Mataku is a half-hour New Zealand drama series about contemporary people who have mysterious encounters with Maori mythology and spirituality.

Michael Hurst guest starred in the 2002 episode "The Final Plume" ("Te Raukura") as Dr. Forbes, the "dick-head shrink" who insisted on assigning Western psychological tenets to a young Maori man who unexplainedly attacked his step-father. Failure to recognize the boy's Maori spiritual sickness in time resulted in tragedy for the boy and his family.