I had always wanted to see Police Squad and I finally got the chance to see it today. Boy was I ever dissapointed. I didn't think it was going to be that great knowing it ran less than 10 episodes but I thought It would at least be funny. I was wrong.

You didn't like it? Really?

I always thought Police Squad was hysterical.

I have never seen The Naked Gun. If I saw it maybe it would be more sense and I would get whats going on. I might go out and rent it and give Police Squad another try. I am currently downloading another episode of it right now. Maybe it was just the episode I saw was weaker than the others.

The "Naked Gun" movies were a kind of big screen spinoff of the Police Squad series.
There are a few jokes and gags from the series that were used again in the films.

I had always wanted to see Police Squad and I finally got the chance to see it today. Boy was I ever dissapointed. I didn't think it was going to be that great knowing it ran less than 10 episodes but I thought It would at least be funny. I was wrong.
I only saw POLICE SQUAD a few times and haven't seen any of the "NAKED GUN"
movies. The show, which aired on ABC from March 1982 to September 1982 had
low ratings. After the success of the films, CBS brought it back nine years later
and once again its ratings were low (according to THE COMPLETE DIRECTORY TO PRIMETIME NETWORK & CABLE TV SHOWS). There were those who claimed that "there were so many sight gags you had to pay more attention to the show than people normally paid to TV" and that "it fared much better in the movies."
Actually, I liked another short-lived cop comedy, THE LAST PRECINCT (NBC, April-May 1986), better. That was the show with Adam West, Ernie Hudson ("GHOSTBUSTERS"), Keenan Wynn, Lucy Lee Flippin (LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE), and Pete Willcox (as "King," an Elvis impersonator). That show was hysterical. Does
anyone remember that one??

There were those who claimed that "there were so many sight gags you had to pay more attention to the show than people normally paid to TV" and that "it fared much better in the movies."


I tend to agree with that assessment of the show. A standard sitcom can pretty much be listened to like an old time radio program - a few lines then a joke.
A show like Police Squad had tons of visual gags in the foreground and the background. You actually had to sit and watch it!
It is kind of wierd that in the visual medium that is Television, a show gets criticized because it forces you to use your eyes!

;)

hmm I never knew that, I though the Naked Gun came before Police Squad. I did not know it was the other way around.

if anbody wants them you can download the episodes from here http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=Police+Squad&ext=&op=and&iht=-1

well if u liked it or hated it, POLICE SQUAD was an unusual sitcom
and sitcoms ALMOST ALWAYS flop when they are different

no matter how good

look at, FRANKS PLACE
or even ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

unless it follows a standard sitcom path, it almost always flops

a few exceptions are ALLY MCBEAL and SEINFELD

:wave:

I saw another one and ended up enjoying it. In fact I ended up making a DVD of the complete series.