7.5/1016 votes#1 - Baubles, Bangles and Blood
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1959
Mike is hired by an ex-con who now runs an amusement park in New Jersey. The former con-artist has received blackmail notes demanding $25,000 or else he reveal that the old man lied about his identity on his business license applications.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1026 votes
#2 - Accentuate the Negative
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/1959
When an innocent man is accused of murder, Mike is hired to find the real killer of a photographer who ran a phony modelling school and dabbled in blackmail on the side.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1025 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
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1016 votes
#4 - The Big Drop
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/1959
A woman hires Mike to find the man who murdered who father, an experienced steeplejack and window-washer who fell 20 floors to his death. Mike's investigation shows that the murdered man lost a $10,000 investment with a crooked stockbroker who seems to have disappeared, leaving a hulking henchman behind to protect his interests.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1020 votes
#5 - Aces and Eights
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/1959
Hammer is providing security for a jewelry store and catches a woman stealing a piece. Her husband is a gambler deeply in debt and Hammer takes pity and decides to help her. Hammer poses as her cousin and discovers that the poker game her husband plays in is crooked.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1023 votes
#6 - Requiem for a Sucker
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/1959
Mike helps out an old friend when her husband is accused of murdering a loan shark. His investigation revealed that a number of people were interested in taking over the mobster's racket, but the crucial bit of evidence is the scent of cheap perfume Mike smells in the murdered man's apartment.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1014 votes
#7 - Husbands Are Bad Luck
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/13/1959
Sonya Miles, a pretty secretary, engaged to marry her wealthy boss's son, is threatened with blackmail by her sleazy ex-husband, a rodeo performer. She hires Mike to keep her former spouse in line. Mike reasons with the cowboy - using both of his fists - and thinks the situation is in hand, but the ex-husband forces Sonya to break into the office safe at night. When the cowboy is discovered murdered in the office, the money gone and Sonya's purse is found at the scene of the crime, only Mike believes in her innocence.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1013 votes
#8 - Jury of One
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/20/1959
Mike's old friend Patricia Tyler calls him for help when neighborhood hoodlums vandalize her father's grocery store. Mike sides with the hoodlums since her father was the vote that hung a jury in the murder trial of Mike's nemesis, Sam Mayo, a gangster who Mike believes killed a friend of his. When the assistant District Attorney decides to drop the case because several witnesses develop amnesia, Mike starts his own investigation - with surprising results.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/107 votes
#9 - 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
- 6.7/1020 votes
#10 - According to Luke
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/6/1959
Luke Lund is being blackmailed. He is a racketeer now posing as a legitimate land developer in Shale City. He lures Mike Hammer from New York and with the help of a crooked cop frames him for the murder of the blackmailer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1021 votes
#11 - Coney Island Baby
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/13/1959
Mike has thirty minutes to solve a murder when his lost gun is used to kill a jealous husband who had beaten him senseless the day before.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1021 votes
#12 - Save Me in San Salvador
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/20/1959
Hammer gets involved in political intrigue with a Colonel and two gorgeous women.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1021 votes
#13 - 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
- 7.2/1021 votes
#14 - Tattoo Bruté
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 4/9/1959
A beautiful Chinese woman asks Mike to find the man who robbed an illegal poker game held in the back of a Chinese restaurant. One of them who lost heavily has threatened her father, the restaurant owner, with bodily harm unless the money is returned within 24 hours. Mike's only clue is the masked gunman had the number "8" tattooed on the back of his left hand.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1017 votes
#15 - When I Am Dead, My Darling...
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 4/16/1959
Mike, vacationing in France, is asked to help a pretty American widow who is traveling on the ocean liner "Isle de France". The woman claims to see her dead husband everywhere, but the ships' officers think she is slowing going insane with grief. Mike agrees with their diagnosis until he sees the "ghost" try to throw the widow overboard; he then races against time to capture the all-to-real spirit before he can finish the job.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1017 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.2/1017 votes
#17 - The Last Aloha
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/30/1959
Mike is in Hawaii on a business trip and winds up searching for gold instead.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1017 votes
#18 - 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
- 7.0/1017 votes
#19 - Evidence on the Record
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 5/8/1959
When several of Johnny Sixty's juke box machines and his ace mechanic murdered, the police focus on Sixty's business rival, Wallets Mack. Mack insists he's innocent and hires Mike to prove it. Mike's investigation turns up blackmail, an invalid wife and a pretty singer with dreams of the big time.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1015 votes
#20 - 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
- 7.6/1015 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.1/1016 votes
#22 - A Haze on the Lake
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/29/1959
Mike is hired to discretely investigate a series of attempts on the life of Carl Kunard, a successful building contractor, the most recent of which took place at the man's vacation lodge in upstate New York. Mike's suspects include Kunard's unhappy business partner, his trophy wife and his resentful son. Hammer's efforts are hindered by a fraternity pledge held in the lodge to escape the prying eyes of the university authorities.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1016 votes
#23 - 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
- 7.5/108 votes
#24 - Dixie Is Dead
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 6/11/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1020 votes
#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2
Every episode of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2!
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,...
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Network:CBS
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Baubles, Bangles and Blood" is the best rated episode of "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 16 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/2/1959. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Accentuate the Negative".