Spenser: For Hire

  • Premiered: Sep 1985
  • Episodes: 65
  • Followers: 6
  • Ended
  • ABC (US)
  • Wednesday at 22
  • Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

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Season 3
3x1
Homecoming
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 27, 1987
A cop who helped send a gangster's son to prison years ago has been hiding, cause the gangster wants to get him. But now he wants to come home, so he and his father, asks Spenser to act .. show full overview
3x2
My Enemy, My Friend
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 04, 1987
A streetwise young kid gets involved over his head in the underworld. Spenser and Hawk try to protect him from would-be killers.
3x3
The Heart of the Matter
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 11, 1987
Lt. Quirk faces his mortality when he suffers a heart attack. Spenser and Hawk protect him from revenge-minded villains as he recovers.
3x4
On the Night He Was Betrayed
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 01, 1987
Spenser helps an old friend, an alcoholic priest who tries to help homeless teenagers, when he gets involved over his head.
3x5
Sleepless Dreams
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 08, 1987
Spenser becomes obsessed with an apparently suicidal woman after a chance encounter on the street.
3x6
Consilum Abditum
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 15, 1987
Susan is in trouble when her claims of sexual harassment lead her college counselor to retaliate by hiring a hit man to keep her quiet. Spenser gets arrested for getting involved in a fight.
3x7
Thanksgiving
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 29, 1987
Spenser runs into an old friend while visiting a recreation of a Puritan village. Spenser does everything in his power to exonerate said friend when he's accused of a brutal slaying. As .. show full overview
3x8
Gone Fishin'
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 06, 1987
Spenser's fishing trip is interrupted when he has to protect a young man who's not allowed to marry the girl he loves.
3x9
Child's Play
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 20, 1987
A sniper takes some shots at Spenser and Susan, and a young boy ends up dead in the crossfire. Spenser sets out to determine why such a tragedy happened and track down the shooter.
3x10
Skeletons in the Closet
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 03, 1988
Spenser and Hawk find themselves on opposite sides of the same case. Spenser is hired to retrieve a stolen journal containing information damaging to a judge's career. Hawk is hired by the thief to extort money from the judge.
3x11
The Siege
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 10, 1988
Hawk and Susan along with other people are held captive in a post office. Richard Brooks later seen on Law and Order during Season's 1 & 2 plays one of the hostage takers.
3x12
Arthur's Wake
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 16, 1988
Spenser protects an old friend, Arthur, after he's assaulted and robbed. In the course of his investigation, Spenser comes across disturbing information connecting Arthur with racketeering.
3x13
To the End of the Line
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 23, 1988
When Frank's niece dies of a drug overdose, Spenser and Frank go after the men responsible.
3x14
Play It Again, Sammy
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 30, 1988
Sammy Backlin calls Spenser for protection when he's being hunted by a 'vicious horde of bloodthirsty assassins'.
3x15
The Big Fight
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 06, 1988
One of Spenser's old trainers lures Spenser to a deserted warehouse where Spenser is supposed to be killed, to get out from under a gambling debt. Spenser survives, then turns around and protects his trainer from the goons now after him.
3x16
Substantial Justice
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 05, 1988
Spenser protects a theater owner from gangsters, but begins to suspect she's not as innocent as she appears.
3x17
Company Man
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Air date
Mar 12, 1988
Spenser suspects insurance fraud when a building blows up. Susan has a possibly cancerous mass removed.
3x18
Watercolors
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 19, 1988
Spenser protects a child artist after the child witnesses a mob execution while painting in the forest.
3x19
Hawk's Eyes
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 26, 1988
Spenser investigates the death of a friend apparently involved with white supremicists. Hawk is rendered blind by an explosion.
3x20
McAllister
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 30, 1988
Spenser assists a lawyer in proving the innocence of his client, a Navy seaman accused of murdering the captain's daughter. The only witness is a missing Polish sailor.
3x21 Show finale
Haunting
Episode overview
Air date
May 07, 1988
Spenser investigates an old child kidnapping case when he tries to track down a teenage girl's biological parents.

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