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Mike Hammer

Season 1 Episode 30: No Pockets in a Shroud

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...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 3 Hot Hands, Cold Dice

3. Hot Hands, Cold Dice

Aired: Jan 21, 1958

After discovering his office has been ransacked, Mike receives a threatening ...

Episode 4 Death Gets a Diploma

4. Death Gets a Diploma

Aired: Jan 28, 1958

At the behest of an old friend, Mike investigates her son's relationship with...

Episode 5 So That's Who It Was

5. So That's Who It Was

Aired: Feb 11, 1958

Mike responds to a phone call from a small-time junkie requesting protection ...

Episode 6 Dead Men Don't Dream

6. Dead Men Don't Dream

Aired: Feb 18, 1958

Mike returns to his old neighborhood when gunsels working for a protection ra...

Episode 8 Death Takes an Encore

8. Death Takes an Encore

Aired: Mar 7, 1958

Mike investigates a disheveled man's wild tale about a man that he killed six...

Episode 9 Lead Ache

9. Lead Ache

Aired: Mar 14, 1958

Mike is hired to find the murderer of a newspaper reporter. The trail leads t...

Episode 10 Overdose of Lead

10. Overdose of Lead

Aired: Mar 21, 1958

A nightclub singer asks Mike to get her out of a contract that's held by a mo...

Episode 11 A Grave Undertaking

11. A Grave Undertaking

Aired: Mar 28, 1958

Mike is hired to retrieve incriminating letters from a blackmailer, but soon ...

Episode 12 A Shot in the Arm

12. A Shot in the Arm

Aired: Apr 4, 1958

The lawyer for a wealthy couple asks Mike to help their niece kick her heroin...

Episode 13 Stay Out of Town

13. Stay Out of Town

Aired: Apr 11, 1958

Mike is asked to investigate help a young man who has been arrested for murde...

Episode 15 Skinned Deep

15. Skinned Deep

Aired: Apr 25, 1958

While taking a ferry ride through the New York harbor, Mike observes a young ...

Episode 16 Peace Bond

16. Peace Bond

Aired: May 2, 1958

Mike's quest for peace and quiet is interrupted when he intervenes in a lover...

Episode 17 Play Belles' Toll

17. Play Belles' Toll

Aired: May 9, 1958

Mike runs into an old acquaintance, the wife of an embezzler he helped send t...

Episode 19 Music to Die By

19. Music to Die By

Aired: May 23, 1958

Mike is asked to help a popular disk jockey who's been threatened by a powerf...

Episode 20 My Fair Deadly

20. My Fair Deadly

Aired: May 30, 1958

Mike discovers his girlfriend's roommate has been murdered and launches his o...

Episode 21 The New Look

21. The New Look

Aired: Jun 7, 1958

A psychiatrist fears that his patients are being blackmailed. He hires Mike t...

Episode 22 The Broken Frame

22. The Broken Frame

Aired: Jun 14, 1958

A convict on death row confesses to a murder that another man was executed fo...

Episode 24 The Paper Shroud

24. The Paper Shroud

Aired: Jun 28, 1958

Working for the insurance company, Mike assists the police investigate an arm...

Episode 25 My Son and Heir

25. My Son and Heir

Aired: Jul 5, 1958

A rich industrialist wants to hire Mike to beat up his son and heir because t...

Episode 26 Final Curtain

26. Final Curtain

Aired: Jul 12, 1958

Mike's girlfriend, Jackie, a dancer in a chorus line, panics when a sleazy re...

Episode 27 A Detective Tail

27. A Detective Tail

Aired: Jul 19, 1958

Mike is hired to track down a man's missing girlfriend. The client tells Hamm...

Episode 28 It's an Art

28. It's an Art

Aired: Jul 26, 1958

Mike is hired by an art student's parents who are concerned when she stops wr...

Episode 29 Four Blind Mice

29. Four Blind Mice

Aired: Aug 2, 1958

A man Mike helped get paroled from prison gets an anonymous letter accusing h...

Episode 31 The Living Dead

31. The Living Dead

Aired: Aug 9, 1958

Hammer is hired by Susan Barlow but she stands him up. He investigates and ru...

Episode 34 Crepe for Suzette

34. Crepe for Suzette

Aired: Aug 30, 1958

Mike is hired to locate a young woman who moved to New York, but suddenly sto...

Episode 36 Letter of the Weak

36. Letter of the Weak

Aired: Sep 14, 1958

Mike receives a desperate letter from Harris Stevens who claims that he's bei...

Episode 38 To Bury a Friend

38. To Bury a Friend

Aired: Sep 28, 1958

A friend from the old neighborhood asks Mike to travel to Chicago to claim th...

Episode 39 Mere Maid

39. Mere Maid

Aired: Oct 5, 1958

A pretty secretary swims across the lake to the cabin Mike has rented for vac...

Episode 40 Scar and Garter

40. Scar and Garter

Aired: Oct 12, 1958

A young, recently married woman hires Mike to find her husband, who disappear...

Info about Mike Hammer

Seasons: 2

Network: CBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Drama, Crime, Mystery, Action