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What happens when a network tries to (http://www.poobala.com/manandspenser.html) spin off (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/AManCalledHawk) one of TV’s coolest side characters into his own show (https://kendallrivers.medium.com/a-man-called-hawk-a-tribute-to-the-baddest-deadliest-most-stylish-coolest-cat-in-tv-history-and-e6c8f58876d3)? In 1989 (https://blacklistedculture.com/a-man-called-hawk-1989/), ABC gave Avery Brooks the spotlight (https://thrillingdetective.com/2021/01/04/hawk-a-man-called-hawk/), moving Hawk (https://www.facebook.com/Retrovision/posts/36-years-ago-today-may-13-1989-the-final-episode-of-a-man-called-hawk-aired-it-i/1147028004125424/) from Boston’s streets to Washington, D.C.

With style, grit, and a cultural edge unlike anything else on primetime, A Man Called Hawk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Called_Hawk) had everything going for it.

So why did it crash (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096646/) after just 13 episodes?

This is the history of A Man Called Hawk (https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenTV/comments/1c1s338/a_man_called_hawk_1989/).