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The Worst 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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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 35 - Crepe Suzette
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Crepe Suzette

    S1:E35

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 29 - Four Blind Mice
    6.7/10(22 votes)

    #2 - Four Blind Mice

    S1:E29

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 25 - My Son And Heir
    6.9/10(26 votes)

    #3 - My Son And Heir

    S1:E25

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 12 - Save Me in San Salvador
    6.9/10(27 votes)

    #4 - Save Me in San Salvador

    S2:E12

    Hammer gets involved in political intrigue with a Colonel and two gorgeous women.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 4 - Death Gets a Diploma
    7.0/10(28 votes)

    #5 - Death Gets a Diploma

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 10 - According to Luke
    7.0/10(28 votes)

    #6 - According to Luke

    S2:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 26 - M Is for Mother
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #7 - M Is for Mother

    S2:E26

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 5 - So That's Who It Was
    7.1/10(44 votes)

    #8 - So That's Who It Was

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 7 - Letter Edged in Blackmail
    7.1/10(42 votes)

    #9 - Letter Edged in Blackmail

    S1:E7

    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:Unknown

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  10. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 13 - Stay Out of Town
    7.1/10(30 votes)

    #10 - Stay Out of Town

    S1:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 27 - A Detective Tail
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    #11 - A Detective Tail

    S1:E27

    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:Unknown

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  12. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 37 - That Schoolgirl Complex
    7.1/10(25 votes)

    #12 - That Schoolgirl Complex

    S1:E37

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 40 - Scar and Garter
    7.1/10(25 votes)

    #13 - Scar and Garter

    S1:E40

    Scar and Garter

    Director:Lawrence Dobkin
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  14. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 37 - Slab Happy
    7.1/10(19 votes)

    #14 - Slab Happy

    S2:E37

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 38 - Siamese Twinge
    7.1/10(20 votes)

    #15 - Siamese Twinge

    S2:E38

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 1 - The High Cost of Dying
    7.2/10(53 votes)

    #16 - The High Cost of Dying

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Lawrence Dobkin
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 15 - Skinned Deep
    7.2/10(26 votes)

    #17 - Skinned Deep

    S1:E15

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 30 - Scar and Garter
    7.2/10(26 votes)

    #18 - Scar and Garter

    S1:E30

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 36 - Letter of the Weak
    7.2/10(32 votes)

    #19 - Letter of the Weak

    S1:E36

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 22 - A Haze on the Lake
    7.2/10(19 votes)

    #20 - A Haze on the Lake

    S2:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 10 - Overdose of Lead
    7.3/10(29 votes)

    #21 - Overdose of Lead

    S1:E10

    A nightclub singer asks Mike to get her out of a contract that's held by a mobster. The man claims the rising star who she owes him $50,000 "for expenses" plus 30% of her salary in perpetuity. While Mike is working on the contract, the singer receives a blackmail threat. Mike tries to retrieve the indiscreet photograph, he finds the blackmailers dead and the negative gone.

    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 11 - A Grave Undertaking
    7.3/10(30 votes)

    #22 - A Grave Undertaking

    S1:E11

    Mike is hired to retrieve incriminating letters from a blackmailer, but soon learns that the package with $50,000 was really the ransom money to payoff kidnappers. When the woman who collected the ransom from Hammer is double-crossed, she tries to get revenge on her partner but is killed before she can meet with the private detective. Hammer investigates the dead woman's friends and co-workers to mete out his kind of justice upon the kidnapping murderer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 26 - Final Curtain
    7.3/10(29 votes)

    #23 - Final Curtain

    S1:E26

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 28 - It's An Art
    7.3/10(25 votes)

    #24 - It's An Art

    S1:E28

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 2 - Accentuate the Negative
    7.3/10(35 votes)

    #25 - Accentuate the Negative

    S2:E2

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Crepe Suzette" is the worst rated episode of "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/7/1958. This episode scored 6.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Four Blind Mice".