Noirsville Bonus - Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Noir TV Series (1958–1959)

Wedding Mourning - Directed by William Witney, written by Barry Shipman. DOP was Ray Rennahan.

The cast was Darren McGavin as Mike Hammer, Bart Burns as Captain Pat Chambers, Linda Lawsonas Kathy Dean, Vito Scotti  as Geta, Bernard Feinas the Bookie, David Fresco as Doppler,
Frank Yaconelli as Franco, Charles Horvath as a Hood (uncredited) and Boyd 'Red' Morgan as a Hood (uncredited).

Schmoozing

Mike is smitten by broad he sees in a restaurant. A bit complicated becuse he's on a date.
The woman like what she sees too.

Kathy Dean (Linda Lawsonas)

They hit it off Mike wines her and dines her to a montage of Times Square, Broadway and classy NYC clubs (its a sequence been reused before). Back after this whirlwind romance Mike proposes.

While Mike is pouring over travel brochures Geta calls and tells him he's got to talk to him "real fast." Geta tells Mike, for two fins that Moxie is making book on Mike's marriage. The odds are 100:1 that there will be no wedding. Mike brushes him off.

A half hour before the wedding Mike receives a telegram from Kathy stating that she can't go through with it. When Mike and his best man Pat Chambers get to her apartment they find out why. She is shot through the heart dead. Mike goes after Moxie.

After beating up Moxie and getting thumped by Moxie's crew he finds out there was no way that Moxie could have done it.

Geta (Vito Scotti)

Geta calls Mike a second time and tells him that he sold the out of town cannon the gun. He recognized it from the description in the papers. He tells Mike that Doppler arranged it.

A bit of a more noir-ish episode shot mostly on Hollywood sets. 7/10

Merchant Of Malice - Directed by William Witney, written by Robert Turner. DOP was John F. Warren.

This episode stars Darren McGavin as Mike Hammer, hammer-tomically correct Barbara Stuart as Gladys Donovan, Arthur Kendall as Max, Vito Scotti as Geta, James Flavin as Brink Donovan, Eddie Marr as Doto Byrd, Larry Perron as Gus Donovan, Brad Trumbull as Sgt. Flynn. 

a modern threat on tape

Hammer is going to the beach for a week. Before he splits, Mike gets in the mail, a package with a tape. It's from Gus a cheap hood he sent to the slammer eight years before. He threatens that he'll kill him, and that he can be anywhere at any time. Mike has gotten the same message before in telegrams, letters, and phone calls but never on tape. He splits.

 Sgt. Flynn (Brad Trumbull)

When Mike gets home he finds that he's got police protection. Finds that Gus' been spreading the lie that Mike got scared and left town. Finds that since he did leave they believe Gus.

Geta (Vito Scotti)

He goes out to track down Gus. First paying a visit to Geta who gives him a lead.

Mike and Gladys (Margaret Stewart)

Arcade

He checks with his wife who runs a penny arcade on Times Square. She tells Mike he's crazy and out to kill him. She doesn't know where he is though.Mike heads next to Gus's father Brink.

Mike and Brink (James Flavin)

Brink runs a neighborhood club. He tells Mike that he hasn't seen him. But Mike thinks he's hiding something in the room marked private. He is, it's an illegal card game.

Mike tells him that the cops may find out about it. Brink changes his tune telling Mike that he lied and has seen him. Tells Mike he asked for money, and that he's staying with an ex con he knows named "Dodo" Bird. "Dodo runs a 2nd hand shop in the Lower East Side.

"Dodo" Bird (Eddie Mar)

Dodo gets cooperative after some of his junk gets accidentally broken by Mike. It all ends in a nice twist.

A nice noir shootout in the arcade after hours. Mostly recycled NYC location shots bridging the studio sets shoots 8/10.