Spenser: For Hire

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 20, 1985
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
53

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7

Critic Reviews

  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Howard Rosenberg
    Jul 24, 2014
    30
    Spenser is played by Robert Urich, a capable actor who you always feel should be doing something better than he's doing, but he never does. The show is shot in Boston and has a nice cinematic look. But the writing is so bad and the role so camp that you could substitute Bill Murray for Urich and not miss a beat.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    Jul 24, 2014
    20
    The most charitable reaction to an enterprise this shallow yet pretentious is, "They've got to be kidding." [20 Sep 1985]
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