Your best friend dies in YOUR car. Time to break some skulls, '50s style.
Mickey Spillane's hard-hitting '50s private eye, Mike Hammer, returns to television in the guise of Kevin Dobson to track down the killer of his best friend who was driving Hammer's car. Joining in the hunt are the detective's Girl Friday, the ever-hopeful Velda, and his cop friend, Pat Chambers.
Acting
Kevin Dobson's jawline does 90% of the acting.
Production
Set design screams 'we had a budget for ONE period car.'
Costume
Fedora budget: astronomical. Everything else: thrift store.
Director
Daniel Haller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a failed pilot for a proposed Mike Hammer series that CBS passed on—Dobson's Hammer never got his weekly revenge.
Spillane himself reportedly hated most adaptations of his work; this one's attempt to sanitize his brutal worldview for prime time probably didn't help.
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