Sledge Hammer!

The adventures of a deranged and dumb police detective who always looks for the most violent solution to any problem.

Cast:David Rasche , Anne-Marie Martin , Harrison Page , Leslie Morris , Patti Tippo , Kurt Paul , Diane Sainte-Marie , Carl Ciarfalio , Mark Blankfield , Joanne Baron , Dorothy Dells , Deborah Wakeham , Michael Ensign , Michele Marsh , Don Stark , David Leisure , Dennis Fimple , Alan Blumenfeld

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Under the Gun

Tue, Sep 23, 1986

Violence-prone Sledge Hammer is assigned to head up the investigation when the mayor's daughter is abducted, but he predictably objects to a requirement that he work with female detective Dori Doreau.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Hammer Gets Nailed

Fri, Sep 26, 1986

A local TV newscaster creates bitter public feeling toward the police department when he reports and editorializes adversely on what he sees during a day-long ride with Sledge and Dori.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Witless

Fri, Oct 3, 1986

When an organized crime boss puts a price on his head, Sledge is able to take refuge with a peace-loving "Maninote" farmer and his daughter.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ They Shoot Hammers, Don't They?

Fri, Oct 17, 1986

Prison escapee John Kogan commandeers a bus and launches a one-man wave of crime and violence, pledging to stop only if Sledge agrees to meet him in a one-on-one gunfight.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Dori Day Afternoon

Fri, Oct 24, 1986

Sledge and Dori find themselves in a hostage situation as a result of a foiled bank robbery.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ To Sledge, with Love

Fri, Oct 31, 1986

Sledge is assigned to bring order to a notoriously dangerous local high school that is dominated by four young toughs who supply stolen cars to a crime boss.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ All Shook Up

Fri, Nov 7, 1986

Sledge goes undercover to learn why Elvis impersonators are being systematically murdered with a gold microphone.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Over My Dead Bodyguard

Fri, Nov 14, 1986

The commissioner personally assigns Sledge to guard Captain Trunk in order to ensure the Captain's safety until he is able to provide critical testimony before a grand jury.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Magnum Farce

Sat, Nov 22, 1986

Sledge becomes even more violent than usual as part of an attempt to infiltrate a group of vigilante police officers who are executing recently acquitted criminal defendants.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ If I Had a Little Hammer

Sat, Nov 29, 1986

Sledge and Dori pose as a well-to-do childless couple in an attempt to catch a pair of thieves who steal babies and sell them to prospective parents with ready cash.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ To Live and Die on TV

Sat, Dec 13, 1986

Sledge becomes a contestant on "The Million Dollar Question" in an attempt to prove that the show's host was responsible for the murder of a successful contestant.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Miss of the Spider Woman

Sat, Dec 20, 1986

An exotic woman attempts to extract revenge on her ex-lover by poisoning him, but the near-sighted assassin gives the poison to Sledge instead.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ The Old Man and the Sledge

Sat, Jan 3, 1987

Sledge tries to provide help and guidance to Gil Yates, a retired trigger-happy police officer whom he idolized as a boy.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ State of Sledge

Sat, Jan 10, 1987

After Sledge arrests the leader of a Satanic cult, the undermanned precinct soon finds itself under siege by a mob of the cult leader's bloodthirsty followers.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Haven't Gun, Will Travel

Sat, Jan 17, 1987

Sledge experiences a complete loss of confidence when his beloved .44 Magnum is stolen by a conniving gang of thieves.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ The Color of Hammer

Sat, Jan 24, 1987

When a hard-line judge is blackmailed and later murdered, Sledge and Dori's best available clue is that he was an inveterate pool player.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Brother, Can You Spare a Crime?

Sat, Jan 31, 1987

A man shows up claiming to be Hammer's brother but Hammer claims he doesn't have a brother. Everyone's taken with him including Doreau who goes out with him. But while on their date she catches him in a lie proving that he isn't Hammer's brother.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Desperately Seeking Dori

Sat, Feb 7, 1987

Bad news for the city's scum suckers: a blow to the head results in Dori Doreau adopting the ultra-violent personality and mannerisms of her partner, Sledge Hammer.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Sledgepoo

Sat, Feb 14, 1987

The Earl of Curl beauty parlor is a front for a cat burglar ring targeting wealthy women. Sledge infiltrates the ring by going undercover as a second-story man.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Comrade Hammer

Sat, Feb 21, 1987

Sledge and Dori must safely escort a defecting Soviet scientist on a passenger train filled with communist agents determined to take him back.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Jagged Sledge

