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  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • Oct 25, 1986
  • 47 m
  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • Oct 25, 1986
  • 47 m
Spenser: For Hire

Summary Robert Urich plays the single-named detective in this Boston-set adaptation of Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels. The series, which also starred Avery Brooks (whose character later got a short-lived spinoff series, A Man Called Hawk), ran for three seasons on ABC, though it was later followed by four made-for-TV movies that aired on Life...

Directed By: Virgil W. Vogel

Written By: Robert B. Parker, John Wilder, David Abramowitz

  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • Oct 25, 1986
  • 47 m
  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • Oct 25, 1986
  • 47 m
Spenser: For Hire
S2 • Episode 3
Rockabye Baby
Air Date: Oct 25, 1986
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Summary Robert Urich plays the single-named detective in this Boston-set adaptation of Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels. The series, which also starred Avery Brooks (whose character later got a short-lived spinoff series, A Man Called Hawk), ran for three seasons on ABC, though it was later followed by four made-for-TV movies that aired on Life...

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Episode 1 • Sep 27, 1986
An Eye for an Eye
Spenser has just relocated and out of no where, former clients are accusing of trying to shake them down. Spenser is oblivious to what they are talking about. Later a D.A. is threatening to take action against him.
Episode 2 • Oct 4, 1986 • 48 m
Widow's Walk
Episode 3 • Oct 25, 1986 • 47 m
Rockabye Baby
Spenser tries to protect a pregnant girl who is carrying the son of a mobster who wants a son. But it seems that someone doesn't want her to give birth to the child.
Episode 4 • Oct 18, 1986 • 48 m
White Knight
Episode 5 • Nov 1, 1986 • 48 m
And Give Up Show Biz?
A young man is found floating in the water. When he wakes up, he claims to have no memory of who he is. Spenser tries to help him. Later, he becomes the prime suspect in a murder. But he claims he can't be a killer.
Episode 6 • Nov 8, 1986
The Long Hunt
Spenser travels to Maine to help hunt down an escaped murderer, but the tables are turned when the man's father stalks Spenser.
Episode 7 • Nov 22, 1986
Home Is the Hero
Rita asks Spenser to help a youth she's coaching at a youth center. Spenser discovers that the boy is working for a Fagin like criminal.
Episode 8 • Nov 29, 1986 • 47 m
One If by Land, Two If by Sea
Spenser must solve the murder of a good friend, Joe Kelly. He is killed riding as Paul Revere in an annual celebration. There is more to Joe than Spenser knows.
Episode 9 • Dec 13, 1986 • 48 m
Shadowsight
Spenser tries to find the connection between a 12-year-old's nightmares and the real-life murders they foretell.
Episode 10 • Dec 20, 1986 • 48 m
The Hopes and Fears
A 13-year-old boy and a pregnant woman glimpse the face of the leader of a masked gang robbing Spenser's neighborhood at Christmastime.
Episode 11 • Jan 10, 1987
Among Friends
Hawk is framed for the attempted murder of Marty Quirk. There is a new gun in town named Tyrone Blackwell. Name looks good on a tombstone.
Episode 12 • Jan 17, 1987 • 48 m
I Confess
A man who witnessed the murder of a bank officer is now confessing to the crime.
Episode 13 • Jan 24, 1987 • 49 m
Murder and Acquisitions
A man under investigation for insider trading on the stock market is killed before he can turn state's evidence.
Episode 14 • Feb 7, 1987 • 47 m
Personal Demons
A woman involved in the fight against hunger in Africa hires Spenser to prove that an administrator is stealing millions in contributions.
Episode 15 • Feb 14, 1987 • 48 m
Mary Hamilton
Spenser helps a young woman search for her father, but has to convince Rita and the police that she is innocent of two attempts on her father's life.
Episode 16 • Feb 21, 1987 • 48 m
Trial and Error
Rita has a solid case against a pimp suspected of murdering a teen-age hooker, but Spenser thinks the man is being framed.
Episode 17 • Mar 7, 1987 • 48 m
One for My Daughter
A video director with gambling debts has passed on a drinking problem to his 16-year-old daughter.
Episode 18 • Mar 14, 1987 • 1 h
My Brother's Keeper
Spenser searches for the murderer of a war hero whose forthcoming book promised an expose of a Vietnamese crime boss.
Episode 19 • Mar 21, 1987
The Road Back
Episode 20 • Apr 4, 1987 • 46 m
If You Knew Sammy
A vigilante named Sammy writes a book and angers the Boston mob. Turns out the Feds, the mob and Hawk all want Sammy dead for different reasons. William H Macy makes an early cameo and Spenser must tie all the loose ends together.
Episode 21 • May 2, 1987 • 47 m
The Man Who Wasn't There
Rita wants Spenser to find out about a man killed in a fire a man she and four classmates fabricated in their college's computer.
Episode 22 • May 9, 1987 • 48 m
The Song of Orpheus
Hawk is ambushed and dumped in the harbor. Rita is on a hot case with a mysterious hidden source and one mob boss is pulling all the stings. Will Spenser unravel this before he is killed too.

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