Spenser: For Hire

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

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.

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: 1

Duration: 1h 0m

Release: 1985

Rating: 6.6

Season 1 - Spenser: For Hire
1985-09-20
"Spenser is hired to find the runaway wife of a wealthy businessman. Based on a story by Spenser novelist Robert B. Parker."
1985-09-20
"Spenser is given an old station as a gift from the fire department for a service rendered them. The police department hires Spenser to protect a mysterious witness."
1985-10-04
"Spenser kills a would-be thief in the course of thwarting a robbery. He and Susan take in the man's two children while investigating his past. Susan discovers she's pregnant."
1985-10-18
"Spenser is fired from a bodyguard job after his young charge is kidnapped. Spenser suspects the girl he was to protect, arranged the 'kidnapping' to escape her father, a famous conductor, who may have been molesting his daughter."
1985-10-25
"Spenser is a Private Detective who is hired by a woman to watch her sister and protect her from an old boyfriend. Susan Silverman is Spenser's girlfriend, a research assistant in a psychologist's office. Susan is elated to have been chosen by handsome Dr. Ed Howard from all the other research assistants to accompany him to San Francisco for a psychology conference. Spenser is less elated.\n\nEd Howard enters the picture when Spenser realizes that his client has multiple personalities, she is herself and her sister. Or is she her sister and . . .she's both Diane and Donna, ok? Susan points out that this is Howard's speciality and should be the one to counsel the woman. Spenser is less than elated to bring in the doctor."
1985-11-12
"Spenser stumbles onto a ring of thieves while investigating a relic stolen from a museum."
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1985-11-26
"Spenser investigates a crooked vice cop involved in the mugging of one of Susan's friends."
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1986-01-07
"Spenser and Hawk blame themselves for failing to protect their respective clients from the clutches of the underworld, and vow to settle the score with a big-time racketeer and his henchmen."
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1986-01-21
"Spenser goes undercover at a private high school to investigate heroin use on campus, but discovers something far more serious."
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1986-02-14
"Spenser and Susan look for a Mexican labor organizer who has suspiciously disappeared. ('On the Waterfront' redux.)"
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1986-03-11
"Spenser is hired by a 12-year-old to investigate the murder of her older sister. The brutal slaying of an ex-convict, and the machinations of a popular preacher with political ambitions factor into the investigation."
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1986-04-01
"A teenage girl's agitated condition following a rape gets her into deeper trouble when she's kidnapped by an ex-con bent on shooting Spenser."
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Season 2 - Spenser: For Hire
1987-05-09
"A prison inmate with a grudge against Hawk hires outside muscle to rub him out."
Season 3 - Spenser: For Hire
1988-05-07
"Spenser investigates an old child kidnapping case when he tries to track down a teenage girl's biological parents."