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The Best Episodes of 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

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    Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 34 - Merchant of Menace
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    #1 - Merchant of Menace

    S2:E34

    Am ex-con he'd help send to prison makes a death threat against Mike. Believing its just a sick joke, Hammer decides to meet with the man.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 35 - I Remember Sally
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #2 - I Remember Sally

    S2:E35

    A dying man comes to New York and hires Mike to find the attractive young woman he remembers from 15 years earlier. Mike tracks down Sally Bryant to the fleabag Central Hotel and discovers she's hardly beauty the old man remembers. She's slovenly, hard-edged, and married to a greedy husband with a stripper girlfriend.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 18 - Shoot Before You Look
    8.1/10(21 votes)

    #3 - Shoot Before You Look

    S2:E18

    Mike investigates a $50,000 jewelry heist and double-murder for the insurance company. He gets a tip that the thief and murderer is hiding in a nearby hotel and kills the crook in a gunfight. When Mike learns that the dead man was a known jewel thief who never carried a gun, he suspects that he was tricked into shooting a man by his double-crossing partner and sets out to bring the other gunsel to justice.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 20 - The Commodore
    8.1/10(20 votes)

    #4 - The Commodore

    S2:E20

    A homeless man tells Mike that he's the victim of a double cross and a nice old man confesses to a murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 21 - The New Look
    8.0/10(30 votes)

    #5 - The New Look

    S1:E21

    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 on his clients.

    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 3 - I Ain't Talkin'
    8.0/10(38 votes)

    #6 - I Ain't Talkin'

    S2:E3

    An old friend asks Mike to reason with a young man who refuses to identify the murderers of a drugstore owner in his old neighborhood. Mike is no more successful than his sister or the police in persuading the youth to talk, but when the witness is found murdered the next day, Mike decides to bring in the killers on his own.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 16 - Swing Low, Sweet Harriet
    8.0/10(22 votes)

    #7 - Swing Low, Sweet Harriet

    S2:E16

    Mike is hired to dissuade a pretty blonde from blackmailing his client with a tape recording of his extra-marital indiscretions. Mike finds the woman hanging from the ceiling in her apartment and, after his client is arrested for murder, investigates other parties who had reason to want the young woman dead.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 30 - Groomed To Kill
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    #8 - Groomed To Kill

    S2:E30

    A blackmailing showgirl is found murdered and one of Hammer's friends is the number one suspect.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 39 - Goodbye, Al
    8.0/10(17 votes)

    #9 - Goodbye, Al

    S2:E39

    Mike's slippery friend Al Sparks skips town because of a gambling debt. He turns up in Forge River charged with murdering the female owner of the diner where he worked. Hammer discovers everyone fears Todd Stryker, the man who runs his wife's huge lumber company and wields all the power in town. Stryker's relationship with the dead woman is a secret he wants to keep.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 38 - To Bury a Friend
    7.9/10(18 votes)

    #10 - To Bury a Friend

    S1:E38

    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 police don't appear to be interested in investigating the crime. When Mike visits the murdered man's room to pick up his personal effects, he is attacked and brutally beaten by a pair of thugs who want to know where "it" is. Mike has no idea, but he's determined to find out and make the two goons who attacked him which they'd never been born.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 9 - Another Man's Poisson
    7.9/10(13 votes)

    #11 - Another Man's Poisson

    S2:E9

    Vic Fontainee, a blind fish monger, hires Mike to find out if the man claiming to be his long-lost brother is really on the level. Mike discovers that not only is the man an impostor trying to falsely inherit $20,000 from the Fontanee family trust, but the fraud is also having an affair with his wife, Maria. What Mike doesn't discover, until it's too late, is Maria's plan to kill her husband.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 13 - Park the Body
    7.9/10(30 votes)

    #12 - Park the Body

    S2:E13

    Mike receives an anonymous letter with a $300 retainer hiring him to investigate the disappearance of a parking lot attendant. Mike learns that the man was defrauding the owner by marking wrong arrival times on parking tickets and pocketing the proceeds. When the man was found murdered, he traces the killer back to the company's headquarters.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 29 - Slay Upon Delivery
    7.9/10(16 votes)

