Before there was Blade...there was HAWK. The first Black heroic antihero, and the only human on TV that is way cooler badder smarter better dressed and deadlier than Shaft ever could be. Hawk is the truest O.G. Take notes. We salute you and the show's writers, Avery. And we miss you, Robert Ulrich aka Spencer.

@Scyllax

4 жыл бұрын

ATACX GYM CAPOEIRA LONG BEACH CA You forgot Huggy Bear.

@Scyllax

4 жыл бұрын

ATACX GYM CAPOEIRA LONG BEACH CA “Spenser, with an “s” like the English poet.”

@jmjfanss

4 жыл бұрын

Hawk and sisko.

@kendallrivers1119

3 жыл бұрын

@@jmjfanss nine out of ten Hawk was way better than Sisko. The writers of Spenser gave Brooks much more to play with.

@paulmccoy5396

2 жыл бұрын

@@kendallrivers1119 Avery Brooks is a badass either as Hawk or Benjamin Sisko DEEP SPACE NINE

I loved the interaction between Robert Urich and Avery Brooks. I know their characters had camaraderie, but it seems like these actors liked and respected each other as well. This was a superb show, sadly missed.

@stevenharrisharris8668

Жыл бұрын

Hawk. Great. Character.

@tadah21

Жыл бұрын

This and Magnum P. I. were my favs as a child very good wholesome series. Good vs evil

@ldkusa71

4 ай бұрын

If you read the Spenser novels, the t.v. dialogue between Spenser and Hawk was true to the novels. :)

So true, but Avery Brooks is so much cooler, than Samuel L. Jackson could ever be.

@former_dmcrt8614

3 жыл бұрын

..."that horse of justice you're riding is running dead last..."you keep changing at me and we'll be caught up in a nursery rhythm. " So poetic and SO totally Hawk.

@milesdavis63

Жыл бұрын

Samuel L. Jackson was on different episodes

@danielhaire6677

6 ай бұрын

@@milesdavis63 And routinely got manhandled by an annoyed Hawk.

"You keep charging at me we gonna be all up in a nursery rhyme." 😂😂Hawk had the best lines & delivery on TV

@dwightlove3704

6 жыл бұрын

Ronald Minns Hawk should have BITCH SLAPPED THAT COP in that scene!!!!!

@warrenfelton9581

6 ай бұрын

Pop goes the weasel 😊

Hawk was a character that blended street knowledge from around the way, uptown savvy and downtown connections. Avery Brooks was an incredible actor, he and Robert Urich had chemistry that jumped off the screen. Rarely have we ever seen this type of artistry these 2 displayed on screen. Hawk and Spenser were special RIP to Robert Urich. PEACE !!!

@kendallrivers1119

4 жыл бұрын

They're on par with Riggs and Murtaugh from the Lethal Weapon movies as far as off the charts chemistry and incredible characters of the genre.

@Cuffski

4 жыл бұрын

@@kendallrivers1119 great point, when you see that type of chemistry it brings the words alive.

@kendallrivers1119

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cuffski yes and it's so rare too. You can't manufacture it it just has to happen. Urich and Brooks just came together like magic. I can't imagine anyone else in the roles.

As a kid I was always amazed at how well Hawk dressed. Watching this 30 years later I'm still impressed. The character was way ahead of it's time on several levels.

@williamg2552

5 жыл бұрын

@Executive Decision I think the comment was about how well Hawk DRESSED....not about shaved heads.

@leomartin5965

4 жыл бұрын

FACTS. HAWK Was very ahead of his time.

@heavystarch100

4 жыл бұрын

Hell yes!!

@mikesmith-pj7xz

4 жыл бұрын

@@leomartin5965 Hawk is so ahead of his time, he's always early;-)

@leomartin5965

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikesmith-pj7xz spencer for hire with out HAWK is like purchasing a 2020 BIG BODY BENZ SEDAN WITH 3 Muthaf×ckin tires.

This takes me back to being a kid. I'd sit on the floor at my mother's feet at night as she braided my hair for for the coming school day. There was Spenser for Hire, Mike Hammer, The Equilizer, Cagney and Lacey, Murder She Wrote, Remington Steele, Hart to Hart, Magnum P.I., Jake and the Fat Man, Crazy Like a Fox, Hunter, The A Team. TJ Hooker and Hardcastle and McCormick. Yup. then late at night it was The Three Stooges. This makes me miss my mother so. :(

@kendallrivers1119

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget MacGyver, Cheers, The Cosby Show, Night Court, Golden Girls, Moonlighting, 227, Who's The Boss, Growing Pains, Family Ties, Amen, LA Law, Dallas, Hill Street Blues, Highway to Heaven, Dukes of Hazzard etc

@catherinebyrd4103

3 жыл бұрын

Yes those were the days great tv shows. Not like the trash they have now with these reality show.

