Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.
Spenser is hired by a real estate developer to find his runaway wife, who is mixed up in bank robbery and murder.
Mobsters plan to escape justice by killing bodyguard Spenser and his charge, a grand-jury witness.
Spenser rescues a Senator's kidnapped daughter and becomes a celebrity, and the target of two men who kill for the thrill of it.
Susan agonizes over revealing her pregnancy to Spenser, who has taken in the children of the hit man he killed in self-defense.
Spenser suspects foul play in the apparent suicide of a novice who left the convent to help the poor in the ghetto fight evictions.
After a symphony conductor's daughter is kidnapped, bodyguard Spenser is fired, but he finds later that her disappearance wasn't what it seemed.
Spenser is hired to protect a woman's identical twin sister from assassins.
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.
A ransom delivery snafu leads Spenser to doubt the existence of a radical group claiming responsibility for kidnapping a corporate executive.
Spenser tries to save the parole of an ex-prostitute charged with weapons possession.
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.
Spenser thinks his client, who is researching designer drugs, is worried about more than missing earrings and the whereabouts of her gigolo boyfriend.
Bodyguards Spenser and Hawk accept blame when security methods fail, but they vow to make a racketeer pay.
A former Bolshoi ballerina hires Spenser to recover a tape stolen from her murdered cosmonaut husband.
Spenser goes undercover at a private high school to investigate heroin use on campus, but discovers something far more serious.
A deaf woman hires Spenser to find a man she had been corresponding with who had gone missing.
Spenser hunts for an illegal alien whose son is being held as bait by an immigration official.
Complications arise after an ex-model hires Spenser to protect her, and her Boston patrician husband is shot.
Spenser investigates old friend Sgt. Belson, whose partner, now dead, may have been taking bribes.
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.
Susan and Spenser get involved in a hostage situation when a killer abducts a teenager who witnessed his crime.
A man whose son was killed in a building collapse claims that a political coverup sent an innocent building inspector to prison.
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.
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."
After accepting a boxer's managerial contract as payment of a debt, Hawk finds himself at odds with a major politician.
Spenser helps a woman who wants to keep her newborn son rather than lose the child to its mobster father.
Spenser runs interference for a young amnesiac with a talent for stand-up comedy and a killer on his trail.
Spenser travels to Maine to help hunt down an escaped murderer, but the tables are turned when the man's father stalks Spenser.
Rita hires Spenser to investigate a troubled teenager.
A friend of Spenser's is shot and killed while portraying Paul Revere during a Revolutionary War re-enactment.
Spenser tries to find the connection between a 12-year-old's nightmares and the real-life murders they foretell.
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.
Hawk is the main suspect when Lt. Quirk is shot, due to a recent fracas between the two.
A man who witnessed the murder of a bank officer is now confessing to the crime.
Spenser investigates the apparent suicide of a philandering financier about to turn state's evidence to bring down insider trading.
A woman involved in the fight against hunger in Africa hires Spenser to prove that an administrator is stealing millions in contributions.
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.
Rita has a solid case against a pimp suspected of murdering a teen-age hooker, but Spenser thinks the man is being framed.
Spenser and Hawk protect a man who owes money to men of dubious ethics.
Vietnamese expatriates hire Spenser to find a recluse who wrote a manuscript about the war.
Spenser is wounded during an assassination attempt on a state senate candidate and may lose the use of his right arm.
Gunfire greets an author and self-proclaimed vigilante at a promotion stop in a Boston bookstore.
Rita and her old college friends are reunited when a fictional person they created 20 years ago is found dead in his apartment.
A prison inmate with a grudge against Hawk hires outside muscle to rub him out.
Susan's return distracts Spenser, who's protecting an informant from the mob.
Spenser and Hawk come to blows over the protection of a young murder witness.
Forced into medical retirement, Quirk requires round-the-clock protection from a vengeful ex-convict.
Spenser helps an old friend, an alcoholic priest who tries to help homeless teenagers, when he gets involved over his head.
Spenser becomes obsessed with an apparently suicidal woman after a chance encounter on the street.
Susan fights her professor's sexual harassment, but when the threat turns violent, she welcomes help from Spenser and Hawk.
Spenser and Susan interrupt their Thanksgiving trip to Plymouth when an old Army buddy is arrested for murder.
A romantic weekend for Spenser and Susan turns into Shakespearean tragedy when two lovers seek protection from a dangerously overprotective father.
A sniper takes some shots at Spenser and Susan, and a young boy ends up dead in the crossfire.
Spenser and Hawk square off when each pursues a corrupt judge's stolen diary.
Susan and an injured Hawk are trapped inside a post office when a disgruntled postal worker takes hostages.
When his ex-partner is mugged with several thousand dollars on him, Spenser reluctantly investigates his mentor's possible ties to the mob.
After Belson's niece dies of a drug overdose, Spenser and Hawk must keep him from going on a killing spree.
Sammy Backlin calls Spenser for protection when he's being hunted by a 'vicious horde of bloodthirsty assassins'.
In trying to help his former boxing trainer, Spenser must enter the ring for a battle with a man he once sent to prison.
Spenser protects a theater owner from gangsters, but begins to suspect she's not as innocent as she appears.
Spenser tracks down dynamite missing from a construction site, while Susan hopes to avoid an explosion of emotion by keeping a secret.
Spenser protects a child artist after the child witnesses a mob execution while painting in the forest.
Hawk is blinded in an explosion and depends on Susan for protection, while Spenser stays one step behind a radical political group.
Spenser and a tenacious lawyer defend a black Naval officer accused of killing his white captain's daughter.
When someone claims to have been the subject of a missing-child search, Spenser reopens the case that cost him his badge.
