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Season 1 - Episode Guide

Episodes

Promised Land

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 20, 1985 (120 min)

Promised Land

Spenser is hired by a real estate developer to find his runaway wife, who is mixed up in bank robbery and murder. 

No Room at the Inn

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1985

No Room at the Inn

Mobsters plan to escape justice by killing bodyguard Spenser and his charge, a grand-jury witness.

The Choice

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1985

The Choice

Spenser rescues a Senator's kidnapped daughter and becomes a celebrity, and the target of two men who kill for the thrill of it.

Children of a Tempest Storm

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1985

Children of a Tempest Storm

Susan agonizes over revealing her pregnancy to Spenser, who has taken in the children of the hit man he killed in self-defense.

Original Sin

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1985

Original Sin

Spenser suspects foul play in the apparent suicide of a novice who left the convent to help the poor in the ghetto fight evictions.

Discord in A Minor

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1985

Discord in A Minor

After a symphony conductor's daughter is kidnapped, bodyguard Spenser is fired, but he finds later that her disappearance wasn't what it seemed.

The Killer Within

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1985

The Killer Within

Spenser is hired to protect a woman's identical twin sister from assassins.

Autumn Thieves

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1985

Autumn Thieves

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.

Blood Money

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1985

Blood Money

A ransom delivery snafu leads Spenser to doubt the existence of a radical group claiming responsibility for kidnapping a corporate executive.

Resurrection

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1985

Resurrection

Spenser tries to save the parole of an ex-prostitute charged with weapons possession.

Internal Affairs

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1985

Internal Affairs

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.

Death by Design

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1986

Death by Design

Spenser thinks his client, who is researching designer drugs, is worried about more than missing earrings and the whereabouts of her gigolo boyfriend. 

A Day's Wages

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1986

A Day's Wages

Bodyguards Spenser and Hawk accept blame when security methods fail, but they vow to make a racketeer pay.

A Madness Most Discreet

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1986

A Madness Most Discreet

A former Bolshoi ballerina hires Spenser to recover a tape stolen from her murdered cosmonaut husband.

Brother to Dragons

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1986

Brother to Dragons

Spenser goes undercover at a private high school to investigate heroin use on campus, but discovers something far more serious.

When Silence Speaks

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1986

When Silence Speaks

A deaf woman hires Spenser to find a man she had been corresponding with who had gone missing. 

In a Safe Place

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1986

In a Safe Place

Spenser hunts for an illegal alien whose son is being held as bait by an immigration official. 

Angel of Desolation

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1986

Angel of Desolation

Complications arise after an ex-model hires Spenser to protect her, and her Boston patrician husband is shot.

She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1986

She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not

Spenser investigates old friend Sgt. Belson, whose partner, now dead, may have been taking bribes.

At the River's Edge

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1986

At the River's Edge

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.

Rage

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1986

Rage

Susan and Spenser get involved in a hostage situation when a killer abducts a teenager who witnessed his crime.

Hell Hath No Fury

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1986

Hell Hath No Fury

A man whose son was killed in a building collapse claims that a political coverup sent an innocent building inspector to prison. 

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