@catherinebyrd4103

3 жыл бұрын

@@kendallrivers1119 A Different World.👍

@kendallrivers1119

2 жыл бұрын

@@catherinebyrd4103 ah yes. One of my favorites.

@mikefleck98

2 жыл бұрын

Those were great days.

Best series in this genre on Tv! Robert Urich and Avery Brooks. There could not have been a better casting for the parts!

@crwwcr61

4 жыл бұрын

Loved loved loved Spencer but Hawk made the eps. everytime!

Avery Brooks only acted in Spenser For Hire for 5 minutes on average per appearance; but they were always the best of this TV show. He's the man.

@betsybrown9366

8 жыл бұрын

+Thothik1 I agree except maybe it was 15 minutes.

@Thothik1

8 жыл бұрын

+Betsy Brown I followed this TV series religiously enough and I was talking about minutes per appearance for each of the episodes. Maybe it was 15 minutes maximum for some episodes. But add up all of his appearances, and it was most likely 5 minutes on average for his appearances throughout the Spenser For Hire series. Thanks for asking.

@saiyamanGXT

8 жыл бұрын

15 Minutes, a movie where Avery Brooks appeared.

@Thothik1

8 жыл бұрын

+saiyamanGXT That was his very last movie appearance. How ironic!

@markiegreen5265

7 жыл бұрын

Thothik1 True l love this show....Hawk...was one of the best parts of that show...he was so good..he got his own show

The show was a most see for me!! The most touching episode is when Spencer thought Hawk was killed. Then Spencer put his investigation skills to work and find out he was alive. Make you think about how special a love one is to you.

Avery is and was the shit! He was Hawk through and through. That amazing deep voice, the swag, the flawless coolness and confidence, That fluent intelligence handily holding his own both on the street and off, just badass. Definitely he is an under rated gem of a talent.

This was was a badass show! Loved how Hawk said "Spencer!"

Avery Brooks defined the role of Hawk from the Spenser books. Anyone else is a disgrace to the role.

@kendallrivers1119

4 жыл бұрын

New movie starring Mark Whalberg and Winston Duke as Spenser and Hawk. I haven't seen it but I just know you can't top Urich and Brooks in those roles. Avery Brooks especially embodied that role.

@BrotherDerrick3X

3 жыл бұрын

rivers you're not missing anything. It was garbage.

@desg2157

3 жыл бұрын

Because of this show every time I read a Spenser book I picture Urich and Brooks in my head as Spenser and Hawk

@nameskhar1510

3 жыл бұрын

ROGER-THAT: I WOULD TAKE IT ONE STEP FARTHER: Avery Brooks was "TOO CONVINCING", when won the spin-off ... Remember the fight scene with the police "detective" whose wife had been abducted, then reached out to HAWK for help? When I dug the "whop'n" he got from HAWK ... I KNEW THAT THE SPIN-OFF WAS doomed! Know what I mean?

Robert B. Parker created Spenser and Hawk, proof that he knew what he was doing. RIP Great Scribe.

@nehrualston5896

2 жыл бұрын

Hawk is the coolest. Straight up no bullshit.

Hawk owns it. Every time. My God I'm missing those 80s years. Artistry, storytelling, excitement, music, just about everything was on another level compared to this bullshit of nowadays

@kendallrivers1119

4 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to figure out why the series full episodes aren't on youtube already! This show, Hunter, The Equalizer, Magnum, Moonlighting etc. just classic eighties tv!

@jussiuutaniemi3767

4 жыл бұрын

@@kendallrivers1119 👍🏻 for me , Miami Vice the very best.

@kendallrivers1119

4 жыл бұрын

@@jussiuutaniemi3767 Ah yes Miami Vice! Hell imagine Crockett and Tubbs with Spenser and Hawk.

@jussiuutaniemi3767

4 жыл бұрын

@@kendallrivers1119 that would spell trouble for the bad guys 😅

@kendallrivers1119

4 жыл бұрын

@@jussiuutaniemi3767 Deadly LOL.

Omg! I loved this show. They flowed so cool ❤ together. Rip Robert Urich. Keep on pushing Avery Brooks.

These guys had great chemistry. I miss these old shows. They kill the garbage that is on now.

