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Sledge Hammer!

Sledge Hammer!

CAV (Sep 23, 1986)
Horror | Television | Thriller
USA | English | Color | 15:02
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
014381776522
| 1 disc
Region 0

This collection contains:
- Sledge Hammer!: Series 1 (1986)
- Sledge Hammer!: Series 2 (1987)


Cast View all

David Rasche Sledge Hammer
Anne-Marie Martin Dori Doreau
Harrison Page Captain Trunk
Leslie Morris Officer Majoy
Patti Tippo Officer Daley
Kurt Paul Coroner Norman Blates
Diane Sainte-Marie Lisa Ellerblub
Carl Ciarfalio Man in Restaurant
Mark Blankfield Joey the Slug
Joanne Baron Wanda Hobbs
Dorothy Dells The Judge
Deborah Wakeham Jessica Hayden
Michael Ensign Claude Goldfunger
Michele Marsh Inez Tieup
David Leisure Guard Chester
Don Stark Kurt Kruggle
Dennis Fimple Informant
Toni Attell Officer Grace
Alan Blumenfeld Doctor
Monte Landis Hotel Manager
Brion James Don Merrill
Beverly Leech Officer Elizabeth Jenkins
Mike Tino Bodyguard
Lisa Robins Student Driver
Doc Duhame Bus Driver

Crew View all

Director Bill Bixby
Charles Braverman
Jackie Cooper
David Wechter
Reza Badiyi
Gary Walkow
Dick Martin
Daniel Attias
Bruce Bilson
Martha Coolidge
Charles S. Dubin
Kim Manners
James Sheldon
Seymour Robbie
Thomas Schlamme
Bob Sweeney
Writer Alan Spencer, Brian Pollack, Mert Rich, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Rod Ash, Mark Curtiss, Anthony DiMarco, David Ketchum, Chris Ruppenthal, Jim Fisher, Jim Staahl, Gerald Gardner, Diana Ayers, Daniel Benton, Deborah Raznick, Susan Sebastian, Ron Friedman, Tino Insana, Bret Kofford, Brooke Kofford, Alan Mandel, Doug Molitor, Robert Wuhl, Alicia Marie Schudt
Producer Alan Spencer, Thomas John Kane, Byron Chudnow, Robert Ewing, Ron Friedman, Rod Ash, Mark Curtiss, Anthony DiMarco, David Ketchum, Chris Ruppenthal, Jim Fisher, Jim Staahl, Gerald Gardner, Diana Ayers, Daniel Benton, Deborah Raznick, Susan Sebastian, Ron Friedman, Tino Insana, Bret Kofford, Brooke Kofford, Alan Mandel, Doug Molitor, Robert Wuhl, Alicia Marie Schudt, James Ragan, Robert Birnbaum, William P. D'Angelo, Alan C. Blomquist, Robert Lovenheim
Musician Lance Rubin, Richard Stone, Ron Grant, Don Davis, Arthur Kempel, Rod Ash, Mark Curtiss, Anthony DiMarco, David Ketchum, Chris Ruppenthal, Jim Fisher, Jim Staahl, Gerald Gardner, Diana Ayers, Daniel Benton, Deborah Raznick, Susan Sebastian, Ron Friedman, Tino Insana, Bret Kofford, Brooke Kofford, Alan Mandel, Doug Molitor, Robert Wuhl, Alicia Marie Schudt, James Ragan, Robert Birnbaum, William P. D'Angelo, Alan C. Blomquist, Robert Lovenheim, Arthur B. Rubinstein, David Spear, Ron Ramin
Photography Norman Leigh, Chuck Colwell, Arthur Albert

Episodes View details

1 S1E1: Under the Gun 29 min | 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.

Guest stars: Joe Under, Larry Wilmore, Jesse Aragon, D.W. Brown, Joanne Baron, Don Stark, John Lawlor, Judie Aaronson, John Vernon
2 S1E2: Hammer Gets Nailed | 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.

Guest stars: William Hubbard Knight, Mert Rich, Robert Hallick, Tim McDaniel, Erik Cord, Ronnie Schell
3 S1E3: Witless | Oct 03, 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.

Guest stars: Bob Corso, Howard S. Miller, Mike Tino, Phil Diskin, Basil Hoffman, John Milford, Ann Ryerson, Lewis Arquette, Al Ruscio, Don Phillip, Alan Spencer
4 S1E4: They Shoot Hammers, Don't They? | 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.

