I heard a podcast where Spencer said the network chose the director for "Bullet" and he was far from adept at comedy. Martha Coolidge did a bang up job on the "Sledge" pilot and it was unique to have a female director for an action comedy back then.

Meaning it's all right to copy the Zuckers' jokes as the writer pointed out?

A new regime apparently inherited this show, so they probably didn't quite know what to do with it. I read somewhere else that audience testing wasn't good and the advertising was causing confusion.

I stopped laughing at "And Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln" after the first show.

There's a tribute to it this Sunday at Sketchfest in San Francisco, full cast reunion.

The good reviews all regard this as a mere cover band for other TV shows and movies, Naked Gun, Sledge Hammer and Police Squad. Has anyone deemed to call this unique or original?

It's time for a reinvention of Sledge Hammer. Police Squad and Get Smart have been revived, but Hammer's satiric take on police brutality is even more relevant today. Besides the wordplay stolen from Police Squad this writer noted, previews of Angie Tribeca feature gags lifted from Hammer such as people eating messy…

And I'm a fan in the UK. When will the interviews you elude to within this piece run?

Sledge Hammer! is her last acting credit. She co-wrote the movie Twister with Crichton.

Monty Python and Andy Kaufman both would have been proud. I recall it being called the world's biggest continuity copout, but wouldn't that still be "Dallas"?

I second that, or is it a third?

But if you're a fan of Sledge Hammer! that gets the inherent satire, it still holds up.

Do you mean "A Touch of Cloth?" Sorry, I'm a Brit.

I just checked and you're right! How do you know such things?

They did seem to ripoff the infamous Sledge season finale. I couldn't get into Todd Margaret at all. Nicest thing I could say about it was that it seemed filmed in focus.

Indeed. Izzard and Roberts were superb, as was Larry Wilmore in a quick cameo, but the rest of the Canadian cast suffered in comparison. David Rasche was truly the engine that drove Sledge along with the stellar writing. I agree about the theme song to Bullet that Spencer wrote the loopy, unaccredited lyrics for. …

You mean right next to She's the Sheriff?

Sledge Hammer's violence feels very prescient, the satire hitting the bull's eye, making it prescient, don't you think? It doesn't feel as 80's as other 80's shows do.

This series is oft imitated. American Dad and that other series coming on TBS called Angie Tribeca seems to pilfer gags from this. I still like Sledge more than Police Squad and A Touch of Cloth.

If the goal for IFC is to have absolutely no one aware of their series and not viewing them, they're overachieving already for the new year.