Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer - Season 2
Season 2
Network
Episodes39
DatesJan. 2, 1959 - Sept. 25, 1959
Episodes
Season 2Episode 130 min
Baubles, Bangles and Blood
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.
Jan. 2, 1959
Season 2Episode 230 min
Accentuate the Negative
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.
Jan. 9, 1959
Season 2Episode 330 min
I Ain't Talkin'
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.
Jan. 16, 1959
Season 2Episode 430 min
The Big Drop
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.
Jan. 23, 1959
Season 2Episode 530 min
Aces and Eights
Mike stops a dame from stealing a necklace, and after talking to her, he finds out her husband is in debt due to gambling and decides to help him out.
Jan. 30, 1959
Season 2Episode 630 min
Requiem for a Sucker
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.
Feb. 6, 1959
Season 2Episode 730 min
Husbands Are Bad Luck
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.
Feb. 13, 1959
Season 2Episode 830 min
Jury of One
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.
Feb. 20, 1959
Season 2Episode 930 min
Another Man's Poison
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.
Feb. 27, 1959
Season 2Episode 1030 min
According to Luke
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.
März 6, 1959
Season 2Episode 1130 min
Coney Island Baby
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.
März 13, 1959
Season 2Episode 1230 min
Save Me in San Salvidor
Hammer gets involved in political intrigue with a Colonel and two gorgeous women.
März 20, 1959
Season 2Episode 1330 min
Park the Body
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.
Apr. 2, 1959
Season 2Episode 1430 min
Tattoo Bruté
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.
Apr. 9, 1959
Season 2Episode 1530 min
When I Am Dead, My Darling...
An attractive widow sailing aboard a French luxury liner insists that her husband's ghost is haunting the ship.
Apr. 16, 1959
Season 2Episode 1630 min
Swing Low, Sweet Harriet
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.
Apr. 23, 1959
Season 2Episode 1730 min
The Last Aloha
Mike is in Hawaii on a business trip and winds up searching for gold instead.
Apr. 30, 1959
Season 2Episode 1830 min
Shoot Before You Look
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.
Mai 1, 1959
Season 2Episode 1930 min
Evidence on the Record
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.
Mai 8, 1959
Season 2Episode 2030 min
The Commodore
A homeless man tells Mike that he's the victim of a double cross and a nice old man confesses to a murder.
Mai 15, 1959
Season 2Episode 2130 min
Curtains for an Angel
Mike investigates a murder and confidence game involving a New York theater group.
Mai 22, 1959
Season 2Episode 2230 min
A Haze on the Lake
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.
Mai 29, 1959
Season 2Episode 2330 min
See No Evil
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.
Juni 4, 1959
Season 2Episode 2430 min
Dixie is Dead
Mike's hired by a nightclub owner when thugs bust up his Dixieland joint. He's sure they were sent by the club across the street because he stole their headliner, Dixie Dee. Dixie's a woman who twists men around her finger and uses them for her own gain, so when she's murdered, the list of remorseless male suspects is long.
Juni 11, 1959
Season 2Episode 2530 min
Bride and Doom
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.
Juni 18, 1959
Season 2Episode 2630 min
M is for Mother
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.
Juni 25, 1959
Season 2Episode 2730 min
Pen Pals
A young man suddenly turns into a coward at the unexpected appearance of two strangers. Distraught, his wife turns to Mike Hammer for aid.
Juli 10, 1959
Season 2Episode 2830 min
Now Die in It
Mikes hired by a husband and wife to investigate the murder of a family member.
Juli 17, 1959
Season 2Episode 2930 min
Slay Upon Delivery
After getting in debt to a couple running an upscale dice game, Paul Redmond is roughed up by their collections thug Murphy before disappearing. Murphy's a renegade private eye who lost his license and is now muscling in on the gambling racket. The wife of the missing Redmond hires Mike to find her husband.
Juli 17, 1959
Season 2Episode 3030 min
Groomed to Kill
A blackmailing showgirl is found murdered and one of Hammer's friends is the number one suspect.
Juli 17, 1959
Season 2Episode 3130 min
Doll Trouble
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.
Juli 31, 1959
Season 2Episode 3230 min
Stocks and Blondes
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.
Aug. 7, 1959
Season 2Episode 3330 min
Wedding Mourning
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.
Aug. 13, 1959
Season 2Episode 3430 min
Merchant of Menace
Am ex-con he'd help send to prison makes a death threat against Mike. Believing its just a sick joke, Hammer decides to meet with the man.
Aug. 20, 1959
Season 2Episode 3530 min
I Remember Sally
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.
Aug. 27, 1959
Season 2Episode 3630 min
A Mugging Evening
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.
Sept. 3, 1959
Season 2Episode 3730 min
Slab-Happy
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.
Sept. 11, 1959
Season 2Episode 3830 min
Siamese Twinge
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.
Sept. 18, 1959
Season 2Episode 3930 min
Goodbye, Al
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.
Sept. 25, 1959
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