An ex-cop-turned-private detective, who's also a gourmet cook, bookworm and former boxer, solves crimes in his own uniquely stylish way in the exciting adventures of Spenser: For Hire.Renaissance man Spenser (Robert Urich) cruises Boston, Massachusetts, in a vintage Ford Mustang solving cases for those who prefer a touch of class in their private investigators. Spenser's chief street contact, tall, menacing Hawk (Avery Brooks), operates on both sides of the law, while other friends, including Lieutenant Martin Quirk (Richard Jaeckel) and Sergeant Frank Belson (Ron McLarty), funnel valuable information to Spenser from within the Boston Police Department. Despite his success as a detective, Spenser remains unlucky in love as his girlfriend (Barbara Stock) refuses his continual offers of marriage because she fears any permanent involvement with a man who's always in danger.Based on the best-selling novels of Robert B. Parker and filmed on location in Boston, this thrill-packed series presents a different kin...
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Spenser: For Hire: Internal Affairs
When blackmail threatens Lt. Quirk's career and wife, Spenser joins forces with Hawk to try to topple the instigators.
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Spenser: For Hire: Hell Hath no Fury
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.
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.
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Spenser: For Hire: She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
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.
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Spenser: For Hire: In a Safe Place
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.
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Spenser: For Hire: When Silence Speaks
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.
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Spenser: For Hire: A Day's Wages
Hawk and Spenser take on a racketeer of the underworld and his cronies. Frances McDormand guest stars.
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Spenser: For Hire: Angel of Desolation
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.
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Spenser: For Hire: Resurrection
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.
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Spenser: For Hire: Blood Money
The kidnapping of a high-powered industrialist propels Spenser into a world of big money, corporate infighting, extortion and murder.
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Spenser: For Hire: Autumn Thieves
The heist of a treasured relic from a Boston museum involves Spenser with a crafty, gentleman-thief and a squad of high-powered thugs.
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Spenser: For Hire: The Killer Within
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.
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Spenser: For Hire: Discord in a Minor
Spenser seeks a mobster's son who apparently has abducted his girlfriend, the daughter of a famed conductor.
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Spenser: For Hire: Original Sin
Spenser is hired to investigate the mysterious death of a young novice whose autopsy reveals her to have been pregnant.
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Spenser: For Hire: Children of a Tempest Storm
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.
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Spenser: For Hire: The Choice
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.
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Spenser: For Hire: No Room at the Inn
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.
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