The Worst Episodes of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Every episode of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" is "Crepe Suzette", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Crepe Suzette" aired on 9/7/1958 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Groomed To Kill".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - Crepe Suzette
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 9/7/1958
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 accident, but he can't help but wonder how the young woman went from skipping out on an apartment owing two months rent live at a fashionable flat with a wad of money in her purse at the time of her death. His investigation shows that she was making ends more than meet by working as a call girl and setting up clients for a team of muggers operating out of school for actors.
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- NaN/10 0 votes
#2 - Groomed To Kill
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 7/17/1959
A blackmailing showgirl is found murdered and one of Hammer's friends is the number one suspect.
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- 6.7/10 25 votes
#3 - My Son And Heir
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 7/5/1958
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 down, but agrees to drive the industrialist to the family's cabin in the Catskills where the son and his fiancée are waiting out a storm. When Mike arrives, he finds the young woman dead, bloodstains on the floor and conflicting stories about how both occurred.
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- 6.7/10 20 votes
#4 - 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.
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- 6.7/10 20 votes
#5 - 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.
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- 6.8/10 27 votes
#6 - Stay Out of Town
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/11/1958
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 local district attorney and deputy sheriff try to run him out of town, he decides to investigate further.
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- 6.8/10 20 votes
#7 - Four Blind Mice
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 8/2/1958
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 spouse to quit her glitzy job which requires her to be seen socially with a magazine editor known to have a roving eye before there's bloodshed. When the wife is found murdered and his friend's gone on the lam, Mike attempts to prove that the gun his friend bought was a different caliber than the one used to commit the crime.
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- 6.8/10 7 votes
#8 - M Is for Mother
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 6/25/1959
A college girl comes to Mike saying her mother, an attractive widow, is involved with a man trying to con her out of money. Hammer confirms there are a couple of scams going on. One is being played on him by the daughter; the other involves betting on horses with the seemingly innocent characters doing the cheating.
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- 6.9/10 27 votes
#9 - Death Gets a Diploma
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1958
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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- 6.9/10 26 votes
#10 - A Detective Tail
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 7/19/1958
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 in the tropics. Hammer learns that the man is really an ex-con out on parole. Mike can understand his client hiding his criminal past, but what he really can't understand is why a powerful television anchor like Butler Tilton would hire an inept private eye like Andy Anderson to tail the former bank robber.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/10 24 votes
#11 - Scar and Garter
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 10/12/1958
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 man's mother meet resistance from the woman's secretary and groundskeeper, but he manages to confront her in the estate's garden. He discovers that the man's mother is a former Broadway star whose face was disfigured by a knife-wielding thug ten years earlier. When he finds the body of a young man in a shallow grave on the property, he becomes more determined than ever to have the bride meet her mother-in-law and learn the identity of the corpse buried on the grounds.
Director: N/A
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- 6.9/10 22 votes
#12 - Scar and Garter
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 10/12/1958
Scar and Garter
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: Ken Pettus
- 6.9/10 17 votes
#13 - Slab Happy
Season 2 Episode 37 - Aired 9/11/1959
Punch-drunk former boxer Kid Dakota still carries a torch for gold-digging his ex-wife Julie. The Kid got into a fight with Julie's current husband at their restaurant (which used to be his) and vowed to kill him. When the husband turns up dead a few hours later, the police have an open and shut case. Mike, however, thinks Kid's been framed by someone else who wanted the current husband dead.
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- 6.9/10 16 votes
#14 - Siamese Twinge
Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 9/18/1959
An Asian nightclub singer is offered $5000 by her boyfriend's snooty society mother to just disappear. She turns it down until her husband, a Merchant Marine she escaped from long ago, shows up demanding cash to go away. She shoots him in self defense, but doesn't kill him. Mike believes her story and works to clear her of a murder charge.
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- 7.0/10 32 votes
#15 - Letter Edged in Blackmail
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/25/1958
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 smells foul play and traces the woman who left the box. When he arrives at her house, he learns that she was pushed down her stairs and badly injured. Investigating further, he discovers she is the victim of a vicious blackmailer.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10 25 votes
#16 - Skinned Deep
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/25/1958
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.
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- 7.0/10 30 votes
#17 - Letter of the Weak
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 9/14/1958
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 patient, but Mike learns from a nurse that she suspects the charges are true.
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- 7.0/10 23 votes
#18 - That Schoolgirl Complex
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 9/21/1958
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 suspects: an elderly caretaker who was forced to retire, a middle-aged administrator who was passed over when the new head mistress was hired by the school's Board of Trustees, and lovely student who craves attention.
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- 7.0/10 17 votes
#19 - 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.
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- 7.0/10 17 votes
#20 - 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.
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- 7.1/10 28 votes
#21 - Final Curtain
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 7/12/1958
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 killings 70 years ago - both of the murdered girls were redheads and Jackie is the only redhead left in the troupe. Mike has two suspects - a doorman who hates actresses and the reporter who may be making the news instead of simply reporting it.
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- 7.1/10 24 votes
#22 - It's An Art
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 7/26/1958
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 girl's disappearance with the copies of the Old Masters she'd been making and a forgery that covered the theft of a masterpiece from a major art museum.
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- 7.1/10 28 votes
#23 - No Pockets In A Shroud
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 8/9/1958
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 copies of the photograph were destroyed Mike doesn't have a leads to go on, until he hires a fingerprint expert to dust the nightclub where the photographer worked. He learns that the man very interested in not having his picture taken was a racketeer who had been declared dead three years earlier when the plane he purportedly was flying in crashed and burned.
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- 7.1/10 23 votes
#24 - 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.
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- 7.1/10 12 votes
#25 - 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.
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