Spenser (TV films)

For the TV series starring Robert Urich, see Spenser: For Hire.

For list of Spenser: For Hire TV episodes and made-for-TV movies starring Robert Urich, see List of Spenser: For Hire episodes.

Spenser (TV films)
Joe Mantegna as Spenser and Marcia Gay Harden as Susan
Format	Crime / Drama
Created by	Robert B. Parker
Starring	Joe Mantegna Marcia Gay Harden
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	3 TV movies

Joe Mantegna portrayed Robert B. Parker's detective "Spenser" in three TV movies on the A&E cable network between 1999 and 2001.

1 Production
- 1.1 List of movies
2 Cast
3 Audiobooks
4 External links
5 References

Production

Robert B. Parker had a significant role in the development of these TV movies (all three movies were adapted by Parker, with his wife co-authoring Walking Shadow) as opposed to the earlier Spenser: For Hire, but nonetheless he felt that the movies didn't get it right, but that it was nothing to do with the performances, but rather a money issue.^[1] Parker had a small role in the first movie, and cameoes in the later two movies. His son, Daniel, and wife, Joan, appear in Thin Air.

All three movies were filmed in Canada.

List of movies

Spenser: Small Vices (1999): based on a novel of the same name released in 1997
Thin Air (2000): based on a novel of the same name released in 1995
Walking Shadow (2001): based on a novel of the same name released in 1994

Cast

Joe Mantegna as Spenser
Marcia Gay Harden as Susan

Joanna Miles as Evans (Small Vices and Thin Air)
R.D. Reid as Quirk (Small Vices and Thin Air)

Scott Wickware as Captain Healy (Small Vices and Waking Shadow)

Small Vices (1999)

Shiek Mahmud-Bey as Hawk
Robert B. Parker as Ives

Thin Air (2000)

Jon Seda as Luis DeLeon
David Ferry as Frank Belson

Walking Shadow (2001)

Ernie Hudson as Hawk
Eric Roberts as Police Chief DeSpain
Christopher Lawford as Jimmy Christopholous
Tamlyn Tomita as Rikki Wu

Audiobooks

Joe Mantegna has also narrated a number of Spenser novels;^[2]

Year	Title
2009	The Professional
2008	Rough Weather
2007	Now and Then
2006	Hundred Dollar Baby
2005	School Days
2005	Cold Service
2004	Bad Business
2004	Widow's Walk
2003	Back Story
2001	Potshot
2000	Hugger Mugger

External links

Spenser on Screen from The Robert B. Parker website
- Spenser: Small Vices (1999) at the Internet Movie Database
- Thin Air (2000) at the Internet Movie Database
- Walking Shadow (2001) at the Internet Movie Database

References

Novels by Robert B. Parker

Spenser novels

Novels	The Godwulf Manuscript (1973) • God Save the Child (1974) • Mortal Stakes (1975) • Promised Land (1976) • The Judas Goat (1978) • Looking for Rachel Wallace (1980) • Early Autumn (1981) • A Savage Place (1981) • Ceremony (1982) • The Widening Gyre (1983) • Valediction (1984) • A Catskill Eagle (1985) • Taming a Sea Horse (1986) • Pale Kings and Princes (1987) • Crimson Joy (1988) • Playmates (1989) • Stardust (1990) • Pastime (1991) • Double Deuce (1992) • Paper Doll (1993) • Walking Shadow (1994) • Thin Air (1995) • Chance (1996) • Small Vices (1997) • Sudden Mischief (1998) • Hush Money (1999) • Hugger Mugger (2000) • Potshot (2001) • Widow's Walk (2002) • Back Story (2003) • Bad Business (2004) • Cold Service (2005) • School Days (2005) • Hundred-Dollar Baby (2006) • Now and Then (2006) • Rough Weather (2008) • Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel (2009) • The Professional (2009) • Painted Ladies (2010) • Sixkill (2011)

Adaptations	Spenser: For Hire • A Man Called Hawk • TV Movies

Other

Wilderness (1979) • Love and Glory (1983) • Poodle Springs (1989) • Stardust (1990) • Perchance to Dream (1991) • All Our Yesterdays (1994) • Night Passage (1997) • Trouble in Paradise (1998) • Hush Money (1999) • Family Honor (1999) • Perish Twice (2000) • Gunman's Rhapsody (2001) • Death in Paradise (2001) • Shrink Rap (2002) • Stone Cold (2003) • Melancholy Baby (2004) • Double Play (2004) • Appaloosa (2005) • Blue Screen (2006) • Sea Change (2006) • Spare Change (2007) • Now and Then (2007) • Edenville Owls (2007) • High Profile (2007) • Stranger in Paradise (2008) • The Boxer and the Spy (2008) • Resolution (2008) • Brimstone (2009) • Night and Day (2009) • Split Image (2010) • Blue-Eyed Devil (2010)