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1	* MoneyDearBoy: Mickey Spillane stated that his primary motivation for writing Mike Hammer novels was the lucre and that he only wrote a new one when he needed more.
2	* TheOtherDarrin: Lindsay Bloom and Shannon Whirry as Velda in the Stacy Keach series.
3	* RealLifeRelative: Creator/StacyKeach's wife Malgosia Tomassi guest-starred as one of the villains in the New Mike Hammer episode "A Blinding Fear" and later was a regular on "Mike Hammer, Private Eye" as Maya, a dance instructor who had a studio in the same building as Hammer's office.
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5	** Music/JohnZorn devoted a ConceptAlbum to the novels, simply called ''Music/{{Spillane}}''.
6	** ''Series/DeepSpaceNine''. Constable Odo is a fan of Mickey Spillane, and Quark catches him reading ''I, The Jury''.
7	** ''Series/{{MASH}}''. In [[Recap/MashS9E10OperationFriendship "Operation Friendship"]], Klinger has Winchester read from ''I, The Jury'' while [[IOweYouMyLife he's recovering from an injury received while saving Winchester's life]]. The pompous Winchester isn't happy at having to read what to him is a trashy novel.
8	* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: The initial run of the 1980s version was halted when Stacy Keach was arrested in England for cocaine possession; with Keach serving 6 months in prison after pleading guilty.
9	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In "Mike Hammer, Private Eye", Captain Skip Gleason (Creator/PeterJason) takes over for Captain Pat Chambers (Creator/DonStroud), who appeared in the 1980's series.
10	* UnCancelled: After Keach's release from prison, a SoftReboot for the third season of the show was greenlit, and began airing a 18 months after the second season ended.
11	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
12	** Creator/RalphBakshi tried to produce an animated film based on the Spillane novels. It fell through.
13	** A musical about Mike Hammer was written in the late 1960s, with songs by the Oscar-winning songwriter Johnny Mercer, but it was never produced.
14	** After Stacy Keach was arrested, there was talk of hiring his brother Creator/JamesKeach to replace him.

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