Sledge Hammer! · 1986

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.

29 min · Director Martha Coolidge · Writer Alan Spencer

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.

Director Jackie Cooper · Writer Alan Spencer

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.

24 min · Director David Wechter · Writer Alan Spencer, Mert Rich, Brian Pollack

Sledge becomes even more violent than usual as part of an attempt to infiltrate a group of vigilante police officers who are executing recently acquitted criminal defendants.

Director Charles Braverman · Writer Alan Spencer, Jim Fisher, Jim Staahl

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.

Director Kim Manners · Writer Alan Spencer, Deborah Raznick, Daniel Benton

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.

Director Daniel Attias · Writer Alan Spencer, Mert Rich, Brian Pollack

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.

Director Charles Braverman · Writer Alan Spencer, Mike Reiss, Al Jean

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.

Director Bruce Bilson · Writer Alan Spencer, Mert Rich, Brian Pollack

Sledge is abducted by a former television executive whose brainwashing operation reprograms its victim's minds through unrelenting and unmerciful exposure to television programming.

Director Reza Badiyi · Writer Alan Spencer, Chris Ruppenthal

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.

Director Charles Braverman · Writer Alan Spencer, Mert Rich, Brian Pollack

When Sledge gets suspended he decides to try being a P.I.

Director Bill Bixby · Writer Alan Spencer, David Ketchum, Tony DiMarco

Hammer and Doreau meet Officer Elizabeth Jenkins after Sledge stops a getaway car. Jenkins takes an unhealthy interest in Hammer and shows up on his doorstep. After she throws herself at him, he rejects her, and she shoots him. Th...

Director Gary Walkow · Writer Alan Spencer

After a used car salesman dies mysteriously on live television, Hammer and Doreau investigate. They discover that there have been a string of used car salesman that have also died, and that they have one common factor, the salesme...

Director Bill Bixby · Writer Alan Spencer, Mark Curtiss, Rod Ash

In a spoof of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, Hammer is assigned to guard Angelica, a mobster's girlfriend, who is scheduled to testify at a trial. They bond over a mutual love of guns and violence. As they are climbing a set of stair...

Director Reza Badiyi · Writer Alan Spencer, David Ketchum, Tony DiMarco

A new female radio psychologist moves to town and starts a show directed towards helping women with their problems. A male caller starts phoning into the show and harassing the doctor. When the calls start including threats of vio...

Director Jackie Cooper · Writer Alan Spencer, Mert Rich, Brian Pollack

The FBI has learned that mobster Clive Winston is planning a prison break. They recruit Hammer to go undercover, because they don't want to risk of their own men. Hammer, pretending to be a famous hitman, gets put into the same ce...

Director Bill Bixby · Writer Alan Spencer, Mark Curtiss, Rod Ash

On the set of a movie, actor Vincent Lagarski is attempting his big comeback in the role of a vampire. After blowing a scene, the director has had enough, and fires him. Lagarski is later announced on the news as dying a short tim...

Director Bill Bixby · Writer Alan Spencer

Toy company tycoon Milo Tieup is in a hotel room with his mistress preparing for a romantic tryst. While she is in the bathroom, a toy tank sneaks into the room through a doggie door, and shoots Tieup with a real bullet. Hammer an...

Director Gary Walkow · Writer Alan Spencer, Brian Pollack, Mert Rich

When a Britsh agent arrives and informs them of a terrorist in the city, Sledge and Dorreau work with him. When Dorreau takes a liking to him Sledge butts in and Dorreau is upset with him.

Director Bill Bixby · Writer Alan Spencer, Mark Curtiss, Rod Ash

The military has developed a top secret new virus. A man that became infected has escaped. They alert the precinct to be on the lookout for this man, but don't tell them why. Hammer and Doreau find the man at a bar. Even though he...

Director Seymour Robbie · Writer Alan Spencer, Mark Curtiss, Rod Ash

When Sledge meets a girl who is looking for her sister,whom he helps break into her sister's apartment. Later when the girl's attacked, he goes to the only place he knows of, the modeling agency where her sister worked. After maki...

Director Dick Martin · Writer Alan Spencer, David Ketchum, Tony DiMarco

Hammer and Doreau investigate the death of a rock star named Rak Vulture. Vulture was riding in his limo after a concert, when the car stopped. Vulture gets angry, and rolls down the window. The unseen driver then pulls a gun, and...

Director Bill Bixby · Writer Alan Spencer, Mert Rich, Brian Pollack

The governor secretly brings Hammer to his mansion. The governor's daughter is missing, and he wants to enlist Hammer's help in getting her back. Hammer is also instructed not to tell anyone, because the governor is in the midst o...

Director Dick Martin · Writer Alan Spencer, Alicia Marie Schudt

An old friend of Captain Trunk's, Roy Talbot, asks for help in cracking one last case before he retires. They are staking out a drug deal that's going down at a hotel. Hammer and Doreau go undercover as a couple on their honeymoon...

Director Bill Bixby · Writer Alan Spencer, Mark Curtiss, Rod Ash

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.

Director Bill Bixby · Writer Alan Spencer, Mert Rich, Brian Pollack