    #13 - Slay Upon Delivery

    S2:E29

    After getting in debt to a couple running an upscale dice game, Paul Redmond is roughed up by their collections thug Murphy before disappearing. Murphy's a renegade private eye who lost his license and is now muscling in on the gambling racket. The wife of the missing Redmond hires Mike to find her husband.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 31 - Doll Trouble
    7.9/10(18 votes)

    #14 - Doll Trouble

    S2:E31

    Mike's vacation at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels is interrupted by a case. Wealthy Wilma Puttnam asks Hammer to investigate the people claiming to have the daughter of her late sister who died in the Nazi concentration camps. Mrs. Puttnam wants to be sure it's really Anna/Derna before paying the $5000 they're asking for.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 32 - Stocks and Blondes
    7.9/10(19 votes)

    #15 - Stocks and Blondes

    S2:E32

    Tom O'Rough is severely beaten en route to Mike's office. He's concern that Si Loomis, a small-time crook, has won the heart of his employer, Edie Sanford, and she's about to lose her money and her company to the grifter. When Mike can't force the crook to back off and can't convince the Edie that she's fallen for a criminal, he tries to use Loomis' pretty young secretary to get enough evidence to break up the romance.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 14 - Beautiful, Blue and Deadly
    7.8/10(28 votes)

    #16 - Beautiful, Blue and Deadly

    S1:E14

    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 sports car that has bullet holes in the back of the driver's seat with blood stains to match.

    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 20 - My Fair Deadly
    7.8/10(29 votes)

    #17 - My Fair Deadly

    S1:E20

    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 murderer to the Brussels World Fair.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 24 - The Paper Shroud
    7.8/10(25 votes)

    #18 - The Paper Shroud

    S1:E24

    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 who only helped the hold-up gang because of the beatings they had given her brother. Mike can't capture the thieves without implicating the young woman.

    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writer:Fenton Earnshaw

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  19. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 21 - Curtains for an Angel
    7.8/10(18 votes)

    #19 - Curtains for an Angel

    S2:E21

    Mike investigates a murder and confidence game involving a New York theater group.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 23 - See No Evil
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #20 - See No Evil

    S2:E23

    Hammer is hired by a gypsy to clear her boyfriend Carl as an accomplice in robbery. Carl's brother Van is a monkey grinder and after Hammer questions him is murdered. The monkey (Banjo) saves Hammer's life as he solves the crime and clears Carl.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 25 - Bride and Doom
    7.8/10(28 votes)

    #21 - Bride and Doom

    S2:E25

    Showgirl Ruby Duvall is roughed up by her future sister-in-law, arrogant society snob Joyce Conroy, and offered $5000 not to marry Philip and soil the family name. It seems an open-and-shut when Ruby is found dead in her dressing room after a visit from Joyce. It's all too obvious for Mike after learning of another backstage visitor that night: Ruby's violent ex-con ex-boyfriend who refused to let Ruby go.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 33 - Wedding Mourning
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #22 - Wedding Mourning

    S2:E33

    Mike finally meets the love of his life and proposes to attractive Kathy Dean. They never make it down the aisle; he and Pat Chambers find her shot to death just before the wedding. Learning from Gita that a bookie was offering 100 to 1 odds the wedding would never happen, Hammer goes on a violent rampage until he gets to the man behind the murder.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 8 - Death Takes an Encore
    7.7/10(28 votes)

    #23 - Death Takes an Encore

    S1:E8

    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 follows his only clue, the phone number of a pretty piano player billed as "Miss Patti".

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 22 - The Broken Frame
    7.7/10(25 votes)

    #24 - The Broken Frame

    S1:E22

    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.

    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 24 - Dixie Is Dead
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #25 - Dixie Is Dead

    S2:E24

    Mike's hired by a nightclub owner when thugs bust up his Dixieland joint. He's sure they were sent by the club across the street because he stole their headliner, Dixie Dee. Dixie's a woman who twists men around her finger and uses them for her own gain, so when she's murdered, the list of remorseless male suspects is long.

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Merchant of Menace" is the best rated episode of "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer". It scored 8.3/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/20/1959. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "I Remember Sally".