S01E01 Promised Land
Spenser is hired to find the runaway wife of a wealthy businessman. Based on a story by Spenser novelist Robert B. Parker.
Spenser: For Hire
A lot of people think I like to get even. They're dead right.
S01E21: Rage
Spenser locates a runaway, and saves her from a psychotic man—but the man escapes.
Overview
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.
Episodes
S01E02 No Room at the Inn
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 life of grand jury witness....
S01E03 The Choice
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 mouse...
S01E04 Children of a Tempest Storm
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.
S01E05 Original Sin
Spenser investigates the apparent suicide of a young nun, and stumbles onto a corrupt landlord.
S01E06 Discord in A Minor
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 tells her father...
S01E07 The Killer Within
Spenser is hired to protect a woman's identical twin sister from assassins, only to discover his employer suffers from a split personality.
S01E08 Autumn Thieves
Spenser stumbles onto a ring of thieves while investigating a relic stolen from a museum.
S01E09 Blood Money
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.
S01E10 Resurrection
Spenser investigates a crooked vice cop involved in the mugging of one of Susan's friends.
S01E11 Internal Affairs
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 would-be killer.
S01E12 Death By Design
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.
S01E13 A Day's Wages
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 to solve Louis'...
S01E14 A Madness Most Discreet
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 person of...
S01E15 Brother to Dragons
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 hired by...
S01E16 When Silence Speaks
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 gang of thieves...
S01E17 In a Safe Place
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 workers on the waterfront.
S01E18 Angel of Desolation
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 the wife is not...
S01E19 She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
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 investigate the dead man and find out if...
S01E20 At the River's Edge
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.
S01E21 Rage
Spenser locates a runaway, and saves her from a psychotic man—but the man escapes.
S01E22 Hell Hath No Fury
Partnering with an attractive TV news reporter, Spenser investigates the reason a newly constructed building collapsed, killing a boy.
Cast
Robert Urich
Spenser
Avery Brooks
Hawk
Barbara Stock
Susan Silverman
Ron McLarty
Frank Belson
