Spenser: For Hire
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Spenser: For Hire

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

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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.

Sep 20, 19853 seasons65 episodesEndedEN
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Promised LandEp 1

Promised Land

Sep 20, 1985
95m

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

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Ep 2

No Room at the Inn

Sep 27, 1985
50m

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. When it starts to look like someone on the inside might be trying to have the witness killed, and that the witness may not be who she says she is, things get convoluted.

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Ep 3

The Choice

Oct 4, 1985
50m

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 game for Spenser and Hawk, who are determined to take them down.

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Ep 4

Children of a Tempest Storm

Oct 11, 1985
60m

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.

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Ep 5

Original Sin

Oct 18, 1985
60m

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

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Ep 6

Discord in A Minor

Oct 25, 1985
60m

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 what she said which he denies. After Spenser leaves, he calls Hawk, who once did a job for him, to do something for him.

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