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PowellPressburger · 08-26-2014, 12:47 PM

Spenser For Hire

Season 1 is now available for order thru Warner Archive.

Currently the set is shipped with Pressed / Replicated Discs (Not DVD-Rs)

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Initial quantities of this release will be traditionally replicated (pressed) in anticipation of high consumer demand.

*** Possibly Replicated Pressed Discs Still available thru WBShop***

http://www.wbshop.com/product/code/1...deoSPENSERhome

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Season 2 Currently Copies from Warner Archive / WB Shop are PRESSED replicated Discs.
http://www.wbshop.com/product/spense...e=&from=Search

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Season 3 (Final Season) Currently Discs thru Warner Archive WBShop are Pressed Replicated discs!

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http://www.wbshop.com/product/spense...e=&from=Search

PowellPressburger · 08-27-2014, 03:18 PM

I paid for overnite shipping for me and my friends copies of the set!

They got here today. Forgive the pics the lighting at work makes the reflections etc bad.

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OceanBlue · 08-27-2014, 10:26 PM

How is the Spenser: For Hire pilot episode presented in the DVD set? Was it originally shown on US TV as a feature length episode?

PowellPressburger · 08-28-2014, 12:16 AM

I would assume it was shown as a full length movie. That is how it is presented on this DVD set. According to Wiki it aired as one epsiode. I'm sure in syndication / reruns they split it into a 2 part episode.

I've watched the Pilot and first episode and the picture is good. It is what you'd expect from a filmed show of this period. The audio is DD Mono 2.0. great DVD set worth every penny so far!

OceanBlue · 09-03-2014, 10:40 PM

Is a Warner Brothers Television logo shown at the end of the episodes in the set, and is it the original Warner Brothers Television logo (for the mid-80's)?

Based on the amount of times Spenser: For Hire has been requested for a DVD release by the Warner Archive, hopefully the first season sells very well. Am guessing here, but hopefully the second season gets released early next year.

PowellPressburger · 09-04-2014, 03:18 PM

The Warner Bros logo that is at the end of each show is the mid 80's into the 90's shield logo. It doesn't look like it was tampered with at all.

DangeRuss · 05-30-2015, 10:26 AM

I'm sooooooooooooooooooo stoked

I received my copy yesterday

....... and now I can melt my old "bootleg" copy of the series

This has been a long time coming

And season 2 is on it's way

PowellPressburger · 05-30-2015, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by DangeRuss

[B][I]And season 2 is on it's way

I have a feeling Season 3 will be out before winter, hoping for Fall at the latest since that is the final season. They will be able to sell even more esp when consumers know they will be able to complete the series.

I'm juggling so many show right now sadly I'm only on disc 2 of Season 2 but I am loving it.

DangeRuss · 05-31-2015, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

I have a feeling Season 3 will be out before winter, hoping for Fall at the latest since that is the final season. They will be able to sell even more esp when consumers know they will be able to complete the series.

I'm juggling so many show right now sadly I'm only on disc 2 of Season 2 but I am loving it.

I'm on disc 4 of season 1 and loving every minute of it

If I have any complaints it might be that I believe the audio level to be a little low

. But I have the headroom to compensate

OceanBlue · 08-25-2015, 11:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

I have a feeling Season 3 will be out before winter, hoping for Fall at the latest since that is the final season. They will be able to sell even more esp when consumers know they will be able to complete the series.

I'm juggling so many show right now sadly I'm only on disc 2 of Season 2 but I am loving it.

Your guess was virtually spot on (some say autumn/fall starts on 1st September and some say it starts around 21st or 22nd September).

Only a few months after the second season was released, and another TV title (with more than one season) completed by the Warner Archive.

PowellPressburger · 08-29-2015, 05:34 PM

Spenser For Hire: Season Three has arrived from Warner Archive / WB Shop and the discs direct from WBShop are PRESSED!

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OceanBlue · 08-31-2015, 11:22 PM

Thanks for posting rear boxart for Spenser: For Hire's third (and final) season PowellPressburger. Hopefully the picture on the banner at the top of the rear boxart is from an episode in the third season.

Are there five discs in the third season set, like with the second season set?

nikita70 · 06-05-2016, 11:39 PM

Do they have CC or English subtitles?

RadicalThrasher · 06-05-2016, 11:41 PM

I'll have to double check, but I'm pretty sure they don't.

EDIT: no subtitles or CC

nikita70 · 06-06-2016, 11:42 AM

Thanks for checking, it is as I suspected.

RadicalThrasher · 06-27-2016, 12:39 AM

Started plowing through season 1. Forgot just how great this show was!. With so many great shows out there (especially action/adventure/detective shows from the 80's ), this has to be one of my favorites. Too bad it only lasted 3 seasons, looking forward to digging into the next 2 seasons. Great memories and a great, great show.

