Police Squad!
Straight-laced Detective Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielson) and Captain Ed Hocken (Alan North) solve a variety of strange criminal cases amidst a constant supply of sight gags and misunderstood dialogue. Police scientist Ted Olson (Ed Williams), Detective Norberg (Peter Lupus), and Johnny the Snitch (William Duell) assist them. At the start of each episode, a special guest star is announced and then is promptly killed. A parody of 1960’s and 70’s police dramas, this Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker series was preceded by the Airplane! movies and inspired the Naked Gun films that followed.
