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Mike Hammer

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Mike Hammer	comment	Fictional Hardboiled Detective Mike Hammer, as created by Mickey Spillane. has been adapted several times to television. Mike Hammer is a tough, no-nonsense, veteran PI who teams up with his Sexy Secretary Velda to solve the worst crimes of New York City.The first of these adaptations was Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958-1960), which was a syndicated television program that lasted 78 episodes over two seasons. The titular character was played by Darren McGavin. This series was frequently criticized for its use of excessive violence and McGavin's choice to play the character somewhat tongue in cheek.The second, more successful, adaptation was also called Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984-1985) and starred Stacy Keach. It was originally envisioned as a standalone TV movie, More than Murder but became a backdoor pilot when it was received positively. It would consist of 51 episodes and three TV movies (Murder Me, Murder You, The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, and Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All). The movie and series were produced by Jay Bernstein, who acquired the rights from Mickey Spillane for $1. It is also known as The New Mike Hammer (1986-1987), after changing its title for the third season.The series would be revived for a third time with Stacy Keach once more reprising the role in Mike Hammer, Private Investigator. (1997-1998). Kent Williams was the only other character from the Eighties series to return but in a different role.
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Mike Hammer / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Mike Hammer / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: The Stacy Keach series often had shoot outs where people would simply fall over, clutching their chests.
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Mike Hammer / int_166f1ed6	type	Hardboiled Detective
Mike Hammer / int_166f1ed6	comment	Hard Boiled Detective: Stacy Keach's Mike Hammer fulfills all of the archetypes.
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Mike Hammer / int_1aa49df	type	Mysterious Woman
Mike Hammer / int_1aa49df	comment	Mysterious Woman: In the Stacy Keach series, Mike Hammer would repeatedly catch sight of the same beautiful woman (played by Donna Denton) who would then vanish before he had a chance to talk to her. The episode "A Face in the Night" (which was made because Donna Denton, who agreed to remain anonymous for the sake of the role, took a guest role on an episode of Perfect Strangers) explained just exactly who she was and her connection to Hammer. Despite this, she still appears in the 1989 TV-movie "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All" (again played by Denton) and in "Mike Hammer, Private Eye" (played by Rebecca Chaney).
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Mike Hammer / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Mike Hammer / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: The D.A. (named Lawrence D. Barrington in the Stacy Keach series) can't stand Hammer, and is always eager for a chance to lock him up. The Barrington character turns up again in "Mike Hammer, Private Eye", only this time his name is Barry Lawrence, and he begins the series as the Deputy Mayor before becoming D.A. Kent Williams played both characters.
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Mike Hammer / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Mike Hammer / int_1fc85456	comment	Hopeless with Tech: The Private Eye version cannot work a cellphone or computer to save his life.
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Mike Hammer / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Mike Hammer / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: In the Private Eye version, Mike Hammer would catch a glimpse of "The Face" and then miss her before he could say anything to her.
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Mike Hammer / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Mike Hammer / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Quite a few ladies in the 1980s series.
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Mike Hammer / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
Mike Hammer / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: Murder Me, Murder You has the primary appeal that Mike Hammer has a secret daughter that he doesn't know about. She dies at the end of the movie.
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Mike Hammer / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Mike Hammer / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Stacy Keach, while not an unattractive man, is a somewhat stout middle aged man that, nevertheless is treated as an irresistible sex magnet to much-much younger women in both his series. This is especially noticeable in Private Eye.
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Mike Hammer / int_79503ae9	type	Stout Strength
Mike Hammer / int_79503ae9	comment	Stout Strength: The Stacy Keach version of Mike Hammer is a bit on the portly side but able to lay out men much larger than him.
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Mike Hammer / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Mike Hammer / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: In Mike Hammer, Private Eye episode "Murder", Mike Hammer discovers a snuff film ring on the internet. Much of the episode deals with how the internet is being used to exploit women.
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Mike Hammer / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
Mike Hammer / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: Mike Hammer, Private Investigator had a wacky neighbor yoga instructor (played by Stacy Keach's wife) and a lot more comedy about how Mike was a living anachronism.
