S1 E1 • Promised Land

Spenser is hired to find the runaway wife of a wealthy businessman. Based on a story by Spenser novelist Robert B. Parker.

Première diffusion : 20 septembre 1985

S1 E2 • No Room at the Inn

Spenser is given an old station as a gift from the fire department for a service rendered them. The police department hires to protect a mysterious witness.

Première diffusion : 27 septembre 1985

S1 E3 • The Choice

A pair of young thrill-killers target Spenser, accidentally shooting a bystander. Susan's ex-husband visits.

Première diffusion : 4 octobre 1985

S1 E4 • Children of a Tempest Storm

Spenser kills a would-be thief in the course of thwarting a robbery. He and Susan take in the man's two children while investigating his past. Susan discovers she's pregnant.

Première diffusion : 11 octobre 1985

S1 E5 • Original Sin

Spenser investigates the apparent suicide of a young nun, and stumbles onto a corrupt landlord.

Première diffusion : 18 octobre 1985

S1 E6 • Discord in A Minor

Spenser is fired from a bodyguard job after his young charge is kidnapped. Spenser suspects the girl he was to protect, arranged the 'kidnapping' to escape her father, a famous conductor, who may have been molesting his daughter.

Première diffusion : 25 octobre 1985

S1 E7 • The Killer Within

Spenser is a Private Detective who is hired by a woman to watch her sister and protect her from an old boyfriend. Susan Silverman is Spenser's girlfriend, a research assistant in a psychologist's office. Susan is elated to have been chosen by handsome Dr. Ed Howard from all the other research assistants to accompany him to San Francisco for a psychology conference. Spenser is less elated. Ed Howard enters the picture when Spenser realizes that his client has multiple personalities, she is herself and her sister. Or is she her sister and . . .she's both Diane and Donna, ok? Susan points out that this is Howard's speciality and should be the one to counsel the woman. Spenser is less than elated to bring in the doctor.

Première diffusion : 12 novembre 1985

S1 E8 • Autumn Thieves

Spenser stumbles onto a ring of thieves while investigating a relic stolen from a museum.

Première diffusion : 19 novembre 1985

S1 E9 • Blood Money

The wife of a kidnapped oil tycoon hires Spenser to deliver $1 million in ransom money to a ring of terrorists while police have the drop-off area surrounded.

Première diffusion : 26 novembre 1985

S1 E10 • Resurrection

Spenser investigates a crooked vice cop involved in the mugging of one of Susan's friends.

Première diffusion : 3 décembre 1985

S1 E11 • Internal Affairs

Marital infidelity and suspected involvement in a gambling ring lead to Lt. Quirk's suspension. Belson is shot during a raid. Spenser works to clear Quirk's name and catch Belson's would-be killer.

Première diffusion : 17 décembre 1985

S1 E12 • Death By Design

Spenser walks into a death trap when a beautiful university scientistwho makes so-called 'designer drugs' hires him to track down her gigolo boyfriend and recover $50,000.

Première diffusion : 7 janvier 1986

S1 E13 • A Day's Wages

Spenser and Hawk blame themselves for failing to protect their respective clients from the clutches of the underworld, and vow to settle the score with a big-time racketeer and his henchmen.

Première diffusion : 14 janvier 1986

S1 E14 • A Madness Most Discreet

Spenser is dazzled by the beauty and grace of a former Bolshoi ballerina who appeals for his help and tempts him with her love.

Première diffusion : 21 janvier 1986

S1 E15 • Brother to Dragons

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

Première diffusion : 4 février 1986

S1 E16 • When Silence Speaks

Spenser is retained to locate a missing scientist who'd just discovered a major breakthrough in laser techniques by a deaf newspaper columnist with whom the scientist had been corresponding.

Première diffusion : 11 février 1986

S1 E17 • In a Safe Place

Spenser and Susan look for a Mexican labor organizer who has suspiciously disappeared. ('On the Waterfront' redux.)

Première diffusion : 14 février 1986

S1 E18 • Angel of Desolation

While working for a wealthy woman, Spenser is caught up in a deadly murder mystery complete with an illicit love story.

Première diffusion : 4 mars 1986

S1 E19 • She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not

Sgt. Frank falls in love with a white supremicist.

Première diffusion : 11 mars 1986

S1 E20 • At the River's Edge

Spenser is hired by a 12-year-old to investigate the murder of her older sister. The brutal slaying of an ex-convict, and the machinations of a popular preacher with political ambitions factor into the investigation.

Première diffusion : 25 mars 1986

S1 E21 • Rage

A teenage girl's agitated condition following a rape gets her into deeper trouble when she's kidnapped by an ex-con bent on shooting Spenser.

Première diffusion : 1 avril 1986

S1 E22 • Hell Hath No Fury

Première diffusion : 8 avril 1986