From the minds of Zucker and Abrahams and staring Leslie Neilsen, Police Squad! Was a short run, 6 episode series that was cancelled early only to be reborn as the quite successful Naked Gun franchise years later. If you're a fan of the Naked Gun films or others from the directors (Airplane!) then you'll certainly love this. Extremely dense with constant gags and puns I think literally every line of this show is a joke in some way or another. A comedic take on the police procedural, the series is very fun, the new and unique ways it mocks the ever living genre still rings true today. Fun fact, even in 2022 CBC is currently producing not one, not two, but three police procedural dramas: Murdoch Mysteries, Coroner, and Pretty Hard Cases. That's not even to mention the very related genre legal dramas in which we produce Diggstown. Just goes to show how long this sort of format can hold up, the many ways it can be reformated, and how long making fun of it lands so well. A short series I hope to rewatch many more times, I'm sure there's a lot I missed. Would recommend.
Review of Police Squad!
