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Sledge Hammer!

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aired from: Sep 1986 to: Feb 1988 41 eps ABC 30 min mono ________________

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  • David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer
  • Anne Marie Martin as Detective Dori Doreau
  • Harrison Page as Captain Trunk


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      1st Season 1986

    1. _"Sledge Hammer!"

      Hammer and his new partner Doreau must rescue the mayor's daughter.

      b: 23 Sep 86 pc: _________ w: Alan Spencer d: Martha Coolidge
    2. _"Hammer Gets Nailed"
      gs: Ronnie Schell [ Unknown ]

      A tv reporter follows Sledge and Dori around.

      b: 26 Sep 86 pc: _________ w: Al Jean & Mike Reiss d: Chuck Braverman
    3. _"Witless"
      gs: Al Ruscio [ Unknown ], Don Phillip [ Unknown ]

      Sledge is forced to hide out in a Manynote community.

      b: 3 Oct 86 pc: _________ w: Alan Spencer d: Jackie Cooper
    4. _"They Shoot Hammers, Don't They?"
      gs: Jack Thibeau [ Kogan ], Dennis Fimple [ Informant ]

      Hammer's old partner breaks jail and challenges Sledge to a duel.

      b: 17 Oct 86 pc: _________ w: Diana Ayers & Susan Sebastian d: David Wechter
    5. _"Dori Day Afternoon"

      Two goons hold up Sledge's bank, but he only has one bullet to take care of them.

      b: 24 Oct 86 pc: _________ w: Mert Rich & Brian Pollack d: James Sheldon
    6. _"To Sledge, With Love"
      gs: Shawn Klugman [ Turk ]

      Sledge goes undercover in a tough high school to break a ring of car thieves.

      b: 31 Oct 86 pc: _________ w: Jim Fisher & Jim Staal d: David Wechter
    7. _"All Shook Up"
      gs: Raymond Ma [ Yamamoto ], Kurt Paul [ Unknown ], Tom McFadden [ Unknown ]

      Sledge investigates the murder of Elvis impersonators.

      b: 7 Nov 86 pc: _________ w: Alan Spencer d: Jackie Cooper
    8. _"Over My Dead Bodyguard"
      gs: Tracy Reed [ Unknown ], Robert O'Reilly [ Unknown ], Alba Francesca [ Unknown ]

      Hammer is assigned to protect Trunk.

      b: 14 Nov 86 pc: _________ w: Al Jean & Mike Reiss d: Charles Dubin
    9. _"Magnum Farce"
      gs: Janice Lynde [ Collins ], Mark Ralston [ Unknown ], David Leisure [ Unknown ], Jay Rasumny [ Unknown ], Kathleen Bailey [ Unknown ]

      Vigilantes go on the loose and it's up to Sledge to take care of them.

      b: 22 Nov 86 pc: _________ w: Jim Fisher & Jim Staal d: Chuck Braverman
    10. _"If I Had a Little Hammer"
      gs: Brion James [ Felix ], Michele Marsh [ Unknown ]

      Sledge and Dori pose a prospective adoptive parents to stop a ring of baby thieves.

      b: 29 Nov 86 pc: _________ w: Deborah Raznick & Daniel Benton d: Kim Manners
    11. _"To Live and Die on TV"
      gs: Peter Marshall [ Kenny ]

      A game show winner dies suspiciously.

      b: 13 Dec 86 pc: _________ w: Mert Rich & Brian Pollack d: Daniel Attias
    12. _"Miss of the Spider Woman"
      gs: Karen Lynn Scott [ Cindy ]

      Sledge accidentally gets poisoned.

      b: 20 Dec 86 pc: _________ w: Al Jean & Mike Reiss d: Chuck Braverman
    13. _"The Old Man and the Sledge"
      gs: Stephen Elliott [ Yates ], Alan Fudge [ Unknown ], Kurt Paul [ Unknown ]

      Hammer meets an old cop he admires.

