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The Worst Episodes of Sledge Hammer!

Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The...

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  1. 7.1/10(119 votes)

    #1 - Big Nazi on Campus

    S2:E2

    Sledge and Dori investigate the death of a college coed.

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    Writer:N/A
  2. 7.3/10(151 votes)

    #2 - To Sledge, with Love

    S1:E6

    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.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  3. 7.3/10(135 votes)

    #3 - If I Had a Little Hammer

    S1:E10

    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.

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    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:N/A
  4. 7.3/10(141 votes)

    #4 - The Old Man and the Sledge

    S1:E13

    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.

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  5. 7.3/10(135 votes)

    #5 - Brother, Can You Spare a Crime?

    S1:E17

    When a handsome jewel thief is arrested, he manages to convince Hammer that he’s his long-lost brother… enlisting Sledge’s aid in his rehabilitation.

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  6. 7.3/10(126 votes)

    #6 - A Clockwork Hammer

    S2:E1

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

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  8. 7.3/10(112 votes)

    #7 - The Death of a Few Salesmen

    S2:E5

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

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    Director:Bill Bixby
    Writer:Rod Ash
  9. 7.3/10(98 votes)

    #8 - The Secret of My Excess

    S2:E17

    Sledge tracks down a yuppie's dirty deeds.

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    Director:Dick Martin
    Writer:N/A
  10. 7.4/10(158 votes)

    #9 - All Shook Up

    S1:E7

    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.

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  11. 7.4/10(143 votes)

    #10 - To Live and Die on TV

    S1:E11

    After a winning game show contestant is murdered, Hammer investigates. He learns that the show’s host did the killing, obscuring the fact that he’d also embezzled the prize money. Hammer signs on as a contestant to make the host try to kill again.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  12. 7.4/10(132 votes)

    #11 - Haven't Gun, Will Travel

    S1:E15

    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.

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    Director:N/A
  13. 7.4/10(131 votes)

    #12 - Sledgepoo

    S1:E19

    Hammer's search for a jewel thief leads to an upscale beauty salon, where henchmen rob the society matrons’ homes during their hair appointments. Hammer goes undercover as a hairdresser in order to stop the British thieves who are after the ladies' jewels.

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    Writer:N/A
  14. 7.4/10(105 votes)

    #13 - Sledge in Toyland

    S2:E11

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

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    Director:Gary Walkow
    Writer:N/A
  15. 7.4/10(107 votes)

    #14 - Sledge, Rattle 'n' Roll

    S2:E15

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

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    Director:Bill Bixby
    Writer:N/A
  16. 7.5/10(164 votes)

    #15 - They Shoot Hammers, Don't They?

    S1:E4

    An escaped convict wrecks havoc in the city, promising even more destruction unless Hammer agrees to meet him in an old west style showdown. The convict is John Kogan, Hammer's childhood rival as well as former partner in the police department. Kogan is also the only man faster on the draw than Hammer… a fact that Sledge is well aware of.

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    Director:N/A
  17. 7.5/10(132 votes)

    #16 - The Color of Hammer

    S1:E16

    When Hammer's favorite hanging judge dismisses charges against a local mobster, Hammer investigates. The judge is found murdered with the only clue leading to a shady pool hall. Sledge poses as a pool shark to uncover the racketeer who has been blackmailing city officials.

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    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:N/A
  18. 7.5/10(135 votes)

    #17 - Comrade Hammer

    S1:E20

    Hammer is assigned to protect a Russian scientist who is being pursued by the KGB, leading to a cross country train journey fraught with peril.

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  19. 7.5/10(116 votes)

    #18 - Play It Again, Sledge

    S2:E3

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

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    Director:Bill Bixby
  20. 7.5/10(123 votes)

    #19 - Wild About Hammer

    S2:E4

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

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    Director:Gary Walkow
  21. 7.6/10(175 votes)

    #20 - Witless

    S1:E3

    After a mobster puts out a “one week only” million-dollar contract on Hammer, every killer in the city, and some financially strapped cops, tries to claim the prize. After an attempted hit takes place in Capt. Trunk' s office, Hammer is ordered to spend the week in a small "Hamish” village. Hammer proceeds to disrupt the lives of this pacifistic community. By the time the hired gunmen arrive, the formerly peaceful farmers, who Hammer corrupted into the ways of violence, assist him.

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  22. 7.6/10(149 votes)

    #21 - Magnum Farce

    S1:E9

    When a group of vigilante cops begin killing criminals who have gotten off due to legal technicalities, Hammer is assigned to infiltrate the group. To test his loyalty the rogues assign him the task of killing a female district attorney who is out to stop them. While this same D.A. tries to seduce Hammer in her home, Sledge learns that she is really the leader of the vigilantes and plans to kill him.

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    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.6/10(135 votes)

    #22 - Miss of the Spider Woman

    S1:E12

    Hammer is poisoned by a mysterious woman and learns that he has only twelve hours to live. Hammer learns that the only cure for the poison is held by a group of monks in the Andes who have taken a vow of silence. Severely weakened, Hammer must hunt down the perpetrators before it’s too late… made worse by the fact that it’s also daylight savings time.

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  24. 7.6/10(143 votes)

    #23 - State of Sledge

    S1:E14

    When Hammer arrests the leader of a Satanic cult, Internal Affairs insists that the cultist be allowed his one phone call. Soon after the cultist makes the call, the precinct headquarters is surrounded by hundreds of demented devil worshippers. With communications to the outside cut off, Hammer devises a risky plan to lift the state of siege.

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    Director:N/A
  25. 7.6/10(135 votes)

    #24 - Jagged Sledge

    S1:E21

    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.

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  26. 7.6/10(106 votes)

    #25 - Dressed to Call

    S2:E7

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

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    Director:Jackie Cooper
    Writer:N/A

Worst Episodes Summary

"Big Nazi on Campus" is the worst rated episode of "Sledge Hammer!". It scored 7.1/10 based on 119 votes. Directed by Charles Braverman and written by N/A, it aired on 9/24/1987. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "To Sledge, with Love".