Robert B. Parker
Director
Spenser: For Hire (1985)
Specials
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.
Released Sept. 20, 1985
Episode 60 min
None+
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Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S0E1 - Ceremony
Spenser is hired to locate April Kyle, the missing daughter of Harry Kyle, millionaire and candidate for Governor.
Jan. 8, 1993, midnight
S0E2 - Pale Kings and Princes
One of Susan's former patients, a news reporter, is killed, Spenser investigates.
Jan. 2, 1994, midnight
S0E3 - The Judas Goat
Spenser is hired out by Hugh Dixon to track down the killers of his wife and daughters.
Dec. 1, 1994, midnight
S0E4 - A Savage Place
Candy Sloane, a news reporter that Spenser used to date, hires him out as backup while she investigates a credit card fraud ring.
Jan. 8, 1995, midnight
S0E5 - Small Vices
Rita Fiore hires Spenser to determine if two-time loser Ellis Alves really did kill a college coed. Soon everybody wants him off the case, from the investigating officer to the parents of the dead girl's boyfriend; and a professional hitman named Rugar is trying to kill him.
July 18, 1999, midnight
S0E6 - Thin Air
Frank Belson didn't ask too many questions about the past of his new wife Lisa St. Claire, even after she suddenly and mysteriously disappeared one night. He brings in Spenser to help locate her, who begins to piece together her complete life story while submerged in the Latino shadow world of the town of Proctor.
Sept. 12, 2000, midnight
S0E7 - Walking Shadow
As a favor to his longtime lover Dr. Susan Silverman, Spenser agrees to investigate the stalking of a theater company director, pro bono. But before he can get started, an actor is killed by an arrow in the middle of a play. Now that there's a real-life murder to investigate, Spenser and Hawk, get to do what they do best--even if it means death threats from the Chinese underworld, being ordered out of town by the tough local police chief, and dodging bullets and crossbows at every turn. By the time they leave the quaint ocean front community, the population has decreased by three, and live theater will never be the same.
Aug. 26, 2001, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 3915 min.
Released: Sept. 20, 1985
Last Air Date: May 7, 1988, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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