Tue, Apr 21, 1987

Sledge is on trial for the cold-blooded murder of racketeer Hugo Victor. Serving as his own attorney, Sledge sets out to prove his innocence in the face of overwhelming evidence of his guilt.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ The Spa Who Loved Me

Tue, Apr 28, 1987

A bevy of bikini-clad 'terrorettes' steal a nuclear warhead and threaten to blow up the city unless their billion dollar demand is met. Sledge and Dori trace the suspects to a health spa operated by aerobics video magnate Jill Taylor.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ A Clockwork Hammer

Thu, Sep 17, 1987

Sledge is abducted by a former television executive whose brainwashing operation reprograms its victim's minds through unrelenting and unmerciful exposure to television programming.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Big Nazi on Campus

Thu, Sep 24, 1987

Sledge and Dori investigate the murder of a history student who was studying Hitler's Third Reich. Suspects include her burly quarterback boyfriend and her kindly, old history professor.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Play It Again Sledge

Thu, Oct 1, 1987

When Sledge gets suspended he decides to try being a P.I.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Wild About Hammer

Thu, Oct 8, 1987

Hammer and Doreau meet Officer Elizabeth Jenkins after Sledge stops a getaway car. Jenkins takes an unhealthy interest in Hammer and shows up on his doorstep. After she throws herself at him, he rejects her, and she shoots him. The bullet grazes his temple. Jenkins makes Doreau think that she and Sledge spent the night together. The next morning, Sledge arrives at work and is shunned by everyone. Captain Trunk calls him into his office and informs Hammer that Jenkins is filing charges against him for assault and sexual harassment. Hammer says he's innocent but no one believes him. After Sledge turns in his badge -- poking Trunk in the hand with the pin -- and walks out, Doreau notices a smile on Jenkins' face, and begins to think Hammer is telling the truth. After confronting Jenkins that night, Doreau is tied up and gagged. Hammer arrives unexpectedly and fights with Jenkins, resulting in Jenkins falling out of a window, to her death, on the oceanfront rocks below.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Death of a Few Salesmen

Thu, Oct 15, 1987

After a used car salesman dies mysteriously on live television, Hammer and Doreau investigate. They discover that there have been a string of used car salesman that have also died, and that they have one common factor, the salesmen were all married to the same woman. Hammer goes undercover as Australian car dealer, "Crocodile Bruce," (a spoof of Crocodile Dundee) in order to catch the killer.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Vertical

Thu, Oct 29, 1987

In a spoof of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, Hammer is assigned to guard Angelica, a mobster's girlfriend, who is scheduled to testify at a trial. They bond over a mutual love of guns and violence. As they are climbing a set of stairs at her favorite spot, a lighthouse, a mystery man grabs her and takes her to the top. Hammer is unable to follow, because he has developed an intense fear of heights. He watches helplessly as Angelica is pushed over the side and falls to her death. Later at a bar, Hammer sees a woman resembling Angelica, and sets out to prove that maybe she's not dead after all.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Dressed to Call

Thu, Nov 5, 1987

A new female radio psychologist moves to town and starts a show directed towards helping women with their problems. A male caller starts phoning into the show and harassing the doctor. When the calls start including threats of violence, she goes to police for help. Hammer and Doreau are assigned to investigate the case. They decide to arrange a trap with Hammer staying at the doctor's apartment, while the women stay at his apartment. The plan backfires when the suspect shows up at Hammer's apartment anyway.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Hammer Hits the Rock

Thu, Nov 12, 1987

The FBI has learned that mobster Clive Winston is planning a prison break. They recruit Hammer to go undercover, because they don't want to risk of their own men. Hammer, pretending to be a famous hitman, gets put into the same cell as Winston. Winston does not like him at first. However, when one of the inmates recognizes Hammer and tries to kill him, Winston mistakenly thinks he was the target, and that Sledge saved his life. He then lets Hammer in on the breakout plan.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Last of the Red Hot Vampires

Thu, Nov 19, 1987

On the set of a movie, actor Vincent Lagarski is attempting his big comeback in the role of a vampire. After blowing a scene, the director has had enough, and fires him. Lagarski is later announced on the news as dying a short time later. The director also ends up dead that same evening after being attacked by a vampire bat. Hammer and Doreau head to the movie set to check things out. The day after their visit, the female co-star for the movie also ends up dead, and there are reported sightings of Lagarski around town. Has the actor returned from the grave seeking revenge?

