The BEST episodes of Spenser: For Hire season 3
Every episode of Spenser: For Hire season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Spenser: For Hire season 3!
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.
#1 - 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.
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#2 - 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.
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#9 - Watercolors
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/19/1988
Spenser protects a child artist after the child witnesses a mob execution while painting in the forest.
#10 - Haunting
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/7/1988
Spenser investigates an old child kidnapping case when he tries to track down a teenage girl's biological parents.
#12 - My Enemy, My Friend
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1987
A streetwise young kid gets involved over his head in the underworld. Spenser and Hawk try to protect him from would-be killers.
#13 - The Heart of the Matter
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1987
Lt. Quirk faces his mortality when he suffers a heart attack. Spenser and Hawk protect him from revenge-minded villains as he recovers.
#14 - On the Night He Was Betrayed
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/1987
Spenser helps an old friend, an alcoholic priest who tries to help homeless teenagers, when he gets involved over his head.
#16 - Consilum Abditum
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1987
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.
#17 - Thanksgiving
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/1987
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 he uncovers more and more, Spenser begins to think it might be hard to clear the name of a guilty man.
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#20 - Skeletons in the Closet
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/3/1988
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.
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#21 - McAllister
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/1988
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.