@SuperLuminalElf

3 жыл бұрын

BOSCH. Bosch is also excellent, amongst the shoes of Today.

That dang Avery Brooks is just a Great actor! I have been watching Deep Space Nine on DVD for the last few weeks. Amazing! He is a professor at a university and he taught classes from the set of DS9.

"I got two problems." "You got it down to two?" "Two you can help me with." "About two hundred and twelve nobody can help you with."

for his character he is the only man that could pull it off avery is hawk-hawk is avery flipsides of the coin-avery brooks is the MAN-robert was the man too R.I.P. ROBERT URICH

Rest in peace, Robert Urich, and God bless always.

@judeannegossin3148

10 жыл бұрын

Loved this character.

@MOGGS1942

4 жыл бұрын

I'm a big Robert Urich fan, and was devastated when he died. He was great as Spenser.

@victorpradha9946

3 жыл бұрын

Undone by synovial cancer (cancer of the joint tissue/ligaments)

I wish this series was on dvd! My favorite show as a kid. I got to meet Avery Brooks when they flimed at my old school, he was really nice.

@kenjisparks

4 жыл бұрын

It's on Amazon Prime now!

"How's your fun level?" "About a quart low. Whatcha got?" Love it!

RIP Robert Urich!

Hawk was a Bad-Ass Brotha!

This was such an awesome show. It was filmed here in Boston where I lived. A lot of it in Charlestown, the part of Boston I grew up in. It was so fun watching so many of these episodes be filmed. They even filmed an episode right next door to my home once. We have awesome photos from that day too. RIP Robert Urich.

Best show ever! So sad it went off the air. I still watch it to this day

RIP Ron McLarty aka Sgt Frank Belson.

They complemented each other on screen as few could!

hawk always been a very sharp dresser his clothes was the shit matched his personality and wisdom.

Spencer for hire was one of the bested drama t.v. shows in the 80's

"...talkin about territorial imperative.This is my territory it is imperative that you leave..." I actually said that to somebody once.Now I know where I got it from.Lol thanks Hawk!

RIP Robert Urich I will always thinking about you

I loved this series!!!

Man they need to bring this shit back on tv, that 9.59 sec was the best tv I've seen in ten years !!!

@sarahsimpkins1315

8 жыл бұрын

no it wouldnt be good to bring this show back no remake

@CuteNekoHibiki

6 жыл бұрын

The networks would never do a non-PC show like this today, too afraid of PR.

@georgearmonaitis4257

6 жыл бұрын

Cable on the other hand, it would be perfect for. The show was less edgy than the books. Would love to see the books made full edginess. Example - in one of the books, Hawk tells Spenser about a hit on him. He said he turned it down. When asked who he referred, he said , "No one, because the only one I would refer for the job is you." (So Spenser was not above crossing over the line, it appears. On TV he was always a good guy.) Who to play the characters, that is the hard part. Dennis Haysbert would have been great 30 years ago, but that is the same age as Brooks.

Love me some Avery Brooks aka Hawk.. Miss his presence on the TV screen..

i was SO pumped watchimg this just now. i LOVED this show as a kid. i used to watch with my pop. Spenser and Hawk had a GREAT relationship. from 2 different worlds but loved and respected one another. both would beat that ass and both highly intelligent. GREAT writing and one of my favorite shows of all time. A man called Hawk was good too but it missed Spenser.

@MindsetMediaClip

8 жыл бұрын

You can see every episode on the fire stick with kodi

@mookeychase0907

8 жыл бұрын

+slynbryn Hawk was the smoothest, flyest, articulate cat on TV...

@flyaway7636

3 жыл бұрын

Parker complained about the show, no matter how dry his novels were. Wanted Tom Sellick to play Spenser...really? The show's writers brought his books to life, Urich & Brook's style made the show iconic. Spenser for Hire is a hard act to follow.

@BrotherDerrick3X

3 жыл бұрын

@@flyaway7636 so instead, Selleck played a different character created by Robert B Parker, Jesse Stone.

@flyaway7636

3 жыл бұрын

@@BrotherDerrick3X I remember an interview Sellick gave years ago of when he appeared on The Rockford Files, how he admired the way James Garner kept the atmosphere on the set easy & comfortable. Said he'd tried to bring that same camaraderie to Magnum-which was a great show. Still can't picture him as Spenser. I think Hawk would've shot him! Just saying, Lol

This show in its time ? With script , storylines . Actor's and character name's was as i say? The best on network television series in the 80's. To bad ion tv doesn't run this classic show. I would love to see it back on the tv. R.I.P. RU.

