Episode
Mike Hammer: To Kill a Friend
Overview
Hammer leads a manhunt for a hood who, in the course of a jewel robbery, has gunned down Hammer's friend and left him with a bullet-riddled right arm.
Details
- Series
- Mike Hammer
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1986-11-05
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
To Kill a Friend is Episode 5 in Season 3 of Mike Hammer. It aired on 1986-11-05. The runtime is 60 min.
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Barrington is drugged and a blackmailer takes some compromising photos of him. He is being asked to lose all his current cases. He then asks Hammer to help him find out who is blackmailing him and why.
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Episode 7: Harlem Nocturne
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Episode 2: Dead Pigeon
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Episode 8: Murder in the Cards
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Episode 1: Deirdre
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Episode 9: Requiem for Billy
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Episode 10: Little Miss Murder
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Episode 11: To Kill John Doe
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Episode 12: Elegy for a Tramp
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Episode 13: Body Shot
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