Spenser: For Hire
Spenser: For Hire
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Spenser: For Hire

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

6.8 / 10
1985
3 seasons
65 episodes
DramaCrimeMystery

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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Seasons

  • Promised Land

    1.Promised Land

    20-09-198595m

    Spenser is hired to find the runaway wife of a wealthy businessman. Based on a story by Spenser novelist Robert B. Parker.

  • Ep 2

    2.No Room at the Inn

    27-09-198550m

    Spenser's apartment burns down, but he's allowed to move into an old fire station as thanks for saving a firefighter's life. Meanwhile, Spenser and Hawk are hired to protect the li...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Choice

    04-10-198550m

    A old man whom Spenser and Hawk knows is shot. They discover that the killer are a couple who comes from an affluent background, which they hide behind. It turns into a cat and mou...

  • Ep 4

    4.Children of a Tempest Storm

    11-10-198560m

    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.

  • Ep 5

    5.Original Sin

    18-10-198560m

    Spenser investigates the apparent suicide of a young nun, and stumbles onto a corrupt landlord.

  • Ep 6

    6.Discord in A Minor

    25-10-198560m

    Spenser's been hired by a conductor to find his daughter who ran away with her boyfriend. When he finds them, she tells him that her father has been molesting her. Spenser then tel...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Killer Within

    12-11-198560m

    Spenser is hired to protect a woman's identical twin sister from assassins, only to discover his employer suffers from a split personality.

  • Ep 8

    8.Autumn Thieves

    19-11-198560m

    Spenser stumbles onto a ring of thieves while investigating a relic stolen from a museum.

  • Ep 9

    9.Blood Money

    26-11-198560m

    The wife of a kidnapped oil tycoon hires Spenser to deliver $1 million in ransom money to a ring of terrorists while police have the drop-off area surrounded.

  • Ep 10

    10.Resurrection

    03-12-198560m

    Spenser investigates a crooked vice cop involved in the mugging of one of Susan's friends.

  • Ep 11

    11.Internal Affairs

    17-12-198560m

    Marital infidelity and suspected involvement in a gambling ring lead to Lt. Quirk's suspension. Belson is shot during a raid. Spenser works to clear Quirk's name and catch Belson's...

  • Ep 12

    12.Death By Design

    07-01-198660m

    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...

  • Ep 13

    13.A Day's Wages

    14-01-198660m

    A young ex-con named Louis Harper steals from his boss, John Brady. Brady hires Spenser to prove it and Harper hires Hawk to protect him from leg-breakers. Spenser and Hawk team up...

  • Ep 14

    14.A Madness Most Discreet

    21-01-198660m

    Spenser tries to protect a former Russian ballerina, when she hires him to help her find stolen papers, but he gets more than he bargained for once he discovers that she is a perso...

  • Ep 15

    15.Brother to Dragons

    04-02-198660m

    Spenser is going skiing with Susan, but when he picks her up at Smithfield High School where she works, he finds out one of her students died of a heroin overdose. Spenser gets hir...

  • Ep 16

    16.When Silence Speaks

    11-02-198660m

    A deaf woman hires Spenser to find a man she had been corresponding with who had gone missing. As Spenser investigates, he realizes that the missing man is somehow involved with a...

  • Ep 17

    17.In a Safe Place

    14-02-198660m

    Spenser searches for the father of an undocumented boy killed by an unhinged unemployed man. The trail leads Spenser into a conspiracy involving the exploitation of undocumented wo...

  • Ep 18

    18.Angel of Desolation

    04-03-198660m

    Spenser is hired by the fashion model wife of a rich bank owner who says her life is in danger. After multiple attempted murders and one successful murder, Spenser realizes that th...

  • Ep 19

    19.She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not

    11-03-198660m

    Detective Belson's ex-partner is murdered during his daughter's wedding reception. The dead cop is suspected of being involved in criminal activities, so Lt. Quirk asks Spenser to...

  • Ep 20

    20.At the River's Edge

    25-03-198660m

    Spenser witnesses an ex-convict murder a 19 year-old girl, then kill himself. The girl's wealthy younger sister hires Spenser to find out why her sister was killed.

  • Ep 21

    21.Rage

    01-04-198660m

    Spenser locates a runaway, and saves her from a psychotic man—but the man escapes.

  • Ep 22

    22.Hell Hath No Fury

    08-04-198660m

    Partnering with an attractive TV news reporter, Spenser investigates the reason a newly constructed building collapsed, killing a boy.

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