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

6.6 / 10
1958
2 seasons
79 episodes
MysteryDrama

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.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The High Cost of Dying

    07-01-195830m

    When a man convicted of armed robbery is mortally wounded in a prison knife fight, he calls on Hammer to perform a last service - retrieve the loot he hid before he was arrested an...

  • Ep 2

    2.Just Around the Corner

    14-02-195830m

    When an elderly man living in Mike's hotel unexpectedly inherits $7500, Hammer appoints himself the man's guardian to ward off moochers and con artists.

  • Ep 3

    3.Hot Hands, Cold Dice

    21-01-195830m

    After discovering his office has been ransacked, Mike receives a threatening phone call ordering him off "the case" and to drop his client, Sharon O'Closkey. Mike refuses, even tho...

  • Ep 4

    4.Death Gets a Diploma

    28-01-195830m

    At the behest of an old friend, Mike investigates her son's relationship with a beautiful young woman whose sugar daddy, a mobster turning states evidence, was murdered outside a n...

  • Ep 5

    5.So That's Who It Was

    11-02-195830m

    Mike responds to a phone call from a small-time junkie requesting protection too late; he finds his friend shot to death in a Chinatown alley. Not satisfied that the police will ex...

  • Ep 6

    6.Dead Men Don't Dream

    18-02-195830m

    Mike returns to his old neighborhood when gunsels working for a protection racket murder a boyhood friend. Before long, his investigation into the gang's criminal activities result...

  • Ep 7

    7.Letter Edged in Blackmail

    25-02-195830m

    While eating in a hotel restaurant, Mike spots a man take a package from a woman's table. Even though the package contains a necklace with a broken clasp as the man claimed, Mike s...

  • Ep 8

    8.Death Takes an Encore

    07-03-195830m

    Mike investigates a dishevelled man's wild tale about a man that he killed six months ago dying a second time in a car accident two days ago. When his client turns up dead, Mike fo...

  • Ep 9

    9.Lead Ache

    14-03-195830m

    Mike is hired to find the murderer of a newspaper reporter. The trail leads to a ballroom whose hostesses, usually small-town girls with no relatives, frequently disappear.

  • Ep 10

    10.Overdose of Lead

    21-03-195830m

    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 she owes him $50,000 "for expenses" plus 30% of her salary in...

  • Ep 11

    11.A Grave Undertaking

    28-03-195830m

    Mike is hired to retrieve incriminating letters from a blackmailer, but soon learns that the package with $50,000 was really the ransom money to payoff kidnappers. When the woman w...

  • Ep 12

    12.A Shot In The Arm

    04-04-195830m

    The lawyer for a wealthy couple asks Mike to help their niece kick her heroine habit. Mike works on two fronts: helping the young woman withdraw from the drug and finding the pushe...

  • Ep 13

    13.Stay Out of Town

    11-04-195830m

    Mike is asked to investigate help a young man who has been arrested for murder in a small Pennsylvania town. He thinks the case against his client is pretty good, but when the loca...

  • Ep 14

    14.Beautiful, Blue and Deadly

    18-04-195830m

    While waiting for his car to be repaired at a friend's combination garage/used car lot, Mike gets involved with three unsavoury characters who are very interested in a Jaguar sport...

  • Ep 15

    15.Skinned Deep

    25-04-195830m

    Taking a ferry ride in New York harbor, Mike sees a young woman crying. She's been victimized by a carnival con artist who charges steep fees to enter a rigged talent contest.

  • Ep 16

    16.Peace Bond

    02-05-195830m

    Mike's quest for peace and quiet is interrupted when he intervenes in a lover's quarrel fought in a swanky restaurant. The next day, Mike is hauled into court and forced to post a...

  • Ep 17

    17.Play Belles' Toll

    09-05-195830m

    Mike runs into an old acquaintance, the wife of an embezzler he helped send to prison, who asks for her help. When she turns up dead in her apartment, rather than in his office as...

  • Ep 18

    18.For Sale: Deathbed--Used

    16-05-195830m

    A serial killer is carving up women in the neighborhood where Sam Earl, one of Mike's part-time assistants lives. The legman wants to help Mike capture the psychopath before he str...

  • Ep 19

    19.Music to Die By

    23-05-195830m

    Mike is asked to help a popular disk jockey who's been threatened by a powerful music producer to play her performers' songs or else. While Mike is trying to persuade the producer...

