The BEST episodes of Spenser: For Hire
Every episode of Spenser: For Hire ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Spenser: For Hire!
Spenser: For Hire is a mystery/suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new 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.
#4 - Homecoming
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1987
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 as intermediary. While the gangster is unwilling to settle for nothing less than seeing him dead. Spenser tries to see what he can do. At the same time Spenser has to deal with Susan, who came back to town, and would like to see if they have a future, but this case is taking up all of his time.
Watch Now:Amazon
#10 - The Killer Within
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1985
Spenser is a Private Detective who is hired by a woman to watch her sister and protect her from an old boyfriend. Susan Silverman is Spenser's girlfriend, a research assistant in a psychologist's office. Susan is elated to have been chosen by handsome Dr. Ed Howard from all the other research assistants to accompany him to San Francisco for a psychology conference. Spenser is less elated. Ed Howard enters the picture when Spenser realizes that his client has multiple personalities, she is herself and her sister. Or is she her sister and . . .she's both Diane and Donna, ok? Susan points out that this is Howard's speciality and should be the one to counsel the woman. Spenser is less than elated to bring in the doctor.
#12 - An Eye for an Eye
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1986
New District Attorney Rita Fiori tries to prosecute Spenser for blackmail.
#13 - The Choice
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1985
A pair of young thrill-killers target Spenser, accidentally shooting a bystander. Susan's ex-husband visits.
#14 - Children of a Tempest Storm
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1985
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.
#15 - The Big Fight
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/6/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon
#18 - Original Sin
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1985
Spenser investigates the apparent suicide of a young nun, and stumbles onto a corrupt landlord.
#22 - Discord in A Minor
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1985
Spenser is fired from a bodyguard job after his young charge is kidnapped. Spenser suspects the girl he was to protect, arranged the 'kidnapping' to escape her father, a famous conductor, who may have been molesting his daughter.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
#25 - Widow's Walk
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1986
A small fishing family hires Spenser to investigate the death of their father. Spenser suspects a rival fishing family, the Almeidas.