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Hammeroid

Thu, Nov 26, 1987

An armored car is held up by a hooded criminal. Hammer and Doreau learn that the criminal is a robot named B.O.R.C. They go to visit an electronics expert, where B.O.R.C. attacks Hammer and puts him in the hospital. Hammer wants to get back on the case, but he's hampered by being in a full body cast. The electronics expert helps him out by turning him into a half-man, half machine being called Hammeroid (a spoof of Robocop). After nearly accidentally destroying Captain Trunk's office, Hammeroid head off to the eventual confrontation with B.O.R.C.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Sledge in Toyland

Thu, Dec 3, 1987

Toy company tycoon Milo Tieup is in a hotel room with his mistress preparing for a romantic tryst. While she is in the bathroom, a toy tank sneaks into the room through a doggie door, and shoots Tieup with a real bullet. Hammer and Doreau arrive at the scene, and question the mistress. Upon reporting back to Captain Trunk, Hammer accidentally let's it slip to Mrs. Tieup about her husband's affair. It turns out she was having her own affair with the company's lead toy designer, and that they were together when the murder took place. A short time later, the mistress winds up up dead as well having been killed in her bathtub by a toy submarine. Hammer and Doreau suddenly find themselves without suspects and a murderer still on the loose.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Icebreaker

Thu, Dec 10, 1987

When a Britsh agent arrives and informs them of a terrorist in the city, Sledge and Dorreau work with him. When Dorreau takes a liking to him Sledge butts in and Dorreau is upset with him.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ They Call Me Mr. Trunk

Thu, Dec 17, 1987

The military has developed a top secret new virus. A man that became infected has escaped. They alert the precinct to be on the lookout for this man, but don't tell them why. Hammer and Doreau find the man at a bar. Even though he was ordered not to touch him, Hammer brings him in, and accidentally infects the whole police station. Everyone on the staff, except for Captain Trunk, starts having hallucinations. The military quarantines the station, and plans to just let them die. This leaves Trunk on his own to find a way to save his squad.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Model Dearest

Thu, Jan 7, 1988

When Sledge meets a girl who is looking for her sister,whom he helps break into her sister's apartment. Later when the girl's attacked, he goes to the only place he knows of, the modeling agency where her sister worked. After making a fuss, the owner files a complaint. Later Dorreau goes undercover.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Sledge, Rattle 'n' Roll

Fri, Jan 15, 1988

Hammer and Doreau investigate the death of a rock star named Rak Vulture. Vulture was riding in his limo after a concert, when the car stopped. Vulture gets angry, and rolls down the window. The unseen driver then pulls a gun, and shoots him. While no one admits to the killing, due to Rak's crude nature and history of violence, no one, not even his own bandmates are sorry he's gone. Just when they think they have a suspect, Hammer and Doreau find the band's manager dead. Then a short time later, the band's plane also crashes leaving them dead as well.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Suppose They Gave a War and Sledge Came?

Fri, Jan 22, 1988

Hammer and Doreau investigate the murder of millionaire tycoon Edmund Bryce. Bryce was hosting a Paint Ball "War Games", but someone used a real bullet. Hammer and Doreau interview different executives with the company, and learn that while they all hated Bryce, each one has an alibi. Back at the office, Hammer gets an unsigned invitation from the killer to take part in the next "War Games." He accepts.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ The Secret of My Excess

Fri, Jan 29, 1988

The governor secretly brings Hammer to his mansion. The governor's daughter is missing, and he wants to enlist Hammer's help in getting her back. Hammer is also instructed not to tell anyone, because the governor is in the midst of a re-election campaign. Hammer calls in sick, which causes Trunk and Doreau to suspect something is up. Doreau follows Hammer to a strip club for ladies, and Hammer accidentally reveals his mission to her.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ It Happened What Night?

Fri, Feb 5, 1988

An old friend of Captain Trunk's, Roy Talbot, asks for help in cracking one last case before he retires. They are staking out a drug deal that's going down at a hotel. Hammer and Doreau go undercover as a couple on their honeymoon. A bellboy brings them a complimentary bottle of champagne. Hammer and Doreau start drinking. Trunk, Talbot, and other officers get ready to make the bust, but can't find Hammer and Doreau. They burst into the Honeymoon Suite, and find Hammer and Doreau in bed together. Neither can remember what happened.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Here's to You, Mrs. Hammer

Fri, Feb 12, 1988

Sledge runs into his best bud from high school, now a defense lawyer. Rekindling of their friendship comes to a halt when he learns that his friend is about to marry his ex-wife. Sledge is forced to face the fact that he has no one.