Spenser For Hire - the Movie Collection (1994)

For The First Time Ever
The Four Top-Rated SPENSER Movies
In One Explosive Collection

Following the surprise cancellation of the hit series Spenser: For Hire, ABC produced four full-length movies starring the late Robert Urich as the wisecracking-but-deadly Boston detective. Avery Brooks (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) co-stars as ‘Hawk’ in these television events based on the best-selling books by Robert B. Parker that The New York Times calls "one of the great series in the history of the American detective story."
SPENSER: CEREMONY
Starring Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Williams
Screenplay by Robert P. Parker & Joan H. Parker

When a 16-year-old girl disappears into Boston’s sleazy underbelly, Spenser and Hawk pull the trigger on a teen pornography ring that leads to a shocking final twist.
SPENSER: PALE KINGS AND PRINCES
Starring Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Williams, Alex Carter (CSI), Matthew Ferguson (La Femme Nikita)
Screenplay by Robert P. Parker & Joan H. Parker

Spenser, his ‘lady shrink’ girlfriend Susan Silverman, and Hawk investigate a brutal murder in a quaint New England town where snow falls in kilo packages.
SPENSER: THE JUDAS GOAT
Starring Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Wendy Crewson (24, AIR FORCE ONE)

Spenser is hired out-of-town and may be out of his league when a terrorist group with a taste for car bombs targets a controversial African leader.
SPENSER: A SAVAGE PLACE
Starring Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Cynthia Dale, Wendy Crewson

A TV news cameraman is found murdered, and Spencer is hired by an old flame to investigate a movie producer who may be shooting more than film.

 Me Want More!
I would give this product a 3.75 Star if it was available--maybe a 4 for old time sake! I love the Spenser for Hire series. These were TV movies, I guess. I hadn't seen them before, so that was good. I would like to get the entire TV series on DVD. Personally, I love Hawk. Avery Brooks is awesome. Robert Urich is the ultimate woman's man--so kind and sensitive, but not too... March 8, 2008

 SPENSER FOR HIRE - THE MOVIE COLLECTION
As a Bostonian transplanted to DC and a Spenser fan I was looking for some nostalgia. These movies are awful. Spenser driving a Ford Probe, are you nuts. The only recognizable characters from the series are Spenser and Hawk. The shrink, the cops all different. A lot of it didn't even seem to have been filmed in Boston (perhaps Toronto). Plots were predictable, dialogue stilted, acting was wooden. I wouldn't pay $1 for these movies. Need to get the old series on DVD. March 7, 2008

 Great for the die hard Spenser fan
I purchased this collection for my fiance' and another for his sister. They both are die hard Spencer for Hire fans and loved the DVD's March 6, 2008

 Four Is Enough
SPENSER FOR HIRE-

Robert Urich as Spenser, a tough macho Boston detective, Avery Brooks, as `Hawk', Spensers deadly sidekick and Spensers love interest Susan Silverman, played by Barbara Stock. Spencer uses the formula detective story of the times, With brawn, a gun and his sidekick he plows through the story. To hold everyone's interest gun battles, car chases, and a tender moment with his girlfriend at dinner or at home. Spenser proves that he doesn't need "the little gray cells" to solve a crime. The set has four DVD's of the "best". Entertaining, but four is enough. February 15, 2008

 Spenser, Spenser Where are you?
The four movies in this collection are based upon books written by Robert Parker. However, the movies are far from quality of the books which provide their foundation and the production values for the movies are rather limited and seem to take advantage of convenient settings. A major missing element is the humor one expects from Spenser and the plots while close to the book are rather predictable.

The original TV series was much better. January 22, 2008

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