RikerDonegal
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Tim Dunigan, Jack Riley.
Jesse is very funny in this one. It's the second episode in a row to put our hero on the dating scene. A couple of references are made to the previous outing. This time, Jesse mostly plays third wheel to a romancing couple. Martin Kove is hilarious.
Of course, all is not what it appears and the guy courting Jesse's new friend secretly plans to kill her. This leads to a couple of enjoyable action sequences. The baddies try to frame Jesse for their previous crimes, but the script doesn't quite make that part of the plot work. Still, this instalment is a lot of fun.
April 1989: CBS aired Hard Time on Planet Earth in the first hour of Wednesday prime time before Jake and the Fatman. Against it, NBC had Unsolved Mysteries, while ABC aired Growing Pains and Head of the Class.
8/10.
Jesse is very funny in this one. It's the second episode in a row to put our hero on the dating scene. A couple of references are made to the previous outing. This time, Jesse mostly plays third wheel to a romancing couple. Martin Kove is hilarious.
Of course, all is not what it appears and the guy courting Jesse's new friend secretly plans to kill her. This leads to a couple of enjoyable action sequences. The baddies try to frame Jesse for their previous crimes, but the script doesn't quite make that part of the plot work. Still, this instalment is a lot of fun.
April 1989: CBS aired Hard Time on Planet Earth in the first hour of Wednesday prime time before Jake and the Fatman. Against it, NBC had Unsolved Mysteries, while ABC aired Growing Pains and Head of the Class.
8/10.
At its best, this show tells stories and populates them with interesting characters. Characters who feel like they have a life of their own. Two episodes back they did a murder at a ranch, and it felt like our two detectives had crossed over into another show. This outing is just like that.
After shooting a suspect, McCall accompanies him to the trauma centre. In the hour that follows, we get to know the people who work there as well as if they were characters in their own separate TV show.
Detective work in this one is divided fairly evenly, with McCall getting slightly more screentime because the victim (a doctor) was a friend of hers. The scenes with Hunter piecing the clues together at the scene of the death, are very cool.
It's an episode that keeps you guessing until near the very end. There are several terrific suspects and several ways the crime could have gone down. A clumsily-added voice-over in one of the last scenes was the only thing that let them down, making it obvious that this was a vital clue. Up to that, it was such a dense script that it was impossible to tell what was a red herring and what wasn't.
Sadly, this is the only Hunter script by Van Gordon Sauter and David Percelay, who also wrote an episode of Hard Time on Planet Earth.
It's a compelling and talky episode which culminates in a top rate action sequence involving a shoot-out with a helicopter. In short, almost a perfect hour of TV.
April 1989: NBC aired Hunter in the final hour of Saturday prime time after Empty Nest. Against it, ABC had Men while CBS aired West 57th.
9/10.
After shooting a suspect, McCall accompanies him to the trauma centre. In the hour that follows, we get to know the people who work there as well as if they were characters in their own separate TV show.
Detective work in this one is divided fairly evenly, with McCall getting slightly more screentime because the victim (a doctor) was a friend of hers. The scenes with Hunter piecing the clues together at the scene of the death, are very cool.
It's an episode that keeps you guessing until near the very end. There are several terrific suspects and several ways the crime could have gone down. A clumsily-added voice-over in one of the last scenes was the only thing that let them down, making it obvious that this was a vital clue. Up to that, it was such a dense script that it was impossible to tell what was a red herring and what wasn't.
Sadly, this is the only Hunter script by Van Gordon Sauter and David Percelay, who also wrote an episode of Hard Time on Planet Earth.
It's a compelling and talky episode which culminates in a top rate action sequence involving a shoot-out with a helicopter. In short, almost a perfect hour of TV.
April 1989: NBC aired Hunter in the final hour of Saturday prime time after Empty Nest. Against it, ABC had Men while CBS aired West 57th.
9/10.
