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M.A.N.T.I.S. is an American Science fiction television series that aired for one season on the Fox Network between August 1994 and March 1995. The original two-hour pilot was produced by Sam Raimi and developed by Sam Hamm. It stars actor Carl Lumbly. The show is unique in that it depicts an African-American superhero. Lumbly's character, Dr. Miles Hawkins, is a wealthy, mild-mannered doctor who is shot in the spine during a riot while helping a kid. He claims he was shot by a cop and files a lawsuit but loses the suit. He decides against appealing. Paralyzed from the waist down, he uses... MORE

M.A.N.T.I.S. is an American Science fiction television series that aired for one season on the Fox Network between August 1994 and March 1995. The original two-hour pilot was produced by Sam Raimi and developed by Sam Hamm. It stars actor Carl Lumbly. The show is unique in that it depicts an African-American superhero. Lumbly's character, Dr. Miles Hawkins, is a wealthy, mild-mannered doctor who is shot in the spine during a riot while helping a kid. He claims he was shot by a cop and files a lawsuit but loses the suit. He decides against appealing. Paralyzed from the waist down, he uses his company's resources to invent a powered exoskeleton that not only enables him to walk but gives him superhuman abilities. He utilizes a vast array of technology, including a large underwater lab and a hovercraft called the Crysalid to fly around the city. With his new found power, he vows to fight crime and assumes the hidden identity of the vigilante "M.A.N.T.I.S." (Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System). There were a number of differences between the pilot and the series. For example, in the pilot, Hawkins wore a suit over the exo-skeleton, it lacked a skullcap, and the LESS