Before there was a Naked Gun, there was Police Squad! — a short-lived ABC comedy from Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers. The show follows Sergeant Frank Dreblin, Detective Lieutenant (played by Leslie Nielsen), as he investigates cases with a special unit of the LAPD. The comedy is hysterical; using a combination of sight gags, word play, and slapstick. Ahead of its time, the series also includes bits of meta humor; such as an unreliable narrator reading different episode titles than what appears on screen, fake freeze-frame gages at the end of the episodes, and killing the episode’s special guest star in the title sequence. However, the jokes are rather hit-and-miss and the writing is weak; as the stories are just there to setup the jokes. Yet despite its problems, Police Squad delivers a lot of laughs.

Now there's a blast from the past. And you know what ? It still works most of the time. Had some really good laughs and you really can't afford to blink as there are so much things going on in every scene. Great word play, too. But there is also a lot of repeating of the same jokes in every episode. At two and a half hours you can watch this on a leisurely afternoon.

Seen this so many times and it just never gets old. Even after having watched the series many times, I always find something new to laugh at, since there is just so much going on. And even if I wouldn’t find new jokes I had previously missed, the comedy that’s there is just so clever/stupid it doesn’t stop being funny. A machine gun of dad jokes and physical comedy, hilarious from the first minute to the very last. Highly recommended for everyone, and especially so if you like Leslie Nielsen and The Naked Gun / Airplane!

"We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."

Auf dieser Serie basiert die Filmreihe 'Die nackte Kanone' und genauso wie die Filme ist die Serie ein Feuerwerk an Leslie Nielsen-typischer Komik. Die Serie ist wirklich nett, auch wenn die Storys der einzelnen Episoden recht dünn sind. Als Fan der Filmreihe sollte man die Serie mal gesehen haben.