A Man Called Hawk
This series features the character from Spencer: For Hire (1985). This time he is the star. We find Hawk now in Washington, D.C., and there he is called upon to help those who need his help or whose lives may be in danger. Also people from his past come calling to settle old scores or to collect or settle old debts.
Cast:Avery Brooks , Moses Gunn , Angela Bassett , William Fichtner , Maggie Rush , Charles S. Dutton , Wesley Snipes , Chris Noth , Karen Malina White , Valerie Simpson , Keith David , Mary McDonnell , Josh Hamilton , Joe Morton , Jay O. Sanders , Earle Hyman , Frances Foster , Paul Butler
S1.E1 ∙ The Master's Mirror
Hawk searches for an old friend and fellow Vietnam War vet turned stressed-out government operative named David Tracton, who has become a killing machine. Hawk's old boss Colonel Edward Stoller, the director of covert field operations in U.S. Intelligence, asks Hawk to look for Tracton and bring him in before it's too late. Hawk enlists the help of Tracton's half-Vietnamese daughter to save his friend. Tracton is ultimately shot to death at the Jefferson Memorial after Hawk, unaware that he's being followed, leads him there.
S1.E2 ∙ A Time and a Place
The police are pointed in Hawk's direction for the murder of a policeman. He gets into a fight with a cop.
S1.E3 ∙ Hear No Evil
Hawk is hired to protect a deaf university student, and his roommate, who witnessed a murder.
S1.E4 ∙ Passing the Bar
Hawk comes to the aid of an old lawyer friend who is trying to defend a man on a murder charge.
S1.E5 ∙ The Divided Child
The Kirkpatricks hire Hawk to protect their family after the attempted kidnapping of their son. Hawk's job is made harder when their son tries to understand why a kidnapping attempt was made.
S1.E6 ∙ Vendetta
Hawk's cousin has a contract put on his head after romancing the girlfriend of a member of the mob. He comes to the rescue.
S1.E7 ∙ Choice of Chance
When a federal witness is gunned down in his home, the unfortunate family living next door get caught in the gunfire.
S1.E8 ∙ Poison
While he is tracking down the source of heroin laced with strychnine, Hawk is repeatedly disrupted by a dogged reporter.
S1.E9 ∙ Never My Love
Hawk is bothered by two violent brothers, one of whom seems intent on causing trouble for him.
S1.E10 ∙ Intensive Care
When Hawk and Old Man's sister are taken hostage in the hospital by armed men, Hawk has an idea to make the situation go his way, not as the gunmen would like it to go.
S1.E11 ∙ If Memory Serves
Hawk is hired to protect a Haitian historian from someone he believes is trying to use voodoo to learn of a secret.
S1.E12 ∙ Beautiful Are the Stars
Hawk comes into the possession of some South African diamonds and, in doing so, gains the attention of a hit man.
S1.E13 ∙ Life After Death
Hawk helps a young man to prove that he did not shoot his pregnant girlfriend.
