Episodes
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 23, 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.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1986
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.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 3, 1986
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.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1986
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.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1986
Sledge and Dori find themselves in a hostage situation as a result of a foiled bank robbery.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1986
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.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1986
Sledge goes undercover to learn why Elvis impersonators are being systematically murdered with a gold microphone.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1986
The commissioner personally assigns Sledge to guard Captain Trunk in order to ensure the Captain's safety until he is able to provide critical testimony before a grand jury.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1986
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.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1986
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.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1986
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.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1986
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.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1987
Sledge tries to provide help and guidance to Gil Yates, a retired trigger-happy police officer whom he idolized as a boy.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1987
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.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1987
Sledge experiences a complete loss of confidence when his beloved .44 Magnum is stolen by a conniving gang of thieves.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1987
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.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1987
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.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1987
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.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1987
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.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1987
Sledge and Dori must safely escort a defecting Soviet scientist on a passenger train filled with communist agents determined to take him back.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Apr 21, 1987
Sledge is on trial for the cold-blooded murder of racketeer Hugo Victor. Serving as his own attorney, Sledge sets out to prove his innocence in the face of overwhelming evidence of his guilt.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Apr 28, 1987
A bevy of bikini-clad 'terrorettes' steal a nuclear warhead and threaten to blow up the city unless their billion dollar demand is met. Sledge and Dori trace the suspects to a health spa operated by aerobics video magnate Jill Taylor.