Spenser: For Hire
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Spenser: For Hire

"A lot of people think I like to get even. They're dead right."

6.9/10 1985 3 Seasons 65 Episodes Ended

Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

Season: 1 2 3

Season 3 Episodes

E1
Homecoming
60 min 1987

A cop who helped send a gangster's son to prison years ago has been hiding, cause the gangster wants to get him. But now…

E2
My Enemy, My Friend
60 min 1987

A streetwise young kid gets involved over his head in the underworld. Spenser and Hawk try to protect him from would-be …

E3
The Heart of the Matter
60 min 1987

Lt. Quirk faces his mortality when he suffers a heart attack. Spenser and Hawk protect him from revenge-minded villains …

E4
On the Night he Was Betrayed
60 min 1987

Spenser helps an old friend, an alcoholic priest who tries to help homeless teenagers, when he gets involved over his he…

E5
Sleepless Dreams
60 min 1987

Spenser becomes obsessed with an apparently suicidal woman after a chance encounter on the street.

E6
Consilum Abditum
60 min 1987

Susan is in trouble when her claims of sexual harassment lead her college counselor to retaliate by hiring a hit man to …

E7
Thanksgiving
60 min 1987

Spenser runs into an old friend while visiting a recreation of a Puritan village. Spenser does everything in his power t…

E8
Gone Fishin'
60 min 1987

Spenser's fishing trip is interrupted when he has to protect a young man who's not allowed to marry the girl he loves.

E9
Child's Play
60 min 1987

A sniper takes some shots at Spenser and Susan, and a young boy ends up dead in the crossfire. Spenser sets out to deter…

E10
Skeletons in the Closet
60 min 1988

Spenser and Hawk find themselves on opposite sides of the same case. Spenser is hired to retrieve a stolen journal conta…

E11
The Siege
60 min 1988

Hawk and Susan along with other people are held captive in a post office. Richard Brooks later seen on Law and Order du…

E12
Arthur's Wake
60 min 1988

Spenser protects an old friend, Arthur, after he's assaulted and robbed. In the course of his investigation, Spenser com…

E13
To the End of the Line
60 min 1988

When Frank's niece dies of a drug overdose, Spenser and Frank go after the men responsible.

E14
Play it Again, Sammy
60 min 1988

Sammy Backlin calls Spenser for protection when he's being hunted by a 'vicious horde of bloodthirsty assassins'.

E15
The Big Fight
60 min 1988

One of Spenser's old trainers lures Spenser to a deserted warehouse where Spenser is supposed to be killed, to get out f…

E16
Substantial Justice
60 min 1988

Spenser protects a theater owner from gangsters, but begins to suspect she's not as innocent as she appears.

E17
Company Man
60 min 1988

Spenser suspects insurance fraud when a building blows up. Susan has a possibly cancerous mass removed.

E18
Watercolors
60 min 1988

Spenser protects a child artist after the child witnesses a mob execution while painting in the forest.

E19
Hawk's Eyes
60 min 1988

Spenser investigates the death of a friend apparently involved with white supremicists. Hawk is rendered blind by an exp…

E20
McAllister
60 min 1988

Spenser assists a lawyer in proving the innocence of his client, a Navy seaman accused of murdering the captain's daught…

E21
Haunting
60 min 1988

Spenser investigates an old child kidnapping case when he tries to track down a teenage girl's biological parents.

Cast

Robert Urich
Robert Urich
Spenser
Avery Brooks
Avery Brooks
Hawk
Barbara Stock
Barbara Stock
Susan Silverman
Ron McLarty
Ron McLarty
Frank Belson

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