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Spenser: For Hire is an American crime drama series based on Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels. The series, developed for TV by John Wilder and starring Robert Urich , was broadcast on ABC from September 20, 1985, until May 7, 1988.
Spenser is a former State trooper investigator assigned to the Suffolk County District Attorney's (DA) Office (although some novels state that he also worked out of the Middlesex County DA's Office; Walking Shadow and the pilot episode of Spenser: For Hire say he was a Boston Police detective), and regularly seeks help from (or sometimes butts ...
Nahum Tate, Carol Daley, Donald Martin January 4, 1995 ( 1995-01-04 ) Candy Sloane, a news reporter that Spenser used to date, hires him as backup while she investigates a credit card fraud ring.
Spenser Boston private investigator Susan Silverman Spenser's long time love interest and a professional psychologist. Capt. Martin Quirk Boston Police Department Homicide Commander Rita Fiore Attorney Jumbo Nelson Actor and murder suspect Zebulon Sixkill A former college football player, Nelson's bodyguard and a protégé of sorts for Spenser.
Richard Jaeckel (born R. Hanley Jaeckel; October 10, 1926 – June 14, 1997) was an American actor of film and television. [1] [2] Jaeckel became a well-known character actor in his career, which spanned six decades.
Set in the early 1970s, this novel serves as the introduction to Spenser, a private investigator in Boston.Spenser, who served as an infantryman in the 1st Infantry Division during the Korean War [1] and as a former State trooper, is hired by Bradford W. Forbes, the president of an unnamed university (heavily implied to be Northeastern, the university at which Parker himself taught at the time ...
In this movie Spenser tries to solve the murder of a college student. It was broadcast in 1999, and is based on the 1997 novel of the same name. Joe Mantegna as Spenser; Marcia Gay Harden as Susan Silverman; Joanna Miles as Evans; R.D. Reid as Quirk; Scott Wickware as Captain Healy; Sheik Mahmud-Bey as Hawk; Robert B. Parker as Ives
Spenser receives a letter from Susan, explaining that his friend and associate, the gun for hire and fellow military veteran [2] Hawk, is in jail and she needs help. It soon transpires that she has begun a relationship with wealthy heir, Russell Costigan, whose father is a powerful figure in their hometown.