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Police Squad! The Complete Series

Leslie Nielsen (Actor), Alan North (Actor) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.7 out of 5 stars 284 customer reviews
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Special Features

  • All 6 episodes from the 1982 season
  • Brand-new interview with Leslie Nielsen
  • Behind the Freeze Frames Featurette
  • Gag reel
  • Casting Test – Alan North and Ed Williams
  • Producers' Photo Gallery of Scenery, Sets & Props
  • List Of Celebrity Death Shots
  • Production Memo Highlights

Product Details

  • Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Alan North, Rex Hamilton, Ed Williams, William Duell
  • Writers: David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
  • Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: Paramount
  • DVD Release Date: November 7, 2006
  • Run Time: 149 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (284 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000H7JCFK
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,819 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 starsAt last! Police Squad on DVD!
By Michael K. Beusch VINE VOICE on August 8, 2006
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
Police Squad! is one of those shows that just didn't get the chance it deserved. The show skewered, among other targets, the Quinn Martin crime shows of the 1960's and 70's (The Fugitive, Cannon, The Streets of San Francisco, etc.). Leslie Nielsen, who had guest starred on many of the shows Police Squad spoofed, was hilariously perfect. With his deadpan delivery, it was a perfect follow-up to the career altering path Nielsen had forged with his performance in Airplane.

But as fitfully funny and clever as it was, Police Squad!, for some reason, couldn't pull in the audiences that had flocked to see Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams' Airplane just two years earlier. The series suffered from low ratings from the start and never found its audience. One of the running gags on the show was the introduction of a "special guest star" who was immediately killed off in the some horrible fashion right after the introduction. Lorne Green, William Shatner, Georg Stanford Brown and Florence Henderson were among the guest stars who were shot, stabbed, machine-gunned and poisoned. Unfotunately, the guest star for the sixth episode was John Belushi who died right before the episode was to air. ABC had to pull the show until a new introduction could be filmed. Right after that, the series was cancelled after just six episodes, cutting short the run of one of the funniest series of all time.

Fortunately, the team of Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams resurrected the Police Squad! series in the form of the Naked Gun series in the late 1980's. The premise, and Leslie Nielsen, finally got the exposure it deserved and the result was three hilarious films that did very well at the box office. However, when the three films were released on DVD, there was no corresponding release of the original series on DVD.

Now, finally, the original series is coming to DVD on November the 7th. Hopefully many will buy the DVD and realize what a crime it was for ABC to cancel this hilarious series so soon.
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5.0 out of 5 starsIt was one of those all night wicker places....
By craig-o-rama on August 11, 2006
Format: DVD
I've been waiting for this to come out on DVD for many years now. This is hands down my favorite TV series of all time - albeit a very short lived one. As many writers have already noted, the entire "series" consists of only 6 episodes. But rest assured that these 6 short episodes are packed with wit. This is a show that you have to pay attention to - there are many visuals gags and plays on words. It's fantastic.

I'm glad to finally have the chance to purchase this in a digital format. As much as I liked the Naked Gun films, they just weren't the same. For me, Police Squad will always be Leslie Nielsen and Alan North (with Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln, of course!).

If you're a fan of any of the Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker films (e.g. Airplane, Naked Gun, etc.) then you definitely should consider adding this to your collection. It's definitely some of their best work in my humble opinion.
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5.0 out of 5 starsIt's about time the studio got off their "Key Store"!
By G. M. Schoditsch on October 21, 2006
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Finally it's here, "In Color"! And for those who didn't get to see the original run on television, you will find many of the quips and gags in the Naked Gun trilogy are straight from the files of "Police Squad!". In fact, you really have to pay attention as the gags and jokes come non-stop. Here's one recurring gag; in episode 1 Drebin hits a trash can with his police car. In episode 2 he hits 2 trash cans and so on. "Cigarette? Yes I know!" "No sax before a fight"! "The 'toe' truck's here". "Club Flamingo". (lol) Where do you stop?

Great fun for everybody with Det. Frank Drebin, Capt. Ed Hocken, Johnny the Snitch, Ted Olson, Scientist and what I though was the best later edition appearing in the last 4 episodes, Peter Lupus as Norberg. (He should have played Norberg in the movies). After all those years playing the serious character 'Willie' on Mission Impossible, he gets to display his comedic talents as well.

Returning soon to a television screen near you!

Rest In Peace Leslie Nielsen: You will be missed... 11.28.10
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5.0 out of 5 starsPolice Squad Slapstick Satire
By Bennet Pomerantz VINE VOICE on September 18, 2006
Format: DVD
Leslie Nielsen was a dramatic actor in the 1950's-1980's tv and movies...That was until an all star satire movie called Airplane.

Then the producers of Airplane did a TV show with slapstick, satire and well treaded jokes entitled Police Squad. It last only six episodes. The jokes were fast and plentiful. However ABC did not have the time to give it a chance and pulled its plug quickly.

Foreshadowing The producers took to the concept to the movies and lo and behold the Naked Gun series of films were created. Neilson became a comic actor

So if you are a fan of Airplane, Top Secret or the Naked Gun films, this set is great. If you want to recapture the original lightening in a bottle which was Police Squad, get this. And If you are like me-like cute crude humor..GET THIS SET!

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
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5.0 out of 5 starsPolice Squad! - The Complete Series
By Joseph Haggard Jr. on October 18, 2006
Format: DVD
In 1980, the movie "Airplane!" hit theaters and went on to become one of the biggest box-office hits of that year. It also put the movie's creators on the map. Jim Abrahams, David and Jerry Zucker wrote and directed "Airplane!", which now ranks as one of the funniest movies of all time. For their follow-up project, they decided to go to the small screen. And in 1982 they created a comedy series titled "Police Squad!" While "Airplane!" was a spoof of disaster movies (most notably the "Airport" movies of the `70s), "Police Squad! was a spoof of cop shows. As for who would be the star of the show, Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker decided to recruit one of their actors from "Airplane!", Leslie Nielsen. For years Nielsen had been regarded as an actor who usually appeared in serious roles. But "Airplane!" would eventually change all that. It was in this movie that Nielsen got a chance to do laugh out loud comedy, and "Police Squad!" would take him to the next level.

Nielsen plays Lt. Frank Drebin, a cop who's so dumb that he doesn't even know it, and what follows throughout the series run is a collection of clever wordplay, bad puns, silly names, hilariously stupid jokes, and visual gags going on in the background behind the main characters. Also it shows the characters taking it all so seriously with the actors (including Nielsen) playing it with deadpan faces. This is exactly the same approach that Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker used for "Airplane!" It worked for that movie, and it worked with "Police Squad!"

"Police Squad!" is one of the funniest TV shows ever made. The show debuted on ABC on March 4, 1982 to rave reviews, but unfortunately not many people watched it when it first aired. It only lasted six episodes and ABC eventually cancelled the series.Read more ›
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