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That Hammer Guy

Networks
Mutual (as its archives name them)
Heard
1953
Episodes
22

"That Hammer Guy" made its radio debut in 1953, at the height of Mickey Spillane's tough, trigger-happy, skirt-chasing detective Mike Hammer's popularity. Broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System from January 6, 1953 until October 5, 1953, "That Hammer Guy" didn't feature any scripts by Spillane, but writer Ed Adamson did manage to capture Spillane's gritty world and colorful language. The show originally starred Larry Haines as Mike Hammer. He was later replaced by Ted de Corsia.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. The Laura Fenton Case

    · 25 min

  2. Saddle Shoes (April 7, 1953)

    No date given · 28 min

  3. The Laura Fenton Case (April 14, 1953)

    No date given · 25 min

  4. Contract on a Dead Man (May 5, 1953)

    No date given · 24 min

  5. Faye Durando (1953)

    No date given · No. 1953 · 22 min

  6. Man in a Wheelchair (1953)

    No date given · No. 1953 · 27 min

  7. The Barney Miller Syndicate (1953)

    No date given · No. 1953 · 26 min

  8. The Dead Dame in the Park (1953) (Larry Haines)

    No date given · No. 1953 · 24 min

  9. The Dead Dame in the Park (1953) (Ted de Corsia)

    No date given · No. 1953 · 23 min

  10. The Jim Gordon Case (1953)

    No date given · No. 1953 · 26 min

  11. The Wakefield Dame (1953)

    No date given · No. 1953 · 26 min

  12. Velda's Brother (1953)

    No date given · No. 1953 · 21 min

  13. Barney Miller Syndicate

    No date given · 26 min

  14. 53xxxx xx Wakefield Dame Ted de Corsia

    No date given · 24 min

  15. Contract on a Dead Man

    No date given · 24 min

  16. Dead Dame in the Park

    No date given · 23 min

  17. Faye Durando

    No date given · 22 min

  18. Hammer Framed for Murder

    No date given · 23 min

  19. Man in Wheelchair

    No date given · 25 min

  20. Zelda's Brother

    No date given · 19 min

Where it comes from 2

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. That Hammer Guy

    Old Time Radio · 11 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  2. That Hammer Guy

    Old Time Radio · 11 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

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