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4 March 1982 (USA)
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Sight-gags and non-sequiturs dominate this spoof of police dramas. The six episodes formed the basis for later very successful "Naked Gun" movies. full summary
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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys.
Another 1 nomination
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Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 7 of 8) | Leslie Nielsen | ... | Det. Frank Drebin (6 episodes, 1982) |
 | Alan North | ... | Capt. Ed Hocken (6 episodes, 1982) |
| Rex Hamilton | ... | Abraham Lincoln (6 episodes, 1982) |
| Ed Williams | ... | Mr. Olson (6 episodes, 1982) |
| William Duell | ... | Johnny (6 episodes, 1982) |
| Marvin Miller | ... | Narrator (6 episodes, 1982) |
 | Peter Lupus | ... | Norberg (4 episodes, 1982) |
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30 min (6 episodes)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Australia:M |
USA:TV-PG |
Singapore:PG |
Norway:15 (DVD) (2007) |
Sweden:15 (DVD) (2007) |
Denmark:15 (DVD) (2007) |
Finland:K-18 (DVD) (2007) (self applied) |
UK:15 (DVD) |
Ireland:15 (DVD)
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Each week featured a "Special Guest Star" who is killed off in the opening credits. Lorne Greene and William Conrad are knifed and tossed out of cars; Georg Stanford Brown has a safe dropped on him; Florence Henderson is shot during a musical number; Robert Goulet is executed by a firing squad; and William Shatner avoids a burst of machine-gun-fire only to drink a glass of poisoned wine.
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Operation Double 007 (#6.8)" (1993)
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This was a truly unique show. Many of the comments in this section regret that there were only 6 episodes made. But to be honest, the show used so many jokes per episode, I don't see how they could have gone too much further without running out. The great thing about this show is that every one who watches it has a favorite one-liner that they remember, and like to repeat. One could say the same thing about the movie "Airplane". There are so few things that are really original, especially in television, the medium that thrives so much on imitation of previous success. So the time has come for this limited series to get its chance on DVD. But not just another release. Visualize this. The show did such a good job of satirizing police dramas from M Squad to the QM series, that the DVD should do the same this for DVD special features. In short, the DVD release should have all the usual special features, but they would all be send-ups of special features. Now that would make for a great DVD release of this great show.