Mike Hammer (TV Series)

For Sale, Deathbed, Used (1958)

Darren McGavin: Mike Hammer

Quotes 

• Mike Hammer : [narrating]  Sam Earl was a part-time law student. He wanted to be a detective - otherwise, he was reasonably bright.

• Sam Earl : How do you expect to learn anything chasing after accident witnesses? We ought to go after this guy. We'd catch real headlines if we caught him.

  Mike Hammer : Junie, can't you do something about fat boy here? Now, he's a character. Now look at him - nice chubby little fellow, comparatively handsome... got a lovely wife, pleasant place to live and he wants to be a detective.

  Sam Earl : I gonna be, too - as good as you are.

  Mike Hammer : You want to be like me, huh? Do you know what it takes to be a successful private detective? You got to eat it and sleep it and drink it twenty-four hours a day. You hate and you hate it in return. Now you finish night law school and then if you still want to be a detective, you join the police department or the FBI.

• Mike Hammer : [narrating]  Did I say I lived with hate? I didn't know what it was. I was an amateur in the hate division until the morning they found Edie with her throat cut and her hands and face slashed.