@kendallrivers1119

4 жыл бұрын

I would say The Equalizer could give it a run for the money but both were incredible shows.

Man I totally forgot about this show, used to watch it all the time when I was a kid

I really loved avery brooks as 'Hawk'. an original. love his lexicon and language. talk to me quick. you dig. ha-ha

We might want to think about changing occupationshaha Line gets me every time. side note, the guy tailing hawk didn't break with a gun in his face. I expected him to roll over.

Excellent choice of scenes. I'd like to make honorable mention of a scene in the episode, "Among Friends", with Hawk and Spenser pretty much declaring war on one another. You picked two good ones from the episode where a Hawk imposter shot Marty Quirk, the scene later on when Spenser found out who the real shooter was, a guy named Tyrone Blackwell (played by the late Badja Djola) , meets with Hawk at a secret place and tells him. Hawk's response was classic!!! Great series! Long overdue for DVD

True G....Dude named Hawk....."Spensaaaa...."

Hawk was my favorite!

@niceguy60

8 жыл бұрын

+Kimberly Allen You mean Captain Sisko, LoL

@4HBirtcher

7 жыл бұрын

No this is way before deep space nine!!

@dwightlove3704

6 жыл бұрын

Kimberly Allen Avery Brooks bought that character to life!!!!!

Also Hawk was so tall, dark, and handsome. Carrying a big powerful gun.

When I read the books, I imagine these two. The show got that right.

RIP Robert B Parker and Robert Urich...

This was such a good show with a great cast.

Hawk singlehandedly made the Colt Python a high dollar collectors firearm.

One of my favorite shows, along with Three's Company, B.J. & The Bear and The A Team. Hawk was one bad man!!!

Robert Urich was good, but I swear Avery Brooks stole every scene he was in.

@dj_bullets7106

7 жыл бұрын

This is the same badass we see in the last 4 seasons of Deep Space Nine. Brooks is immense when he's got the right material.

@markiegreen5265

7 жыл бұрын

+Sammy J. Sisko got better...once Brooks shaved his head ..and grew the goatee..he began channeling Hawk...

@dj_bullets7106

7 жыл бұрын

Markie Green Yep.

@dj_bullets7106

7 жыл бұрын

Markie Green I think his performance in ds9's two-part pilot is pretty great though. Then he's basically a Shakespearian android for 3 seasons.

@brooklynbred1460

6 жыл бұрын

Gaelin Wade we always do

Exactly! Every community is as varied an nuanced as any other. Just because Hollywood hacks reduce everyone to one-note characters dosen't mean we have to think like that. And I loved that Hawk seemed a totally new type of person to me.

Damn, I love that laugh!

Can we take a moment to appreciate how sexy men were back then? Spenser and Hawk. 💖 Special guest appearance from Lawrence Fishburne at the end. 😎

Hawk was ALWAYS cool!

HAWK was the man! So clean, so cool, so procise, and what lines...

I love Hawk-he was such a pisser. Avery Brooks is so talented and so handsome.

@naomicaldwell3422

9 жыл бұрын

EXTREMELY handsome!!! I was only a child when Spencer For Hire was on the air, but my mother loved this show & I had a HUGE crush on Hawk! ♡

@sarahsimpkins1315

8 жыл бұрын

+Naomi Caldwell this was my mom favorite show back in the days too the black dude was cool in bad

I never saw this series when it was on. I met Spencer in Missouri when I was a librarian, and I grieved Robert Parker's death. Now I want to see these episodes and I can't find them.

@nehrualston5896

3 жыл бұрын

Read the books. Hawk in the books is basically Avery Brooks. When reading you can see him doing the part.

@sportsmansparadice42

3 жыл бұрын

Spenser is spelled with s.

I'll let you call the police you are so familiar with that phone . HAHAHAHAHA

@dwightlove3704

6 жыл бұрын

troy Graham Great sense of humor!!!!!!

the baddest duo crime fighters at that time on tv

@owlpercent2045

6 жыл бұрын

DAVID WASHINGTON Yes indeed

Wow! You just took me back to when me and my mom used to watch spenser for hire and a Man called hawk together. She passed away in 2003. I miss her alot too. Keep your mother in your heart and all the good times. Channel 114 and all those old shows do the same thing for me.

HAWK - I miss this character when this was on TV.

I will always love you Robert Urich

Season 4 of Deep Space Nine after Sisko was promoted to captain at the end of Season Three is how Avery went back the Hawk look!!

