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'''''Hammerman''''' is a short-lived American-Canadian Saturday morning cartoon, produced by DIC Entertainment and starring pop rapper MC Hammer as a youth center worker named Stanley Burrell (Hammer's real name) who owns a pair of magical dancing shoes (which are alive and can speak), which, when worn, cause him to transform into the superhero, Hammerman. The cartoon was aired from September 7th to December 7th, 1991, on ABC for a total of 13 episodes.
'''''Hammerman''''' is a short-lived American-Canadian animated series produced by DIC Entertainment,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030402134126/http://www.dicentertainment.com/dic_shows.html#AShows Archived DIC Entertainment show list with ''Hammerman''.] Retrieved 16 Dec '20</ref> created by pop rapper MC Hammer. It features the voice of Clark Johnson as a youth center worker named Stanley Burrell (Hammer's real name) who owns a pair of magical dancing shoes (which are alive and can speak). When he wears them, he transforms into the superhero Hammerman. The cartoon was aired from September 7th to December 7th, 1991, on ABC for a total of 13 episodes.


==Availability==
==Availability==
Only three full episodes have been released on home video (all of which have been uploaded online) and, apart from another upload with Polish over-dubbing, only five full episodes are available in English.
As of February 2020, the theme song, nine full episodes and one clip of the show have resurfaced online. Of these, five are in full English, one is in English with Polish over-dubbing, three are dubbed in Finnish, and the one clip is dubbed in Latin Spanish.


==Updates==
==Findings==
'''August 11th, 2017''' - An anonymous user on 4chan posted a thread claiming to have VHS tape recordings of 12 episodes of Hammerman. To prove he had the episodes he posted a screenshot and released the titles for all the episodes he had. However, he doesn't want to release them to prevent any legal issues.<ref>[https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/94585429/ An archive of the 4chan thread.]</ref>  
On August 11th, 2017, an anonymous user on 4chan posted a thread claiming to have VHS tape recordings of 12 episodes of ''Hammerman''. To prove he had the episodes, he posted a screenshot of episode 11 and released the titles for all the episodes he had. However, he doesn't want to release them to prevent any legal issues.<ref>[https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/94585429/ An archive of the 4chan thread that reviewed the episode names.] Retrieved 11 Aug '17</ref> On November 7th, 2017, YouTuber areyoustilllistening uploaded the 6th episode of the show titled "Nobody's Perfect" to his channel.


'''November 7th, 2017''' - YouTube user "areyoustilllistening" upload the full lost episode "Nobody's Perfect" to his channel.
On January 13th, 2018 an anonymous user on fireden.net claimed to remember the title of episode 13 as "Not Everything is What is Seems" although this cannot be confirmed as the episode hasn't been found yet.<ref>[https://boards.fireden.net/co/thread/98080484/ A fireden.net thread about the name of episode 13.] Retrieved 13 Jan '18</ref>


'''January 13th, 2018''' - An anonymous user on fireden.net claims to remember the title of episode 13 as "Not Everything is What is Seems" although this cannot be confirmed as the episode hasn't been found yet.<ref>[https://boards.fireden.net/co/thread/98080484/ A fireden.net thread about the name of episode 13.]</ref>
On November 25th, 2018, YouTuber Peter Lavalle uploaded some clips from an old VHS recording of ''Hammerman'' onto his channel (specifically a clip of the show's intro, the first commercial break and a small bit of the episodes title card). It was later found out that Peter Lavalle's recording was actually of a previously unknown ''Hammerman'' episode entitled "Dropping Out."  On January 9th, 2019, Lost Media Wiki user [[User:YoshiKiller2S|"YoshiKiller2S"]] contacted Peter Lavalle and inquired about if he could release the full episode onto YouTube or in case Peter didn't want to risk a possible copyright strike if he could send him a digital copy of the episode. Peter then later responded to him and agreed to upload the entire episode in 4 parts onto YouTube on January 12th.


'''November 25th, 2018''' - YouTube user Peter Lavalle uploaded a clip of an old TV recording of Hammerman to his channel (specifically a clip of the intro, the first commercial break and a bit of the episode title card). The footage was actually from a previously unknown ''Hammerman'' episode entitled "Dropping Out".  
On February 12th, 2019, user JetAviator00 contacted an anonymous user that claimed to have some ''Hammerman'' episodes in the Latin Spanish dub. One of the episodes he listed was a previously unknown episode entitled "Work This" and supplied a 1-minute clip from the episode.


