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Police Squad!

  • TV Series
  • 19821982
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 24m
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Leslie Nielsen in Police Squad! (1982)
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 abound as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues of Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs abound as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues of Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs abound as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues of Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.
IMDb RATING
8.4/10
18K
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POPULARITY
3,527
228
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    • Creators
      • Jim Abrahams
      • David Zucker
      • Jerry Zucker
    • Stars
      • Leslie Nielsen
      • Alan North
      • Rex Hamilton
    Top credits
    • Creators
      • Jim Abrahams
      • David Zucker
      • Jerry Zucker
    • Stars
      • Leslie Nielsen
      • Alan North
      • Rex Hamilton
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    • 71User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
    • Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
      • 1 win & 3 nominations total

    Episodes6

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    1 Season
    1982

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    Leslie Nielsen
    Leslie Nielsen
    • Det. Frank Drebin
    6 episodes6 eps • 1982
    Alan North
    Alan North
    • Capt. Ed Hocken
    6 episodes6 eps • 1982
    Rex Hamilton
    • Abraham Lincoln
    6 episodes6 eps • 1982
    Ed Williams
    • Mr. Olson
    6 episodes6 eps • 1982
    William Duell
    • Johnny
    6 episodes6 eps • 1982
    Peter Lupus
    Peter Lupus
    • Norberg
    4 episodes4 eps • 1982
    Tessa Richarde
    • Mary
    2 episodes2 eps • 1982
    William Shatner
    William Shatner
    • Poisoned Man
    1 episode1 ep • 1982
    Lorne Greene
    Lorne Greene
    • Stabbed Man
    1 episode1 ep • 1982
    William Conrad
    William Conrad
    • Stabbed Man
    1 episode1 ep • 1982
    Florence Henderson
    Florence Henderson
    • Shot Woman
    1 episode1 ep • 1982
    Robert Goulet
    Robert Goulet
    • Executed Man
    1 episode1 ep • 1982
    Georg Stanford Brown
    Georg Stanford Brown
    • Police under the Safe
    1 episode1 ep • 1982
    Barbara Tarbuck
    Barbara Tarbuck
    • Mrs. Twice
    1 episode1 ep • 1982
    Rudy Solari
    • Martin
    1 episode1 ep • 1982
    Patrick St. Esprit
    Patrick St. Esprit
    • Buddy
    1 episode1 ep • 1982
    Dick Clark
    Dick Clark
    • Dick Clark
    1 episode1 ep • 1982
    Al Ruscio
    Al Ruscio
    • Dutch
    1 episode1 ep • 1982
    • Creators
      • Jim Abrahams
      • David Zucker
      • Jerry Zucker
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    • 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)

    User reviews71

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    Top review
    "Airplane!" Meets QM Productions
    This was a funny show. It had an "Airplane!" flavor to it and it parodied the Quinn Martin Productions shows that were popular in the 60s and 70s ("The Streets of San Francisco", "Barnaby Jones", "Cannon", etc). If you're familiar with these shows, they all had the same type of beginnings; Same announcer who would go through the starring cast, that night's guest stars, special guest stars (if any) and the name of "tonight's episode". As well as the on screen act numbers and the epilogue after commercial breaks.

    It was everything like "Airplane!", in the sense that you had to watch the show to see the gags and other hidden gags that were in the background along with the verbal jokes and gags.

    It was a shame that only 6 episodes were produced, since this was one of my favorite shows. Unlike "The Naked Gun" movies, although funny, the problem with those movies were, the show lampooned QM Productions shows, it was probably hard to transfer that to the big screen. It just didn't have the same feeling to it as the tv show.
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    • Release date
      • March 4, 1982 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Die nackte Pistole
    • Filming locations
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Paramount Television
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    • Runtime
      24 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 4:3

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