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Episode Detail: The Hopes and Fears - Spenser: For Hire

A 13-year-old boy and a pregnant woman glimpse the face of the leader of a masked gang robbing Spenser's neighborhood at Christmastime. Maggie: Nancy Travis. Andy: Seth Green. Horn: Jack Gwaltney. Spenser: Robert Urich. Hawk: Avery Brooks.
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Premiered: September 20, 1985, on ABC
Rating: None
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Premise: Robert B. Parker's cultured Boston cop-turned-PI probes cases with his brooding, enigmatic pal, Hawk (later spun off into the `A Man Called Hawk' series). Various lady friends also helped the sensitive sleuth, notably guidance counselor Susan Silverman and ADA Rita Fiori. Parker was a consultant for this series. `The business of television,' he wrote in TV Guide, `is to put on good television, not to replicate my books.' And `Spenser: For Hire' was indeed good television.

Spenser: For Hire Cast

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