'''January 9th, 2019''' - Lost Media Wiki user [[User:YoshiKiller2S|YoshiKiller2S]] contacted Peter Lavalle and asked him if he could upload "Dropping Out" to YouTube or in case Peter didn't want to risk a copyright strike to send Yoshi the episode so Yoshi could release the episode safely. Peter Lavalle later responded and agreed to upload the episode the following weekend, with Peter later uploading the episode to his channel on January 12th, 2019.
On October 24th, 2019, a YouTuber named "Viihdekonserni" uploaded VHS recordings of the show to his YouTube channel. These recordings contained Finnish dubs of numerous lost ''Hammerman'' episodes.


'''February 12th, 2019''' - User JetAviator00 contacted an anonymous user that claimed to have some ''Hammerman'' episodes in the Latin Spanish dub. One of the episodes he listed was an unknown episode entitled "Work This" and supplied a 1-minute clip of the episode.
On February 21st, 2020, Lost Media Wiki user "YoshiKiller2S" uploaded a higher-quality rip of the episode "Nobody's Perfect" to YouTube. This rip came from an old VHS recording he found on eBay.


==Episode List==
==Episode List==
===Confirmed Episodes===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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! style="background-color:green" | #
! style="background-color:lightblue" | #
! style="background-color:green" | Episode Title
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Episode Title
! style="background-color:green" | Status
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Notes
|-
|-
|1||Defeated Graffiti||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb2BqI5tddg<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> (On VHS)]
|1||Defeated Graffiti||[https://youtu.be/x3CJsZCg3yM<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Release on VHS.
|-
|-
|2||Rapoleon ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-zj7lTLwgU 1] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cl7byfbVN8 2])||<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> (On VHS)
|2||Rapoleon||[https://youtu.be/vIIdQZQkU2c<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Release on VHS.
|-
|-
|3||Winnie's Winner ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YbJlUfgvqE 1] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYUBxGWQpzQ 2])||<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> (On VHS)
|3||Winnie's Winner ([https://youtu.be/7YbJlUfgvqE 1] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [https://youtu.be/KYUBxGWQpzQ 2])||<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''||Release on VHS.
|-
|-
|4||Will and the Jerks||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''</span>
|4||Will and the Jerks||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''||
|-
|-
|5||If the Shoe Fits||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKhO7cPbfdo<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> (Over-dubbed in Polish)]
|5||If the Shoe Fits||[https://youtu.be/XKhO7cPbfdo<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Polish over-dub.
|-
|-
|6||Nobody's Perfect||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAzwox6lfs0<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|6||Nobody's Perfect||[https://youtu.be/ijzZVu5V6fQ<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|7||Practice Makes Perfect||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''</span>
|7||Dropping Out ([https://youtu.be/4AfMdB4qliU 1] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [https://youtu.be/84sUsLItgTA 2] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [https://youtu.be/gQyImq5fKPo 3] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [https://youtu.be/UcBy3x4jm7c 4])||<span style=color:green>'''Found'''||Badly damaged video & staticy audio.
|-
|-
|8||Bite the Bullet||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''</span>
|8||Lights, Camera, Hammer!||[https://youtu.be/3E8pnqlhKQc<span style=color:green>'''Found''']||Finnish dub subtitled in English.
|-
|-
|9||Lost||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''</span>
|9||Blast From the Past||[https://youtu.be/DdP31uQpZE8<span style=color:green>'''Found''']||Finnish dub subtitled in English.
|-
|-
|10||The Wrong Turn||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''</span>
|10||Who's Who||[https://youtu.be/TeECuMQF_gM<span style=color:green>'''Found''']||Finnish dub subtitled in English.
|-
|-
|11||Hide N Seek||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''</span>
|11||Work This||[https://youtu.be/guVbN4AKYfg<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found''']||Latin Spanish dub.
|-
|-
|12||Operation: Rescue Hammerman||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''</span>
|12||Unknown||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''||
|-
|-
|13||Dropping Out ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AfMdB4qliU 1] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84sUsLItgTA 2] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQyImq5fKPo 3] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcBy3x4jm7c 4])||<span style=color:green>'''Found'''</span>
|13||Unknown||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''||
|}
===Unconfirmed Episodes===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Episode Title
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status
|-
|Practice Makes Perfect||<span style=color:grey>'''Existence Unconfirmed'''
|-
|Bite the Bullet||<span style=color:grey>'''Existence Unconfirmed'''
|-
|Lost||<span style=color:grey>'''Existence Unconfirmed'''
|-
|The Wrong Turn||<span style=color:grey>'''Existence Unconfirmed'''
|-
|Hide N Seek||<span style=color:grey>'''Existence Unconfirmed'''
|-
|-
|?||Not Everything is What is Seems||<span style=color:grey>'''Existence Unconfirmed'''</span>
|Operation: Rescue Hammerman||<span style=color:grey>'''Existence Unconfirmed'''
|-
|-
|?||Work This||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guVbN4AKYfg<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span> (Latin Spanish dub)]
|Not Everything is What is Seems||<span style=color:grey>'''Existence Unconfirmed'''
|}
|}
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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   |id1          =RDFH-_K4nU0
   |description1 =A promo for the show
   |description1 =A promo for the series.
   |service2    =youtube
   |service2    =youtube
   |id2          =pcy2g_aFYTw
   |id2          =pcy2g_aFYTw
   |description2 =A clip from an unknown episode.
   |description2 =A clip from an unknown episode (possibly from "Work This").
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==References==
==References==
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Revision as of 18:51, 22 January 2021

