There are no hard and fast rules to comedy, only guidelines, frameworks, theories, and patterns that emerge upon…
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Cast
Leslie Nielsen (Det. Frank Drebin)Alan North (Capt. Ed Hocken)Ed Williams (Mr. Olson)William Duell (Johnny)Peter Lupus (Norberg)Tessa Richarde (Mary)Rex Hamilton (Abraham Lincoln)William Shatner (Poisoned Man)William Conrad (Stabbed Man)Florence Henderson (Shot Woman)Lorne Greene (Stabbed Man)Robert Goulet (Executed Man)Georg Stanford Brown (Police under the Safe)Barbara Tarbuck (Mrs. Twice)Rudy Solari (Martin)Patrick St. Esprit (Buddy)Dick Clark (Dick Clark)Al Ruscio (Dutch)
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Creators
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Deborah Hwang-Marriott, Tino Insana, David Misch, Pat Proft, Nancy Steen, Neil Thompson, Robert K. Weiss, Robert Wuhl, Jerry Zucker
Synopsis
Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs abound as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues at Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.
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“Rendezvous At Big Gulch (Terror In The Neighborhood)” (season 1, episode 5; originally aired 7/1/1982)
“Revenge and Remorse (The Guilty Alibi)” (season 1, episode 4; originally aired 3/25/1982)
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“Ring Of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)” (season 1, episode 2; originally aired 3/11/1982)
“A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)” (season 1, episode 1; originally aired 3/4/1982)
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