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First Aired: September 28th, 1997
Status: Ended
Network: Syndication
Summary: Mike Hammer, Private Eye is an American syndicated television program based on the adventures of the fictitious private detective Mike Hammer, created by novelist Mickey Spillane. The show starred Stacy Keach and was seen as an attempt to revive the character he had played in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and The New Mike Hammer - two moderately successful syndicated CBS series from the 1980s. Mike Hammer, Private Eye premiered on September 27, 1997. The show failed to gain a wide audience and, as a result, it was canceled after only one season. The final show of the series aired on June 14, 1998.
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# of Episodes: 26
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Season 1
Episode 1: Prodigal Son
Air Date: September 28th, 1997
Summary: After a friend is killed investigating the death of his son, Mike keeps following the trail, leading to Russian mobsters.
Episode 2: Beat Street
Air Date: October 5th, 1997
Summary: An accused polluter hires Mike but then the reporter who did an expose on the him is found dead making him a murder suspect.
Episode 3: www.murder
Air Date: October 12nd, 1997
Summary: Hammer is hired to look into the disappearance of a girl who may have been killed in a ""snuff film"" shown on the internet.
Episode 4: Hoop Nightmares
Air Date: October 19th, 1997
Summary: When a basketball player's sports agent is murdered just before he becomes the number one pick in the draft, he turns to Mike to prove his innocence. Was it the player, Mayron Hughes; his father Norton ""Norrie"" Hughes; his childhood friend who was injured and now has a licensing business, Desmond Ishmael; his new sports agent, Susan Wake; or his teammate and competitor, Elvin Grace?
Episode 5: False Truths
Air Date: October 26th, 1997
Summary: Mike flies to tinseltown to help an actress accused of murdering her lover and producer.
Episode 6: Halloween
Air Date: November 2nd, 1997
Summary: Someone seems to be targeting Hammer's friends in the style of a cultist killer whom Mike put in jail.
Episode 7: Body Odor
Air Date: November 9th, 1997
Summary: A surgery patient's body emits noxious gasses, killing him and three members of a surgical team. His daughter hires Mike.
Episode 8: Sins of the Father
Air Date: November 16th, 1997
Summary: The murder of a priest puts Hammer on the trail of a serial killer murdering prostitutes. Spoilers Faith, a prostitute, is murdered. After a priest, Father Dressler, asks Hammer to protect ladies of the evening, he is murdered. Faith's body is found with a wooden cross and a red wig. The killer next murders Rosie. Suspects include Father James, the handyman Ozzie, construction executive Jason Carter and Slick, a pimp. Slick is murdered to draw Hammer into a trap. The killer tracks down and kills Angel, who saw him pick up Rosie. Finally, Candy, a prostitute and friend of the murdered girls, offers to be bait to draw out the killer but things go awry and Hammer races to find her before the killer adds her to his list of victims.
Episode 9: A Penny Saved
Air Date: November 23rd, 1997
Summary: When a simple minded janitor all but frames himself for the murder of a stockbroker, he asks Mike Hammer to prove his innocence.
Episode 10: The Life You Save
Air Date: January 18th, 1998
Summary: After witnessing suspicious behavior between a cop and a mobster, Mike saves the cop's life and the mobster is arrested. Then on his birthday, Mike gets a call saying he has 24 hours to live.
Episode 11: The Long Road to Nowhere
Air Date: January 25th, 1998
Summary: After a hard boiled mystery writer hires Mike to help him with an ending to his latest book, he is murdered. Mike, Velda and Nick realize the book was based upon an actual disappearance or murder and try to solve it in order to find out who murdered the writer.
Episode 12: The Art of Murder
Air Date: February 1st, 1998
Summary: When the artist Velda is seeing is murdered, Mike looks into it. Was the killer the assistant artist who may have been painting forgeries, the gallery owner, the jealous ex-girlfriend who gets into a catfight with Velda, the rich collector whose daughter he was romancing or the art reviewer dabbling in blackmail?
Episode 13: Countdown to Murder
Air Date: February 8th, 1998
Summary: When Mike's former flame is accused of murdering her former husband and co-star right before their broadway play opens, Mike tries to clear her. Is the killer the producer / director, the business manager, her understudy, the victim's understudy or the stagehand who seems to be stalking her?
Episode 14: The Cutting Edge
Air Date: February 15th, 1998
Summary: Mike is a two time convict's alibi when a cutting edge computer chip stolen by a masked murderer with the same modus operandi and even the same limp.
Episode 15: Big Brother's Secret
Air Date: February 22nd, 1998
Summary: The murder of an investigative reporter was a friend of Mike's leads the private eye to stolen satellite photos.
Episode 16: A Candidate for Murder
Air Date: February 28th, 1998
Summary: Barry Lawrence is running for district attorney and he becomes Hammer's main suspect when his mistress is murdered.
Episode 17: Dump the Creep
Air Date: April 12nd, 1998
Summary: After Hammer berates a radio host on the air for telling Mike's girlfriend to dump him, he becomes a suspect when the host is murdered.
Episode 18: Chop Shop
Air Date: April 18th, 1998
Summary: Mike goes to Texas to attend a friend's wedding but organ thieves have kidnapped his fiancé.
Episode 19: The Maya Connection
Air Date: April 26th, 1998
Summary: When Maya Ricci's paramour comes to town, he draws Maya and Mike into a web of espionage and assassination.
Episode 20: Lucky in Love
Air Date: May 3rd, 1998
Summary: When a gambling buddy of Mike's is murdered, he is asked to help out with the buddy's race horse.
Episode 21: Songbird. Part I
Air Date: May 10th, 1998
Summary: Lila B is a singer who is romantically involved with a mobster, Johnny Dive. When she becomes a murder suspect, Mike tries to help.
Episode 22: Songbird. Part II
Air Date: May 17th, 1998
Summary: Mike tries to extricate Lila B. from her troubles.
Episode 23: Gone Fishing
Air Date: May 23rd, 1998
Summary: Mike and Skip are trapped in a bar by bank robbers. And they left their guns at home because they were going fishing.
Episode 24: Dead Men Talk
Air Date: May 30th, 1998
Summary: A friend of Mike's who is believed dead turns up and asks Mike to find out who was behind the attempt on his life and the deaths of two others, who were less lucky.
Episode 25: A New Leaf. Part I
Air Date: June 6th, 1998
Summary: Mike investigates the death of a tobacco company scientist who was about to testify.
Episode 26: A New Leaf. Part II
Air Date: June 14th, 1998
Summary: After solving who killed the scientist, Mike investigates who killed a member of a wealthy family that owns a tobacco company.
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