Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

6.8/10 1958 2 Seasons 79 Episodes Ended

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer is the title used for two syndicated television series that followed the adventures of fictional private detective Mike Hammer. The gritty, crime fighting detective—created by American crime author Mickey Spillane—has also inspired several feature films and made-for-TV movies.

Season: 1 2

Season 1 Episodes

E1
The High Cost of Dying
30 min 1958

When a man convicted of armed robbery is mortally wounded in a prison knife fight, he calls on Hammer to perform a last …

E2
Just Around the Corner
30 min 1958

When an elderly man living in Mike's hotel unexpectedly inherits $7500, Hammer appoints himself the man's guardian to wa…

E3
Hot Hands, Cold Dice
30 min 1958

After discovering his office has been ransacked, Mike receives a threatening phone call ordering him off "the case" and …

E4
Death Gets a Diploma
30 min 1958

At the behest of an old friend, Mike investigates her son's relationship with a beautiful young woman whose sugar daddy,…

E5
So That's Who It Was
30 min 1958

Mike responds to a phone call from a small-time junkie requesting protection too late; he finds his friend shot to death…

E6
Dead Men Don't Dream
30 min 1958

Mike returns to his old neighborhood when gunsels working for a protection racket murder a boyhood friend. Before long, …

E7
Letter Edged in Blackmail
30 min 1958

While eating in a hotel restaurant, Mike spots a man take a package from a woman's table. Even though the package contai…

E8
Death Takes an Encore
30 min 1958

Mike investigates a dishevelled man's wild tale about a man that he killed six months ago dying a second time in a car a…

E9
Lead Ache
30 min 1958

Mike is hired to find the murderer of a newspaper reporter. The trail leads to a ballroom whose hostesses, usually small…

E10
Overdose of Lead
30 min 1958

A nightclub singer asks Mike to get her out of a contract that's held by a mobster. The man claims the rising star who s…

E11
A Grave Undertaking
30 min 1958

Mike is hired to retrieve incriminating letters from a blackmailer, but soon learns that the package with $50,000 was re…

E12
A Shot In The Arm
30 min 1958

The lawyer for a wealthy couple asks Mike to help their niece kick her heroine habit. Mike works on two fronts: helping …

E13
Stay Out of Town
30 min 1958

Mike is asked to investigate help a young man who has been arrested for murder in a small Pennsylvania town. He thinks t…

E14
Beautiful, Blue and Deadly
30 min 1958

While waiting for his car to be repaired at a friend's combination garage/used car lot, Mike gets involved with three un…

E15
Skinned Deep
30 min 1958

Taking a ferry ride in New York harbor, Mike sees a young woman crying. She's been victimized by a carnival con artist w…

E16
Peace Bond
30 min 1958

Mike's quest for peace and quiet is interrupted when he intervenes in a lover's quarrel fought in a swanky restaurant. T…

E17
Play Belles' Toll
30 min 1958

Mike runs into an old acquaintance, the wife of an embezzler he helped send to prison, who asks for her help. When she t…

E18
For Sale: Deathbed--Used
30 min 1958

A serial killer is carving up women in the neighborhood where Sam Earl, one of Mike's part-time assistants lives. The le…

E19
Music to Die By
30 min 1958

Mike is asked to help a popular disk jockey who's been threatened by a powerful music producer to play her performers' s…

E20
My Fair Deadly
30 min 1958

Mike discovers his girlfriend's roommate has been murdered and launches his own investigation. He discovers that she was…

E21
The New Look
30 min 1958

A psychiatrist fears that his patients are being blackmailed. He hires Mike to find out if his fears are founded, how th…

E22
The Broken Frame
30 min 1958

A death row convict confesses to a murder that another man was executed for three years earlier and threatens to supply …

E23
Look at the Old Man Go
30 min 1958

Mike is hired by a beautiful heiress to break up her father's romance with a much younger woman. Mike goes to the woman'…

E24
The Paper Shroud
30 min 1958

Working for the insurance company, Mike assists the police investigate an armed robbery of an armored car company. His i…

E25
My Son And Heir
30 min 1958

A rich industrialist wants to hire Mike to beat up his son and heir because the young man has become engaged to woman co…

E26
Final Curtain
30 min 1958

Mike's girlfriend, Jackie, a dancer in a chorus line, panics when a sleazy reporter points out the similarities between …

E27
A Detective Tail
30 min 1958

Mike is hired to track down a man's missing girlfriend. The client tells Hammer that he just returned from South America…

E28
It's An Art
30 min 1958

Mike is hired by an art student's parents who are concerned when she stops writing. The artist's friends and instructor …

E29
Four Blind Mice
30 min 1958

A man Mike helped get paroled from prison gets an anonymous letter accusing his wife of infidelity. Mike learns he's bou…

E30
Scar and Garter
30 min 1958

A young, recently married woman hires Mike to find her husband, who disappeared after visiting his estranged mother at h…

E31
No Pockets In A Shroud
30 min 1958

Mike decides to investigate when the darkroom belonging to his girlfriend's brother is destroyed by someone looking for …

E32
The Living Dead
30 min 1958

Hammer is hired by Susan Barlow but she stands him up. He investigates and runs into her husband Hank Barlow. After a fi…

E33
Old Folks At Home Blues
30 min 1958

While getting a shoeshine in the Bowery, Mike spots a beautiful, well-dressed blonde who is as out of place as a field o…

E34
No Business like...
30 min 1958

Doc Fawcett hires Mike to find the person to whom he's paying protection money. He's received letters that threaten his …

E35
Crepe Suzette
30 min 1958

Mike is hired to locate a young woman who moved to New York, but suddenly stopped writing home to her parents. Mike quic…

E36
Letter of the Weak
30 min 1958

Mike receives a desperate letter from Harris Stevens who claims that he's being held against his will in a mental hospit…

E37
That Schoolgirl Complex
30 min 1958

Mike is hired to find the culprit behind a series of pranks at an exclusive girls' prep school - students have been pois…

E38
To Bury a Friend
30 min 1958

A friend from the old neighborhood asks Mike to travel to Chicago to claim the body of her son. While visiting the Windy…

E39
Mere Maid
30 min 1958

A pretty secretary swims across the lake to the cabin Mike has rented for vacation and invites him to a party at her unc…

E40
Scar and Garter
30 min 1958

Scar and Garter

Cast

Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin
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