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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

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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.

Jan 7, 19582 seasons79 episodesEndedEN

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Darren McGavin

Mike Hammer

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Seasons

Season 1

40 episodes

Premiered Jan 7, 1958

Season 2

39 episodes

Premiered Jan 2, 1959

Episodes

1–6 of 40

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Ep 1

The High Cost of Dying

Jan 7, 1958

30m

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 and use the money to ransom his wife who has been kidnapped.

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Ep 2

Just Around the Corner

Feb 14, 1958

30m

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.

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Ep 3

Hot Hands, Cold Dice

Jan 21, 1958

30m

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 though he wasn't working on a case and didn't have a client named O'Closkey. When the mysterious client calls and invites the private investigator to her room, Mike quickly agrees, only to fall victim to drugged meal. When he awakens, he discovers he's in Las Vegas and his beautiful client claims he flew to Nevada willingly to help her find her missing father.

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Ep 4

Death Gets a Diploma

Jan 28, 1958

30m

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 nightclub.

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Ep 5

So That's Who It Was

Feb 11, 1958

30m

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 exert themselves to find the man's killer, Mike launches his own investigation and links the crime to an earlier unsolved murder.

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Ep 6

Dead Men Don't Dream

Feb 18, 1958

30m

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 results in more fatalities.

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