The Best Episodes of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Every episode of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer!
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.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" is "Pen Pals", rated 8.3/10 from 17 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Pen Pals" aired on 7/10/1959 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The New Look".
8.3/10 17 votes#1 - Pen Pals
Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 7/10/1959
A young man suddenly turns into a coward at the unexpected appearance of two strangers. Distraught, his wife turns to Mike Hammer for aid.
Director: N/A
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- 7.9/10 29 votes
#2 - The New Look
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 6/7/1958
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: N/A
- 7.9/10 24 votes
#3 - I Ain't Talkin'
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/1959
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: N/A
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- 7.9/10 20 votes
#4 - Bride and Doom
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 6/18/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10 17 votes
#5 - To Bury a Friend
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 9/28/1958
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10 20 votes
#6 - Park the Body
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/2/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10 14 votes
#7 - Slay Upon Delivery
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 7/17/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10 8 votes
#8 - Merchant of Menace
Season 2 Episode 34 - Aired 8/20/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10 15 votes
#9 - Goodbye, Al
Season 2 Episode 39 - Aired 9/25/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10 26 votes
#10 - Beautiful, Blue and Deadly
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/18/1958
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: N/A
- 7.7/10 16 votes
#11 - Swing Low, Sweet Harriet
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 4/23/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10 17 votes
#12 - Shoot Before You Look
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 5/1/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10 15 votes
#13 - The Commodore
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/15/1959
A homeless man tells Mike that he's the victim of a double cross and a nice old man confesses to a murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10 16 votes
#14 - See No Evil
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 6/4/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 27 votes
#15 - Death Takes an Encore
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/7/1958
Mike investigates a dishevelled man's wild tale about a man that he killed six months ago dying a second time in a car 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 28 votes
#16 - My Fair Deadly
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/30/1958
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 25 votes
#17 - The Broken Frame
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/14/1958
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: N/A
- 7.6/10 7 votes
#18 - Another Man's Poisson
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 2/27/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 15 votes
#19 - Curtains for an Angel
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/22/1959
Mike investigates a murder and confidence game involving a New York theater group.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 15 votes
#20 - Doll Trouble
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 7/31/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 32 votes
#21 - Dead Men Don't Dream
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/18/1958
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 30 votes
#22 - Lead Ache
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/14/1958
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 26 votes
#23 - Peace Bond
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/2/1958
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 peace bond guaranteeing that he'll stay away from the man he fought with the previous evening. When the man turns up dead and his fiancée accuses Mike of the crime, Hammer has to go on the lam to clear himself of the frame-up.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 34 votes
#24 - Music to Die By
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/23/1958
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 to back off, the disk jockey is brutally beaten, and Mike is fired as a result. When the DJ collapses from the injuries he's sustained, Mike decides he's been rehired and takes after the producer and her goons with a vengeance.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 27 votes
#25 - Look at the Old Man Go
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/21/1958
Mike is hired by a beautiful heiress to break up her father's romance with a much younger woman. Mike goes to the woman's apartment and, after interviewing her, decides it really is a May-December romance and determines to give up on the assignment. When a thug claiming to be Mike Hammer threatens the lovely lovebird with bodily harm if she doesn't give up her sugar daddy, Mike gets back on the case and investigates who would really benefit if the romance were scotched.
Director: N/A
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