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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984 TV series)

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401:. A prominent feature of most episodes was the inclusion of a number of female characters (known in casting sessions as "Hammer-ettes") who would exchange a double entendre or two with Hammer while wearing very low tops and push-up bras emphasizing their ample cleavage. Hammer would regularly wind up in bed with the highly sexualized female characters in the show, who would never fail to melt once they had fixed their eyes upon the brawny detective. The show's writers latched on to this element of clashing eras and often used it as a comic relief in the show. Examples of this include Hammer's love for cigarettes being at odds with the growing social disdain for smoking and the detective's humorous inability to comprehend the youth trends of the decade. Like its 1950s predecessor, Keach's Mike Hammer never shied away from violence. Whether it was with his fists or his trusty gun, "Betsy," a Colt Model 1911A1 .45 ACP semi-automatic pistol, which was always tucked neatly inside a leather shoulder holster worn under his suit jacket, Hammer would never fail to stop a criminal dead in his tracks. Mickey Spillane insisted that Stacy Keach carry the .45 caliber pistol in the show because that was the weapon Mike Hammer carried in all of Spillane's "Mike Hammer" mystery novels. Unlike most detective shows of the decade, the bad guys on 32: 357:, as he works to solve cases, often involving murder. A recurring plot line throughout the show focuses on the murder of someone to whom the protagonist was close, resulting in Hammer seeking out revenge. Keach was familiar with the tough and insensitive novelized version of Hammer and worked to make his version more palatable to a television audience. "We've softened him up a little bit," Keach told 100: 792:
In the retooled season, several recurring characters were absent and elements previously criticized as sexist were downplayed in an attempt to capture an audience wider than males, who were the primary viewers of the first few seasons. The narrow male demographic, and concerns over the portrayal of
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was called in to mimic Keach's narrative voiceover. The second season still had eight unmade episodes that were not able to be filmed with Keach behind bars and CBS and Columbia Pictures TV paid the rest of the cast for half of those episodes. Keach was released after six months with time off for
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of the New York Times called Keach's portrayal of Mike Hammer "one of the best in a long history of dramatizing this particular private eye, is nearly all manner and mannerism, steeped in the accents and rhythms of New York."
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Production of the show was interrupted in December 1984 when Stacy Keach was sentenced to nine months prison time for drug smuggling. Keach was arrested with his secretary Deborah Steele on April 4 at London's
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Like Spillane's novels, the series is set in New York City, with only a few exceptional episodes that bring the characters to other locations. Mickey Spillane had demanded that the series be shot in New York.
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on alto saxophone, prevailed. Keach later said the tune has a "nostalgic film-noir quality" that evokes New York City and that viewers would tune into the show just to listen to the theme song.
777:. The reboot took over its old 9:00-10:00 pm time slot when it first aired on Saturday, September 22, 1986, but was hastily shifted to the 8:00-9:00 Wednesday time slot after the failure of 1834: 450: 190: 513:"The Face" – A beautiful and mysterious woman (played by Donna Denton) who Hammer would see briefly in each episode but would then vanish before he had a chance to meet her 773:, which aired on April 18, 1986. Thanks to the positive reception of the movie and the tenacity of Jay Bernstein, the series was continued, but this time under the title 1796: 1665: 1893: 1689: 1633: 954: 896: 861: 1740: 1617: 1898: 1788: 1641: 1625: 1819: 1657: 1352: 20: 361:. "To sustain a series on television, I think you need a certain humor, charm and vulnerability. Toughness is probably the least important factor." 1883: 1217: 1878: 1873: 1601: 1649: 1888: 1277: 1609: 1018:
The series won top spot for its 10 pm time slot on Saturday nights and surveys showed it to be particularly popular among male audiences.
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from January 28, 1984, to May 13, 1987. The series consisted of 51 installments: 46 one-hour episodes, a two-part pilot episode (
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for smuggling 36 grams (1ΒΌ ounces) of cocaine. He had arrived in London from Franceβ€”where he was filming the TV miniseries
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Keach's version of Hammer was revived with 26 more syndicated episodes produced in 1997–1998 under the title
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On December 7, 1984, Keach pled guilty to the charge and immediately began serving a nine-month sentence in
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Jenny – The head barmaid at Mike's local watering hole the Lite N Easy Bar (played by Lee Benton)
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The following notable actors (including some future stars) and musicians appeared on the show:
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While firmly situated in the 1980s, the tone of the show also incorporated elements of classic
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In contrast to the charming male leads in other popular detective shows of the day (e.g.,
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A year later, Stacy Keach returned to his role as Hammer in the made-for-TV movie
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were usually killed by the protagonist by the time the closing credits rolled.
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was canceled after one season with the final episode airing on May 13, 1987.
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The movies and series were produced under the guidance of Executive Producer
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Ozzie "The Answer" – A know-it-all barfly at the Lite N Easy Bar (played by
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was initially envisioned as a stand-alone TV movie, but ultimately became a
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good behavior and soon began work on reviving the Mike Hammer franchise.
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Moochie – An affable pimp with links to New York's underworld, played by
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detective style, Hammer would rarely be seen without his wrinkled suit,
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ranked 59th out of 79 shows with an average rating/share of 11.9/19.
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Two years later, this series had a television film spin-off titled
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Ritchie – A newsstand salesman in Hammer's neighborhood (played by
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for the series when it was received positively by audiences).
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as Assistant District Attorney Lawrence D. Barrington
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Detective Hennessey – A police detective (played by
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Crime drama
Stacy Keach
Lindsay Bloom
Don Stroud
Kent Williams
Harlem Nocturne
list of episodes
Columbia Pictures Television
CBS
Mike Hammer, Private Eye
Stacy Keach
crime drama
CBS
Murder Me, Murder You
Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All
backdoor pilot
Jay Bernstein
Mickey Spillane
Mike Hammer
Mickey Spillane
film noir
The Maltese Falcon
hard-boiled

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