Spenser

• Title: Spenser: For Hire – Rage
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Spenser Saturday takes us back to the mean streets of Boston and the travails of a smart ass private detective. After a school dance he was chaperoning with Susan (Barbara Stock), Spenser (Robert Urich) breaks up an altercation between two students in the parking lot leading to questions about an attack and rape. Later, when the girl runs away, her parents hire Spenser to find Jill (Christie Mossman) who gets into further trouble when she witnesses a murder while pawning her Grandmother’s broach and is hunted the recently-released con (Brad Dourif) who kidnaps the girl and commandeers a bus, later abandoning it after a shoot-out with Spenser.

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• Title: Spenser: For Hire – At the River’s Edge
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the mean streets of Boston and the travails of a smart ass private detective. Spenser’s (Robert Urich) latest case comes to him in an odd manner when he and Susan (Barbara Stock) witness what appears to be an armed robbery. After wounding the attacker and corning him in the parking garage, rather than be taken alive the criminal commits suicide allowing for several comments and ribbing from Spenser’s friends afterwards about his power to compel suspects to take their own lives. Spenser is left with a mystery but no client, at least until the victim’s prepubescent sister (Carrie Kei Heim) decides to hire him. Spenser makes a tenuous connection between the dead attacker and the victim, both with a connection to a preacher with a growing national following.

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• Title: Spenser: For Hire – She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the mean streets of Boston and the travails of a smart ass private detective. “She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not” gives us a rare Frank Belson (Ron McLarty) episode when Frank’s old partner (Jess Osuna) is killed by those searching for the smuggled minks the former cop turned into a lucrative business years before. Gail Strickland guest-stars as Frank’s new neighbor who he immediately falls for not realizing she’s a hitter from out of town after the minks as well. The pair make for an interesting, if short-lived, couple.

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