The worst episodes of Sledge Hammer!
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- 01
When Sledge gets suspended he decides to try being a P.I.
- 02
Sledge goes undercover to learn why Elvis impersonators are being systematically murdered with a gold microphone.
- 03
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.
- 04
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.
- 05
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.
- 06
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.
- 07
Sledge and Dori find themselves in a hostage situation as a result of a foiled bank robbery.
- 08
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.
- 09
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.
- 10
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.
- 11
Sledge is abducted by a former television executive whose brainwashing operation reprograms its victim's minds through unrelenting and unmerciful exposure to television programming.
- 12
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.
- 13
A female cop with a sadomasochistic fetish falls for and kidnaps Sledge.
- 14
Sledge poses as an Australian car magnate, Crocodile Bruce, to catch the killer of used car dealers.
- 15
While suffering from vertigo, Sledge must protect the girlfriend of a mobster.
- 16
Sledge must discover who's making threatening calls to a radio psychologist.
- 17
Trunk must solve the puzzle of why the army has surrounded the entire precinct before the entire staff dies.
- 18
Hammer investigates the mysterious deaths of a heavy metal group and their manager.
- 19
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.
- 20
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.
- 21
They Shoot Hammers, Don't They?
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.
- 22
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.
- 23
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.
- 24
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.
- 25
Brother Can You Spare a Crime?
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.
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