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Police Squad! is a television comedy series first broadcast in 1982, created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's usual sight gags, wordplay and non sequiturs. While a parody of many television shows and movies, it bore a particular resemblance to the Lee Marvin cop show, M Squad (especially the opening credits) and the late 1960s series Felony Squad.[2] Although cancelled after only six episodes, the show spawned the successful Naked Gun film series. TV Guide ranked it #7 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".[3]
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Police Squad! | |
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Created by | Jim Abrahams David Zucker Jerry Zucker |
Starring | Leslie Nielsen Alan North Peter Lupus Ed Williams William Duell |
Narrated by | Leslie Nielsen |
Theme music composer | Ira Newborn |
Opening theme | "Theme from Police Squad!" |
Composer | Ira Newborn |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer | David Zucker Jim Abrahams Jerry Zucker |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | Paramount Television |
Original release | |
Network | ABC[1] |
Release | March 4 (1982-03-04) ā July 8, 1982 (1982-07-08)[1] |
Related | |
The Naked Gun film series |
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