Police Squad! (1982)★ 8.3/10
- Comedy
- Crime
Directed by: Joe Dante, Jim Abrahams, Reza Badiyi, Georg Stanford Brown, Paul Krasny
Written by: Jim Abrahams, Tino Insana, David Misch, Nancy Steen, Neil Thompson
Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs ensue as Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues at Police Squad - a special section of the Police Force - solve various puzzling cases.
- Original title
- Police Squad!
- Storyline
- 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).
- Rating
- 8.3 / 10 · 25,123
- Companies
- Paramount Television, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS Media Ventures, CBS Paramount Domestic Television, CIC Victor Video, CIC Video, Esselte Video, Paramount Home Entertainment, ProSieben, Yleisradio (YLE)
- Release dates
- US March 4, 1982
- GB March 10, 1983
- HU July 6, 1985
- JP February 21, 1986
- IE March 28, 1989
- FR June 6, 1989
- NL February 20, 1992
- FI December 31, 1992
- DE November 11, 1994
- SE September 1, 1996
- BR November 6, 2006
- AU November 7, 2006
- SG April 18, 2021