Fortune Hunter

5.0

1994•56m

Fortune Hunter is an American weekly series show on Fox Network in 1994, starring Mark Frankel as the super-spy Carlton Dial. In the US, Fortune Hunter aired on Fox from 4 Sep 1994 to 2 Oct 1994. Of the 13 episodes produced, only five were presented to the North American audience. The decision to schedule the series immediately after football on Sundays was a factor in the dismissal of Sandy Grushow, president of Fox Entertainment, by chairman Rupert Murdoch. The show has aired in its entirety in other countries. It was well liked and generally received high ratings.

Production

Seasons

13 Episodes • Premiered 1994

1. The Frostfire Intercept (pilot)

In the premiere episode, Carlton Dial is on a mission to Morocco to retrieve a futuristic weapons system stolen by a mercenary industrialist.

2. The Aquarius Intercept

Dial poses as a marine-mammal specialist to retrieve a research submarine stolen from an ocean-study facility. But someone is trying to blow his cover.

3. Triple Cross (a.k.a. The Corkscrew Intercept)

While on a mission to retrieve a U.S. missile stolen in Mexico, Dial is pitted against an old Cold War nemesis who once had Dial imprisoned and who still wants him out of the way.

4. Hot Ice (a.k.a. The Winter Star Intercept)

Dial is asked to find a priceless diamond by the deposed dictator of a small Baltic country. To complicate matters, he discovers that his female contact has a personal vendetta against the dictator.

5. Red Alert

A Russian satellite containing a poison nerve gas crash-lands in the U.S., sending Carlton with the aid of a lovely Russian scientist (who created the nerve gas) scrambling to find it before a Ukranian general does. In the midst of all this, the main frame computer is infected with a virus, which means Harry has to move in with Carlton.