Mike Hammer
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, with Stacy Keach in the title role, is a television series that originally aired on CBS from January 28, 1984 to January 12, 1985. The series was 24 sixty minute episodes. The show follows the adventures of Mike Hammer, the fictitious private detective created by crime novelist Mickey Spillane, as he hunts down criminals on the mean streets of New York City.
When actress whom Mike knows dies when she jumped off her apartment, MIke wonders if someone pushed her to it. He starts by asking around and learns that she was abused emotionally.
Mike is hired to protect Michelle Phillips, an old flame who he hasn't seen in almost 20 years. Phillips heads up an all female high-risk courier agency that has become tied up in a dangerous exchange involving high-stakes bribes by an American helicopter manufacturer to a corrupt General in Central America. Phillips nonetheless drops dead in the middle of testifying before a grand jury, but not before informing Mike that he as a 19 year old daughter who is caught in the middle of everything and might already be dead.
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| Language | English |
| Release | 1984-01-28 |
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