Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958)
- Genre
- crime television series
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 2 seasons, 79 episodes
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A private detective solves crimes in a city filled with dangerous characters and tricky situations. It follows a tough investigator who mixes violence with a sense of justice in black and white episodes.
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What happens
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer is the first syndicated television series based on Spillane's hard-boiled private detective Mike Hammer, played by Darren McGavin. The series was produced from 1957 to 1959, and had a run of 78 episodes over two seasons. Episodes were filmed in black and white and filled a half-hour time slot. As a syndicated television series, original air dates and the order of episodes vary by geographic location – for example, in New York City. The series debuted January 28, 1958, on WCBS-TV, and the first episode aired was "Letter Edged in Blackmail". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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