| "To Sledge, with Love" | |||
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 6 |
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| Directed by | David Wechter | ||
| Written by | Jim Fisher, Jim Staahl | ||
| Original air date | October 31, 1986 | ||
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Shawn Klugman, Norman Alden, Stuart Fratkin, Michael Cramer, Brian Tarantina, Paul T. Murray, Paul Keith |
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"To Sledge, with Love" is the sixth episode of the television series Sledge Hammer!. It originally aired on ABC in the United States on October 31, 1986. The title of this episode is a parody of the 1967 film To Sir, with Love.[1]
Hammer is assigned by Trunk to go to a high school full of delinquent students. Upon arriving at the school, Hammer and Doreau see a gang of delinquents led by Turk (Shawn Klugman). Doreau takes note of the license plate of a limousine that is approached by Turk. The duo then enter a classroom that is run by Turk's gang, but Doreau warns Hammer that he cannot harm them as they are underage.
Back in the precinct, Doreau runs the limousine's license plate on the computer and identifies the owner as a racketeer named Ralph Roscoe (Norman Alden). At the school auto shop, Roscoe meets up with Turk's gang and pays them for their services.
The next day, Hammer starts to impose discipline on Turk's gang. First, he installs a tire barrier by the entrance that punctures the tires of the gang's cars. Then he forces them to walk through a metal detector and confiscates their weapons. During his work as the class' substitute teacher, he taunts Turk into losing his temper.
Later on, Hammer discovers that his beat-up Dodge St. Regis has been stolen. He arrests Turk and his gang and brings them to the precinct to show them what real criminals are like. After explaining that he used to be a punk in high school like them, he encourages them to take a career in law enforcement. When they show no interest, Hammer and Doreau show them Roscoe's file on the computer, revealing that he is making huge profits from the cars stolen by Turk's gang while paying them peanuts. After leaving the precinct, Turk calls Roscoe and tells him his gang is no longer working for him.
Turk's gang are paid a visit at the auto shop by Roscoe and his goons, who tell them that nobody walks out on him. As he prepares his men to gun down the gang, Hammer appears by the doorway. Roscoe's men shoot at Hammer, only to break a mirror with his reflection on it. Hammer warns them of seven years bad luck before disarming them. He then stops Roscoe from escaping in one of the stolen cars.
Not too long after Roscoe's arrest, Hammer and Doreau return to the auto shop, where Turk and his gang have restored Hammer's car as a gesture of thanks. Dissatisfied with the car's like-new condition, he starts decorating the car with bullet holes while Doreau dents the driver's side door with a kick.
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