  • Ep 20

    20.My Fair Deadly

    30-05-195830m

    Mike discovers his girlfriend's roommate has been murdered and launches his own investigation. He discovers that she was killed for a diamond she was trying to fence and tracks the...

  • Ep 21

    21.The New Look

    07-06-195830m

    A psychiatrist fears that his patients are being blackmailed. He hires Mike to find out if his fears are founded, how the privileged information is being leaked and who is preying...

  • Ep 22

    22.The Broken Frame

    14-06-195830m

    A death row convict confesses to a murder that another man was executed for three years earlier and threatens to supply proof after his execution.

  • Ep 23

    23.Look at the Old Man Go

    21-06-195830m

    Mike is hired by a beautiful heiress to break up her father's romance with a much younger woman. Mike goes to the woman's apartment and, after interviewing her, decides it really i...

  • Ep 24

    24.The Paper Shroud

    28-06-195830m

    Working for the insurance company, Mike assists the police investigate an armed robbery of an armored car company. His investigation reveals that the sister of a crippled friend wh...

  • Ep 25

    25.My Son And Heir

    05-07-195830m

    A rich industrialist wants to hire Mike to beat up his son and heir because the young man has become engaged to woman considered beneath the family's standing. Mike turns the job d...

  • Ep 26

    26.Final Curtain

    12-07-195830m

    Mike's girlfriend, Jackie, a dancer in a chorus line, panics when a sleazy reporter points out the similarities between a pair of chorus line murders and the Jack the Ripper killin...

  • Ep 27

    27.A Detective Tail

    19-07-195830m

    Mike is hired to track down a man's missing girlfriend. The client tells Hammer that he just returned from South America, but his pasty complexion belies his claim of three years i...

  • Ep 28

    28.It's An Art

    26-07-195830m

    Mike is hired by an art student's parents who are concerned when she stops writing. The artist's friends and instructor aren't concerned that she's missing, but Mike connects the g...

  • Ep 29

    29.Four Blind Mice

    02-08-195830m

    A man Mike helped get paroled from prison gets an anonymous letter accusing his wife of infidelity. Mike learns he's bought a gun illegally and tries to convince the ex-con's spous...

  • Ep 30

    30.Scar and Garter

    12-10-195830m

    A young, recently married woman hires Mike to find her husband, who disappeared after visiting his estranged mother at her Berkshire Mountains mansion. Mike's efforts to visit the...

  • Ep 31

    31.No Pockets In A Shroud

    09-08-195830m

    Mike decides to investigate when the darkroom belonging to his girlfriend's brother is destroyed by someone looking for an incriminating photograph. Since the negative and all the...

  • Ep 32

    32.The Living Dead

    16-08-195830m

    Hammer is hired by Susan Barlow but she stands him up. He investigates and runs into her husband Hank Barlow. After a fight, Hank hires Hammer to find his wife who has been missing...

  • Ep 33

    33.Old Folks At Home Blues

    23-08-195830m

    While getting a shoeshine in the Bowery, Mike spots a beautiful, well-dressed blonde who is as out of place as a field of wildflowers growing out of a crack in the concrete. When t...

  • Ep 34

    34.No Business like...

    30-08-195830m

    Doc Fawcett hires Mike to find the person to whom he's paying protection money. He's received letters that threaten his daughter, a high-wire acrobat, will suffer a serious, if not...

  • Ep 35

    35.Crepe Suzette

    07-09-195830m

    Mike is hired to locate a young woman who moved to New York, but suddenly stopped writing home to her parents. Mike quickly learns that she was killed in a hit and run automobile a...

  • Ep 36

    36.Letter of the Weak

    14-09-195830m

    Mike receives a desperate letter from Harris Stevens who claims that he's being held against his will in a mental hospital. The physician in charge refuses to allow Mike to see the...

  • Ep 37

    37.That Schoolgirl Complex

    21-09-195830m

    Mike is hired to find the culprit behind a series of pranks at an exclusive girls' prep school - students have been poisoned, burned with acid and now shot at. Mike has three suspe...

  • Ep 38

    38.To Bury a Friend

    28-09-195830m

    A friend from the old neighborhood asks Mike to travel to Chicago to claim the body of her son. While visiting the Windy City, Mike learns that the young man was murdered and the p...

  • Ep 39

    39.Mere Maid

    05-10-195830m

    A pretty secretary swims across the lake to the cabin Mike has rented for vacation and invites him to a party at her uncle's estate. The party soon loses its appeal when Mike bumps...

  • Ep 40

    40.Scar and Garter

    12-10-195830m

    Scar and Garter

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