Dunemoon · 07-29-2016, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by RadicalThrasher

Started plowing through season 1. Forgot just how great this show was!. With so many great shows out there (especially action/adventure/detective shows from the 80's ), this has to be one of my favorites. Too bad it only lasted 3 seasons, looking forward to digging into the next 2 seasons. Great memories and a great, great show.

Matt Houston arriving today eased the pain of finishing Spenser Season 3.

OceanBlue · 06-22-2020, 09:01 PM

Started watching the series this past weekend, beginning with the feature-length pilot "Promised Land". I thought the picture was decent. Didn't have any complaints with that (but there was one moment where I had to turn the volume down a bit, where they were at a basketball game in an arena). On the whole I thought it was as good as The Equalizer (word of warning though, there were two or three uses of offensive language).

AnamorphicWidescreen · 08-14-2020, 02:22 AM

Great thread. I haven't seen this Spenser for Hire series since the '80's, when I caught a couple of episodes on network TV. I do have fond memories of the show - though never really got into it at the time.

If you like the series, I would highly recommend the Spenser mystery novels that this show is based on. These were written by the late Robert B. Parker, and are some of my favorite mysteries. The Boston, MA area may as well be another character in these books; very well-done. I believe that at least some episodes of the show/TV movies were based on specific books in the series.

Parker wrote over 40 books in the series that were published between 1973 & 2013, and after he passed another author continued the series with original novels. I've read all of the Parker-written Spenser books, but haven't read many with the 2nd author:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/40546-spenser

OceanBlue · 08-26-2020, 08:48 PM

Like with drama series Touched by an Angel, it's taken a while to get used to/get into Spenser: For Hire, but I'm enjoying it more now. Last night's episode originally aired in the States at an apt time (in November 1985), "Autumn Thieves". Lovely autumn/fall scenery in this episode, where Spenser and girlfriend Susan headed out of the city to stay at a bed and breakfast out in the countryside.

Spenser had been working on a case where he was protecting a valuable antique from a group of thieves. I'm sure I recognised one of the guest stars from a second season episode of The Equalizer which I watched last weekend (called "Nocturne").

Like on The Equalizer, there have been some clever action scenes, and "Autumn Thieves" was another example of that (one of the highlights was a shootout in the woods).

A couple of pieces of instrumental music reminded me of the Friday the 13th film series (the "ki-ki-ki-ma-ma-ma" audio was one of them).

08-28-2014, 12:16 AM	#4
PowellPressburger Blu-ray Count Top contributor Member since:Aug 2007 Location:DIFFERENT PLACES! Minneapolis 4K collection:991 Blu-ray collection:3680 DVD collection:359 Blu-ray reviews: 51 Trading Score:297	I would assume it was shown as a full length movie. That is how it is presented on this DVD set. According to Wiki it aired as one epsiode. I'm sure in syndication / reruns they split it into a 2 part episode. I've watched the Pilot and first episode and the picture is good. It is what you'd expect from a filmed show of this period. The audio is DD Mono 2.0. great DVD set worth every penny so far! Last edited by PowellPressburger; 08-28-2014 at 12:18 AM.

06-05-2016, 11:41 PM	#14
RadicalThrasher Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Aug 2015 Location:Chicagoland, Illinois 4K collection:- Blu-ray collection:- Trading Score:1	I'll have to double check, but I'm pretty sure they don't. EDIT: no subtitles or CC Last edited by RadicalThrasher; 06-05-2016 at 11:49 PM.

08-27-2014, 03:18 PM	#2
PowellPressburger Blu-ray Count Top contributor Member since:Aug 2007 Location:DIFFERENT PLACES! Minneapolis 4K collection:991 Blu-ray collection:3680 DVD collection:359 Blu-ray reviews: 51 Trading Score:297	I paid for overnite shipping for me and my friends copies of the set! They got here today. Forgive the pics the lighting at work makes the reflections etc bad. Hire1.jpg Hire2.jpg

08-27-2014, 10:26 PM	#3
OceanBlue Blu-ray Baron Member since:Sep 2013 Location:Midlands, UK	How is the Spenser: For Hire pilot episode presented in the DVD set? Was it originally shown on US TV as a feature length episode?

09-03-2014, 10:40 PM	#5
OceanBlue Blu-ray Baron Member since:Sep 2013 Location:Midlands, UK	Is a Warner Brothers Television logo shown at the end of the episodes in the set, and is it the original Warner Brothers Television logo (for the mid-80's)? Based on the amount of times Spenser: For Hire has been requested for a DVD release by the Warner Archive, hopefully the first season sells very well. Am guessing here, but hopefully the second season gets released early next year.

