The WORST episodes of Sledge Hammer!
Every episode of Sledge Hammer! ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Sledge Hammer!!
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.
#1 - Wild About Hammer
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1987
A female cop with a sadistic/ masochistic fetish falls for and kidnaps Sledge.
#2 - Hammeroid
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1987
After breaking nearly all his bones, Sledge encases himself in a robotic suit to stop a robot.
#3 - Play It Again, Sledge
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1987
When Sledge and Dori get suspended from the force, they open a private investigation firm with counseling from Bogart's ghost.
#4 - Here's to You, Mrs. Hammer
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1988
Sledge's ex-wife marries his best high school friend & forces Sledge to think about his lifestyle.
#5 - If I Had a Little Hammer
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1986
Hammer and Dori pose as a couple wanting to adopt a baby in order to discover who is kidnapping infants from a hospital maternity ward. They learn that the hospital’s head nurse and her brother are behind the abductions, which lead to an incongruous shootout in a baby supply warehouse.
#6 - Haven't Gun, Will Travel
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1987
A gang of silver thieves, working in cahoots with an unscrupulous police psychiatrist, destroys Hammer's psyche when they steal his beloved 44 Magnum… effectively crippling the crime fighter.
#7 - Last of the Red Hot Vampires
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1987
An old time movie vampire is falsely accused of murdering his cast and crew.
#8 - A Clockwork Hammer
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1987
Vile Video Concepts conditions cops not to testify against a mobster; Hammer meets a computerized version of himself.
#9 - Death of a Few Salesmen
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1987
Sledge poses as an Australian car magnate, Crocodile Bruce, to catch the killer of used car dealers.
#10 - The Old Man and the Sledge
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1987
Hammer gets to meet his idol, a retired police detective with a reputation for old school toughness, and gets him a job as a security guard at a local jewelry store. When the store is robbed, the old man is wounded and ends up at a retirement home. Hammer feels responsible for what happened and vows to get revenge on the thieves… not realizing he’s also giving the old man one last shot at glory.
#11 - Big Nazi on Campus
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1987
Sledge and Dori investigate the death of a college coed.
#12 - Hammer Hits the Rock (a.k.a. Sledge on the Rock)
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1987
Sledge poses as an assassin to discover a mobster's secret hideout.
#13 - To Sledge with Love
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1986
Hammer is asked to straighten out some young hoods that have taken over their high school. He discovers that the gang is working for a local car theft ring. Hammer convinces the teens to put their violent nature to good use by training them to become cops.
#14 - The Secret of My Excess
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1988
Sledge tries to find the whereabouts of a woman for the Governor.
#15 - Over My Dead Bodyguard
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1986
When the press reveals that Capt. Trunk is scheduled to testify against a mob boss, Hammer is assigned as his bodyguard. In an attempt on his life Trunk is wounded and taken to the hospital. Sledge decides to make a bogus report that the captain’s been killed, but an assassin learns Trunk is still alive and infiltrates the tightly secured hospital posing as a physician.
#16 - Sledge, Rattle, 'n' Roll
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1988
Hammer investigates the mysterious deaths of a heavy metal group and their manager.
#17 - Sledge in Toyland
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1987
Sledge is sent to investigate when a toy manufacturer is attacked by one of his own toys.
#18 - Suppose They Gave a War and Sledge Came?
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1988
To investigate the death of a prominent businessman, Sledge joins a weekend war gaming organization.
#19 - All Shook Up
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1986
Hammer and Dori are assigned to locate a serial killer who is bumping off Elvis impersonators. In order to flush out the killer Hammer attends The Famous School For Elvis Impersonators where all the victims were once students. Complete with sequins and pompadour, Hammer enters an Elvis contest and sings The Battle Hymn of the Republic… setting himself up as bait.
#20 - Desperately Seeking Dori
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1987
While pursuing a counterfeiter, Doreau gets knocked on the head. The results are a personality disorder that makes her behave in the same anti-social, violent manner as her partner Hammer.
#21 - Icebreaker
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1987
Sledge finds himself competing with a British cop.
#22 - Dressed to Call
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1987
Sledge must discover who's making threatening calls to a radio psychologist.
#23 - Model Dearest
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1988
Dori poses as a model to get the dirt on a white slavery ring.
#24 - Vertical
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1987
While suffering from vertigo, Sledge must protect the girlfriend of a mobster.
#25 - Jagged Sledge
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/21/1987
Hammer goes on trial for the murder of the city's leading crime boss. Capt. Trunk and Dori are called upon to give damaging testimony against Hammer and everyone is convinced he’s guilty, including Hammer himself.