Police Squad!

Police Squad! is an American comedy television series which was first broadcast in 1982. The series was a spoof of police dramas and was full of Visual jokes and slapstick situations. The series seemed to be mainly based on the Lee Marvin-series, M Squad .



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[hide] *1 Background  ==Background[ Edit] == Police Squad! was created by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, who had previously collaborated on such films as The Kentucky Fried Movie and ''[http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAirplane! Airplane!]''.Despite the positive response to the series, the series was discontinued after only 6 episodes ABCby the transmitter. This was enough to give the series a cult status. This cult status eventually led to the The Naked Gunmovie trilogy, in which all the well-known characters from Police Squad took part again.
 * 2 cessation
 * 3 Cast
 * 3.1 main roles
 * 3.2 guest appearances
 * 4 Running gags and well-known scenes
 * 4.1 Opening Movie
 * 4.2 Running gags
 * 5 Music
 * 6 Episodes
 * Dvd-Edition 7
 * 8 spin-offs
 * 9 external links

The series was presented in the style of a Quinn Martinseries from the early 70 's.

Leslie Nielsen played Detective Frank Drebin in the series as the three films. Also actor Ed Williams, who played the character Ted Olson, did in the movies again. All other actors from the series were replaced by others in the films. In addition, the name "Norberg" (in the television series portrayed by Peter Lupus) for the film changed to "Nordberg".

A big difference between the series and the films was the way Frank Drebin was put down. In the series he was not meant to be extremely comical. He was also more competent and less in the television series thanMaxwell Smart-like than in the movies. ==Cessation[ Edit] == ABC made the cessation of Police Squad! known after four of the six episodes were broadcast in March 1982. The last two episodes were aired that summer. According to the then ABS entertainment president Tony Thomopoulos Police Squad! was discontinued because viewers had to look really looking to appreciate it. What he meant was that viewers donate to the series had to really pay attention to a lot of humor to understand, while most comedy series not so much demanded of their viewers. This reason and halting fell not many viewers. A tv magazine even called it "the dumbest reason a network ever gave for stopping a series".

Matt Groening believes that if Police Squad! 20 years later was made, it would have been a success. The series actually came too early there in 1982 the tv audience was not yet accustomed to this kind of comedy. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Leading Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Guest Appearances<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the opening of each episode had a well-known actor made a guest appearance. The character played by this actor always came to life during the intro movie and neither came for in the storyline. These are:
 * Leslie Nielsen -Detective Frank Drebin
 * Alan North -Captain Ed Hocken
 * Peter Lupus -Officer Norberg
 * Ed Williams -Ted Olson
 * William Duell -Johnny the Snitch
 * Rex Hamilton - Abraham Lincoln

