Spenser: For Hire (1985)
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.
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Episode 1 - An Eye for an Eye
Release Date: 1986-09-27New District Attorney Rita Fiori tries to prosecute Spenser for blackmail.
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Episode 2 - Widow's Walk
Release Date: 1986-10-04A small fishing family hires Spenser to investigate the death of their father. Spenser suspects a rival fishing family, the Almeidas.
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Episode 3 - White Knight
Release Date: 1986-10-18While Spenser and Hawk are in a small town to view a boxing match, Hawk is arrested, ostensibly for carrying a concealed weapon, but Spenser suspects racism may be involved.
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Episode 4 - Rockabye Baby
Release Date: 1986-10-25A mobster's pregnant teenage girlfriend tries to keep her unborn son from his father.
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Episode 5 - And Give Up Show Biz?
Release Date: 1986-11-01Spenser protects a man suffering from amnesia.
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Episode 6 - The Long Hunt
Release Date: 1986-11-08A young criminal's father attacks a bus transporting convicts to the state prison.
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Episode 7 - Home is the Hero
Release Date: 1986-11-22Rita hires Spenser to investigate a troubled teenager, yet another 'Spenser helps a misguided youth' episode.
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Episode 8 - One if by Land, Two if by Sea
Release Date: 1986-11-29A friend of Spenser's is shot and killed while portraying Paul Revere during a Revolutionary War re-enactment.
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Episode 9 - Shadowsight
Release Date: 1986-12-13A girl who apparently has the unique ability to 'see' through both space and time, enlists Spenser's help to solve a rash of arsons.
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Episode 10 - The Hopes and Fears
Release Date: 1986-12-20With the help of Hawk, a disgusted Spenser is determined to get rid of thugs who are terrorizing his Boston neighborhood.
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Episode 11 - Among Friends
Release Date: 1987-01-10Hawk is the main suspect when Lt. Quirk is shot, due to a recent fracas between the two. Spenser suspects a new man in town, trying to take Hawk down to make a name for himself.
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Episode 12 - I Confess
Release Date: 1987-01-17A wealthy man is murdererd and, surprise, an innocent man is arrested. If you've seen one Spenser, you've seen them all.
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Episode 13 - Murder and Acquisitions
Release Date: 1987-01-24Spenser investigates the apparent suicide of a philandering financier about to turn state's evidence to bring down insider trading. Rita has problems of her own when an old boyfriend shows up. Belson hires Spenser to find his missing wallet containing a winning lottery ticket.
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Episode 14 - Personal Demons
Release Date: 1987-02-07Spenser and Rita go after a corrupt African.
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Episode 15 - Mary Hamilton
Release Date: 1987-02-14A girl comes to Boston looking for her estranged father. Spenser decides to help her.
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Episode 16 - Trial and Error
Release Date: 1987-02-21A pimp is wrongfully arrested for the murder of one of his girls. Spenser agonizes between pursuing the real murderer or letting the pimp take the rap.
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Episode 17 - One For My Daughter
Release Date: 1987-03-07Spenser and Hawk protect a man who owes money to men of dubious ethics. When their client, Bo Braxton tries to blackmail his creditors, he and his alcoholic teenage daughter go on the run.
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Episode 18 - My Brother's Keeper
Release Date: 1987-03-14Spenser becomes embroiled in the seamy Vietnamese organized crime racket after a Vietnamese crime boss uses Spenser to track down a former soldier.
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Episode 19 - The Road Back
Release Date: 1987-03-21Spenser loses all feeling in his right arm after he's shot while guarding a politician.
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Episode 20 - If You Knew Sammy
Release Date: 1987-04-04NRA poster-boy Sammy Backlin breezes into town for a book signing, unwittingly involving Spenser in a shoot out. Spenser agrees to protect Sammy from gangland thugs.
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Episode 21 - The Man Who Wasn't There
Release Date: 1987-05-02Rita and her old college friends are reunited when a fictional person they created 20 years ago is found dead in his apartment.
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Episode 22 - Song of Orpheus
Release Date: 1987-05-09A prison inmate with a grudge against Hawk hires outside muscle to rub him out.