Guest stars: Doc Duhame, Paul Picerni, David Starwalt, Shawn Donahue, Frank Wagner, Doug Allen, Neith Hunter, David Livingston, Simmy Bow, Floyd Levin, Charlie Brill, Dennis Fimple, Jack Thibeau, Jonathan Brandis
5 S1E5: Dori Day Afternoon | Oct 24, 1986

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

Guest stars: Dorothy Patterson, Kate Stern, Coleby Lombardo, Michael Ensign, Britt Leach, Frank Doubleday
6 S1E6: To Sledge, with Love | 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.

Guest stars: Paul Keith, Paul T. Murray, Brian Tarantina, Michael Cramer, Stuart Fratkin, Norman Alden, Shawn Klugman
7 S1E7: All Shook Up | Nov 07, 1986

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

Guest stars: Robert Wexler, Pete Wilcox, Mark Lowenthal, Jonathan Von Brana, Viveca Parker, Lee Shael, Tom McFadden, Raymond Ma, Kurt Paul
8 S1E8: Over My Dead Bodyguard | 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.

Guest stars: John Toles-Bey, Mike Michaud, Alba Francesca, Robert O'Reilly, Tracy Reed
9 S1E9: Magnum Farce | 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.

Guest stars: Kathleen Bailey, Jay Rasumny, David Leisure, Mark Rolston, Janice Lynde, Kathleen Bailey, Janice Lynde
10 S1E10: If I Had a Little Hammer | 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.

Guest stars: Sherri Stoner, Dennis Fimple, Burton Collins, Jeannie Elias, Margaret Must, Michele Marsh, Brion James
11 S1E11: To Live and Die on TV | 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.

Guest stars: Cindy Roberts, Arlene Banas, Toni Attell, Suzanne Von Schaak, Ken Lerner, Peter Marshall
12 S1E12: Miss of the Spider Woman | 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.

Guest stars: Duane Tucker, Brenda Strong, Shelly Desai, Alan Blumenfeld, Eileen Barnett, Karen Lynn Scott
13 S1E13: The Old Man and the Sledge | Jan 03, 1987

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

Guest stars: Daniel Radell, Alan Fudge, Kurt Paul, Stephen Elliott
14 S1E14: State of Sledge | 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.

Guest stars: Toni Attell, Debra DeLiso, Mark Blankfield, Tom Henschel, Darren Powell, John Dunsmore, John Densmore, Robert O'Reilly
15 S1E15: Haven't Gun, Will Travel | Jan 17, 1987

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

Guest stars: Jeff Doucette, Jerry Hosuer, Allan Miller, Bill Dana
16 S1E16: The Color of Hammer | 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.

Guest stars: Jacklyn Zeman, Anthony James, Allan Rich, Martine Beswick
17 S1E17: Brother, Can You Spare a Crime? | 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.

Guest stars: Mie Hunt, Dorothy Dells, Susan Krebs, Mie Hunt, Patrick Wayne
18 S1E18: Desperately Seeking Dori | Feb 07, 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.

Guest stars: Alan Blumenfeld, Robert Tessier, Rod McCary, Kevin Scott Allen
19 S1E19: Sledgepoo | 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.

Guest stars: Clive Revill, George Dickerson, Kurt Paul, Don Stark, Patti Tippo, Michael Des Barres
20 S1E20: Comrade Hammer | 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.

Guest stars: Lisa Long, Curt Ciarfallo, Richard Reicheg, Lee Garlington, Mark Blankfield
21 S1E21: Jagged Sledge | 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.

Guest stars: David Sederholm, Gerrit Graham, Diane Sainte-Marie, Edmund Stoiber, Conchata Ferrell
22 S1E22: The Spa Who Loved Me 24 min | 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.

Guest stars: Michelle Russell, Lance LeGault, Mary Woronov, Robin Leach
23 S2E1: A Clockwork Hammer 25 min | Sep 17, 1987

Vile Video Concepts conditions cops not to testify against a mobster; Hammer meets a computerized version of himself.

Guest stars: Beverly Leech, John Zenda, Dorothy Dells, Leslie Morris, Eugene Robert Glazer, Ken Letner, Sal Viscuso, Nicholas Guest, Dan Lauria
24 S2E2: Big Nazi on Campus 25 min | Sep 24, 1987

Sledge and Dori investigate the death of a college coed.

Guest stars: Larry Poindexter, Aubrey Morris, Ray Walston
25 S2E3: Play It Again, Sledge 25 min | Oct 01, 1987

When Sledge and Dori get suspended from the force, they open a private investigation firm with counseling from Bogart's ghost.

