Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
The High Cost of Dying
Jan 7, 1958 · 30 min
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 an
Just Around the Corner
Feb 14, 1958 · 30 min
When an elderly man living in Mike's hotel unexpectedly inherits $7500, Hammer appoints himself the man's guardian to ward off moochers and con artists.
Hot Hands, Cold Dice
Jan 21, 1958 · 30 min
After discovering his office has been ransacked, Mike receives a threatening phone call ordering him off "the case" and to drop his client, Sharon O'Closkey. Mike refuses, even tho
Death Gets a Diploma
Jan 28, 1958 · 30 min
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 n
So That's Who It Was
Feb 11, 1958 · 30 min
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 ex
Dead Men Don't Dream
Feb 18, 1958 · 30 min
Mike returns to his old neighborhood when gunsels working for a protection racket murder a boyhood friend. Before long, his investigation into the gang's criminal activities result
Letter Edged in Blackmail
Feb 25, 1958 · 30 min
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 s
Death Takes an Encore
Mar 7, 1958 · 30 min
Mike investigates a dishevelled man's wild tale about a man that he killed six months ago dying a second time in a car accident two days ago. When his client turns up dead, Mike fo
Lead Ache
Mar 14, 1958 · 30 min
Mike is hired to find the murderer of a newspaper reporter. The trail leads to a ballroom whose hostesses, usually small-town girls with no relatives, frequently disappear.
Overdose of Lead
Mar 21, 1958 · 30 min
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
A Grave Undertaking
Mar 28, 1958 · 30 min
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 w
A Shot In The Arm
Apr 4, 1958 · 30 min
The lawyer for a wealthy couple asks Mike to help their niece kick her heroine habit. Mike works on two fronts: helping the young woman withdraw from the drug and finding the pushe
Stay Out of Town
Apr 11, 1958 · 30 min
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 loca
Beautiful, Blue and Deadly
Apr 18, 1958 · 30 min
While waiting for his car to be repaired at a friend's combination garage/used car lot, Mike gets involved with three unsavoury characters who are very interested in a Jaguar sport
Skinned Deep
Apr 25, 1958 · 30 min
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.
Peace Bond
May 2, 1958 · 30 min
Mike's quest for peace and quiet is interrupted when he intervenes in a lover's quarrel fought in a swanky restaurant. The next day, Mike is hauled into court and forced to post a
Play Belles' Toll
May 9, 1958 · 30 min
Mike runs into an old acquaintance, the wife of an embezzler he helped send to prison, who asks for her help. When she turns up dead in her apartment, rather than in his office as
For Sale: Deathbed--Used
May 16, 1958 · 30 min
A serial killer is carving up women in the neighborhood where Sam Earl, one of Mike's part-time assistants lives. The legman wants to help Mike capture the psychopath before he str
Music to Die By
May 23, 1958 · 30 min
Mike is asked to help a popular disk jockey who's been threatened by a powerful music producer to play her performers' songs or else. While Mike is trying to persuade the producer
My Fair Deadly
May 30, 1958 · 30 min
Mike discovers his girlfriend's roommate has been murdered and launches his own investigation. He discovers that she was killed for a diamond she was trying to fence and tracks the
The New Look
Jun 7, 1958 · 30 min
A psychiatrist fears that his patients are being blackmailed. He hires Mike to find out if his fears are founded, how the privileged information is being leaked and who is preying
The Broken Frame
Jun 14, 1958 · 30 min
A death row convict confesses to a murder that another man was executed for three years earlier and threatens to supply proof after his execution.
Look at the Old Man Go
Jun 21, 1958 · 30 min
Mike is hired by a beautiful heiress to break up her father's romance with a much younger woman. Mike goes to the woman's apartment and, after interviewing her, decides it really i
The Paper Shroud
Jun 28, 1958 · 30 min
Working for the insurance company, Mike assists the police investigate an armed robbery of an armored car company. His investigation reveals that the sister of a crippled friend wh
My Son And Heir
Jul 5, 1958 · 30 min
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 d
Final Curtain
Jul 12, 1958 · 30 min
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 killin
A Detective Tail
Jul 19, 1958 · 30 min
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 i
It's An Art
Jul 26, 1958 · 30 min
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 g
Four Blind Mice
Aug 2, 1958 · 30 min
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 spous
Scar and Garter
Oct 12, 1958 · 30 min
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
No Pockets In A Shroud
Aug 9, 1958 · 30 min
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
The Living Dead
Aug 16, 1958 · 30 min
Hammer is hired by Susan Barlow but she stands him up. He investigates and runs into her husband Hank Barlow. After a fight, Hank hires Hammer to find his wife who has been missing
Old Folks At Home Blues
Aug 23, 1958 · 30 min
While getting a shoeshine in the Bowery, Mike spots a beautiful, well-dressed blonde who is as out of place as a field of wildflowers growing out of a crack in the concrete. When t
No Business like...
Aug 30, 1958 · 30 min
Doc Fawcett hires Mike to find the person to whom he's paying protection money. He's received letters that threaten his daughter, a high-wire acrobat, will suffer a serious, if not
Crepe Suzette
Sep 7, 1958 · 30 min
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 a
Letter of the Weak
Sep 14, 1958 · 30 min
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
That Schoolgirl Complex
Sep 21, 1958 · 30 min
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 suspe
To Bury a Friend
Sep 28, 1958 · 30 min
A friend from the old neighborhood asks Mike to travel to Chicago to claim the body of her son. While visiting the Windy City, Mike learns that the young man was murdered and the p
Mere Maid
Oct 5, 1958 · 30 min
A pretty secretary swims across the lake to the cabin Mike has rented for vacation and invites him to a party at her uncle's estate. The party soon loses its appeal when Mike bumps