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22 Episodes 1986 - 1987
Episode 1
Sat, Sep 27, 1986
Spenser has just relocated and out of no where, former clients are accusing of trying to shake them down. Spenser is oblivious to what they are talking about. Later a D.A. is threatening to take action against him.
Episode 2
Sat, Oct 4, 198648 mins
Spenser needing to get over Susan's departure takes a job that takes him out of town. A woman whose husband's a fisherman who died recently, needs his help because another family who wants to shut them is causing them problems. And her young son just wants to get back at them.
Episode 3
Sat, Oct 25, 198647 mins
Spenser tries to protect a pregnant girl who is carrying the son of a mobster who wants a son. But it seems that someone doesn't want her to give birth to the child.
Episode 4
Sat, Oct 18, 198648 mins
When Hawk goes to check on the boxer he owns, he is arrested. So Spenser goes there to try and figure out what is going on. They discover that it might have something to do with a man who is running for public office whom Hawk met a few years ago.
Episode 5
Sat, Nov 1, 198648 mins
A young man is found floating in the water. When he wakes up, he claims to have no memory of who he is. Spenser tries to help him. Later, he becomes the prime suspect in a murder. But he claims he can't be a killer.
Episode 6
Sat, Nov 8, 1986
Spenser travels to Maine to help hunt down an escaped murderer, but the tables are turned when the man's father stalks Spenser.
Episode 7
Sat, Nov 22, 1986
Rita asks Spenser to help a youth she's coaching at a youth center. Spenser discovers that the boy is working for a Fagin like criminal.
Episode 8
Sat, Nov 29, 198647 mins
Spenser must solve the murder of a good friend, Joe Kelly. He is killed riding as Paul Revere in an annual celebration. There is more to Joe than Spenser knows.
Episode 9
Sat, Dec 13, 198648 mins
Spenser tries to find the connection between a 12-year-old's nightmares and the real-life murders they foretell.
Episode 10
Sat, Dec 20, 198648 mins
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.
Episode 11
Sat, Jan 10, 1987
Hawk is framed for the attempted murder of Marty Quirk. There is a new gun in town named Tyrone Blackwell. Name looks good on a tombstone.
Episode 12
Sat, Jan 17, 198748 mins
A man who witnessed the murder of a bank officer is now confessing to the crime.
Episode 13
Sat, Jan 24, 198749 mins
A man under investigation for insider trading on the stock market is killed before he can turn state's evidence.
Episode 14
Sat, Feb 7, 198747 mins
A woman involved in the fight against hunger in Africa hires Spenser to prove that an administrator is stealing millions in contributions.
Episode 15
Sat, Feb 14, 198748 mins
Spenser helps a young woman search for her father, but has to convince Rita and the police that she is innocent of two attempts on her father's life.
Episode 16
Sat, Feb 21, 198748 mins
Rita has a solid case against a pimp suspected of murdering a teen-age hooker, but Spenser thinks the man is being framed.
Episode 17
Sat, Mar 7, 198748 mins
A video director with gambling debts has passed on a drinking problem to his 16-year-old daughter.
Episode 18
Sat, Mar 14, 198760 mins
Spenser searches for the murderer of a war hero whose forthcoming book promised an expose of a Vietnamese crime boss.
Episode 19
Sat, Mar 21, 1987
When Spenser is protecting someone, he gets shot. He then learns that there a chance that he might lose the use of his injured arm. So he has therapy while waiting for the surgery that could fix it. And at the same time, the man he was protecting, not wanting to let anyone else get hurt is willing to give to the people who were trying to kill him.
Episode 20
Sat, Apr 4, 198746 mins
A vigilante named Sammy writes a book and angers the Boston mob. Turns out the Feds, the mob and Hawk all want Sammy dead for different reasons. William H Macy makes an early cameo and Spenser must tie all the loose ends together.
Episode 21
Sat, May 2, 198747 mins
Rita wants Spenser to find out about a man killed in a fire a man she and four classmates fabricated in their college's computer.
Episode 22
Sat, May 9, 198748 mins
Hawk is ambushed and dumped in the harbor. Rita is on a hot case with a mysterious hidden source and one mob boss is pulling all the stings. Will Spenser unravel this before he is killed too.