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)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).
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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)
When it comes to discussing the mechanics of comedy, many of the terms are borrowed from music: Comedic routines…
“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)