Spenser: For Hire

Season 3 (21 Episodes)

3 Seasons1987TV-141h 00m7.3

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.

Mystery/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. Using his years of experience, his natural talents for observation and reasoning, and the occasional bit of help from his friend Hawk, Spenser never fails to crack the case.

Season 3 Episodes:

Episode 1 Homecoming

1. Homecoming

Aired: Sep 27, 1987

Spenser is hired to protect ex-undercover cop, Nick Cavanaugh. As Judge Emmet...

Episode 2 My Enemy, My Friend

2. My Enemy, My Friend

Aired: Oct 4, 1987

Spenser and Hawk are on opposite sides of a case when a hot shot young black ...

Episode 3 Heart of the Matter

3. Heart of the Matter

Aired: Oct 11, 1987

Lt Quirk confronts his own mortality following being outrun by a murder suspe...

Episode 5 Sleepless Dream

5. Sleepless Dream

Aired: Nov 8, 1987

Coming off a long stakeout and 36 hours without any sleep, Spenser witnesses ...

Episode 6 Consilum Abditum

6. Consilum Abditum

Aired: Nov 15, 1987

Spenser breaks up a domestic dispute, and gets charged with assault. Meanwhil...

Episode 7 Thanksgiving

7. Thanksgiving

Aired: Nov 29, 1987

Spenser takes Susan to Plymouth for Thanksgiving and runs into an old Army bu...

Episode 8 Gone Fishin'

8. Gone Fishin'

Aired: Dec 6, 1987

Spenser is in the middle of a streak of bad luck and is planning a fishing tr...

Episode 9 Child's Play

9. Child's Play

Aired: Dec 20, 1987

A hit man kills one of Spenser's friends in a shoot out on the street. Spense...

Episode 11 The Siege

11. The Siege

Aired: Jan 10, 1988

Susan and Hawk are among the hostages taken by three men during a robbery gon...

Episode 12 Arthur's Wake

12. Arthur's Wake

Aired: Jan 16, 1988

Spenser's old friend and mentor, Arthur, is mugged on the street, losing a la...

Episode 14 Play It Again, Sammy

14. Play It Again, Sammy

Aired: Jan 30, 1988

Sammy Backlin returns to Boston and requests Spenser to protect him. After a ...

Episode 15 The Big Fight

15. The Big Fight

Aired: Feb 6, 1988

Spenser is asked for help by old boxing friend Joey. But when they walk into ...

Episode 16 Substantial Justice

16. Substantial Justice

Aired: Mar 5, 1988

Spenser is hired by a theatre producer to help prove her innocence in a murde...

Episode 17 Company Man

17. Company Man

Aired: Mar 12, 1988

Spenser is hired to find out who stole 40 pounds of dynamite from a local con...

Episode 18 Watercolors

18. Watercolors

Aired: Mar 19, 1988

Spenser is hired to protect a 14 year old boy after he witnesses a murder in ...

Episode 19 Hawk's Eyes

19. Hawk's Eyes

Aired: Mar 26, 1988

When an old lawyer friend dies in an traffic crash, Spenser looks into it. A ...

Episode 20 McAllister

20. McAllister

Aired: Apr 30, 1988

When the daughter of a Navy captain is murdered, suspicion falls on the (blac...

Episode 21 Haunting

21. Haunting

Aired: May 7, 1988

Susan enlists Spenser's help in determining the past of a young amnesiac woma...

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Info about Spenser: For Hire

Current Status: Ended

Network: ABC

Production Country: United States

Genres:Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery

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