Sledge Hammer!

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Sledge Hammer is the ultimate tough cop with a big gun, a parody of the type popularized by Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" films. Of course, though he claims "I know what I'm doing," his cases are usually solved by his female partner, Dori Doreau, if she can only keep him from being suspended for shooting a jaywalker or litterer with his giant pearl-handled .44 Magnum.

Sledge Hammer is the ultimate tough cop with a big gun, a parody of the type popularized by Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" films. Of course, though he claims "I know what I'm doing," his cases are usually solved by his female partner, Dori Doreau, if she can only keep him from being suspended for shooting a jaywalker or litterer with his giant pearl-handled .44 Magnum.less «

• Vote for A Sledge Hammer! Tribute

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  Sign the Paley Center petition to pay tribute to Sledge Hammer!. http://www.PetitionOnline.com/sledgePC/petition.html The Paley Center for Media, with locations in New York and Los Angeles, leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public. The Paley Center holds tributes where they ask the cast of various TV shows to visit the Paley Center and discuss the TV show. Clips of the TV show are shown. To learn more about The Paley Center, visit http://www.paleycenter.org/ If the Paley Center does a tribute for the show, it is possible the major cast and Alan would appear for the event and a fan gathering could follow. less «

  Inter_Team Last online Jun 16, 2009
  1 comments, last one Nov 18, 2008 + Add Comment

• Favorite epsiodes

  It's been awhile since I've seen one....I'll have to get the DVD....anyhow the episode "Witless" would be my favorite. The Harrison Ford Witness movie take off complete with the curtain scene LMAO:D

  It's been awhile since I've seen one....I'll have to get the DVD....anyhow the episode "Witless" would be my favorite. The Harrison Ford Witness movie take off complete with the curtain scene LMAO:Dless «

  pounder19r Last online 20 hrs, 5 mins ago
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• Sledge Hammer Online

  Attention, all you sea-urchins and reprobates: If you love Sledge Hammer! as much as Sledge loves his gun, then I invite y...more »

  Attention, all you sea-urchins and reprobates: If you love Sledge Hammer! as much as Sledge loves his gun, then I invite you to drop on by the Sledge Hammer! Online discussion forum at www.Sledgehammeronline.com. Here you will find yourself among fellow hammerheads. You can discuss any aspect of your favorite TV cop show, knowing that you are surrounded by like-minded supporters. You will be able to meet and interact with Hammerheads from all over the world (yes, there is a name for us.) You can even learn where to order Sledge Hammer merchandise, so that you can display your love of our favorite TV show. You don't even have to own a .44 Magnum or hate Mr Belvedere, although neither one of these will hurt. And we are socially conscious at Sledge Hammer Online. We never fire our guns near the eldery or small children, because we don't want to expose them to second-hand gunsmoke.:) less «

  DenCos Last online Jun 20, 2007
  2 comments, last one Aug 5, 2008 + Add Comment

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  6.4 Fair

  Innovative yet misunderstood hide « show »

  I remember finishing an episode of Perfect Strangers one night and half paying attention to what was on. Suddenly I see this guy pull a bazooka out of his trunk and blow up a building then seeing that same guy get chewed out for blowing up a building. I was hooked by that point. The show is Sledge Hammer. Sledge Hammer is a cop that makes Rambo look like Peewee Herman. He's tough and doesn't take no guff. Unfortuneately for everyone around him Hammer feels that every problem can be solved with violence which causes him to be placed on suspension constantly. Hammer is teamed with Detective Dori Doreau (a woman!)who actually believes in analysis restraint and thinking first. Despite the fact that they are totally mismatched Hammer and Doreau actually get along and even become friends. Also in the cast is Captain Trunk Hammer and Doreau's long suffering boss who would love nothing more than to see Hammer gone permanently. I loved this show because there was nothing elose like it on at the time. Other police sitcoms featured offbeat characters but they always showed some restraint. Not Hammer. To Sledge Hammer restraint is what you do to a suspect by any means necessary. The first season was well written insanity which captivated me every week. Theb problem with new concept shows is that most people (including network executives) don't always understand them. Sledge Hammer faced cancellation. The last episode of the first season saw Hammer trying to disarm a nuclear warhead. The warhead blows and the audience is left wondering if Hammer got out alive. The show did get renewed but also tinkered with. When Sledge Hammer returned for a second season a voiceover explained that the warhead exploded and now we are watching "Sledge Hammer: The Early Years". The second season was a watered down version of guys versus girls. I didn't watch too many episodes that season. The last one I watched was when Hammer's ex-wife was getting remarried. One scene showed a depressed Hammer throwing his beloved gun and pondering his lonliness. That's not Hammer! Hammer would go out and shoot some one if he was depressed not sulk. I remembr thinking "there has got to be something else on". I wasn't alone. That was the last episode.