      b: 3 Jan 87 pc: _________ w: Mert Rich & Brian Pollack d: Chuck Braverman
    14. _"State of Sledge"
      gs: Tom Henschel [ Pipkin ], Darren Powell [ Ricky ], Mark Blankfield [ Slag ]

      Devil worshipping punks surround the station.

      b: 10 Jan 87 pc: _________ w: Al Jean & Mike Reiss d: Daniel Attias
    15. _"Haven't Gun, Will Travel"
      gs: Bill Dana [ Weisbart ], Allan Miller [ Unknown ], Jerry Houser [ Unknown ]

      Sledge's gun gets stolen.

      b: 17 Jan 87 pc: _________ w: Gerald Gardner d: David Wechter
    16. _"The Color of Hammer"
      gs: Martine Beswick [ Lana ], Allan Rich [ Judge Jackson ]

      Sledge investigates mischief at a pool hall.

      b: 24 Jan 87 pc: _________ w: Mert Rich & Brian Pollack d: Bruce Bilson
    17. _"Brother, Can You Spare a Crime?"
      gs: Patrick Wayne [ Myles ], Susan Krebs [ Unknown ], Dorothy Dells [ Unknown ], Mie Hunt [ Unknown ]

      A criminal claims to be Sledge's brother to pull another scam.

      b: 31 Jan 87 pc: _________ w: Gerald Gardner d: Chuck Braverman
    18. _"Desperately Seeking Dori"

      A bump on the head causes Dori to act exactly like Sledge.

      b: 7 Feb 87 pc: _________ w: Al Jean & Mike Reiss d: Bob Sweeney
    19. _"Sledgepoo"
      gs: Michael Des Barres [ Sir Guy ], Patti Tippo [ Daley ], Don Stark [ Kruggle ], Kurt Paul [ Unknown ], George Dickerson [ Unknown ]

      A hairdresser is suspected of being a cat burglar.

      b: 14 Feb 87 pc: _________ w: Alan Mandel d: Tommy Schlamme
    20. _"Comrade Hammer"
      gs: Mark Blankfield [ Unknown ], Lee Garlington [ Unknown ], Richard Reicheg [ Unknown ], Carl Ciartalio [ Unknown ]

      Sledge has to protect a Soviet defector at a science conference.

      b: 21 Feb 87 pc: _________ w: Dave Ketchum & Tony DiMarco d: Bruce Bilson
    21. _"Jagged Sledge"

      Hammer is accused of killing a gangster kingpin.

      b: 21 Apr 87 pc: _________ w: Chris Ruppenthal d: Reza Badiyi
    22. _"The Spa Who Loved Me"
      gs: Mary Woronov [ Unknown ]

      Female terrorists organized by an aerobics instructor steal a nuclear bomb; Hammer sets it off.

      b: 28 Apr 87 pc: _________ w: Tina Insana & Robert Wuhl d: Jackie Cooper

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      2nd Season 1987

    23. _"A Clockwork Hammer"
      gs: Dan Lauria [ Raker ], Nicholas Guest [ Unknown ], Sal Viscuso [ Unknown ], Ken Letner [ Unknown ], Eugene Robert Glazer [ Unknown ], Leslie Morris [ Unknown ], Dorothy Dells [ Unknown ], John Zenda [ Unknown ], Beverly Leech [ Unknown ]

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

      b: 17 Sep 87 pc: _________ w: Chris Ruppenthal s: Alan Spencer d: Reza Badiyi
    24. _"Big Nazi on Campus"
      gs: Ray Walston [ Professor McCoy ]

      Sledge and Dori investigate the death of a college coed.

      b: 24 Sep 87 pc: _________ w: Mert Rich & Brian Pollack s: Alan Spencer d: Chuck Braverman
    25. _"Play it Again, Sledge"

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

      b: 1 Oct 87 pc: _________ w: Davd Ketchum & Tony DiMarco s: Alan Spencer d: Bill Bixby
    26. _"Wild About Hammer"
      gs: Beverly Leech [ Unknown ]

