Spenser: For Hire

Season 3

21 episodes · Sep 27, 1987

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Trailer · Spenser for Hire (Theme Song)

Trailer · Spenser for Hire Pilot (Theme Song)

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S3E1

Homecoming

Sep 27, 198760m

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.

S3E2

My Enemy, My Friend

Oct 4, 198760m

A streetwise young kid gets involved over his head in the underworld. Spenser and Hawk try to protect him from would-be killers.

S3E3

The Heart of the Matter

Oct 11, 198760m

Lt. Quirk faces his mortality when he suffers a heart attack. Spenser and Hawk protect him from revenge-minded villains as he recovers.

S3E4

On the Night he Was Betrayed

Nov 1, 198760m

Spenser helps an old friend, an alcoholic priest who tries to help homeless teenagers, when he gets involved over his head.

S3E5

Sleepless Dreams

Nov 8, 198760m

Spenser becomes obsessed with an apparently suicidal woman after a chance encounter on the street.

S3E6

Consilum Abditum

Nov 15, 198760m

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.

S3E7

Thanksgiving

Nov 29, 198760m

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.

S3E8

Gone Fishin'

Dec 6, 198760m

Spenser's fishing trip is interrupted when he has to protect a young man who's not allowed to marry the girl he loves.

S3E9

Child's Play

Dec 20, 198760m

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.

S3E10

Skeletons in the Closet

Jan 3, 198860m

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.

S3E11

The Siege

Jan 10, 198860m

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.

S3E12

Arthur's Wake

Jan 16, 198860m

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.

S3E13

To the End of the Line

Jan 23, 198860m

When Frank's niece dies of a drug overdose, Spenser and Frank go after the men responsible.

S3E14

Play it Again, Sammy

Jan 30, 198860m

Sammy Backlin calls Spenser for protection when he's being hunted by a 'vicious horde of bloodthirsty assassins'.

S3E15

The Big Fight

Feb 6, 198860m

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.

S3E16

Substantial Justice

Mar 5, 198860m

Spenser protects a theater owner from gangsters, but begins to suspect she's not as innocent as she appears.

S3E17

Company Man

Mar 12, 198860m

Spenser suspects insurance fraud when a building blows up. Susan has a possibly cancerous mass removed.

S3E18

Watercolors

Mar 19, 198860m

Spenser protects a child artist after the child witnesses a mob execution while painting in the forest.

S3E19

Hawk's Eyes

Mar 26, 198860m

Spenser investigates the death of a friend apparently involved with white supremicists. Hawk is rendered blind by an explosion.

S3E20

McAllister

Apr 30, 198860m

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.

S3E21

Haunting

May 7, 198860m

Spenser investigates an old child kidnapping case when he tries to track down a teenage girl's biological parents.