The BEST episodes of Spenser: For Hire season 1
Every episode of Spenser: For Hire season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Spenser: For Hire season 1!
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.
#7 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#16 - 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.
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#19 - Promised Land
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1985
Spenser is hired to find the runaway wife of a wealthy businessman. Based on a story by Spenser novelist Robert B. Parker.
#20 - In a Safe Place
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1986
Spenser and Susan look for a Mexican labor organizer who has suspiciously disappeared. ('On the Waterfront' redux.)
#21 - No Room at the Inn
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1985
Spenser is given an old station as a gift from the fire department for a service rendered them. The police department hires to protect a mysterious witness.
#22 - At the River's Edge
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/25/1986
Spenser is hired by a 12-year-old to investigate the murder of her older sister. The brutal slaying of an ex-convict, and the machinations of a popular preacher with political ambitions factor into the investigation.
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