Episode
Mike Hammer: Murder in the Cards
Overview
Mike Hammer's determination to rescue the son of an old army buddy from a trial for robbery and murder sends him on an eerie mission to an upstate fishing lodge where danger waits.
Details
- Series
- Mike Hammer
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1986-12-03
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Murder in the Cards is Episode 8 in Season 3 of Mike Hammer. It aired on 1986-12-03. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 7: Harlem Nocturne
A man on parole wants Hammer to find his former girlfriend, who he hasn't seen for eight years. The man had been in jail for an armoured car robbery where the money wasn't found, which is crucial to understanding her current whereabouts.
Episode 9: Requiem for Billy
Mike Hammer looks for the answer to who killed his young friend, but all he encounters are more questions.
More episodes from this season
Episode 6: Mistress for the Prosecution
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.
Episode 10: Little Miss Murder
A private school girl hires Hammer to find her father, a man who was the getaway driver for a hotel robbery to order to fund his daughter's school fees. The solution goes all the way up the social ladder to a senate candidate.
Episode 5: To Kill a Friend
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.
Episode 11: To Kill John Doe
A man with no memory walks into Hammer's office and wants to know who he is. It turns out he is an scientist wanted by the KGB. There are many twists and turns as Hammer tries to save him despite not being helped by the local agents.
Episode 4: Mike's Baby
Hammer finds an abandoned baby boy that is struggling to live, addicted to heroin. Searching for the boy's mother, Hammer finds her overdosed on heroin and strychnine. Who killed her, who's the boy's father and why did she really die?
Episode 12: Elegy for a Tramp
When actress whom Mike knows dies when she jumped off her apartment, MIke wonders if someone pushed her to it. He starts by asking around and learns that she was abused emotionally.
Episode 3: Golden Lady
A union worker is murdered and Hammer is employed by his widow to help her get money owed to her from his pension fund. Hammer finds that the money has been embezzled through overseas accounts, but who was overseeing the fraud?
Episode 13: Body Shot
An aging boxer, desperate for money, is training for a fight but his sister is concerned as he is having blackouts. She asks Hammer to find out what is happening. When he investigates there seem to be other factors affecting the fight.
Episode 2: Dead Pigeon
An undercover cop is murdered and Hammer is framed for his murder. In the middle is Sheila Forbes, the cop's wife and Hammer's former girlfriend. Hammer has to find out who really did the murder and why.
Episode 14: Who Killed Sister Lorna?
Sister Lorna disappears and Hammer is hired to find her. It turns out her husband was in a big payroll robbery and the money disappeared. When Sister Lorna is murdered, Hammer is determined to find the murderer and the money.