Some Spenser novels have been adapted to film for television—notably Promised Land and Pale Kings and Princes (1987; about a Massachusetts town taken over by drug dealers, and notable for starring Barbara Williams as Susan)—and the novels also inspired the 1985-1988 television show with Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, and varying female leads (Barbara Stock, Carolyn McCormick). But the only adaptation of Chance is a Burt Reynolds audiotape version, in which Reynolds does an impressive job with the variety of voices and accents in Chance, particularly Hawk and the Boston mobsters.