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Mike Hammer
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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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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: The Stacy Keach series often had shoot outs where people would simply fall over, clutching their chests. | |
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Hardboiled Detective | |
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Hard Boiled Detective: Stacy Keach's Mike Hammer fulfills all of the archetypes. | |
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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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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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Hopeless with Tech: The Private Eye version cannot work a cellphone or computer to save his life. | |
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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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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: Quite a few ladies in the 1980s series. | |
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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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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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Stout Strength | |
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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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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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Denser and Wackier | |
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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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Private Detective | |
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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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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: The beautiful women Mike Hammer meets are as often as not the killer or at least involved. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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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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Outliving One's Offspring | |
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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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Private Eye Monologue | |
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Private Eye Monologue: Very prominent in the Stacy Keach series and used to remind audiences of the plot between commercials. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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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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Drop-In Character: Mike Hammer's Sensual Slavs Polish yoga instructor, Maya Ricci, neighbor from Private Investigator. | |
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Sexy Secretary | |
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Sexy Secretary: Velda plays this role in the show, much the same as the books. | |
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Retro Universe | |
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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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Vigilante Man | |
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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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Lighter and Softer | |
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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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Indecisive Parody | |
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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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Sidekick | |
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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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Cartwright Curse | |
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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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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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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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