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HUNTER
SEASON 2
ANCHOR BAY ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS
Release Date:
August 30th 2005
MSRP Price: $39.98
Amazon Price: $35.99
Costco Price: $28.99
Wallmart: $28.99
23 Season 2 Episodes
Format: full-screen
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Run Time: 1092 minutes
Number of Discs - 6
Sound - Mono
Anchor Bay Website
Hunter Season 2 Rating:
B
Packaging: B
Video: B
Audio: C
Content: B
Overall: B
STARS: Fred
Dryer, Stephanie Kramer, Garrett Morris, John Amos, James Whitmore
Jr.
Guest Stars:
Robert Englund (Freddy Kruegger), Jane
Russell, John Matuszak and Isaac Hayes.
Cannell and Anchor Bay
continue to use a syndicated master rather than the original. Anchor
Bay has failed to tell anyone if the originals were destroyed or
deteriorated beyond repair.
All I can say is...
Hunter Rules! Despite using the syndicated masters it's great having
the Hunter on DVD. The master theory is likely for shit, since
Cannell is using syndicated masters for his other
series.
Season 2 finds Hunter
and McCall at their best. The series hits its stride as the actors
and characters get use to banging it around on the small screen.
Stephanie Kramer and Fred Dryer have a great onscreen
chemistry. That chemistry would help the series run 8 seasons.
Fred Dryer would become the televisions version of Clint
Eastwood.
During this season
Hunter would be the first series to ever deal with Rape, when McCall
is raped and left for dead. Hunter will experience the thin line
between being a cop and going for Vengeance against the man who
nearly killed his partner.
It took years but it
finally came out what caused Stephanie Kramer to depart the show at
the end of season 6. The producers of the series actually went to
Kramer and asked her if they could have her character raped again
for a ratings boost. She decided to leave the show before season 7.
I had originally thought that a rift had developed between lead
characters. That was proven wrong with the duos return in a limited
series a year or so ago.
Hunter is a kick ass
show with easy stories and some quality acting that will surprise
viewers. Even today the show has a monster fan base and having the
series on disc is awesome.
PACKAGING
Anchor Bay did an excellent job on
packaging. The dual-layered discs are packaged in two-disc thin
cases, packed into a digipack box that is colorful.
Each insert is loaded
with trivia questions about the show. These insert covers use images
of the McCall & Hunter in various poses with a blurred
background for an... interesting finish. Season two continues
the quality of the first season and fans will enjoy it.
VIDEO:
I have to continue to say... Wow! I hate that the syndicated masters
were used for the DVD boxed set, but the quality of the video is
dead on. The episodes do have a grainy appearance, but the images
are sharp and the colors are excellent. I expected the transfers to
be loaded with debris and dirt, but Anchor Bay has done a nice job
cleaning up the video.
AUDIO:
The audio is remastered to in mono
2.0. The sound is clean, the voices clear. I do detect a bit of
twang in the video at a high volume and not enough bass, which a
slight adjustment to the surround will fix. The sound is adequate,
but could have been much better.
BONUS FEATURES:
There wasn't much available back in 1984 since DVD were even a dream
back then. However, there are a few basics to the set. It would have
been nice to have some interviews done recently by Dryer and
Kramer.
SUMMARY:
It's a nice job by Anchor Bay. Especially giving fans that little
"PLAY ALL" feature which so many sets do not have.
Hunter was a
juggernaut for 8 seasons during the high times of Miami Vice. Dryer
and McCall were two cops that I tuned in to watch every week. Fans
will be pissed about the masters that were used cutting the eps down
to about 40 to 41 minutes, but having the sets in such great quality
is a rush for me.
Miami Vice's Don
Johnson's word was Bubba, and for Hunter is was the kick ass phrase,
"Works for me."
What's on the
Discs?
Disc#
1
Case
X
Night of the Dragons
Biggest Man In Town
Rich Girl
Disc#
2
Killer
in a Halloween Mask
Rape & Revenge pt 1
Rape & Revenge pt 2
Six Million Dollar Misunderstanding
Disc#
3
The
Big Fall
Waiting For Mr. Wrong
Think Blue
Blow Up
Disc#
4
War
Zone
Burned
Scrap Metal
Fagin 1986
Disc#
5
62
Hours of Terror
Death Machine
The Set-Up
The Beautiful & the Dead pt 1
Disc#
6
The
Beautiful & the Dead pt 2
The Return of Typhoon Thompson
Saturday Night Special.
Hunter Season 2 Rating:
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