Murder Me, Murder You

Murder Me, Murder You
Double feature DVD together with More Than Murder
Genre	Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Created by	Mickey Spillane
Written by	Bill Stratton
Directed by	Gary Nelson
Starring	Stacy Keach Tanya Roberts Don Stroud Kent Williams Delta Burke Tom Atkins Jonathan Banks
Theme music composer	Earle Hagen J.J. Johnson
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Larry A. Thompson Jay Bernstein
Producer(s)	Lew Gallo Lana Wood (associate producer)
Cinematography	Gayne Rescher
Editor(s)	Donald R. Rode
Running time	96 minutes (approx.)
Production company(s)	Columbia Pictures Television Jay Bernstein Productions
Distributor	CBS
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	April 9, 1983

Murder Me, Murder You is a made-for-television movie starring Stacy Keach as Mickey Spillane's iconic hard-boiled private detective, Mike Hammer. The movie was a follow-up to another TV-movie first aired in 1981, Margin for Murder, in which the fictitious gumshoe was portrayed by Kevin Dobson. The Dobson movie, which did not lead to a series, marked the first time the character was depicted on the small-screen since Darren McGavin played the part in the black-and-white version of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, a syndicated television series (1958–60). Murder Me, Murder You was the first of two pilots featuring Keach in the part - the other being More Than Murder - that blazed a path for the 1980s version of the CBS series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer which debuted on January 28, 1984.

Mike is hired to protect Chris Jameson (Michelle Phillips), an old flame who he hasn't seen in almost 20 years. Chris heads up an all female high-risk courier agency that has become tied up in a dangerous exchange involving high-stakes bribes by an American helicopter manufacturer to a corrupt General in Central America. Chris nonetheless drops dead in the middle of testifying before a grand jury, but not before informing Mike that he has a 19-year-old daughter who is caught in the middle of everything and might already be dead.