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==Cast and characters==

===Main===

* [[David Rasche]] as [[Inspector]] Sledge Hammer: The titular character of the series, he is stubborn, sexist, and reactionary (all of this by his own admission), but also a serious and respectful [[detective]] from the [[San Francisco Police Department]]. Hammer's most prized possession is his [[Smith & Wesson Model 29]] [[.44 Magnum]]<ref name="cracked">{{cite news|first=Brian | last=VanHooker | url=https://www.cracked.com/article_35334_the-making-of-sledge-hammer-with-creator-alan-spencer.html?|title=The Making of Sledge Hammer with Creator Alan Spencer|work=[[Cracked.com|Cracked]]|date=September 19, 2022|access-date=September 19, 2022|archive-date=19 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220919193356/https://www.cracked.com/article_35334_the-making-of-sledge-hammer-with-creator-alan-spencer.html|url-status=live}}</ref> with a customized grip, featuring an engraving of a [[sledgehammer]]. Hammer sleeps and showers with his gun (which has its own satin pillow), and even talks to it, referring to it as his "amigo." He believes in shooting {{em|first}} and asking questions {{em|never}}. Unlike other comic crime fighters, Hammer is a blunderbuss that is effective and even capable of humanity on rare occasions.  Spencer chose Rasche, since he was someone who was not already known as a comedian, but "someone that could make you believe that this man really was having a relationship with his gun".<ref name="avclub"/>
* [[Anne-Marie Martin]] as Detective Dori Doreau: A sensitive, intelligent, and sophisticated police detective, she becomes Hammer's partner. In an interview with [[The A.V. Club]], Spencer said he needed someone that the "audience would look up to, and adore, and like. And she was the validation for Sledge Hammer because Anne-Marie is such a wonderful actress—appealing person, sexy, with authority, and strong. And if she likes Sledge Hammer, that means he’s okay, so she was kind of the insurance on screen. No matter what he was doing, as long as she liked him, believed in him, and was his partner, he was going to be okay". In season 2, Spencer was asked to develop her relationship more with Hammer as with ABC's flagship ''[[Moonlighting (TV series)|Moonlighting]]'' but he preferred to have it be more like in ''[[Get Smart]]''.<ref name="avclub">{{Cite news |last=Teti |first=John |date=January 15, 2016 |title=Sledge Hammer! creator Alan Spencer on humanizing a gun-crazy nihilist for a network sitcom |url=https://www.avclub.com/sledge-hammer-creator-alan-spencer-on-humanizing-a-gun-1798243408 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116005759/https://www.avclub.com/sledge-hammer-creator-alan-spencer-on-humanizing-a-gun-1798243408 |archive-date=January 16, 2023 |access-date=January 16, 2023 |work=[[The A.V. Club]]}}</ref>
* [[Harrison Page]] as Captain Trunk: Hammer and Doreau's supervisor, he is regularly driven into fits of rage by Hammer's inconsiderate and brash attitude. Spencer related Page's portrayal to [[Louis Gossett]]'s character in ''[[An Officer and a Gentlemen]]'' with regards to his yelling, and also [[Herbert Lom]]'s character [[List of The Pink Panther characters#Chief Inspector Charles LaRousse Dreyfus|Inspector Dreyfus]] in ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' film series.<ref name="avclub"/><ref name="cracked"/>

===Recurring===
* Leslie Morris as Officer Fletcher Majoy: desk sergeant at the precinct.
* Patti Tippo as Officer Daley: another officer at the precinct who is sometimes a gal pal to Doreau.
* [[Kurt Paul]] as Norman Blates: the precinct's [[medical examiner]], he specializes in the sudden deceased at crime scenes. According to executive producer Alan Spencer, the character is an homage to [[Norman Bates]], the character from ''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Alfred Hitchcock's ''Psycho'']].''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mandatory.com/fun/633741-exclusive-interview-alan-spencer-on-bullet-in-the-face-and-sledge-hammer|title=Exclusive Interview: Alan Spencer on 'Bullet in the Face' and 'Sledge Hammer'|work=[[mandatory.com|Mandatory]]|date=January 21, 2014|access-date=January 16, 2023|archive-date=January 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116013316/https://www.mandatory.com/fun/633741-exclusive-interview-alan-spencer-on-bullet-in-the-face-and-sledge-hammer|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Diane Sainte-Marie as Lisa Ellerblub: a local news anchorwoman (a play on [[Linda Ellerbee]]), she is usually on the receiving end of Hammer's chauvinistic insults.

