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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013131240696
Format: Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageUnknown
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
MPN: ANBD12406D
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 27, 2004
Running Time: 534 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 1986
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Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 03/14/2006 Run time: 534 minutes Rating: Nr
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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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This DVD set is just superb, full of juicy extras to complement the sheer joy of watching Slegde Hammer back in action.
A must see for all Sledge fans!
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I have loved this show since it first aired on TV back in the mid-eighties, and it is still just as great today as it was back then. David Rasche plays the title character Sledge Hammer and he is excellent as the parody of Dirty Harry style law enforcers. Harrison Page is fantastic in the role of Capt. Trunk, who's main gag is losing his cool and exploding in anger at the antics of Sledge, who you can guess is always causing trouble. Anne-Marie Martin is wonderful as Sledge's sidekick Dori Doreau, ... Read More
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If you remember this show from the '80's, then you know it was a cult classic. This was a spoof of the cop shows and movies of the '70's and '80's. Lots of humor and not very socially or politically correct. Very nice set of DVD's with commentary and additional footage. This is something you need in your collection. Buy it now...."trust me, I know what I am doing". Any show where the main character talks to his revolver, has to be good.
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Wow!
This is so much fun. I bought it with suspicion, thinking it could be dated and that the fun and laughs I had when I watched these episodes back in the eighties may not be there anymore. But for such a low price, I went for it.
I was wrong. I enjoyed them even more, understanding how good this show was, how the actin and chemistry between the cast were top notch, how the brainless humour was not brainless at all! Fortunately, the laugh track was removed.
The ... Read More
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I bought both "Sledge Hammer seasons" to my son for a birthday present...I don't remember how many times he said: "Thank you, thank you, thank youuu, it's sooo great, what a gift!!! (Must order them myself...)
Janne/Sweden
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