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The Best Episodes of Mike Hammer Season 3

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 14 - Who Killed Sister Lorna?
    8.2/10(39 votes)

    S3:E14

    Sister Lorna disappears and Hammer is hired to find her. It turns out her husband was in a big payroll robbery and the money disappeared. When Sister Lorna is murdered, Hammer is determined to find the murderer and the money.

    Director:Frank Beascoechea
    Writer:Judy Burns

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  2. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 22 - A Face in the Night
    8.0/10(42 votes)

    S3:E22

    An Australian private detective approaches Hammer to find a missing author. Her only clue is 'The Face', Hammer's mysterious woman. He catches up with the The Face and finds out her story. Together they find out why the author is wanted.

    Director:Jay Bernstein
    Writer:B.W. Sandefur

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  3. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 21 - Green Lipstick
    7.9/10(33 votes)

    S3:E21

    A woman in distress appears in Hammer's office asking for his help. It turns out to be his daughter, a woman that he didn't know existed. She is a singer in a band and the money she is raising for a charity is disappearing.

    Director:Ted Lange
    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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  4. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 2 - Dead Pigeon
    7.8/10(40 votes)

    S3:E2

    An undercover cop is murdered and Hammer is framed for his murder. In the middle is Sheila Forbes, the cop's wife and Hammer's former girlfriend. Hammer has to find out who really did the murder and why.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Fred Freiberger

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  5. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 6 - Mistress for the Prosecution
    7.8/10(38 votes)

    S3:E6

    Barrington is drugged and a blackmailer takes some compromising photos of him. He is being asked to lose all his current cases. He then asks Hammer to help him find out who is blackmailing him and why.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Arthur Ginsberg

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  6. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 12 - Elegy for a Tramp
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    S3:E12

    When actress whom Mike knows dies when she jumped off her apartment, MIke wonders if someone pushed her to it. He starts by asking around and learns that she was abused emotionally.

    Director:Jon C. Andersen
    Writer:B.W. Sandefur

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  7. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 13 - Body Shot
    7.8/10(36 votes)

    S3:E13

    An aging boxer, desperate for money, is training for a fight but his sister is concerned as he is having blackouts. She asks Hammer to find out what is happening. When he investigates there seem to be other factors affecting the fight.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:Samm-Art Williams

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  8. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 16 - Green Blizzard
    7.8/10(33 votes)

    S3:E16

    Mike helps an amateur counterfeiter who's gotten herself in trouble with the mob. Those gambling debts paid off with funny money didn't amuse them!

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writer:Don Balluck

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  9. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 10 - Little Miss Murder
    7.7/10(43 votes)

    S3:E10

    A private school girl hires Hammer to find her father, a man who was the getaway driver for a hotel robbery to order to fund his daughter's school fees. The solution goes all the way up the social ladder to a senate candidate.

    Director:John Herzfeld
    Writer:Jay Bernstein

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  10. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 4 - Mike's Baby
    7.4/10(35 votes)

    S3:E4

    Hammer finds an abandoned baby boy that is struggling to live, addicted to heroin. Searching for the boy's mother, Hammer finds her overdosed on heroin and strychnine. Who killed her, who's the boy's father and why did she really die?

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:B.W. Sandefur

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  11. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 9 - Requiem for Billy
    7.4/10(36 votes)

    S3:E9

    Mike Hammer looks for the answer to who killed his young friend, but all he encounters are more questions.

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Herman Miller

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  12. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 18 - Lady Killer
    7.3/10(35 votes)

    S3:E18

    A murderer is killing successful businesswomen many of whom appeared on a TV show. Hammer must act quickly before his client, a women's magazine editor, is also killed.

    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writers:Nancy Ann Miller, Edward di Lorenzo

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  13. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 1 - Deirdre
    7.2/10(32 votes)

    S3:E1

    Mae-Marie hires Hammer to find her sister Deirdre only to be tied up with a philandering preacher called the Reverend Blessing, murder and some missing video tapes.

    Director:Ray Danton
    Writer:Herman Miller

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  14. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 5 - To Kill a Friend
    7.1/10(29 votes)

    S3:E5

    Hammer leads a manhunt for a hood who, in the course of a jewel robbery, has gunned down Hammer's friend and left him with a bullet-riddled right arm.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:B.W. Sandefur

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  15. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 7 - Harlem Nocturne
    7.1/10(46 votes)

    S3:E7

    A man on parole wants Hammer to find his former girlfriend, who he hasn't seen for eight years. The man had been in jail for an armoured car robbery where the money wasn't found, which is crucial to understanding her current whereabouts.

    Director:Ray Danton
    Writer:Howard Berk

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  16. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 20 - A Blinding Fear
    7.1/10(39 votes)

    S3:E20

    An arms dealer, Decker, has a blind 12 year-old daughter, Jennifer. Her dog is stolen and Hammer is asked to find it. It turns out to be part of a plot to kidnap the daughter and hold her for ransom. Hammer must save her and the dog.

    Director:Stacy Keach
    Writer:Stephen Lord

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  17. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 15 - Deadly Collection
    7.0/10(41 votes)

    S3:E15

    A friend of Hammer's is blown up investigating a protection racket that is extorting money from a high fashion designer. Hammer continues the investigation and there is cross and double cross before he solves the case.

    Director:David Hemmings
    Writer:Nancy Ann Miller

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  18. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 17 - The Last Laugh
    7.0/10(31 votes)

    S3:E17

    Hammer's new receptionist asks him to find her manager, who has gone missing. After the man is murdered, Hammer heads to the west coast after his receptionist, looking for the murderer.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:Arthur Ginsberg

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  19. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 8 - Murder in the Cards
    6.9/10(36 votes)

    S3:E8

    Mike Hammer's determination to rescue the son of an old army buddy from a trial for robbery and murder sends him on an eerie mission to an upstate fishing lodge where danger waits.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writers:Fred A. Wyler, Jay Bernstein, S.S. Schweitzer

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  20. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 3 - Golden Lady
    6.8/10(27 votes)

    S3:E3

    A union worker is murdered and Hammer is employed by his widow to help her get money owed to her from his pension fund. Hammer finds that the money has been embezzled through overseas accounts, but who was overseeing the fraud?

    Director:Ray Danton
    Writer:Duke Sandefur

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  21. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 11 - To Kill John Doe
    6.8/10(38 votes)

    S3:E11

    A man with no memory walks into Hammer's office and wants to know who he is. It turns out he is an scientist wanted by the KGB. There are many twists and turns as Hammer tries to save him despite not being helped by the local agents.

    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Howard Berk

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  22. Mike Hammer Season 3 Episode 19 - Mike Gets Married
    6.4/10(33 votes)

    S3:E19

    A woman is held at the airport whose documents say that she's Mrs. Mike Hammer. She's a foreigner who claimed to be his wife so that she could get into the country quietly. She says that her country is trying to change things and is in New York to collect money intended for the reform. When someone tries to kill her, Mike kills him but without her testimony, it can't be proven that it was justified, and she's about to be deported. So Mike marries her.

    Director:Charles Braverman
    Writer:Paul Diamond

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Who Killed Sister Lorna?" is the best rated episode of Mike Hammer season 3. It scored 8.2/10 from 39 votes. Directed by Frank Beascoechea and written by Judy Burns, it aired on February 11, 1987. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "A Face in the Night".