7.1/10113 votesLoading...#1 - Big Nazi on Campus
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1987
Sledge and Dori investigate the death of a college coed.
Director: Charles Braverman
Writer: N/A
7.3/10148 votesLoading...#2 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10131 votesLoading...#3 - 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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
7.3/10137 votesLoading...#4 - 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.
Director: Charles Braverman
Writer: N/A
7.3/10119 votesLoading...#5 - 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.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
7.3/10108 votesLoading...#6 - The 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.
Director: Bill Bixby
Writer: Rod Ash
7.3/1095 votesLoading...#7 - The Secret of My Excess
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1988
Sledge tracks down a yuppie's dirty deeds.
Director: Dick Martin
Writer: N/A
7.4/10155 votesLoading...#8 - 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.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Alan Spencer
7.4/10136 votesLoading...#9 - To Live and Die on TV
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1986
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10130 votesLoading...#10 - Brother, Can You Spare a Crime?
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1987
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.
Director: Charles Braverman
Writer: Gerald Gardner
7.4/10125 votesLoading...#11 - Sledgepoo
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1987
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.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: N/A
7.4/10101 votesLoading...#12 - 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.
Director: Gary Walkow
Writer: N/A
7.4/10104 votesLoading...#13 - 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.
Director: Bill Bixby
Writer: N/A
7.5/10159 votesLoading...#14 - They Shoot Hammers, Don't They?
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1986
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Alan Spencer
7.5/10127 votesLoading...#15 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gerald Gardner
7.5/10128 votesLoading...#16 - The Color of Hammer
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1987
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.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: N/A
7.5/10129 votesLoading...#17 - Comrade Hammer
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1987
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.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: David Ketchum
7.5/10112 votesLoading...#18 - 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.
Director: Bill Bixby
Writer: David Ketchum
7.6/10171 votesLoading...#19 - Witless
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1986
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.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Alan Spencer
7.6/10144 votesLoading...#20 - Magnum Farce
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1986
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.
Director: Charles Braverman
Writer: N/A
7.6/10130 votesLoading...#21 - Miss of the Spider Woman
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1986
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.
Director: Charles Braverman
Writer: Al Jean, Mike Reiss
7.6/10137 votesLoading...#22 - State of Sledge
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1987
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Al Jean, Mike Reiss
7.6/10129 votesLoading...#23 - 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.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
7.6/10102 votesLoading...#24 - Dressed to Call
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1987
Sledge must discover who's making threatening calls to a radio psychologist.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: N/A
7.6/10102 votesLoading...#25 - Icebreaker
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1987
Sledge finds himself competing with a British cop.
Director: Bill Bixby
Writer: Rod Ash
The Worst Episodes of Sledge Hammer!
Every episode of Sledge Hammer! ranked from worst to best. Explore 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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Worst Episodes Summary
"Big Nazi on Campus" is the worst rated episode of "Sledge Hammer!". It scored 7.1/10 based on 113 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".