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

      b: 8 Oct 87 pc: _________ w: Alan Spencer d: Gary Walkow
    27. _"The Death of a Few Salesmen"
      gs: Victoria Carroll [ Mrs. Cody ]

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

      b: 15 Oct 87 pc: _________ w: Mark Curtiss & Rod Ash s: Brooke Kofford & Bret Kofford d: Bill Bixby
    28. _"Vertical"
      gs: Deborah Harmon [ Unknown ]

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

      b: 29 Oct 87 pc: _________ w: David Ketchum & Tony DiMarco d: Reza Badiyi
    29. _"Dressed to Call"
      gs: Christine Healy [ Dr. Stone ]

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

      b: 5 Nov 87 pc: _________ w: Mert Rich & Brian Pollack d: Jackie Cooper
    30. _"Hammer Hits the Rock (a.k.a. Sledge on the Rock)"
      gs: Dick Bakalyan [ Winston ]

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

      b: 12 Nov 87 pc: _________ w: Mark Curtiss & Rod Ash d: Bill Bixby
    31. _"Last of the Red Hot Vampires"
      gs: Bernie Kopell [ Unknown ]

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

      b: 19 Nov 87 pc: _________ w: Alan Spencer d: Bill Bixby
    32. _"Hammeroid"
      gs: Richard Moll [ Dr. Art Deco ], Armin Shimerman [ Unknown ], Sid Haig [ Unknown ], Carl Ciarfalio [ Unknown ], Tony Fasce [ Unknown ]

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

      b: 26 Nov 87 pc: _________ w: Ron Friedman d: Gary Walkow
    33. _"Sledge in Toyland"
      gs: Eli Marder [ Felicia ], David Clennon [ Bell ]

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

      b: 3 Dec 87 pc: _________ w: Mert Rich & Brian Pollack d: Gary Walkow
    34. _"Icebreaker"
      gs: Adam Ant [ Unknown ]

      Sledge finds himself competing with a British cop.

      b: 10 Dec 87 pc: _________ w: Mark Curtiss & Rod Ash s: Chris Ruppenthal d: Bill Bixby
    35. _"They Call Me Mr. Trunk"
      gs: William Smithers [ Poltz ]

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

      b: 17 Dec 87 pc: _________ w: Mark Curtiss & Rod Ash d: Seymour Robbie
    36. _"Model Dearest"
      gs: Brion James [ Don Merrill ]

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

      b: 7 Jan 88 pc: _________ w: David Ketchum & Tony DiMarco d: Dick Martin
    37. _"Sledge, Rattle & Roll"
      gs: Davy Jones [ Unknown ], Dana Williams [ Unknown ]

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

      b: 15 Jan 88 pc: _________ w: Mert Rich & Brian Pollack d: Bill Bixby
    38. _"Suppose They Gave a War & Sledge Came?"
      gs: Anthony DeLongis [ Swenson ]

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

      b: 22 Jan 88 pc: _________ w: Chris Ruppenthal d: Dick Martin
    39. _"The Secret of My Excess"
      gs: James Karen [ LaChatte ], Mary Otis [ Angel ]

      Sledge tracks down a yuppie's dirty deeds.

      b: 29 Jan 88 pc: _________ w: Alicia Maria Schuldt d: Dick Martin
    40. _"It Happened What Night?"
      gs: Stanley Brock [ Talbot ]

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

      b: 5 Feb 88 pc: _________ w: Mark Curtiss & Rod Ash d: Bill Bixby
    41. _"Here's to You, Mrs. Hammer"
      gs: Michael Kaufman [ Unknown ], Heather Lupton [ Unknown ]

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

      b: 12 Feb 88 pc: _________ w: Mert Rich & Brian Pollack d: Bill Bixby

      NOTE: Heather Lupton is David Rasche's wife in real life.

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