I LOVED THIS SHOW!!!!

I remember that hand cannon and the fastback mustang.

Asian guy was in Lethal Weapon 4 in the dentist office I just made the correlation that's too funny they gave him laughing gas

@gavinst.clairthedefiningmo9985

6 жыл бұрын

bill thompson He was also the Ancient One in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

@thomasgregory6975

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of great actors appeared on that show.

@alarmfannh

4 жыл бұрын

Flied lice you plick!

Avery Brooks commanded the role of hawk so did Mr urich

@davidmahin874

4 жыл бұрын

Robert urich also commanded Spenser role

Thanks for this. Best private eye show ever.

I was SO proud of him on this show! In my opinion, this role was just as good as Sisko. This was from Spenser, but "A Man Called Hawk" was a good show.

@StukInBuf

10 жыл бұрын

Hawk may have been the support role, but he sure had the best speaking lines.

Robert Urie was a good actor and perfectly cast in "Lonesome Dove".

@alexbrennor73

8 жыл бұрын

Urich

@jamesdunn9714

8 жыл бұрын

Alex Brennor Right, "Urich", sorry for the error.

@alexbrennor73

8 жыл бұрын

Just messing with you and you are 100% correct on his being cast in "Lonesome Dove".He was a brilliant actor and he died far too soon

As Hawk would say “ Ergo you tell “ I love the use of sudden words input in the. Dialogue

Territorial.... Imperative!!!..😊😊😊.

Avery would have been a great shaft

@BrotherDerrick3X

Жыл бұрын

He was Hawk, so he was better than Shaft.

9:10-9:59 When Hawk put Morpheus in check...

And that’s why Captain Sisko is the baddest captain in Starfleet.

"Myopic man"😂😂

9:08 = Two legends at work.

This is wonderful to see on my phone,just like being in the movies all over again.wow great.

I still have a few episodes of Spenser (the pilot among them) taped in the 80s. Have any of the Urich series been released on DVD sets? I don't think that Avery Brooks would cringe at being remembered for "Deep Space Nine." BUT I'd read every Spenser novel before the series started and he WAS Hawk incarnate, just as Urich was Spenser; Joe Mantagna is a fine actor and caught parts of Spenser, but Urich had the physicality to get it all.

@nehrualston5896

4 жыл бұрын

I have always said in reading the Spenser novels it is basically Avery Brooks doing Hawk. Robert Urich does Spenser justice. I need an updated version of this series.

@kendallrivers1119

3 жыл бұрын

@@nehrualston5896 without Urich and Brooks I don't think it'd work.

6:34. Yo! You see that look on Hawk's face? That tells you he knows right where he's gonna put it!

Territorial imperative! Love it!

@Kirok Absolutely right mayne I mean...he's the coolest,sharpest,best dressed,biggest gun totin,absolute best lookin in a trench and shades and gloves,old skool cool slanguage (that's slang+language),erudition plus ebonics mixin,street heat dark night enforcer in TV and literary history.

@blossomingbeauty No, you had actually said "you dig" in that 5 stars comment. I remembered Hawk making a comment about the "United Defenders of International Goodwill", which caused Spenser to reply "UDIG?". In other words, I was agreeing with the Lexicon and Language comment, but decided to expound on it with Hawk's humor. IMO "Hawk" is Avery Brooks' best role... I don't think that the role of Benjamin Sisko allowed him to display just how talented he is.

Good Afternoon Avery Brooks , Spenser for hire will always be the best TV Series and my favorite , and HAPPY BIRTHDAY from Boston

Benny Hun what a actor, hope he's still living.

My fav show at the time. Hawk was awesome too !

"Tyrone Blackwell, name look good on a tombstone Jack"

Great show

love this show

Hawk was so cool.

I loved this episode

Watching this clip makes time stand still! If it weren't for the old vehicles and no gray hair I'd swear its newly recorded!

I have to disagree with you some. Hawk's uniqueness was personified because of his character standing alone in the media. After the vietnam war there were many black men on the level of that depicted by hawk. They remain in the shadows.

Fell in love with Hawk and Lawrence damm they were too cold❤

Captain Sisko's still alive 🤗

Never a cooler dude on tv than Hawk.

3:20 I think Brooks took a few liberties with how that line was supposed to be delivered in the script...

@aljackson5086

8 жыл бұрын

How so?

@LaKyMarEntertainment

7 жыл бұрын

MyNameIsBucket I think he means that dry "ha ha"

he's badass, but he delivers every line the same way

I gave my son the middle name of Spencer because of this show.