Not me, I was a teenager when it first aired and loved it. I was soooo surprised to find the first season released on DVD and purchased it without hesitation.
The new fan: My 10 year old son. We've had the DVDs for a month and he hasn't watched the entire season because he keeps watching the first 2 discs over and over... I can't way to see his reaction to the ending of the season!
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I own Police Squad, too, but I haven't watched it all. There are certainly similarities because they're both parodies of cop shows.
Police Squad had a gag in which the cop and robbers were in a shoot out. The camera alternated between the characters until, finally, the camera backed up to reveal that the cops and robbers were only about 5 feet apart.
A similar shootout occured in Sledge.
I recognized that the gag was stolen from Police Squad, however, it didn't bother me.
What I'm more interested to know...
One of the Sledge episodes was very Hitchcockian:
A plane tries to mow Sledge down in the beginning,
A Hitchcock looking character walks by and says "Good evening",
The episode deals with espionage and is resolved on a train (which I'm pretty sure is a Hitchcock plot).
A few other events occured in the episode that didn't make sense for the story, so I assumed they're references to Hitchcock.
Anybody?
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Sledge also shared at least a couple of the same writers from Police Squad, Tino Insana and Robert Wuhl, maybe others I'm not sure. So that may help explain why the two shows share a lot of the same sense of humor and (possibly? I don't remember any) even repeated jokes...
Sledge Hammer tended to hit things with his car whenever he braked to a stop. So did Frank Drebin (who usually ran into trash cans.)
I'd like to invite you all over to www.sledgehammeronline.com, where you will find discussions on this and many aspects of the show.
We even know the locations of Sledge's precinct, and of his apartment.
You can find out Captain Trunk's first name.
And, you can also meet some really neat people (online only, unfortunately. We haven't managed to make a get-together happen yet.)