The BEST episodes of Mike Hammer, Private Eye
Every episode of Mike Hammer, Private Eye ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Mike Hammer, Private Eye!
Stacy Keach's original portrayal of the title character is revived with a new Velda and a different cop as his friend. Mike's cases are arranged to reflect the times of the late '90's.
#1 - Body Odor
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1997
A surgery patient's body emits noxious gasses, killing him and three members of a surgical team. His daughter hires Mike.
#2 - Sins of the Father
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1997
The murder of a priest puts Hammer on the trail of a serial killer murdering prostitutes. Spoilers Faith, a prostitute, is murdered. After a priest, Father Dressler, asks Hammer to protect ladies of the evening, he is murdered. Faith's body is found with a wooden cross and a red wig. The killer next murders Rosie. Suspects include Father James, the handyman Ozzie, construction executive Jason Carter and Slick, a pimp. Slick is murdered to draw Hammer into a trap. The killer tracks down and kills Angel, who saw him pick up Rosie. Finally, Candy, a prostitute and friend of the murdered girls, offers to be bait to draw out the killer but things go awry and Hammer races to find her before the killer adds her to his list of victims.
#3 - The Art of Murder
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/1/1998
When the artist Velda is seeing is murdered, Mike looks into it. Was the killer the assistant artist who may have been painting forgeries, the gallery owner, the jealous ex-girlfriend who gets into a catfight with Velda, the rich collector whose daughter he was romancing or the art reviewer dabbling in blackmail?
#4 - Countdown to Murder
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/1998
When Mike's former flame is accused of murdering her former husband and co-star right before their broadway play opens, Mike tries to clear her. Is the killer the producer / director, the business manager, her understudy, the victim's understudy or the stagehand who seems to be stalking her?
#5 - Songbird (2)
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/1998
Mike tries to extricate Lila B. from her troubles.
#6 - False Truths
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1997
Mike flies to tinseltown to help an actress accused of murdering her lover and producer.
#7 - Beat Street
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1997
An accused polluter hires Mike but then the reporter who did an expose on the him is found dead making him a murder suspect.
#8 - www.murder
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1997
Hammer is hired to look into the disappearance of a girl who may have been killed in a ""snuff film"" shown on the internet.
#9 - Hoop Nightmares
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1997
When a basketball player's sports agent is murdered just before he becomes the number one pick in the draft, he turns to Mike to prove his innocence. Was it the player, Mayron Hughes; his father Norton ""Norrie"" Hughes; his childhood friend who was injured and now has a licensing business, Desmond Ishmael; his new sports agent, Susan Wake; or his teammate and competitor, Elvin Grace?
#10 - Prodigal Son
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1997
After a friend is killed investigating the death of his son, Mike keeps following the trail, leading to Russian mobsters.
#11 - Halloween
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1997
Someone seems to be targeting Hammer's friends in the style of a cultist killer whom Mike put in jail.
#12 - A New Leaf (2)
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 6/14/1998
After solving who killed the scientist, Mike investigates who killed a member of a wealthy family that owns a tobacco company.
#13 - A New Leaf (1)
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/7/1998
Mike investigates the death of a tobacco company scientist who was about to testify.
#14 - The Long Road to Nowhere
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/25/1998
After a hard boiled mystery writer hires Mike to help him with an ending to his latest book, he is murdered. Mike, Velda and Nick realize the book was based upon an actual disappearance or murder and try to solve it in order to find out who murdered the writer.
#15 - Dead Men Talk
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/31/1998
A friend of Mike's who is believed dead turns up and asks Mike to find out who was behind the attempt on his life and the deaths of two others, who were less lucky.
#16 - Gone Fishin'
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/24/1998
Mike and Skip are trapped in a bar by bank robbers. And they left their guns at home because they were going fishing.
#17 - Lucky in Love
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/1998
When a gambling buddy of Mike's is murdered, he is asked to help out with the buddy's race horse.
#18 - The Maya Connection
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/1998
When Maya Ricci's paramour comes to town, he draws Maya and Mike into a web of espionage and assassination.
#19 - Chop Shop
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/19/1998
Mike goes to Texas to attend a friend's wedding but organ thieves have kidnapped his fiancée.
#20 - The Cutting Edge
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/1998
Mike is a two time convict's alibi when a cutting edge computer chip stolen by a masked murderer with the same modus operandi and even the same limp.
#21 - Dump the Creep
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/12/1998
After Hammer berates a radio host on the air for telling Mike's girlfriend to dump him, he becomes a suspect when the host is murdered.
#22 - A Candidate for Murder
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/1/1998
Barry Lawrence is running for district attorney and he becomes Hammer's main suspect when his mistress is murdered.
#23 - Big Brother's Secret
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/1998
The murder of an investigative reporter was a friend of Mike's leads the private eye to stolen satellite photos.
#24 - The Life You Save
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/18/1998
After witnessing suspicious behavior between a cop and a mobster, Mike saves the cop's life and the mobster is arrested. Then on his birthday, Mike gets a call saying he has 24 hours to live.
#25 - A Penny Saved
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1997
When a simple minded janitor all but frames himself for the murder of a stockbroker, he asks Mike Hammer to prove his innocence.