Summaries

Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs ensue as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues at Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.

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).—<[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • two word title
  • male protagonist
  • 1980s
  • parody comedy
  • exclamation point in title
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Crime
Release date Mar 3, 1982
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) TV-PG
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production companies Paramount Television

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 24m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 4:3

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