09-04-2014, 03:18 PM	#6
PowellPressburger Blu-ray Count Top contributor Member since:Aug 2007 Location:DIFFERENT PLACES! Minneapolis 4K collection:991 Blu-ray collection:3680 DVD collection:359 Blu-ray reviews: 51 Trading Score:297	The Warner Bros logo that is at the end of each show is the mid 80's into the 90's shield logo. It doesn't look like it was tampered with at all.

05-30-2015, 10:26 AM	#7
DangeRuss Blu-ray Grand Duke Top ranked HT gallery Top contributor Member since:Oct 2009 Location:The "Boogie Down" Home Theater Gallery:230 Blu-ray collection:470 DVD collection:354 Blu-ray reviews: 74	*I'm sooooooooooooooooooo stoked* I received my copy yesterday ....... and now I can melt my old "bootleg" copy of the series This has been a long time coming And season 2 is on it's way

08-29-2015, 05:34 PM	#11
PowellPressburger Blu-ray Count Top contributor Member since:Aug 2007 Location:DIFFERENT PLACES! Minneapolis 4K collection:991 Blu-ray collection:3680 DVD collection:359 Blu-ray reviews: 51 Trading Score:297	Spenser For Hire: Season Three has arrived from Warner Archive / WB Shop and the discs direct from WBShop are PRESSED! image.jpg

08-31-2015, 11:22 PM	#12
OceanBlue Blu-ray Baron Member since:Sep 2013 Location:Midlands, UK	Thanks for posting rear boxart for Spenser: For Hire's third (and final) season PowellPressburger. Hopefully the picture on the banner at the top of the rear boxart is from an episode in the third season. Are there five discs in the third season set, like with the second season set?

06-05-2016, 11:39 PM	#13
nikita70 Senior Member Member since:May 2014 Location:Florida Blu-ray collection:433 DVD collection:745	Do they have CC or English subtitles?

06-06-2016, 11:42 AM	#15
nikita70 Senior Member Member since:May 2014 Location:Florida Blu-ray collection:433 DVD collection:745	Thanks for checking, it is as I suspected.

06-27-2016, 12:39 AM	#16
RadicalThrasher Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Aug 2015 Location:Chicagoland, Illinois 4K collection:- Blu-ray collection:- Trading Score:1	Started plowing through season 1. Forgot just how great this show was!. With so many great shows out there (especially action/adventure/detective shows from the 80's ), this has to be one of my favorites. Too bad it only lasted 3 seasons, looking forward to digging into the next 2 seasons. Great memories and a great, great show.

06-22-2020, 09:01 PM	#18
OceanBlue Blu-ray Baron Member since:Sep 2013 Location:Midlands, UK	Started watching the series this past weekend, beginning with the feature-length pilot "Promised Land". I thought the picture was decent. Didn't have any complaints with that (but there was one moment where I had to turn the volume down a bit, where they were at a basketball game in an arena). On the whole I thought it was as good as The Equalizer (word of warning though, there were two or three uses of offensive language).

08-14-2020, 02:22 AM	#19
AnamorphicWidescreen Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Feb 2014	Great thread. I haven't seen this Spenser for Hire series since the '80's, when I caught a couple of episodes on network TV. I do have fond memories of the show - though never really got into it at the time. If you like the series, I would highly recommend the Spenser mystery novels that this show is based on. These were written by the late Robert B. Parker, and are some of my favorite mysteries. The Boston, MA area may as well be another character in these books; very well-done. I believe that at least some episodes of the show/TV movies were based on specific books in the series. Parker wrote over 40 books in the series that were published between 1973 & 2013, and after he passed another author continued the series with original novels. I've read all of the Parker-written Spenser books, but haven't read many with the 2nd author: https://www.goodreads.com/series/40546-spenser

08-26-2020, 08:48 PM	#20
OceanBlue Blu-ray Baron Member since:Sep 2013 Location:Midlands, UK	Like with drama series Touched by an Angel, it's taken a while to get used to/get into Spenser: For Hire, but I'm enjoying it more now. Last night's episode originally aired in the States at an apt time (in November 1985), "Autumn Thieves". Lovely autumn/fall scenery in this episode, where Spenser and girlfriend Susan headed out of the city to stay at a bed and breakfast out in the countryside. Spenser had been working on a case where he was protecting a valuable antique from a group of thieves. I'm sure I recognised one of the guest stars from a second season episode of The Equalizer which I watched last weekend (called "Nocturne"). Like on The Equalizer, there have been some clever action scenes, and "Autumn Thieves" was another example of that (one of the highlights was a shootout in the woods). A couple of pieces of instrumental music reminded me of the Friday the 13th film series (the "ki-ki-ki-ma-ma-ma" audio was one of them).

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