Police Squad!

TV Series
1982
TV-PG
24m

IMDb RATING

8.4/10

21K

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3,027

Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs abound as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues of Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.

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Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs ensue as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues at Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs ensue as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues at Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs ensue as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues at Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.

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IMDb RATING

8.4/10

21K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,027

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 1 win & 3 nominations total

Episodes6

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TopTop-rated 1 Season 1982

Trivia
After the success of The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) and The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), Comedy Central and CBS re-aired all six episodes of this series in the summer of 1991. Producers wanted to include John Belushi's "guest star" appearance in Testimony of Evil (Dead Men Don't Laugh) (1982), which had been cut due to Belushi's death. The footage could not be located, and is now presumed lost or destroyed.

Quotes
Det. Frank Drebin: [running gag] Cigarette?
Various: Yes, I know.

Crazy credits
Rex Hamilton appeared in the opening credits portraying Abraham Lincoln but he never appeared in any of the episodes.

Alternate versions
The home video versions of some episodes have changed music in some scenes. For instance, when they sing "Happy Birthday" at a birthday and when Leslie Nielsen sings Judy Garland tunes in the nightclub. Presumably this is due to a music licensing issue.

Connections
Featured in The 34th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1982)

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A very funny, but short lived show.

This show has the basic jokes of a spoof, but they work so well. With Nielson's deadpan delivery the six episodes of this show were better than the movies that were for some reason very successful (not that they were bad, but I just wonder why the show didn't work). I especially liked the opening in which the special guest star was killed during the credits and then the man would announce the name of the episode and it would be different from the title. Yes this show was a laugh a second great comedy. Some of the jokes from the series would even find their way to the movie versions.