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'''''Hammerman''''' is a short-lived American-Canadian animated series produced by DIC Entertainment, 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.
'''''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> and Bustin' Productions, 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. The show's copyright was owned by Bustin' Productions, Inc.,<ref>Hammerman: no. 221-101., PA0000673394, (12 November '93), [https://cocatalog.loc.gov United States Copyright Office] Retrieved 3 Sep '22</ref> although the company was suspended in 1993.<ref>[https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/search/business California Secretary of State Business Search] Retrieved 3 Sep '22</ref>


==Availability==
==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.
As of February 2022, 10 full episodes of the series have resurfaced online. Of these, 5 are in full English, and 5 are in English with a Polish overdub.


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.] 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.
==Findings==
On November 7th, 2017, YouTuber areyoustilllistening uploaded an 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.<ref>[https://boards.fireden.net/co/thread/98080484/ A fireden.net thread about the name of episode 13.] Retrieved 13 Jan '18</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 episode's 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 him 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 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.
On February 12th, 2019, user "JetAviator00" contacted an anonymous user that claimed to have some ''Hammerman'' episodes in the Latin American 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 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 3 lost ''Hammerman'' episodes.


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.
 
On June 1st, 2021, Lost Media Wiki user "MushroomMan" discovered the titles of the 3 remaining unknown ''Hammerman'' episodes via a series of documents created by DIC Entertainment in 1998 that had been uploaded to the United States Copyright Office's website (these episodes sharing the exact same composers as all other ''Hammerman'' episodes). This discovery also revealed that "Will and the Jerks" was never an episode of the show to begin with (as Lost Media Wiki user "Elizabello" had previously claimed in a comment).
 
On February 23rd, 2022, YouTuber TheSym uploaded a series of ''Hammerman'' VHS recordings to their channels that contained Polish overdubs of several episodes. Not only did these contain audible English audio tracks for several episodes that previously lacked them, but they also featured the episode "Work This" in full for the first time.  


==Episode List==
==Episode List==
===Confirmed Episodes===
===Episodes===
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|1||Defeated Graffiti||[https://youtu.be/x3CJsZCg3yM<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Release on VHS.
|1||Defeated Graffiti||[https://youtu.be/x3CJsZCg3yM<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS.
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|2||Rapoleon ([https://youtu.be/1-zj7lTLwgU 1] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [https://youtu.be/_cl7byfbVN8 2])||<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''||Release on VHS.
|2||Rapoleon||[https://youtu.be/vIIdQZQkU2c<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS.
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|3||Winnie's Winner ([https://youtu.be/7YbJlUfgvqE 1] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [https://youtu.be/KYUBxGWQpzQ 2])||<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''||Release on VHS.
|3||Winnie’s Winner ([https://youtu.be/7YbJlUfgvqE 1] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [https://youtu.be/KYUBxGWQpzQ 2])||<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''||Released on VHS.
|-
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|4||Will and the Jerks||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''||
|4||If the Shoe Fits||[https://youtu.be/XKhO7cPbfdo<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Polish overdub.
|-
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|5||If the Shoe Fits||[https://youtu.be/XKhO7cPbfdo<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Polish over-dub.
|5||Nobody’s Perfect||[https://youtu.be/ijzZVu5V6fQ<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
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|6||Nobody's Perfect||[https://youtu.be/VAzwox6lfs0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Low-quality video & staticy audio.
|6||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 and staticy audio.
|-
|-
|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.
|7||Lights, Camera, Hammer! ([https://youtu.be/t3y0Nbcp9Xo?t=1132 1] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [https://youtu.be/JIa5dpOGWd0 2])||<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''||Polish overdub.
|-
|-
|8||Lights, Camera, Hammer!||[https://youtu.be/gpJad5HnvnQ<span style=color:green>'''Found''']||Finnish dub
|8||Blast From the Past||[https://youtu.be/T_Y2LK_59-Q?t=316<span style=color:green>'''Found''']||Polish overdub.
|-
|-
|9||Blast From the Past||[https://youtu.be/gpJad5HnvnQ<span style=color:green>'''Found''']||Finnish dub
|9||Who’s Who? ([https://youtu.be/T_Y2LK_59-Q?t=1607 1] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [https://youtu.be/iEagWP9TJtE 2])||<span style=color:green>'''Found'''||Polish overdub.
|-
|-
|10||Who's Who||[https://youtu.be/gpJad5HnvnQ<span style=color:green>'''Found''']||Finnish dub
|10||Work This ([https://youtu.be/iEagWP9TJtE?t=1092 1] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [https://youtu.be/ZlkTku8XGAU 2])||<span style=color:green>'''Found'''||Polish overdub.
|-
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|11||Work This||[https://youtu.be/guVbN4AKYfg<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found''']||Latin Spanish dub.
|11||Cupid's Sting<ref>[https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V3419D343 Document created by DIC Entertainment that mentions "Cupid's Sting" (056).] Retrieved 01 Jun '21</ref>||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''||
|}
===Unconfirmed Episodes===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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! style="background-color:lightblue" | Episode Title
|12||Real Friends, the Musical<ref>[https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V3419D349 Document created by DIC Entertainment that mentions "Real Friends, the Musical" (106).] Retrieved 01 Jun '21</ref>||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''||
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status
|-
|-
|Practice Makes Perfect||<span style=color:grey>'''Existence Unconfirmed'''
|13||Stanley's Big Break<ref>[https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V3419D351 Document created by DIC Entertainment that mentions "Stanley's Big Break" (025).] Retrieved 01 Jun '21</ref>||<span style=color:red>'''Lost'''||
|-
|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'''
|-
|Operation: Rescue Hammerman||<span style=color:grey>'''Existence Unconfirmed'''
|-
|Not Everything is What is Seems||<span style=color:grey>'''Existence Unconfirmed'''
|}
|}