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There was also a scene filmed with actor John Belushi, which would come through with a block of concrete at his feet in the water to be thrown. The actor died shortly before the episode aired, and the producers decided to cut out the scene there for that reason. ==Running gags and well-known scenes<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Opening Movie<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Running gags<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The music of the opening and closing credits was composed by Ira Newborn. This music was retained for the The Naked Gunmovies (along with the opening scene in which a police car drive by bizarre locations). That makes this music you find a presumably most famous song. ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.<p lang="en" len="84" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The titles in parentheses are the "faulty" titles that is mentioned by the Narrator.
 * 1) Lorne Greene (stabbed and thrown from a speeding car)
 * 2) Georg Stanford Brown (crushed under a falling safe)
 * 3) Florence Henderson (shot while they are in the kitchen is to sing)
 * 4) William Shatner (know quite a salvo of bullets to Dodge, but then drinks poisoned wine)
 * 5) Robert Goulet (executed by firing squad)
 * 6) William Conrad (stabbed and thrown from a speeding car)
 * As parody of the N.Y.P.D. police series from the 60 's it was seen in the opening the siren of a police car that drove through the streets of a city.
 * By way of parody on crime dramas Quinn Martins was the intro pronunciation by Hank Simms, which was known by the releases of many series of Martin as The Fugitive, The f.b.i., The Streets of San Francisco andBarnaby Jones.
 * The intro starts with the words "Police Squad! ... In Color "
 * When Captain Hocken is introduced in his Office, someone begins to shoot at random around them with ridiculous consequences.
 * In each intro movie is Rex Hamilton presented as interpreter of Abraham Lincoln, although there is a reference in any story line to Lincoln.
 * Once the name of the episode big in image, calls the Narrator invariably another title.
 * Frank Drebins rank is continually changing, often even in the middle of a scene. He always introduces himself as "Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant Police Squad", which is a non-existing rank is consisting of three existing ranks.
 * Drebin drives almost always somewhere to Park, as he often run into trash cans. The number of trash cans he hits is in line with the episode number, for example (one in the first, two in the second etc.)
 * Each episode has a scene in the crime lab where Ted Olsen a very dangerous lesson teaches to a child as a parody of Watch Mr. Wizard, such as
 * Mammals can not unlike fish breathing underwater, where Olsen almost a cat let drown in a horse ridding and shopping.
 * Electricity has many guides, which he wants to use a child as a conductor to a lamp to do the burn.
 * An employee of Police Squad and a bowling ball let one of several meters height simultaneously fall to show that they also simultaneously hit the ground, although they have a different weight.
 * What happens to a person like this in a PAL machine is crushed?
 * The effect of water on sodium which Olsen used a giant amount of sodium.
 * A test with static electricity
 * Ted uses the door, but Frank just runs to the set back.
 * Drebin often offers the people he interrogates a cigarette with the question "Cigarette?", to which they reply "Yes, I know" or "Yes, it is." Drebins reaction is often "Well ..."
 * Drebin often looks for a certain Johnny on, which seems to know what's happening in the city but the stupid until Frank pays him. After Frank leave, arrives there a specialist or celebrity that Johnny for advice asks for his or her work:
 * A doctor asks how he should perform surgery
 * Johnny's a priest wants to think about life after death.
 * A firefighter asks Johnny how he best can extinguish a fire in a warehouse.
 * Dick Clark asks about ska
 * Joyce Brothers talks with Johnny about psychology
 * Tommy Lasorda baseball asks questions about
 * The weekly criminal is always sent to the "Statesville Prison" (a parody of State Prison). Also this one repeats the names of all criminals who in previous episodes to this prison were sent.
 * On the glass door of the room of the team is "Police Squad" written in such a way that no matter which way you attitude, there is always a word spelled backwards State.
 * Just before the end credits, all the characters in the foreground stock-still, while in the background of everything happens. This is a parody on the "freeze-frame" principle, in which the picture shortly before the credits of a film or series freezes (what was still standard for police series at the time).
 * Although the building of Police Squad consists only of a ground floor and upper floor, one takes invariably an elevator that bridges several floors. In the elevator is usually a bizarre figure who get off. When the elevator doors are opened, one sees an equally bizarre background, such as:
 * A swimmer to get the lift. One can see in the background to get it off a swimming pool. The swimmer dives into the pool. The characters in the elevator are wet with water flying up.
 * An Indian get in the elevator. At get it off he enters a "western movie" where a war is waged between Indians and cowboys. Indians arrows to end up in the elevator.
 * When a lady step out the elevator, she comes in a stage room visit. She gets flowers from the public say. The flowers to end up in the elevator.
 * In each episode there is another female lead actress. They always have blond hair or wears a blonde wig.
 * At the headquarters of Police Squad is in the background a window behind which in almost every new scene to see is something else, such as: the Washingtonse Capitol, blocks of flats, a jungle, the Eiffel Tower, ...
 * In the first episode reports Drebin that he is "Little Italy" District (Little Italy). In the background is to see the Colosseum . In The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear is this "district" and the Coliseum to see also. Also the scene in which Already eat a banana, is identical reenacted in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

==Dvd Edition<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series was released on dvd on november 6, 2006 in the United Kingdom, and a day later in the United States. Several episodes feature audio commentary and a photo gallery. ==Spin-offs<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the series was discontinued, but for the outcome of the first Naked Gun movie, the producers had already plans to make a movie by several episodes together with new scenes. A few of these scenes were actually filmed before the project was cancelled.
 * 1) "A Substantial Gift" ("The Broken Promise"): In a bank office was raided in which the robber according to clerk Sally the shot bank Director and vice versa so both of them are dead. The research indicates that Sally has killed both men and fled with several hundred dollars to her pay dental .
 * 2) "Ring of Fear" ("A Dangerous Assignment"): All boxing matches are won by boxers who have a contract with Mr. Cooper. The final evening, that determines who the new boxing champion is, is in sight. Frank Drebin Via poker wins the contract of Johnny. Just before the finals start, tells Cooper to Johnny that his henchmen have kidnapped his girlfriend Mary and that she just is released when Johnny loses the contest.The team of Drebin Mary as soon as possible to find and to bring her to the contest so that Johnny has enough courage to his opponent off.
 * 3) "The Butler Did It" ("A Bird in the Hand"): Terri is kidnapped during her birthday party. There is ransom asked. Drebin serves her kidnapper to figure it out.
 * 4) "Revenge and Remorse" ("The Guilty Alibi"): the hammer of a judge is replaced by one with explosives whereby the right to life comes at its next plenary session.
 * 5) "Rendezvous at Big Gulch" ("Terror in the Neighborhood"): some dealers are required to pay monthly "gang to protect their case". If you refuse, you will undoubtedly vandals strokes or robberies happen. Drebin and his team go undercover and open a Locksmithing.
 * 6) "Testimony of Evil" ("Dead Men Don't Laugh"): a stand up comedy served by the owner of a night club to hand over money to a drug gang, but has a portion withheld. As a result, he was assassinated by the owner. The team of Drebin, the case further to dig.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A series of British ads for Red Rock Cider were made in the same style as Police Squad!. These ads were given the name "Fraud Squad", and also had Leslie Nielsen in the lead role. The catchphrase was "Red Rock Cider — it's not red, and there's no rocks in it."