===Guest appearances===
Some notable figures who made guest appearances on ''Sledge Hammer!'':
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* [[Adam Ant]] ("Icebreaker")
* [[Lewis Arquette]] ("Witless")
* [[Bill Bixby]] ("Hammer Hits the Rock") – Bixby also directed a number of episodes
* [[Mark Blankfield]] ("State of Sledge", "Comrade Hammer", and "The Secret of My Excess")
* [[Bud Cort]] ("Last of the Red Hot Vampires")
* [[Bill Dana]] ("Haven't Gun, Will Travel")
* [[John Densmore]] ("State of Sledge")
* [[Michael Des Barres]] ("Sledgepoo")
* [[Sarah Douglas (actress)|Sarah Douglas]] ("Play It Again, Sledge")
* [[Norman Fell]] ("They Call Me Mr. Trunk")
* [[Conchata Ferrell]] ("Jagged Sledge")
* [[Dennis Fimple]] ("They Shoot Hammers, Don't They?" and "If I Had a Little Hammer")
* [[Kurt Fuller]] ("Hammer Hits the Rock")
* [[Sid Haig]] ("Hammeroid")
* [[Mark Holton]] ("The Secret of My Excess")
* [[Clint Howard]] ("State of Sledge")
* [[Brion James]] ("If I Had a Little Hammer" and "Model Dearest")
* [[Davy Jones (actor)|Davy Jones]] ("Sledge, Rattle & Roll")
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* [[Bernie Kopell]] ("Last of the Red Hot Vampires")
* [[Dan Lauria]] ("A Clockwork Hammer")
* [[Robin Leach]] ("The Spa Who Loved Me")
* [[Beverly Leech]] ("Wild About Hammer" and "A Clockwork Hammer")
* [[Lance LeGault]] ("The Spa Who Loved Me")
* [[David Leisure]] ("Hammer Hits the Rock" and "Magnum Farce")
* [[Peter Marshall (entertainer)|Peter Marshall]] ("To Live and Die on TV")
* [[Richard Moll]] ("Hammeroid")
* [[Ronnie Schell]] ("Hammer Gets Nailed")
* [[Armin Shimerman]] ("Hammeroid")
* [[Don Stark]] ("Under the Gun" and "Sledgepoo")
* [[Brenda Strong]] ("Miss of the Spider Woman")
* [[John Vernon]] ("Under the Gun" – parodying his role in the first ''Dirty Harry'' film)
* [[Ray Walston]] ("Big Nazi on Campus")
* [[Patrick Wayne]] ("Brother Can You Spare a Crime")
* [[Duane Whitaker]] ("Hammer Gets Nailed")
* [[Mary Woronov]] ("The Spa Who Loved Me")
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Actor and director [[Jackie Cooper]] directed a few episodes including "Witless",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/sledge-hammer-v306062/|title=Witless|work=[[All Movie]]|access-date=January 15, 2023|archive-date=January 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116020919/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/sledge-hammer-v306062/|url-status=live}}</ref> "All Shook Up"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/sledge-hammer%21--all-shook-up-v306066|title=All Shook Up|work=[[All Movie]]|access-date=January 15, 2023|archive-date=January 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116020918/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/sledge-hammer!--all-shook-up-v306066|url-status=live}}</ref> and the first-season finale, "The Spa Who Loved Me".<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.allmovie.com/movie/sledge-hammer%21--the-spa-who-loved-me-v306081|title= The Spa Who Loved Me|work= [[All Movie]]|access-date= January 15, 2023|archive-date= January 16, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230116020919/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/sledge-hammer!--the-spa-who-loved-me-v306081|url-status= live}}</ref>