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Police Squad! is a television comedy series first broadcast in 1982. It is a spoof of police dramas, packed with visual gags and non sequiturs.It was created by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, who had previously worked together on The Kentucky Fried Movie and Airplane! The show was cancelled by ABC after just six episodes, apparently because the executives thought it required too much attention from the viewer. However, it gained a strong cult following though repeats on TV, which led to a movie version, in 1988, and two further sequels.
The show was presented in the style of a Quinn Martin show of the early 1970s, with a portentous narrative over the opening titles which made a big feature of the show being "... in color!" The narrative ended with the announcement of the episode's title, which was always different from the on-screen title. A constant running joke was the announcement of a well-known "special guest star", who was always killed off before the opening titles had finished.
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1 Cast
- Leslie Nielsen - Det. Frank Drebin
- Alan North - Capt. Ed Hocken
- Peter Lupus - Det. Norberg
- Ed Williams - Ted Olson
- William Duell - Johnny the Snitch
- Rex Hamilton - Abraham Lincoln
2 Guest Stars
- Lorne GreeneLorne Greene ( February 12, 1915 September 11, 1987) was a Canadian actor best known for two iconic roles on American television. Greene was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and began acting while attending Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He gave up on a (stabbed and thrown from speeding car)
- George Stanford Brown (crushed by falling safe)
- Florence HendersonFlorence Henderson (born February 14, 1934) is an American actress and singer best known for playing the role of Carol Brady in the television program The Brady Bunch which ran from 1969 to 1974. Henderson started out on the stage, performing in musicals, (gunned down while singing in a kitchen)
- William ShatnerWilliam Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is an actor and writer who was born in Montreal, Quebec. Shatner is most famous for his starring role as Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven (dodges salvo of bullets but drinks poisoned wine)
- Robert GouletRobert Goulet (born November 26, 1933) was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, as the only son of French Canadian parents Joseph and Jeannette Goulet. He began singing when he was five years old. At one family gathering, Goulet's aunts and uncles blacked out (executed by firing squad)
- William ConradWilliam Conrad ( September 27 1920 February 11 1994), born William Cann was an American actor in radio, film and television noted for his gifted use of a marvelous baritone voice, as well as for his sizable girth. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky. (stabbed and thrown from speeding car)
3 Episodes
- A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)
- Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)
- Rendez-vous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)
- Revenge and Remorse (The Guilty Alibi)
- The Butler Did It (A Bird in the Hand)
- Testimony of Evil (Deadmen don't Laugh)
4 Quotes
- "Who are you, and how did you get here?" "I'm a locksmith, and... I'm a locksmith".
5 External links
Comedy television series
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