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  rudedude74 Added Feb 22, 2007 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Sledge Hammer! was basically a parody of the Dirty Harry films about a nihilistic cop who is forced to partner with a woman.But it was also a brillant satire on violence in our culture.The series lasted 2 seasons and something of an overlooked gem. hide « show »

  Rarely has a network sit-com done really good satire the way Sledge Hammer! did it.I was suprised it lasted 2 years.The shows creator was so sure it would be cancelled that he did a cliffhanger like no other(how do you top nuclear holocaust?).But it was a brllliant treatise on violence and violent movies.It made you laugh,but it also made you think.David Rasche was perfect in the role.For a character that was very dark and cold,he made him likeable.I think the show was just hitting its stride when it wss cancelled.Its a shame,because its obvious the network didnt get it,which shows how much the network respect their viewers,the way they moved it around.I guess they couldnt figure out why build a show around a nihilistic person,but then again,most of those network probaly dont even know what "nihilistic" means!Or the fact that a sit-com would use a word like "nihilistic".And I love the series finale,where Sledge goes through a dramatic change.It deserved better,but its great to see it again on DVD.

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  drwoowoocl Added Sep 9, 2006 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Insanely funny. Who'll laugh your heart out. hide « show »

  Sledge Hammer is so funny, there aren't much like it out there. It's like a spoof Dirty Harry, I can't get enough of it. When you're watching, you don't think much about the plot, since it's a spoof, you just wait for the funny stuff to come up and get a good laugh. But this show ain't all about cheesy jokes, there's are stories thrown in that gives each episode a somewhat linear direction. But Sledge's comic timing and eccentric mannerisms are enough to give you a smile before you anticipate the episodes eventual climax, which ends in a wacky finale.

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  sfviewer Added Jul 31, 2006 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  What do you get when you cross total incompetence with a propensity toward violence? Now, give that man a badge... hide « show »

  This comedy series ran for just two seasons on ABC in the 1980s. It told the story of Sledge Hammer, a dedicated but unhinged police officer who never met a life-threatening incident he didn't like. Not for him the hours of doing paperwork behind a desk. No. He'd rather be out there, sorting through the mayhem that is life in the big city, and sometimes adding to it.
  
  Accompanied by partner Dori Doreau and supervised by the beleagured Captain Trunk, Hammer solved cases almost in spite of himself, and left a trail of damage only slightly less severe than that by the people he went out to arrest. Hammer battled crime with his trusty pearl-handled revolver. An enemy of felons, not to mention peaceful people as well, the man was mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
  
  The writing was always hysterical and the acting fitted to the manic characters. This show is a lost classic. Fortunately for the public, it's now out for home release. Just as funny as it was twenty years ago.

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  Lokar Added Jun 4, 2006 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Dirty Harry On Steroids hide « show »

  This show was funny as hell, it was way over the top with extreme comical violence and cheesy(but funny)parody one liners. It was the perefect parody of the Dirty Harry films with Sledge using a Bazooka to hunt down a suspect. The show lost track when it tried to tell a story, it was best when he was destroying the town trying to chase down a jaywalker or someone that spit on the sidewalk. He carried his .44 magnum but it was only one of a million ways he would intimidate punks and creeps. The only way they could have made this better was to make his sidekick a Bronson parody. Great Stuff!

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  furiousfunk Added May 24, 2006 All my reviews