Hammerman logo.jpg

Title card.

Status: Partially Lost

Hammerman is a short-lived American-Canadian animated series produced by DIC Entertainment,[1] created by pop rapper MC Hammer. It features the voice of Clark Johnson as a youth center worker named Stanley Burrell (Hammer's real name) who owns a pair of magical dancing shoes (which are alive and can speak). When he wears them, he transforms into the superhero Hammerman. The cartoon was aired from September 7th to December 7th, 1991, on ABC for a total of 13 episodes.

Availability

As of February 2020, the theme song, nine full episodes and one clip of the show have resurfaced online. Of these, five are in full English, one is in English with Polish over-dubbing, three are dubbed in Finnish, and the one clip is dubbed in Latin Spanish.

Findings

On August 11th, 2017, an anonymous user on 4chan posted a thread claiming to have VHS tape recordings of 12 episodes of Hammerman. To prove he had the episodes, he posted a screenshot of episode 11 and released the titles for all the episodes he had. However, he doesn't want to release them to prevent any legal issues.[2] On November 7th, 2017, YouTuber areyoustilllistening uploaded the 6th episode of the show titled "Nobody's Perfect" to his channel.

On January 13th, 2018 an anonymous user on fireden.net claimed to remember the title of episode 13 as "Not Everything is What is Seems" although this cannot be confirmed as the episode hasn't been found yet.[3]

On November 25th, 2018, YouTuber Peter Lavalle uploaded some clips from an old VHS recording of Hammerman onto his channel (specifically a clip of the show's intro, the first commercial break and a small bit of the episodes title card). It was later found out that Peter Lavalle's recording was actually of a previously unknown Hammerman episode entitled "Dropping Out." On January 9th, 2019, Lost Media Wiki user "YoshiKiller2S" contacted Peter Lavalle and inquired about if he could release the full episode onto YouTube or in case Peter didn't want to risk a possible copyright strike if he could send him a digital copy of the episode. Peter then later responded to him and agreed to upload the entire episode in 4 parts onto YouTube on January 12th.

On February 12th, 2019, user JetAviator00 contacted an anonymous user that claimed to have some Hammerman episodes in the Latin Spanish dub. One of the episodes he listed was a previously unknown episode entitled "Work This" and supplied a 1-minute clip from the episode.

On October 24th, 2019, a YouTuber named "Viihdekonserni" uploaded VHS recordings of the show to his YouTube channel. These recordings contained Finnish dubs of numerous lost Hammerman episodes.

On February 21st, 2020, Lost Media Wiki user "YoshiKiller2S" uploaded a higher-quality rip of the episode "Nobody's Perfect" to YouTube. This rip came from an old VHS recording he found on eBay.

Episode List

Confirmed Episodes

# Episode Title Status Notes
1 Defeated Graffiti Found Release on VHS.
2 Rapoleon Found Release on VHS.
3 Winnie's Winner (1 | 2) Found Release on VHS.
4 Will and the Jerks Lost
5 If the Shoe Fits Found Polish over-dub.
6 Nobody's Perfect Found
7 Dropping Out (1 | 2 | 3 | 4) Found Badly damaged video & staticy audio.
8 Lights, Camera, Hammer! Found Finnish dub subtitled in English.
9 Blast From the Past Found Finnish dub subtitled in English.
10 Who's Who Found Finnish dub subtitled in English.
11 Work This Partially Found Latin Spanish dub.
12 Unknown Lost
13 Unknown Lost

Unconfirmed Episodes

Episode Title Status
Practice Makes Perfect Existence Unconfirmed
Bite the Bullet Existence Unconfirmed
Lost Existence Unconfirmed
The Wrong Turn Existence Unconfirmed
Hide N Seek Existence Unconfirmed
Operation: Rescue Hammerman Existence Unconfirmed
Not Everything is What is Seems Existence Unconfirmed

Gallery

A promo for the series.

A clip from an unknown episode (possibly from "Work This").

References