Editing Sledge Hammer! (section)

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* [[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"/>