Sledge Hammer! - Season One
by Bob Sweeney, Bruce Bilson, Charles Braverman, Charles S. Dubin, Daniel Attias
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Actor: Anne-Marie Martin, David Rasche, Harrison Page, Leslie Morris, Patti TippoDirector: Bob Sweeney, Bruce Bilson, Charles Braverman, Charles S. Dubin, Daniel Attias
Brand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Unknown); English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 534 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Reviews of Sledge Hammer! - Season One
DVD Review: Sledge Hammer: From The Files Of Alan Spencer!
Summary: 5 Stars
While creator Alan Spencer's offbeat sitcom "Sledge Hammer!" clearly was a takeoff of Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry" character, the series itself was more of a hybrid of NBC's "Hunter" (which also featured a man & woman cop team) and ABC's "Police Squad!" (which also featured hilarious deadpan one-liners). Both "Hammer" & "Squad" even shared writers and directors as well as "!" in the title.
The first season opens with Inspector Sledge Hammer (David Rasche) ordered by superior Captain Trunk (Harrison Page) to partner with Sergeant Dori Doreau (Anne Marie Martin) where they investigate the kidnapping of the mayor's daughter. Later, the season closes with a bang--literally--as Hammer sets off a nuclear bomb; the producers had not expected the series to be renewed. However, when the green light was given for a second season, Hammer showed up alive and well.
While most "Sledge Hammer!" diehards know what to expect from this oddball cult-show, the appeal may be lost on first-time viewers. But if given the chance the show is sure to please simply for it's goofy dead-on satire and sharp, laugh-out-loud dialogue. Big ups to Alan Spencer, who joins the ranks of producers Paul Simms ("NewsRadio") and Jason Katims ("Roswell") for striving to release this fan-favorite program as a quality DVD set. Hopefully, this is the beginning of a trend.
Episodes:
01. "Sledge Hammer!": Hammer and his new partner Doreau must rescue the mayor's daughter.
02. "Hammer Gets Nailed": A tv reporter follows Sledge and Dori around.
03. "Witless": Sledge is forced to hide out in a Manynote community.
04. "They Shoot Hammers, Don't They?": Hammer's old partner breaks out of jail and challenges Sledge to a duel.
05. "Dori Day Afternoon": Two goons hold up Sledge's bank, but he only has one bullet to take care of them.
06. "To Sledge, With Love": Sledge goes undercover in a tough high school to break a ring of car thieves.
07. "All Shook Up": Sledge investigates the murder of Elvis impersonators.
08. "Over My Dead Bodyguard": Hammer is assigned to protect Captain Trunk.
09. "Magnum Farce": Vigilantes go on the loose and it's up to Sledge to take care of them.
10. "If I Had a Little Hammer": Sledge and Dori pose as prospective adoptive parents to stop a ring of baby thieves.
11. "To Live and Die on TV": A game show winner dies suspiciously.
12. "Miss of the Spider Woman": Sledge accidentally gets poisoned.
13. "The Old Man and the Sledge": Hammer meets an old cop he admires.
14. "State of Sledge": Devil worshipping punks surround the station.
15. "Haven't Gun, Will Travel": Sledge's gun gets stolen.
16. "The Color of Hammer": Sledge investigates mischief at a pool hall.
17. "Brother, Can You Spare a Crime?": A criminal claims to be Sledge's brother to pull another scam.
18. "Desperately Seeking Dori": A bump on the head causes Dori to act exactly like Sledge.
19. "Sledgepoo": A hairdresser is suspected of being a cat burglar.
20. "Comrade Hammer": Sledge has to protect a Soviet defector at a science conference.
21. "Jagged Sledge": Hammer is accused of killing a gangster kingpin.
22. "The Spa Who Loved Me": Female terrorists organized by an aerobics instructor steal a nuclear bomb; Hammer sets it off.
Special Features:
Unaired pilot episode
All New Cast & Crew Interviews
Audio Commentary With Creator Alan Spencer
Original Commercials
Sledge Hammer - Season Two: April 5th!
Description of Sledge Hammer! - Season One
In the fall of 1986, an unsuspecting TV nation met a new kind of comedy hero who made Rambo look like Pee Wee Herman. David Rasche starred as the trigger-happy lawman whose hatred of criminal scum and yogurt eatin? creeps was matched only by his love of excessive force and a .44 Magnum. Over the next two seasons, this hilariously deranged lampoon of DIRTY HARRY and plenty of other targets became one of the most notorious series in television history and launched a rabid cult of fans that grows to this day. This is SLEDGE HAMMER! The complete first season of SLEDGE HAMMER! is now newly re-mastered (including removal of the laugh track) and loaded with an arsenal of exclusive extras that features uncensored footage, all-new interviews with stars David Rasche, Harrison Page and Anne-Marie Martin, audio commentaries and more, all given the "Hammer" seal of approval by Series Creator & Executive Producer Alan Spencer.The "Magnum Farce" of Sledge Hammer aims at deserving targets and scores a bull's eye every time. Thanks to DVD, one of the funniest, most unconventional sitcoms of the 1980s has been gloriously revived, with an abundance of bonus features that fans are going to love. This is sweet revenge given the show's original ABC time-slot, buried under Miami Vice and Dallas on Friday nights, but creator-producer Alan Spencer's savvy spoof of Dirty Harry had critical praise in its favor when it premiered (with a senseless laugh track, mercifully deleted here) on September 23, 1986. Played to perfection by David Rasche and introduced with an infectious Danny Elfman theme song, Sledge is a trigger-happy male chauvinist pig (er, cop) in mismatched clothes who thinks The Deer Hunter is a comedy, sleeps with his .44 Magnum (called simply "Gun"), drives a bullet-riddled sedan with an "I ? Violence" bumper sticker, and somehow manages to always catch his quarry. "I'm a nihilist, not a stylist" he says (in the hilarious episode "Sledgepoo"), and that puts him at reckless odds with his lovely, karate-kicking partner Dori (played with flawless aplomb by former soap-star Anne-Marie Martin) and the vocally volcanic Capt. Trunk (Harrison Page, a slow-burn master and vital ingredient to the show's excellent casting).
Partly inspired by Get Smart!, Spencer and a host of talented writers and directors dished up consistent laughs and daring anarchy, challenging broadcast standards with topnotch spoofs of hit movies (in episodes titled "Witless," "Jagged Sledge," "The Color of Hammer," etc.) while familiar guest stars like John Vernon, Brion James, Clint Howard, Michael De Barres, and Mary Woronov raised the comedy quotient even higher. After a deliberately outrageous, go-for-broke season finale it's a miracle that the low-rated Sledge Hammer! was renewed for a second season, but Anchor Bay's DVDs do justice to the show's enduring quality, and Spencer's commentaries (on four episodes) rank among the funniest ever recorded (one of them during an earthquake, no less). All in all, this is one of the most delightful DVD surprises of 2004, with more fun to come in season 2. --Jeff Shannon
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