) the rules in order to take down the bad guys and clean up the streets of L.A. THE DVD BOX SET: One of TV's all-time best action-flavored detective shows, HUNTER: THE COMPLETE SERIES arrives in one sizable, 28 DVD set from Mill Creek. The outer master case is a woefully thin plastic job. The inside of the case is essentially hollow, with each disc stored separately inside coarse black construction paper sleeves (with crinkly envelope-style plastic windows, allowing you to see what disc number it is and the episode titles). This packaging fiasco really sucks The Big One. I would much rather have paid a few more dollars up front and gotten the seasons stored separately in their own multi-disc snapcase, with flipper insert trays for each DVD. Lemme tell ya, once you open this thing up, the guts sort of leap out like one of those joke snake-in-the-peanutcan thingamajigs. It is almost impossible to keep it closed once it's been opened. Another big negative is that the pop songs used throughout the series which were licensed for HUNTER when the show originally aired way back in the day, (like Jim Croce's "Don't Mess Around With Jim" in the S1 episode Dead or Alive), have now been replaced by crappy studio musician junk. This is a major bummer. Other countries, (England & Germany, for instance), have the episodes completely uncut & intact on their respective country's DVD releases. As for the video portion of the episodes themselves? They look OK but are definitely nothing to brag about. An average of 5 episodes are stuffed onto each single-sided disc, so there is some pixelation & artifacting throughout. The DVD disc menus let you play the whole disc or select individual episodes. Unfortunately the set contains ZERO bonus features. It would be terrific if Shout!Factory or another company picked up HUNTER and remastered it (and negotiated to get all the original songs put back in!) and released a high-def Blu-ray boxed set... but don't hold you breath. In the meantime, I'm glad to have the entire series as is, despite the problems. I hope that some day the short-lived sequel series from 2002 and the TV reunion movies can be released as well, perhaps in an all-inclusive COMPLETE COLLECTION of all things HUNTER. Then & now, HUNTER was a great show. Even with the numerous headaches this massive 28-disc boxset has, HUNTER: The Complete Series still "Works for me!" 4 STARS (5 for the show, minus 1 STAR for the packaging snafu, the missing songs, et.al.)

Back when this was a hit TV show I probably never watched a full episode and rarely watched the show at all. If I recall it was on a Saturday night. Back then every Friday and Saturday night was spent clubbing. I bought this entire series on DVD. I truly did not know until now how truly good the series was. Stefanie Kramer and Fred Dryer had instant chemistry and were so good. Fred was born to play this role. And Stefanie definitely played an important part in the success of this show. She was superb. And boy can this woman sing. She has a beautiful voice. The last season was definitely not the same after Kramer left the series. These two should hook up again for an acting gig or do another Hunter reunion show.

テレ東で放映当時ビデオテープに録画し、どうしてもそれだけは残したかったのでDVDにダビングする機器を購入してまで保存した「刑事ハンター」を丸っとDVDBOXで購入出来たのは嬉しい限り。でも日本語吹き替えも大好きだったので星は1つ減らしました。 残念ー！だけど英語版も気に入ってます。

I absolutely LOVED this show very much! Lots of action and I never got bored! Actor Fred Dryer is great as Seargent Rick Hunter who likes to 'shoot first, ask questions last!' Actress Stepfanie Kramer is also great as Seargent Dee Dee 'The Brass Cupcake' McCall who doesn't take crap from the bad guys and gals! Hunter and McCall made a great team and there was great chemistry between the two of them; I can't believe the show almost got cancelled and the show never won an Emmy. It was worth staying at home on a Saturday night watching this very fantastic show! As a young girl growing up in the 1980's I had a huge crush on actor Fred Dryer and I always admired actress Stepfanie Kramer who was so beautiful and talented. REST IN PEACE to the following actors: Mr. Frank Lupo (January 1955-February 18, 2021); Mr. Charles John Hallahan (July 29, 1943-November 25, 1997); Mr. Stephen Joseph Cannell (February 5, 1941-September 30, 2010); Mr. Brian Manion Dennehy (July 9, 1938-April 15, 2020); Mr. Samuel George 'Sammy' Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925-May 16, 1990): 'You all may be gone, but you will never, ever be, forgotten.'

Top quality dvds excellent condition thank you

Very happy to have purchased this haven't watched hunter since I was a kid it was good then and can still enjoy watching it today.

Not only is this a great classic TV show, I was super impressed with the product itself. The packaging in my opinion is terrific. The DVD's are in sleeves (like the ones you'd find in a DVD/CD binder). This keeps them clean and scratch free. Very easy to get to the next disk when needed. I have recently purchased the Threes Company complete series, which included "The Ropers and "Threes a Crowd" and it too came with the identical packaging. The company that is producing these products have created what should be the NEW standard in packaging TV DVD complete series!