Police Squad! (1982) - The A.V. Club

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Season 1

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6. Testimony of Evil (Dead Men Don't Laugh)
5. Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)
4. Revenge and Remorse (The Guilty Alibi)
3. The Butler Did It (A Bird in the Hand)
2. Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)
1. A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)

Cast

Leslie Nielsen (Det. Frank Drebin)Alan North (Capt. Ed Hocken)Rex Hamilton (Abraham Lincoln)Ed Williams (Mr. Olson)William Duell (Johnny)Peter Lupus (Norberg)Tessa Richarde (Mary)William Shatner (Poisoned Man)Lorne Greene (Stabbed Man)William Conrad (Stabbed Man)Florence Henderson (Shot Woman)Robert Goulet (Executed Man)Georg Stanford Brown (Police under the Safe)Rudy Solari (Martin)Barbara Tarbuck (Mrs. Twice)Patrick St. Esprit (Buddy)Dick Clark (Dick Clark)Al Ruscio (Dutch)

Creators

Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker

Synopsis

Marginally a "straight" police drama in the Jack Webb/Quinn Martin school, Police Squad occurs in a strange universe where everything is taken literally (when a name "rings a bell" we hear bells go off every time someone mentions it), non sequiturs occur (a mime tries to spell out a ransom note, and Officer Nordberg guesses "Theme From a Summer Place") and sight gags abound (while looking for a corpse, someone wants to know the time and the dead man's hand drops out of a tree).