A guide listing the titles and air dates for episodes of the tv series police squad. I am a great fan of the quinn martin formula, but it is such a riot to see that formula mercilessly roasted by frank drebin and squad. Initial plans to make the series into a movie stalled and, for all intents and purposes, police squad. It starred the late leslie nielsen as sergeant frank drebin, detective lieutenant, police squad, which he often said in this show and in the three naked gun films which are equally entertaining and amusing. The complete series, dvd, full frame, dolby, ac3, tv comedy, television, 097360475142. Created by david zucker, jerry zucker, and jim abrahams airplane. Cbs reran the series in the summer of 1991, following the success of the naked gun. The police squad tv show was a 30 minute crime comedy series on abc that was actually a parody of many other tv shows and films. Original 1982 naked gun tv series complete video tv. Many of the gags on the show were recycled to all three films.
Just how much can you say about a show that only lasted six episodes. Leslie nielsen full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. Frank drebin is a member of police squad, a special department of the police force, where he served for many years. Together with her diverse team of men and women, they investigated the old murders using forensics, questioning, and research to solve the case. The basic premise was a spoof of quinn martin police dramas. This may be the best example of a series that was cancelled too soon. With leslie nielsen, alan north, rex hamilton, ed williams. Scot squad is a spoof of blue light flyonthewall reality shows like traffic cops. Theyve also tapped robert ben garant and thomas lennon, who spent years.
Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system. The shows main staple of entertainment came from sight gags such as a tow truck being a truck in the shape of a big toe and misunderstandings in dialogue, mostly from people taking things extremely. Variety reports that paramount is prepping a new version of the great cop spoof series, with ed helms signed on to replace leslie nielsen in the role of bumbling det. A very short lived show only 6 episodes were aired with humor that still holds up 20 yrs later. In the original tv series, drebin is a competent although extremely straitlaced police officer, who plays the straight man to the wacky comedy going on around him. With hindsight, its clear that abrahams and the zuckers were right, not the abc execs.
Created by the team of jim abrahams, david zucker and jerry zucker it later went on to form the basis of their naked gun series of feature films. To gain a better perspective, frank and norberg open up a key store in the most troubled area. Scot squad bbc scotland sitcom british comedy guide. Definitely time to dust off my dvd and watch the series again. A blatant parody of 1950s through 1970svintage cop shows specifically 1957s m squad and practically every quinn martin productions crime drama ever made, this halfhour comedy featured leslie nielsen as lt. The meager six episodes gained such a strong cult following in repeated repeats that three movies were produced based on the characters on this show. A bumbling police detective unwittingly solves huge cases.
The complete series 1982 starring william conrad and dick clark on dvd and bluray. Police squad a substantial gift the broken promise. Police squad episode 3 closing rip leslie nielsen u will be missed by larry davis. It was and still is the pinnacle of surrealist comedy. So gesehen ist police squad vollig zu recht nach nur 6 episoden eingestampft worden. The series would later spawn three followup movies under the new naked gun titles. If you want to start a main policesquad page, just click the edit button above.
This is the brief series that lead to the naked gun trilogy. Chronicling crime in the windy city and how the chicago police department and the cook county criminal justice system use physical. Created by jim abrahams, david zucker, jerry zucker. Police squad, a special unit of the police force, is called to investigate a double shooting that happened during the robbery. However i dont want to rant about the injustice of it all, after all fawlty towers only ran for 12 episodes, so its the quality of the shows on offer that is important not the quantity. Rent police squad the complete series 1982 on dvd and.
Cameras follow deputy director jerry lester as he leads the prison police team, which includes special agent in charge jason woodall, undercover operations expert special agent john fisher, gang expert sergeant nicky jordan, drug expert sergeant valerie hampton, and special agent. An arresting mix of comedy and crime, scot squad follows the adventures of the first united scottish police force led by chief constable cameron miekelson jack docherty and his willing but not always able bunch of crime fighters. Leslie nielsen list of movies and tv shows tv guide. The show gained a strong cult following through repeat broadcasts, which led to the naked gun film series. Police squad is a show so full of slapstick, sight jokes and hilarious one liners that is was cancelled for being too complicated. It looks like a real cop show from the 70s, and it broadly parodies just about every series in the genre, starting with the opening credits. The episodes are presented in full frame, as intended. Audiences were a lot more accepting than the network gave them cred it for, and in 1988, frank drebin returned. Priscilla presley jane spencer, ricardo montalban vincent ludwig, george kennedy capt. Provided to youtube by the orchard enterprises police squad the city of prague philharmonic orchestra 100 greatest tv themes. Sight gags and nonsequiturs dominate this spoof of police dramas. The film stars leslie nielsen as the bumbling police lieutenant frank drebin.
Fugitive connected to 2002 deadly crash in chandler found. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured zucker, abrahams and zuckers usual sig. In addition to spawning the popular naked gun movie franchise, police squad. Paramounts release gives us all six of the shows, plus a bounty of special features. Watch cold squad online full episodes of season 7 to 1. Cold squad was a procedural crime drama that dealt with a unit within the vancouver police department specializing in unsolved cases. A chaotic police department led by detective frank drebin leslie nielsen, fight crime and bungle their way through investigations in three episodes of the. Even mother teresa wanted him dead when the incompetent officer frank drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate queen elizabeth.
Weeks after the naked gun celebrated its 25th anniversary, the best comedy franchise of all time you heard me is now getting a reboot. The six episodes formed the basis for the very successful naked gun film franchise. Help wanted and more police squad fun facts each episode has two titles. A blatant parody of 1950s through 1970svintage cop shows specifically 1957s m squad and practically every quinn martin productions crime drama ever made police squad. The chandler police department said 37yearold adan huerta was found earlier this month in january and was extradited on thursday back to arizona. The show, which was created by the same team that produced the film airplane. Police squad the complete series full frame, dolby, ac3. It was cancelled and put on hiatus after 4 episodes aired, with the remaining episodes and reruns aired in the summer of 1982. When a woman reports being blackmailed by some thugs, police squad get even more reports of the same kind from other shop owners. Im not real big into the whole buddycop genre, but with that being said this film blew me away. In the original series, peter lupus played nordberg it went to o.
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