Mike Hammer, Private Eye
Mike Hammer, Private Eye
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Mike Hammer, Private Eye

Crime never pays.

6.5 / 10
1997
1 season
26 episodes
MysteryDramaCrime

Detective Mike Hammer uses his savvy grit against deceptive enemies in Southern California.

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Seasons

  • Prodigal Son

    1.Prodigal Son

    28-09-199760m

    After a friend is killed investigating the death of his son, Mike keeps following the trail, leading to Russian mobsters.

  • Beat Street

    2.Beat Street

    05-10-199760m

    An accused polluter hires Mike but then the reporter who did an expose on the him is found dead making him a murder suspect.

  • www.murder

    3.www.murder

    12-10-199760m

    Hammer is hired to look into the disappearance of a girl who may have been killed in a ""snuff film"" shown on the internet.

  • Hoop Nightmares

    4.Hoop Nightmares

    19-10-199760m

    When a basketball player's sports agent is murdered just before he becomes the number one pick in the draft, he turns to Mike to prove his innocence. Was it the player, Mayron Hug...

  • False Truths

    5.False Truths

    26-10-199760m

    Mike flies to tinseltown to help an actress accused of murdering her lover and producer.

  • Halloween

    6.Halloween

    02-11-199760m

    Someone seems to be targeting Hammer's friends in the style of a cultist killer whom Mike put in jail.

  • Body Odor

    7.Body Odor

    09-11-199760m

    A surgery patient's body emits noxious gasses, killing him and three members of a surgical team. His daughter hires Mike.

  • Sins of the Father

    8.Sins of the Father

    16-11-199760m

    The murder of a priest puts Hammer on the trail of a serial killer murdering prostitutes. Spoilers Faith, a prostitute, is murdered. After a priest, Father Dressler, asks Hammer...

  • A Penny Saved

    9.A Penny Saved

    23-11-199760m

    When a simple minded janitor all but frames himself for the murder of a stockbroker, he asks Mike Hammer to prove his innocence.

  • The Life You Save

    10.The Life You Save

    18-01-199860m

    After witnessing suspicious behavior between a cop and a mobster, Mike saves the cop's life and the mobster is arrested. Then on his birthday, Mike gets a call saying he has 24 ho...

  • The Long Road to Nowhere

    11.The Long Road to Nowhere

    25-01-199860m

    After a hard boiled mystery writer hires Mike to help him with an ending to his latest book, he is murdered. Mike, Velda and Nick realize the book was based upon an actual disappe...

  • The Art of Murder

    12.The Art of Murder

    01-02-199860m

    When the artist Velda is seeing is murdered, Mike looks into it. Was the killer the assistant artist who may have been painting forgeries, the gallery owner, the jealous ex-girlfr...

  • Countdown to Murder

    13.Countdown to Murder

    08-02-199860m

    When Mike's former flame is accused of murdering her former husband and co-star right before their broadway play opens, Mike tries to clear her. Is the killer the producer / direc...

  • The Cutting Edge

    14.The Cutting Edge

    15-02-199860m

    Mike is a two time convict's alibi when a cutting edge computer chip stolen by a masked murderer with the same modus operandi and even the same limp.

  • Big Brother's Secret

    15.Big Brother's Secret

    22-02-199860m

    The murder of an investigative reporter was a friend of Mike's leads the private eye to stolen satellite photos.

  • A Candidate for Murder

    16.A Candidate for Murder

    28-02-199860m

    Barry Lawrence is running for district attorney and he becomes Hammer's main suspect when his mistress is murdered.

  • Dump the Creep

    17.Dump the Creep

    12-04-199860m

    After Hammer berates a radio host on the air for telling Mike's girlfriend to dump him, he becomes a suspect when the host is murdered.

  • Chop Shop

    18.Chop Shop

    18-04-199860m

    Mike goes to Texas to attend a friend's wedding but organ thieves have kidnapped his fiancé.

  • The Maya Connection

    19.The Maya Connection

    26-04-199860m

    When Maya Ricci's paramour comes to town, he draws Maya and Mike into a web of espionage and assassination.

  • Lucky in Love

    20.Lucky in Love

    03-05-199860m

    When a gambling buddy of Mike's is murdered, he is asked to help out with the buddy's race horse.

  • Songbird. Part I

    21.Songbird. Part I

    2.0
    10-05-199860m

    Lila B is a singer who is romantically involved with a mobster, Johnny Dive. When she becomes a murder suspect, Mike tries to help.

  • Songbird. Part II

    22.Songbird. Part II

    2.0
    17-05-199860m

    Mike tries to extricate Lila B. from her troubles.

  • Gone Fishing

    23.Gone Fishing

    23-05-199860m

    Mike and Skip are trapped in a bar by bank robbers. And they left their guns at home because they were going fishing.

  • Dead Men Talk

    24.Dead Men Talk

    30-05-199860m

    A friend of Mike's who is believed dead turns up and asks Mike to find out who was behind the attempt on his life and the deaths of two others, who were less lucky.

  • A New Leaf. Part I

    25.A New Leaf. Part I

    06-06-199860m

    Mike investigates the death of a tobacco company scientist who was about to testify.

  • A New Leaf. Part II

    26.A New Leaf. Part II

    14-06-199860m

    After solving who killed the scientist, Mike investigates who killed a member of a wealthy family that owns a tobacco company.

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