A MAN CALLED HAWK: THE MASTER'S MIRROR (1989) PT3/4

The enigmatic actor's actor, Avery Brooks reprise his starring role as the mysterious hero Hawk in this tv series spin-off from SPENSER FOR HIRE (with the late Robert Urich) fame. Both series are based upon the Spenser character novels by Robert Brown Parker. Stanley Clarke provided the jazzy music theme instrumentals for the series.

Hawk, played by Avery Brooks, moves back to his hometown of Washington, D.C. Hawk is tough and streetwise, a man who is erudite with a booming baritone voice who dresses fly while fighting crime -- despite the fact that he... More lacks the "official" credentials to do so. His mentor and father figure is the "Old Man" (Moses Gunn).

Hawk searches for an old friend and fellow Vietnam War vet turned stressed-out government operative named David Tracton (Vondie Curtis Hall, DIE HARD 2), 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.

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Tags:

• MAN
• CALLED
• HAWK
• AVERY
• BROOKS
• SPENCER
• FOR
• HIRE
• 1989
• BLACK
• HISTORY
• MONTH
• AFRICAN
• AMERICAN
• DETECTIVE

[npgfunk]

THis was the coolest black character in television history - hands down.

[ATACXGYM]

Angela Basset is still fine even today.

[masterix6]

Fredrick Douglas said it - "no man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without alas finding the other end fastened about his own neck" .. So the Colonel ended up dead. The chain was that of being "eventually marked for death" after putting Tracton in the "path of death" for so many years. It is enevitable

[ankokugaiBOSS]

come on FREE MANN!! damn...why did they have to cancel this show?