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Mike Hammer / int_8e20b0f7	type	Private Detective
Mike Hammer / int_8e20b0f7	comment	Private Detective: Mike Hammer's profession in all of the series, as per the books. Somewhat subverted in that he often involved himself in cases where the client was dead or as a self-appointed Vigilante Man.
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Mike Hammer / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Mike Hammer / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: The beautiful women Mike Hammer meets are as often as not the killer or at least involved.
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Mike Hammer / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Mike Hammer / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: In the New Mike Hammer episode "Elegy For a Tramp", Hammer and the killer are fighting when the killer winds up hanging precariously from a hotel balcony. He begs for Hammer to give him a hand, to which he replies, "I'll do even better...I'll give you a standing ovation!", and claps...very...slowly...as the killer slowly loses his grip and falls to his death from the balcony, similar to the way he killed his first victim. In the Mike Hammer, Private Eye episode "Prodigal Son" is killed by a junkie mugging him to pay for a fix. Said junkie was on the same toxic dope the villain had been peddling to the streets.
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Mike Hammer / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Mike Hammer / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Mike Hammer discovers that he has an illegitimate daughter in Murder Me, Murder You and as the trope indicates, she dies at the hands of the villain in the end.
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Mike Hammer / int_ac0827be	type	Private Eye Monologue
Mike Hammer / int_ac0827be	comment	Private Eye Monologue: Very prominent in the Stacy Keach series and used to remind audiences of the plot between commercials.
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Mike Hammer / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Mike Hammer / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The Stacy Keach version would often crack wise with a Double Entendre or Stealth Insult versus his literary counterpart.
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Mike Hammer / int_bc6c6c90	type	Drop-In Character
Mike Hammer / int_bc6c6c90	comment	Drop-In Character: Mike Hammer's Sensual Slavs Polish yoga instructor, Maya Ricci, neighbor from Private Investigator.
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Mike Hammer / int_c0d32460	type	Sexy Secretary
Mike Hammer / int_c0d32460	comment	Sexy Secretary: Velda plays this role in the show, much the same as the books.
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Mike Hammer / int_c1967d3e	type	Retro Universe
Mike Hammer / int_c1967d3e	comment	Retro Universe: The TV version with Stacy Keach is clearly set in the 1990s (the Cold War is over, and Mike makes use of personal computers), but his fashions and societal mores are still in the 1940's.
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Mike Hammer / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
Mike Hammer / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	Vigilante Man: Mike Hammer would often involve himself in cases where there was no clear client or payment for his services.
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Mike Hammer / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Mike Hammer / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Mike Hammer's novels are some of the darkest, sexiest, and most violent novels of crime fiction for their time. The Stacy Keech version was significantly nicer and less prone to either violence or sex, though he was involved in plenty of both. Averted by the 1950s series that was considered to be overly violent for its time.
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Mike Hammer / int_d7a92919	type	Indecisive Parody
Mike Hammer / int_d7a92919	comment	Indecisive Parody: The Stacy Keach version, which is too serious to be a straight-up farce of Film Noir, but most of it is played incredibly tongue in cheek.
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Mike Hammer / int_e899b102	type	Sidekick
Mike Hammer / int_e899b102	comment	Sidekick: Nick Farrell took the role up in Mike Hammer, Private Eye, being the son of his deceased friend from the pilot. He was not quite a Kid Sidekick, being about twenty, but significantly younger than Mike Hammer.
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Mike Hammer / int_edc22fe8	type	Cartwright Curse
Mike Hammer / int_edc22fe8	comment	Cartwright Curse: Mike Hammer would become involved with many women throughout the various series but none of them would last very long. Even Velda moved on to his sidekick in Private Investigator.
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Mike Hammer / int_f0f7ac01	type	Letterbox Arson
Mike Hammer / int_f0f7ac01	comment	Letterbox Arson: One episode of the 1957 TV series has an extortion racket demand "protection fees" against arson. Those that don't pay have hydrogen gas pumped into their heating oil intake, where it seeps out, filling the workspaces. The ignition source is the ringer relay on the rotary-dial telephones.
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Mike Hammer / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Mike Hammer / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Mike is willing to shoot back at the women who are shooting at him, though they either survive or Nick is the one to actual;y kill them.
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