About this season
A Man Called Hawk is a prime time television series that ran on the ABC television network between January 1989 and May 1989. The series is a spin-off of the crime drama series Spenser: For Hire, and features the character Hawk, who first appeared in the 1976 novel Promised Land, the fourth in the series of Spenser novels by mystery writer Robert B. Parker. Brooks reprised the role of Hawk in four subsequent TV movies: Spenser: Ceremony, Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes, Spenser: The Judas Goat, and Spenser: A Savage Place. Each is considered a sequel to Spenser: For Hire.
Episodes (13)
1. The Master's Mirror
Aired 28 January 1989 • 60 min
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, Col. Edward Stoller, 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. In this episode, Hawk gives the Old Man a signed, first-edition copy of WEB DuBois' 1903 book ""Souls of Black Folk."" Angela Bassett also appears in this episode as a high school teacher who could become Hawk's love interest.
2. A Time and a Place
Aired 4 February 1989 • 60 min
3. Hear No Evil
Aired 11 February 1989 • 60 min
4. Passing the Bar
Aired 18 February 1989 • 60 min
5. The Divided Child
Aired 25 February 1989 • 60 min
6. Vendetta
Aired 4 March 1989 • 60 min
7. Choice of Chance
Aired 11 March 1989 • 60 min
8. Poison
Aired 25 March 1989 • 60 min
9. Never My Love
Aired 1 April 1989 • 60 min
10. Intensive Care
Aired 15 April 1989 • 60 min
11. If Memory Serves
Aired 29 April 1989 • 60 min
12. Beautiful Are the Stars
Aired 6 May 1989 • 60 min
13. Life after Death
Aired 13 May 1989 • 60 min