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Police Squad!
JurassicMark
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Just browsing through my TV guide and noticed this is on at 10pm tonight on GOLD.
You may be interested if you liked the Naked Gun series of films and have never seen this short lived TV series on which those films were based.
The main character Frank Drebin is played by the same actor as in the films, the late great king of spoof, Leslie Nielsen.
It's one of my all time favourite comedy shows and it's a shame it was cancelled after only six episodes. If you do decide to watch it, then make sure you stick around for the final credits.
You may be interested if you liked the Naked Gun series of films and have never seen this short lived TV series on which those films were based.
The main character Frank Drebin is played by the same actor as in the films, the late great king of spoof, Leslie Nielsen.
It's one of my all time favourite comedy shows and it's a shame it was cancelled after only six episodes. If you do decide to watch it, then make sure you stick around for the final credits.
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Amazing that they made three successful films out of a failed six part TV series! I too much preferred the films but am still going to watch this.
A classic line. Gets me every time.
Great series, how the hell it only lasted 6 episodes is one of the great scandals of television.
there was another similar series......was it called Sledgehammer ?
Yes it was and that was another of my favourites (I've got the DVD boxset), the humour was a bit different to Police Squad but equally silly.
Yes it was. I remember it being pretty funny.
One of my favourite lines from that episode:
Dutch Gunderson: Who are you and how did you get in here?
Det. Frank Drebin: I'm a locksmith. And I'm a locksmith
This intro from an earlier series might be familiar
Never seen that before - absolute spot on spoof they made of it.
Recorded this and will watch later, very very funny, shame they only made 6 episodes
Watched it last night as a mature adult, and still roared with laughter.
It's always been a mystery to me as to why GOLD is not on Freeview.
Never realised that intro was based on another show.
I noticed that, just checked the upcoming shows and all episodes are due to be broadcast apart from episode 2, so don't know the reason for that.
Agree with you all and according to Wiki, TV Guide ranked it #7 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".
I caught a bit of it last night. I hope they show all the episodes again so I can sky +it
Same here. Well, I'm an adult, anyway.
Still holds up. Always love the end credits after the 'hilarious' last line of the episode.
Sledgehammer! is great fun, too.
Not just the intro, I presume Lt. Frank Drebin is based on Lt. Frank Ballinger.
You're right, just watched this comparison on Youtube and large parts of it were almost a word for word copy. Was almost expecting Lt. Frank Ballinger to crash into a trash can when he turned up at the crime scene.
Maybe it's just the way the episodes are numbered? I know that the names of each episode are completely different to the name that the voiceover gives at the start of each episode, so maybe they are deliberately numbered wrong as well?
I didn't know Sledgehammer was available on dvd boxset. I used to love that too.
Wow
I did notice the Cashier on M Squad shot twice while the Cashier on Police Squad only shot Twice once.
Jim fell both times though
Alan North was so much better than George Kennedy in the movies.
"Coffee, Frank?"
"A donut, Frank?"