Guest stars: Sarah Douglas, Maria Richwine, Robert Sacchi
26 S2E4: Wild About Hammer 25 min | Oct 08, 1987

A female cop with a sadistic/ masochistic fetish falls for and kidnaps Sledge.

Guest stars: Beverly Leech
27 S2E5: Death of a Few Salesmen 25 min | Oct 15, 1987

Sledge poses as an Australian car magnate, Crocodile Bruce, to catch the killer of used car dealers.

Guest stars: Dale Harimoto, John Homa, Joanne Baron, Victoria Carroll
28 S2E6: Vertical 25 min | Oct 29, 1987

While suffering from vertigo, Sledge must protect the girlfriend of a mobster.

Guest stars: Leslie Norris, Mario Roccuzzo, Al Israel, Deborah Harmon
29 S2E7: Dressed to Call 25 min | Nov 05, 1987

Sledge must discover who's making threatening calls to a radio psychologist.

Guest stars: Bill Zuckert, Phil Diskin, Elizabeth Hart, Christine Healy
30 S2E8: Hammer Hits the Rock (a.k.a. Sledge on the Rock) 25 min | Nov 12, 1987

Sledge poses as an assassin to discover a mobster's secret hideout.

Guest stars: Hope North, Bill Bixby, David Leisure, Kurt Fuller, Leslie Ray, Richard Bakalyan
31 S2E9: Last of the Red Hot Vampires 25 min | Nov 19, 1987

An old time movie vampire is falsely accused of murdering his cast and crew.

Guest stars: Greta Blackburn, Robert Fieldsteel, James Cavan, MernaLyn, Diane Sainte-Marie, Deborah Wakeham, Bud Cort, Bernie Kopell
32 S2E10: Hammeroid 25 min | Nov 26, 1987

After breaking nearly all his bones, Sledge encases himself in a robotic suit to stop a robot.

Guest stars: Sid Haig, Armin Shimerman, Tony Fasce, Carl Ciarfalio, Richard Moll
33 S2E11: Sledge in Toyland 25 min | Dec 03, 1987

Sledge is sent to investigate when a toy manufacturer is attacked by one of his own toys.

Guest stars: Ronan O'Casey, Michele Marsh, Michael Ensign, David Clennon, Eli Marder
34 S2E12: Icebreaker 25 min | Dec 10, 1987

Sledge finds himself competing with a British cop.

Guest stars: Fritz Feld, Adam Ant
35 S2E13: They Call Me Mr. Trunk 25 min | Dec 17, 1987

Trunk must solve the puzzle of why the army has surrounded the entire precinct before the entire staff dies.

Guest stars: Diane Sainte-Marie, Dallas Cole, Jim Bentley, Norman Fell, Greg Travis, Edy Williams, William Smithers
36 S2E14: Model Dearest 25 min | Jan 07, 1988

Dori poses as a model to get the dirt on a white slavery ring.

Guest stars: Nancy Parker, Joanne Baron, Mort Sertner, Jill Jacobson, Deborah Wakeham, Brion James
37 S2E15: Sledge, Rattle, 'n' Roll 25 min | Jan 15, 1988

Hammer investigates the mysterious deaths of a heavy metal group and their manager.

Guest stars: Tommy Swerdlow, Dana Williams, B.J. Barie, Lee Arenberg, Page Moseley, Davy Jones, Alan Baltes
38 S2E16: Suppose They Gave a War and Sledge Came? 25 min | Jan 22, 1988

To investigate the death of a prominent businessman, Sledge joins a weekend war gaming organization.

Guest stars: Lisa Robins, Roderick Cook, John Paragon, Anthony De Longis
39 S2E17: The Secret of My Excess 25 min | Jan 29, 1988

Sledge tracks down a yuppie's dirty deeds.

Guest stars: Anna Marlowe, Mark Blankfield, Mark Holton, Marianne Muellerleile, Ernie Sabella, Susie Loucks, Mary Otis, James Karen
40 S2E18: It Happened What Night? 25 min | Feb 05, 1988

The precinct thinks that Sledge and Dori have slept together when all that appears on a surveillance tape is them drunk and in bed.

Guest stars: Bob Frank, John C. Cooke, Sandy Kenton, Monte Landis, Mike Pniewski, Stanley Brock
41 S2E19: Here's to You, Mrs. Hammer 25 min | Feb 12, 1988

Sledge's ex-wife marries his best high school friend & forces Sledge to think about his lifestyle.

Guest stars: Walter Sylvest, Chris Jackson, Michael Kaufman, Heather Lupton