Mike Hammer
The adventures of Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private detective Mike Hammer, who's always ready to use his fists on a "mug" or his charm on a "skirt" to get the case solved.
- 1958-1959
- 2 seasons
- A&E Home Video
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
The adventures of Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private detective Mike Hammer, who's always ready to use his fists on a "mug" or his charm on a "skirt" to get the case solved.
Season 2 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1959
Episode 1
Baubles, Bangles and Blood
Fri, Jan 2, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 2
Accentuate the Negative
Fri, Jan 9, 1959 26 mins
When an innocent man is accused of murder, Mike is hired to find the real killer of a photographer who ran a phony modeling school and dabbled in blackmail on the side.
Episode 3
I Ain't Talkin'
Sat, Feb 7, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 4
The Big Drop
Sat, Feb 14, 1959 25 mins
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.
Episode 5
Aces and Eights
Sun, Feb 15, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 6
Requiem for a Sucker
Thu, Jan 15, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 7
Husbands Are Bad Luck
Sat, Feb 28, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 8
Jury of One
Fri, Jan 30, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 9
Another Man's Poisson
Sun, Apr 12, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 10
According to Luke
Fri, Jan 23, 1959 30 mins
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.
Episode 11
Coney Island Baby
Wed, Sep 16, 2026 26 mins
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.
Episode 12
Save Me in San Salvidor
Fri, Mar 20, 1959 26 mins
A professor embezzles a brief case full of money from his school in New York and flies to the sleepy south American backwater of San Salvidor. Hammer soon gets a letter from him, begging that he will fly down and protect him from a menacing local thug. He does, but when there he can't find the professor or the money and quickly encounters a corrupt official.
Episode 13
Park the Body
Thu, Apr 2, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 14
Tattoo Bruté
Thu, Apr 9, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 15
When I Am Dead, My Darling...
Thu, Apr 16, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 16
Swing Low, Sweet Harriet
Thu, Apr 23, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 17
The Last Aloha
Thu, Apr 30, 1959 30 mins
Hammer goes to Hawaii to help a wife, whose husband is an old army buddy of his, who has disappeared.
Episode 18
Shoot Before You Look
Fri, May 1, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 19
Evidence on the Record
Fri, May 8, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 20
The Commodore
Fri, May 15, 1959 26 mins
A shady husband of an elderly shop owner's niece is found stabbed to death when trying to steal the old man's shop and have him sent away. The dead husband's partner is the prime suspect and tells Hammer that he didn't do it.
Episode 21
Curtains for an Angel
Fri, May 22, 1959 26 mins
The wife of a professor, who is well to do, runs a theater of actors under her iron control, until one of the actors is accused of murdering her which leads his girlfriend to call Hammer for his help.
Episode 22
A Haze on the Lake
Fri, May 29, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 23
See No Evil
Thu, Jun 4, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 24
Dixie Is Dead
Sat, Nov 21, 1959
A night club owner seeks Hammer's help to clear him of a popular night club singer's murder, from a rival night club.
Episode 25
Bride and Doom
Thu, Jun 18, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 26
M Is for Mother
Sat, Nov 28, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 27
Pen Pals
Fri, Jul 10, 1959 30 mins
A former convict who is now a respectable businessman finds himself extorted by two recently released convict friends. They try to coerce him back into a life of crime; he refuses. When they kidnap his wife, he calls on Mike Hammer.
Episode 28
Now Die in It
Sun, Nov 1, 1959 26 mins
Hammer helps a cab driver friend find out who killed his wife's sister.
Episode 29
Groomed to Kill
Fri, Jul 17, 1959 26 mins
Hammer agrees to help a young man retrieve a damaging photograph of himself and a beautiful girl together at his stag party who is blackmailing him for it, for fear of his wife to be finding out, that is until the girl is found dead.
Episode 30
Slay Upon Delivery
Tue, Nov 10, 1959 26 mins
Hammer helps a former no good private eye detective prove his innocence, who now moonlights as a bill collector for a husband and wife gambling ring, when one of their clients is found murdered for failing to pay their gambling debt.
Episode 31
Doll Trouble
Fri, Jul 31, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 32
Stocks and Blondes
Fri, Aug 7, 1959 26 mins
Tom O'Rough is severely beaten en route to Mike's office. He's concern that Si Loomis, a small-time crook, has won the heart of his employer, Edie Sanford, and she's about to lose her money and her company to the grifter. When Mike can't force the crook to back off and can't convince the Edie that she's fallen for a criminal, he tries to use Loomis' pretty young secretary to get enough evidence to break up the romance.
Episode 33
Wedding Mourning
Sat, Oct 24, 1959 26 mins
Mike finally meets the love of his life and proposes to attractive Kathy Dean. They never make it down the aisle; he and Pat Chambers find her shot to death just before the wedding. Learning from Gita that a bookie was offering 100 to 1 odds the wedding would never happen, Hammer goes on a violent rampage until he gets to the man behind the murder.
Episode 34
Merchant of Menace
Sun, Oct 11, 1959 26 mins
Hammer gets a death threat from a hoodlum he help put a way for 8 years.
Episode 35
I Remember Sally
Sat, Oct 17, 1959 26 mins
A dying man comes to New York and hires Mike to find the attractive young woman he remembers from 15 years earlier. Mike tracks down Sally Bryant to the fleabag Central Hotel and discovers she's hardly beauty the old man remembers. She's slovenly, hard-edged, and married to a greedy husband with a stripper girlfriend.
Episode 36
A Mugging Evening
Fri, Oct 23, 1959 26 mins
A married out-of-towner is set up for a mugging in Central Park by a sexy young woman he'd only met that day. Wanting his stolen briefcase back and his name out of the newspapers, the cheating husband comes to Mike for help. Ellen Robbins, who's still on probation, is running the mugging scam with her boyfriend and another thug. Matters turn deadly when she returns the briefcase for $1000 bucks and doesn't cut her cohorts in on the extra money.
Episode 37
Slab Happy
Fri, Sep 11, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 38
Siamese Twinge
Fri, Sep 18, 1959 26 mins
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.
Episode 39
Goodbye, Al
Fri, Sep 25, 1959 26 mins
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.
