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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In "Mike Hammer, Private Eye", Captain Skip Gleason (Creator/PeterJason) takes over for Captain Pat Chambers (Don Stroud), who appeared in the 1980's series.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In "Mike Hammer, Private Eye", Captain Skip Gleason (Creator/PeterJason) takes over for Captain Pat Chambers (Don Stroud), (Creator/DonStroud), who appeared in the 1980's series.
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** After Stacy Keach was arrested, there was talk of hiring his brother Creator/JamesKeach to replace him.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In "Mike Hammer, Private Eye", Captain Skip Gleason (played by Peter Jason) takes over for Captain Pat Chambers (Don Stroud), who appeared in the 1980's series.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In "Mike Hammer, Private Eye", Captain Skip Gleason (played by Peter Jason) (Creator/PeterJason) takes over for Captain Pat Chambers (Don Stroud), who appeared in the 1980's series.

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* ReferencedBy: Music/JohnZorn devoted a ConceptAlbum to the novels, simply called ''Music/{{Spillane}}''.

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Music/JohnZorn devoted a ConceptAlbum to the novels, simply called ''Music/{{Spillane}}''.''Music/{{Spillane}}''.
** ''Series/DeepSpaceNine''. Constable Odo is a fan of Mickey Spillane, and Quark catches him reading ''I, The Jury''.
** ''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.
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* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: The initial run of the 1980s version was canceled when Stacy Keach was arrested in England for cocaine possession; with Keach serving 6 months in prison after pleading guilty.

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* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: The initial run of the 1980s version was canceled halted when Stacy Keach was arrested in England for cocaine possession; with Keach serving 6 months in prison after pleading guilty.



* UnCancelled: After the 1980s run of the show was cancelled, the show was revived in 1997 as ''Mike Hammer, Private Eye'' with the same cast.

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* UnCancelled: After Keach's release from prison, a SoftReboot for the 1980s run third season of the show was cancelled, greenlit, and began airing a 18 months after the show was revived in 1997 as ''Mike Hammer, Private Eye'' with the same cast.second season ended.
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* 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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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In "Mike Hammer, Private Eye", Captain Skip Gleason (played by Peter Jason) takes over for Captain Pat Chambers (Don Stroud), who appeared in the 1980's series.
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* ReferencedBy: Music/JohnZorn devoted a ConceptAlbum to the novels, simply called ''Music/{{Spillane}}''.
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* MoneyDearBoy: Mickey Spillane stated that his primary motivation for writing Mike Hammer novels was the lucra and that he only wrote a new one when he needed more.

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* MoneyDearBoy: Mickey Spillane stated that his primary motivation for writing Mike Hammer novels was the lucra lucre and that he only wrote a new one when he needed more.
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* MoneyDearBoy: Mickey Spillane stated that his primary motivation for writing Mike Hammer novels was the lucra and that he only wrote a new one when he needed more.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Lindsay Bloom and Shannon Whirry as Velda in the Stacy Keach series.
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* UnCancelled: After the 1980s run of the show was cancelled, the show was revived in 1997 as ''Mike Hammer, Private Eye'' with the same cast.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/RalphBakshi tried to produce an animated film based on the Spillane novels. It fell through.

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Creator/RalphBakshi tried to produce an animated film based on the Spillane novels. It fell through.
** 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.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: For anyone who watched the short-lived FOX sitcom ''Titus'', the guy who played Mike Hammer is the same one who plays Titus' hard-drinking, chain-smoking, wussy-hating, five-times-divorced dad, Ken.
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* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: The initial run of the 1980s version was canceled when Stacy Keach was arrested in England for cocaine possession; with Keach serving 6 months in prison after pleading guilty.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: RalphBakshi tried to produce an animated film based on the Spillane novels. It fell through.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: RalphBakshi Creator/RalphBakshi tried to produce an animated film based on the Spillane novels. It fell through.through.

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*RetroactiveRecognition: For anyone who watched the short-lived FOX sitcom ''Titus'', the guy who played Mike Hammer is the same one who plays Titus' hard-drinking, chain-smoking, wussy-hating, five-times-divorced dad, Ken.

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