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Spenser: For Hire
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Robert Urich stars as Robert B. Parker’s legendary Beantown gumshoe-with-a-difference, Spenser. Spenser is cut from a very different cloth than the usual round of TV detectives, a renaissance man who isn’t afraid to mix up a gourmet salad or just mix it up. Full-time bookworm and former boxer, the stylish Spenser drives a vintage Mustang that calls out his own sense of time and place - a yearning for a simpler time of ethics and standards, and diplays an appreciation of the best of the past in the present. Keeping Spenser in touch with his complex inner life is his psychologist soulmate, Susan Silverman (Barbara Stock), while the street-savvy Hawk (Avery Brooks) guides Spenser safely through Boston’s labyrinthine underworld. Richard Jaeckel costars as Spenser’s friend on the force, Lt. Quirk. Notable first season guests include William H. Macy, Chuck Connors and Shirley Knight.
Episodes
No Room at the Inn
Season 1: Episode 1CCSD
Boston private investigator Spenser is hired to protect a Grand Jury witness and winds up as a target for a power-hungry woman who wants to be governor and a police lieutenant with a longing eye on the mayor's desk at City Hall.
1. No Room at the Inn48 Min9/27/1985$1.99
The Choice
Season 1: Episode 2CCSD
Upon the murder of a close personal friend, Spenser and Hawk separately seek to bring to justice the culprits: two very bright thrill-seeking college-age youths. Patricia Clarkson, William H. Macy, and Angela Bassett guest star.
2. The Choice48 Min10/4/1985$1.99
Children of a Tempest Storm
Season 1: Episode 3CCSD
While caring for the orphaned kids of the hit man he killed, Spenser follows a trail to the man's employer. Meanwhile, Susan contemplates abortion after learning she is pregnant.
3. Children of a Tempest Storm47 Min10/11/1985$1.99
Original Sin
Season 1: Episode 4CCSD
Spenser is hired to investigate the mysterious death of a young novice whose autopsy reveals her to have been pregnant.
4. Original Sin48 Min10/18/1985$1.99
Discord in a Minor
Season 1: Episode 5CCSD
Spenser seeks a mobster's son who apparently has abducted his girlfriend, the daughter of a famed conductor.
5. Discord in a Minor47 Min10/25/1985$1.99
The Killer Within
Season 1: Episode 6CCSD
Private investigator Spenser is hired to protect a woman who turns out to have a dual personality, and the strange assignment leads him to a government official who is hiding his identity as another man, a double agent.
6. The Killer Within48 Min11/12/1985$1.99
Autumn Thieves
Season 1: Episode 7CCSD
The heist of a treasured relic from a Boston museum involves Spenser with a crafty gentleman-thief and a squad of high-powered thugs.
7. Autumn Thieves47 Min11/19/1985$1.99
Blood Money
Season 1: Episode 8CCSD
The kidnapping of a high-powered industrialist propels Spenser into a world of big money, corporate infighting, extortion and murder.
8. Blood Money47 Min11/26/1985$1.99
Resurrection
Season 1: Episode 9CCSD
With a former prostitute's future hanging in the balance, Spenser seeks to reawaken the ideals of an old friend, a once successful criminal lawyer now fallen on tough times and threatened by a mobster.
9. Resurrection48 Min12/3/1985$1.99
Internal Affairs
Season 1: Episode 10CCSD
When blackmail threatens Lt. Quirk's career and wife, Spenser joins forces with Hawk to try to topple the instigators.
10. Internal Affairs48 Min12/17/1985$1.99
Death By Design
Season 1: Episode 11CCSD
A troubled scientist hires Spenser to find her missing jewelry and elusive boyfriend but Spenser soon discovers the scientist is involved in something more dangerous than a failed romance.
11. Death By Design47 Min1/1/2016$1.99
A Day's Wages
Season 1: Episode 12CCSD
Hawk and Spenser take on a racketeer of the underworld and his cronies. Frances McDormand guest stars.
12. A Day's Wages48 Min1/1/2016$1.99
A Madness Most Discreet
Season 1: Episode 13CCSD
Spenser gets involved with a beautiful Russian ballerina who desperately needs the detective's help to return to the Soviet Union.
13. A Madness Most Discreet48 Min1/1/2016$1.99
Brother to Dragons
Season 1: Episode 14CCSD
Spenser aids a teenage student who has become involved with drugs, pornography and murder.
14. Brother to Dragons48 Min1/1/2016$1.99
When Silence Speaks
Season 1: Episode 15CCSD
While dodging bullets from disgruntled jewel thieves, Spenser comes to the aid of a deaf woman, writing an advice column, who wants him to locate the man whose letters to the column led to a personal relationship before the man disappeared.
15. When Silence Speaks49 Min1/1/2016$1.99
In a Safe Place
Season 1: Episode 16CCSD
Spenser gains insight into the plight of illegal aliens when he is hired to find the husband of an illegal alien who abandoned her injured child to Susan. Jimmy Smits and Nancy Marchand guest star.
16. In a Safe Place48 Min1/1/2016$1.99
Angel of Desolation
Season 1: Episode 17CCSD
Spenser exposes family secrets when he investigates the murder of a wealthy banking magnate whose wife hired him because she feared for her safety. Guest starring Eriq La Salle and Leigh Taylor-Young.
17. Angel of Desolation48 Min1/1/2016$1.99
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
Season 1: Episode 18CCSD
Sgt. Belson is charmed by a lady named Frankie, whom Spenser discovers is a syndicate killer out to pry from the cop the whereabouts of a cache of live, very valuable, black sables.
18. She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not48 Min1/1/2016$1.99
At the River's Edge
Season 1: Episode 19CCSD
The pursuit of a murder investigation leads Spenser to the Rev. Bobby Freemont, a popular evangelist who's being groomed for bigger things in television and politics. John Davidson guest stars.
19. At the River's Edge47 Min1/1/2016$1.99
Rage
Season 1: Episode 20CCSD
The kidnapping of a runaway teenage girl and the brutal execution murder of a pawnshop clerk pit private cop Spenser against a young killer seeking vengeance. Brad Dourif guest stars.
20. Rage47 Min1/1/2016$1.99
Hell Hath No Fury
Season 1: Episode 21CCSD
An apartment building collapses, with tragic consequences, and sets off a violent chain of death that only Boston's tough private cop, the erudite Spenser, can break. Paul Butler guest stars.
21. Hell Hath No Fury47 Min1/1/2016$1.99
Cast and crew
Additional information
Networks
Warner Bros.
Subtitles
English (CC)
Duration
21 Episodes (16 H 50 Min)
Audio
English
Released year
1985
Genres
Action/Adventure
Drama