Spenser: For Hire (1985)

2. My Enemy, My Friend

1987-10-04

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

3. The Heart of the Matter

1987-10-11

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

4. On the Night he Was Betrayed

1987-11-01

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

5. Sleepless Dreams

1987-11-08

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

6. Consilum Abditum

1987-11-15

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.

7. Thanksgiving

1987-11-29

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.

8. Gone Fishin'

1987-12-06

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

9. Child's Play

1987-12-20

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.

10. Skeletons in the Closet

1988-01-03

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.

11. The Siege

1988-01-10

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.

12. Arthur's Wake

1988-01-16

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.

13. To the End of the Line

1988-01-23

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

14. Play it Again, Sammy

1988-01-30

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

15. The Big Fight

1988-02-06

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.

16. Substantial Justice

1988-03-05

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

17. Company Man

1988-03-12

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

18. Watercolors

1988-03-19

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

19. Hawk's Eyes

1988-03-26

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

20. McAllister

1988-04-30

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.

21. Haunting

1988-05-07

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