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 21:49, 4 September 2022

Hammerman logo.jpg

Title card.

Status: Partially Lost

Hammerman is a short-lived American-Canadian animated series produced by DIC Entertainment[1] and Bustin' Productions, 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. The show's copyright was owned by Bustin' Productions, Inc.,[2] although the company was suspended in 1993.[3]

Availability

As of February 2022, 10 full episodes of the series have resurfaced online. Of these, 5 are in full English, and 5 are in English with a Polish overdub.

Findings

On November 7th, 2017, YouTuber areyoustilllistening uploaded an episode of the show titled "Nobody's Perfect" to his channel.

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 episode's 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 him 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 American 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 3 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.

On June 1st, 2021, Lost Media Wiki user "MushroomMan" discovered the titles of the 3 remaining unknown Hammerman episodes via a series of documents created by DIC Entertainment in 1998 that had been uploaded to the United States Copyright Office's website (these episodes sharing the exact same composers as all other Hammerman episodes). This discovery also revealed that "Will and the Jerks" was never an episode of the show to begin with (as Lost Media Wiki user "Elizabello" had previously claimed in a comment).

On February 23rd, 2022, YouTuber TheSym uploaded a series of Hammerman VHS recordings to their channels that contained Polish overdubs of several episodes. Not only did these contain audible English audio tracks for several episodes that previously lacked them, but they also featured the episode "Work This" in full for the first time.

Episode List

Episodes

# Episode Title Status Notes
1 Defeated Graffiti Found Released on VHS.
2 Rapoleon Found Released on VHS.
3 Winnie’s Winner (1 | 2) Found Released on VHS.
4 If the Shoe Fits Found Polish overdub.
5 Nobody’s Perfect Found
6 Dropping Out (1 | 2 | 3 | 4) Found Badly damaged video and staticy audio.
7 Lights, Camera, Hammer! (1 | 2) Found Polish overdub.
8 Blast From the Past Found Polish overdub.
9 Who’s Who? (1 | 2) Found Polish overdub.
10 Work This (1 | 2) Found Polish overdub.
11 Cupid's Sting[4] Lost
12 Real Friends, the Musical[5] Lost
13 Stanley's Big Break[6] Lost

Gallery

A promo for the series.

References