Hunter is a 1977 American drama television series starring James Franciscus and Linda Evans which centered on the exploits of a pair of undercover counterespionage agents.

In 1977, General Baker is ordered to recruit six counterespionage agents to form a new covert agency – also unnamed – charged with protecting the United States from a variety of threats whether they arise domestically or abroad.

[1][2] The two "K Group" episodes differ from the rest in being flashbacks to the time when Hunter was still with "the Agency" as its chief of operations in West Berlin.

Franciscus and Evans had had a good on-screen chemistry in the pilot, so Marty became a regular character as a fellow agent and model instead of a prostitute.

[3] William Blinn created Hunter and wrote its pilot, and David Gerber (at the time president of competing studio Columbia Pictures Television) was the show's executive producer for Lorimar Productions.

[3] After the cancellation of the series Executive Suite and its last broadcast on February 11, 1977, CBS needed a replacement to fill the void in its schedule.