Meet Hammer: a cop who's not afraid to skirt the law in order to catch criminals. Although just put on suspension, Hammer is personally brought back on the force by the mayor after his [mayor's] daughter is kidnapped. Hammer is all too happy until he is saddled with a female partner.
When Hammer is asked to escort a TV reporter and cameraman around the city, it spells disaster for the force. Only one man can restore the dignity of the police: Hammer!
There's a contract out on Hammer's head, but he isn't phased. Yet, for the sake of public security, and the chief's, Hammer is sent out of town until things blow over.
Hammer's childhood friend and former partner is busting out of prison, and looking for revenge on the man who put him there: Sledge! Thing is, he's the only man believed to be faster on the draw than Hammer.
A spoof on the film Dog Day Afternoon, Hammer and Doreau go in the bank when the ATM doesn't give Hammer any money. While in the midst of a "consultation," two robbers enter and hold up the bank. It's up to Hammer to save the day!
Hammer has been personally requested to clean up a high school full of delinquents. At first he is reluctant to babysit, but soon believes he can turn the maggots into good citizens.
There's a serial killer on the loose! His target: Elvis impersonators. All of the victims have both won competitions and attended an Elvis impersonator academy. With no solid leads, Sledge decides to become an Elvis impersonator to bait the killer.
When Trunk’s appearance in court – as a witness against the mob – is leaked to the press, he becomes a prime target. The commissioner has placed Hammer by his side as a bodyguard. Question is: will Hammer do more harm than good?
There are a series of vigilante crimes and it's Hammer's job to protect the scum who might be targeted next. When the target gets killed, it's discovered that those who committed the crime were police officers; and now Sledge wants to infiltrate the group.
A hospital is broken into and all of the babies in the ward are stolen! Although unwilling, Trunk puts Hammer and Doreau on the case.
A game show contestant, on the brink of going for a million dollar jackpot, suddenly has a change in character and drives off a pier and dies. Hammer is more than a little suspicious of this turn of events and decides to investigate.
Sledge has been poisoned! But by who? Why? In a race against the clock he must find out the answers to these questions in order to find the antidote.
Gilmore Yates, a retired police officer and a pre-Sledge Dirty Harry, is unwilling to go quietly to a retirement home. Sledge, being his biggest admirer, tries to find him a productive job in society as an alternative.
The station is being looked over by Internal Affairs, and Trunk has gone through great lengths to avoid the sight or mention of Hammer. Trouble starts when Hammer "brings in the trash" (a suspect chained up by the neck). Although appalled by Hammer's actions, IA and the rest of the station soon have other problems; the man Hammer brought in is part of a cult who have decided to lay siege to the station.
Some criminals want to pull off a silver heist, but they know Hammer will get in the way. Unable to kill him, they decide to take away his power: his gun!
After a local hard-line judge sets a mobster on trial free, Sledge gets suspicious. Soon he discovers the judge was under duress when he made the decision. It's up to Hammer to sort it all out.
A guy is brought in after a robbery at a local mansion. Suave and charming, the guy claims to be Hammer's long lost, previously unknown, brother.
While chasing a suspect, Dori suffers a concussion. When she wakes up, she walks, talks, and acts just like Sledge, much to the chagrin of Trunk. How can the force cope with two Hammers?
A series of jewel heists has Hammer investigating a beauty parlor and going undercover as a jewel thief himself. Trouble is, before the crooks can accept him as one of them, they have to witness his criminal prowess in action.
Sledge is assigned to protect a Soviet defector during a science conference.
Sledge is framed for a gangster's murder.
Female terrorists steal a nuclear warhead and hold Los Angeles hostage.
When a long-time good cop breaks down on the stand, and is unable to testify against a big time criminal, everyone is shocked. Although Hammer first suspects bribery, he soon comes to realize there may be other outside forces involved in that sudden memory lapse. Hammer then decides to let it be known that he will take the stand with some new damaging evidence, so as to set himself up as bait.
A student at a local university is found dead in her dorm and there's a small competition to see whose policing methods work. It's gut instinct vs. standard police work, or in other words Hammer vs. Doreau.
Sledge and Doreau are put on six months suspension for one of Sledge's blunders, and so they hit the boozer. Then Sledge sees an apparition: a Humphrey Bogart like figure that advises Sledge to go into business for himself as a private dick. So Sledge takes the advices and goes into business, film noir style.
There's a new cop in the precinct and she has the hots for Hammer. When he rejects her advances . . . well, let's just say you've never seen fury like a woman scorned.
When a used car salesman drops dead immediately after Hammer had wished he would, he starts to wonder about his own power! To dispel this idea, Doreau does some research on recent car salesmen deaths, which leads to an odd discovery: all of them were married to women named something "Jo" and died within 48 hrs of their wedding.
In a take on Hitchcock's Vertigo, this episode deals with Hammer's vertigo after a near death experience hanging from a rooftop. Hammer is brought back on assignment to act as bodyguard for a witness who will soon testify, but will his vertigo get in the way of his duty?
A local radio station psychiatrist is receiving threatening phone calls from a deep, gravelly-voiced man. The woman has recently moved to the area from N.Y. – where she had the same stalker – and has no clue what to do next. Looks like it's up to Sledge to put an end to this dirt-bag once and for all!
The FBI has asked Trunk for special permission to use Sledge in an undercover operation. There's word that a major villain is about to break out of prison, and it's up to Hammer to enter the prison, befriend the man, and break out with him, thus leading the FBI to more well-known thugs.
A movie director and a starlet die at the hands of what may be a resurrected film vampire.
When an android is used in a crime spree, the police have no idea what to do. Even the mighty Sledge Hammer failed in capturing him, and what's more, he nearly died in an attempt. His situation, however, was perfect for an experiment, Robocop style, and fights fire with fire.
Hammer and Doreau must stop a maniacal killer who uses toys to murder.
A British operative arrives in the U.S. to thwart the assassination of an archbishop... and becomes involved with Doreau.
The police station is contaminated when Hammer brings in a man who was exposed to germs stolen from a military base.
When a model goes missing, Doreau goes undercover at her agency to investigate a white-slavery ring.
A record producer kills off a heavy-metal band and Hammer is on his trail.
Hammer and Doreau investigate a murder during a corporate wilderness war game.
Hammer searches the city for the governor's missing daughter.
Hammer and Doreau go undercover as newlyweds as a hotel to bust a next-door drug ring. However, the next morning they wake up in bed, with no memory of what happened.
Hammer discovers that his best buddy is planning to marry his ex-wife.