Seasons & Episodes
The High Cost of Dying
When a man convicted of armed robbery is mortally wounded in a prison knife fight, he calls on Hammer to perform a last
Just Around the Corner
When an elderly man living in Mike's hotel unexpectedly inherits $7500, Hammer appoints himself the man's guardian to wa
Hot Hands, Cold Dice
After discovering his office has been ransacked, Mike receives a threatening phone call ordering him off "the case" and
Death Gets a Diploma
At the behest of an old friend, Mike investigates her son's relationship with a beautiful young woman whose sugar daddy,
So That's Who It Was
Mike responds to a phone call from a small-time junkie requesting protection too late; he finds his friend shot to death
Dead Men Don't Dream
Mike returns to his old neighborhood when gunsels working for a protection racket murder a boyhood friend. Before long,
Letter Edged in Blackmail
While eating in a hotel restaurant, Mike spots a man take a package from a woman's table. Even though the package contai
Death Takes an Encore
Mike investigates a dishevelled man's wild tale about a man that he killed six months ago dying a second time in a car a
Lead Ache
Mike is hired to find the murderer of a newspaper reporter. The trail leads to a ballroom whose hostesses, usually small
Overdose of Lead
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 s
A Grave Undertaking
Mike is hired to retrieve incriminating letters from a blackmailer, but soon learns that the package with $50,000 was re
A Shot In The Arm
The lawyer for a wealthy couple asks Mike to help their niece kick her heroine habit. Mike works on two fronts: helping
Stay Out of Town
Mike is asked to investigate help a young man who has been arrested for murder in a small Pennsylvania town. He thinks t
Beautiful, Blue and Deadly
While waiting for his car to be repaired at a friend's combination garage/used car lot, Mike gets involved with three un
Skinned Deep
Taking a ferry ride in New York harbor, Mike sees a young woman crying. She's been victimized by a carnival con artist w
Peace Bond
Mike's quest for peace and quiet is interrupted when he intervenes in a lover's quarrel fought in a swanky restaurant. T
Play Belles' Toll
Mike runs into an old acquaintance, the wife of an embezzler he helped send to prison, who asks for her help. When she t
For Sale: Deathbed--Used
A serial killer is carving up women in the neighborhood where Sam Earl, one of Mike's part-time assistants lives. The le
Music to Die By
Mike is asked to help a popular disk jockey who's been threatened by a powerful music producer to play her performers' s
My Fair Deadly
Mike discovers his girlfriend's roommate has been murdered and launches his own investigation. He discovers that she was
The New Look
A psychiatrist fears that his patients are being blackmailed. He hires Mike to find out if his fears are founded, how th
The Broken Frame
A death row convict confesses to a murder that another man was executed for three years earlier and threatens to supply
Look at the Old Man Go
Mike is hired by a beautiful heiress to break up her father's romance with a much younger woman. Mike goes to the woman'
The Paper Shroud
Working for the insurance company, Mike assists the police investigate an armed robbery of an armored car company. His i
My Son And Heir
A rich industrialist wants to hire Mike to beat up his son and heir because the young man has become engaged to woman co
Final Curtain
Mike's girlfriend, Jackie, a dancer in a chorus line, panics when a sleazy reporter points out the similarities between
A Detective Tail
Mike is hired to track down a man's missing girlfriend. The client tells Hammer that he just returned from South America
It's An Art
Mike is hired by an art student's parents who are concerned when she stops writing. The artist's friends and instructor
Four Blind Mice
A man Mike helped get paroled from prison gets an anonymous letter accusing his wife of infidelity. Mike learns he's bou
Scar and Garter
A young, recently married woman hires Mike to find her husband, who disappeared after visiting his estranged mother at h
No Pockets In A Shroud
Mike decides to investigate when the darkroom belonging to his girlfriend's brother is destroyed by someone looking for
The Living Dead
Hammer is hired by Susan Barlow but she stands him up. He investigates and runs into her husband Hank Barlow. After a fi
Old Folks At Home Blues
While getting a shoeshine in the Bowery, Mike spots a beautiful, well-dressed blonde who is as out of place as a field o
No Business like...
Doc Fawcett hires Mike to find the person to whom he's paying protection money. He's received letters that threaten his
Crepe Suzette
Mike is hired to locate a young woman who moved to New York, but suddenly stopped writing home to her parents. Mike quic
Letter of the Weak
Mike receives a desperate letter from Harris Stevens who claims that he's being held against his will in a mental hospit
That Schoolgirl Complex
Mike is hired to find the culprit behind a series of pranks at an exclusive girls' prep school - students have been pois
To Bury a Friend
A friend from the old neighborhood asks Mike to travel to Chicago to claim the body of her son. While visiting the Windy
Mere Maid
A pretty secretary swims across the lake to the cabin Mike has rented for vacation and invites him to a party at her unc
Scar and Garter
Scar and Garter
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 no
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 model
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
The Big Drop
A woman hires Mike to find the man who murdered who father, an experienced steeplejack and window-washer who fell 20 flo
Aces and Eights
Hammer is providing security for a jewelry store and catches a woman stealing a piece. Her husband is a gambler deeply i
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 nu
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-
Jury of One
Mike's old friend Patricia Tyler calls him for help when neighborhood hoodlums vandalize her father's grocery store. Mik
Another Man's Poisson
Vic Fontainee, a blind fish monger, hires Mike to find out if the man claiming to be his long-lost brother is really on
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
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 sensele
Save Me in San Salvador
Hammer gets involved in political intrigue with a Colonel and two gorgeous women.
Park the Body
Mike receives an anonymous letter with a $300 retainer hiring him to investigate the disappearance of a parking lot atte
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 resta
When I Am Dead, My Darling...
Mike, vacationing in France, is asked to help a pretty American widow who is traveling on the ocean liner "Isle de Franc
Swing Low, Sweet Harriet
Mike is hired to dissuade a pretty blonde from blackmailing his client with a tape recording of his extra-marital indisc
The Last Aloha
Mike is in Hawaii on a business trip and winds up searching for gold instead.
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
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 riv
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.
Curtains for an Angel
Mike investigates a murder and confidence game involving a New York theater group.
A Haze on the Lake
Mike is hired to discretely investigate a series of attempts on the life of Carl Kunard, a successful building contracto
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 grind
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 th
Bride and Doom
Showgirl Ruby Duvall is roughed up by her future sister-in-law, arrogant society snob Joyce Conroy, and offered $5000 no
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 mon
Pen Pals
A young man suddenly turns into a coward at the unexpected appearance of two strangers. Distraught, his wife turns to Mi
Now Die in It
Mikes hired by a husband and wife to investigate the murder of a family member.
Slay Upon Delivery
After getting in debt to a couple running an upscale dice game, Paul Redmond is roughed up by their collections thug Mur
Groomed To Kill
A blackmailing showgirl is found murdered and one of Hammer's friends is the number one suspect.
Doll Trouble
Mike's vacation at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels is interrupted by a case. Wealthy Wilma Puttnam asks Hammer to inve
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 h
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
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
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
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 hi
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 w
Siamese Twinge
An Asian nightclub singer is offered $5000 by her boyfriend's snooty society mother to just disappear. She turns it down
Goodbye, Al
Mike's slippery friend Al Sparks skips town because of a gambling debt. He turns up in Forge River charged with murderin
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