Promised Land
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 20, 1985 (120 min)
Spenser is hired by a real estate developer to find his runaway wife, who is mixed up in bank robbery and murder.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 20, 1985 (120 min)
Spenser is hired by a real estate developer to find his runaway wife, who is mixed up in bank robbery and murder.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1985
Mobsters plan to escape justice by killing bodyguard Spenser and his charge, a grand-jury witness.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1985
Spenser rescues a Senator's kidnapped daughter and becomes a celebrity, and the target of two men who kill for the thrill of it.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1985
Susan agonizes over revealing her pregnancy to Spenser, who has taken in the children of the hit man he killed in self-defense.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1985
Spenser suspects foul play in the apparent suicide of a novice who left the convent to help the poor in the ghetto fight evictions.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1985
After a symphony conductor's daughter is kidnapped, bodyguard Spenser is fired, but he finds later that her disappearance wasn't what it seemed.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1985
Spenser is hired to protect a woman's identical twin sister from assassins.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1985
Spenser is framed for theft after being hired to follow a man who stole a religious museum piece and promised it to two rival buyers.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1985
A ransom delivery snafu leads Spenser to doubt the existence of a radical group claiming responsibility for kidnapping a corporate executive.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1985
Spenser tries to save the parole of an ex-prostitute charged with weapons possession.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1985
Quirk is suspended over allegations that he tipped off an illegal-gambling ring about a planned raid, and he refuses to speak in his own defense.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1986
Spenser thinks his client, who is researching designer drugs, is worried about more than missing earrings and the whereabouts of her gigolo boyfriend.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1986
Bodyguards Spenser and Hawk accept blame when security methods fail, but they vow to make a racketeer pay.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1986
A former Bolshoi ballerina hires Spenser to recover a tape stolen from her murdered cosmonaut husband.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1986
Spenser goes undercover at a private high school to investigate heroin use on campus, but discovers something far more serious.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1986
A deaf woman hires Spenser to find a man she had been corresponding with who had gone missing.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1986
Spenser hunts for an illegal alien whose son is being held as bait by an immigration official.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1986
Complications arise after an ex-model hires Spenser to protect her, and her Boston patrician husband is shot.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1986
Spenser investigates old friend Sgt. Belson, whose partner, now dead, may have been taking bribes.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1986
A 12-year-old girl hires Spenser to find out who killed her sister, whose murder is jeopardizing prospects for an evangelist with political aspirations.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1986
Susan and Spenser get involved in a hostage situation when a killer abducts a teenager who witnessed his crime.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1986
A man whose son was killed in a building collapse claims that a political coverup sent an innocent building inspector to prison.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1986
Spenser loses his home and his livelihood when Boston reclaims its firehouse and the new assistant district attorney takes away his license on blackmailing charges.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1986
Spenser tries to forget about Susan, who has left him and Boston, and tries to protect a widow whose fishing fleet has been plagued by "accidents."
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1986
After accepting a boxer's managerial contract as payment of a debt, Hawk finds himself at odds with a major politician.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1986
Spenser helps a woman who wants to keep her newborn son rather than lose the child to its mobster father.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1986
Spenser runs interference for a young amnesiac with a talent for stand-up comedy and a killer on his trail.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: 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: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1986
Rita hires Spenser to investigate a troubled teenager.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1986
A friend of Spenser's is shot and killed while portraying Paul Revere during a Revolutionary War re-enactment.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1986
Spenser tries to find the connection between a 12-year-old's nightmares and the real-life murders they foretell.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1986
A 13-year-old boy and a pregnant woman glimpse the face of the leader of a masked gang robbing Spenser's neighborhood at Christmas time.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1987
Hawk is the main suspect when Lt. Quirk is shot, due to a recent fracas between the two.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1987
A man who witnessed the murder of a bank officer is now confessing to the crime.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1987
Spenser investigates the apparent suicide of a philandering financier about to turn state's evidence to bring down insider trading.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1987
A woman involved in the fight against hunger in Africa hires Spenser to prove that an administrator is stealing millions in contributions.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1987
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: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1987
Rita has a solid case against a pimp suspected of murdering a teen-age hooker, but Spenser thinks the man is being framed.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1987
Spenser and Hawk protect a man who owes money to men of dubious ethics.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1987
Vietnamese expatriates hire Spenser to find a recluse who wrote a manuscript about the war.
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1987
Spenser is wounded during an assassination attempt on a state senate candidate and may lose the use of his right arm.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1987
Gunfire greets an author and self-proclaimed vigilante at a promotion stop in a Boston bookstore.
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: May 2, 1987
Rita and her old college friends are reunited when a fictional person they created 20 years ago is found dead in his apartment.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: May 9, 1987
A prison inmate with a grudge against Hawk hires outside muscle to rub him out.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1987
Susan's return distracts Spenser, who's protecting an informant from the mob.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1987
Spenser and Hawk come to blows over the protection of a young murder witness.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1987
Forced into medical retirement, Quirk requires round-the-clock protection from a vengeful ex-convict.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1987
Spenser helps an old friend, an alcoholic priest who tries to help homeless teenagers, when he gets involved over his head.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1987
Spenser becomes obsessed with an apparently suicidal woman after a chance encounter on the street.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1987
Susan fights her professor's sexual harassment, but when the threat turns violent, she welcomes help from Spenser and Hawk.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1987
Spenser and Susan interrupt their Thanksgiving trip to Plymouth when an old Army buddy is arrested for murder.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1987
A romantic weekend for Spenser and Susan turns into Shakespearean tragedy when two lovers seek protection from a dangerously overprotective father.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1987
A sniper takes some shots at Spenser and Susan, and a young boy ends up dead in the crossfire.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1988
Spenser and Hawk square off when each pursues a corrupt judge's stolen diary.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1988
Susan and an injured Hawk are trapped inside a post office when a disgruntled postal worker takes hostages.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1988
When his ex-partner is mugged with several thousand dollars on him, Spenser reluctantly investigates his mentor's possible ties to the mob.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1988
After Belson's niece dies of a drug overdose, Spenser and Hawk must keep him from going on a killing spree.
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1988
Sammy Backlin calls Spenser for protection when he's being hunted by a 'vicious horde of bloodthirsty assassins'.
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1988
In trying to help his former boxing trainer, Spenser must enter the ring for a battle with a man he once sent to prison.
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1988
Spenser protects a theater owner from gangsters, but begins to suspect she's not as innocent as she appears.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1988
Spenser tracks down dynamite missing from a construction site, while Susan hopes to avoid an explosion of emotion by keeping a secret.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1988
Spenser protects a child artist after the child witnesses a mob execution while painting in the forest.
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1988
Hawk is blinded in an explosion and depends on Susan for protection, while Spenser stays one step behind a radical political group.
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1988
Spenser and a tenacious lawyer defend a black Naval officer accused of killing his white captain's daughter.
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: May 7, 1988
When someone claims to have been the subject of a missing-child search, Spenser reopens the case that cost him his badge.