Police Squad. From a Short-Lived TV show To a Hit Movie. (re-upload)

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#TheNakedGun #NakedGun #PoliceSquad Version 1.1 *
Stam Fine looks at a TV show cancelled after only a few episodes yet became a comedy legend after it got a second chance as a movie. Police Squad follows the investigations of Frank Drebin, a moron in a world of morons. Cancelled after only a few episodes aired in 1982, the show's creators, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker (Airplane, Top Secret), kept the faith long enough to get the series remounted as a feature film, The Naked Gun. The series stars Leslie Nielsen and Alan North, while George Kennedy joined the film series.
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0:22 Kentucky Fried Theater/Movie and Airplane
2:17 Police Squad
10:37 Top Secret!
11:16 The Naked Gun movies
* Version 1.1 This video has slightly amended visuals over the original video previous version as it had been flagged as 18+ meaning you can only view it if you're logged in. Apparently footage from PG-13 movies can show up as 18+ for some reason. Oh well. The narration is identical between both versions and only 2 or 3 clips have been changed The original version can be found here for people logged into a KZfaq account: • From Police Squad to T...
I also took the opportunity to fix the spelling of Leslie Nielsen’s caption.
The pronunciation of the Zucker brothers' name is as close as I can get to how they introduce themselves on their DVD commentary tracks. They don't pronounce their own name to rhyme with 'sucker.'

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@rodgermurphy5721 Жыл бұрын

This is TEN TIMES funnier then what passes as comedy today

@malvoliosf Жыл бұрын

I like how ALMOST every cast member is described as “probably not a double murderer”.

@BigAL68xyz Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that he probably thinks OJ is guilty.

@petermcgill1315 8 ай бұрын

Yes, killed it!

@henrymorgan8335 7 ай бұрын

Except for the double murderer.

@nick6var 6 күн бұрын

Wait...why did he say that about ALMOST every cast member?🤔 🧤🗡️

@RandoUploader3 2 жыл бұрын

"Married, one child. That didn't work out so he married a grown woman." Man, that literally made me break into hysterics.

@commentfreely5443 2 жыл бұрын

don't fire the gun while you're talking

@cameronpickard7456 Жыл бұрын

was the best line ever so deadpan yet made sense

@alexyang1046 Жыл бұрын

That was deep bro lol

@moistmike4150 Жыл бұрын

"Married, one child..." That joke! I always found it simultaneously hilarious and arousing...

@bradwhite5884 Жыл бұрын

@@moistmike4150 Excuse me, but what?!!

@nsayer Жыл бұрын

The best back-handed compliment ever given out by someone in TV was given to Police Squad when the reason given for cancelling it was, "it doesn't work because people have to pay attention to the TV to get it."

@clayz1 7 ай бұрын

U need pause and rewind to view the shows

@josephclark2268 7 ай бұрын

Spot on!

@RandalF-259 6 ай бұрын

Yes.

@joestrike8537 4 ай бұрын

@@clayz1Back when VCRs were first making the scene - I remember rewinding the video to catch the "toe truck" sight gag I missed

@ZachGatesHere 15 күн бұрын

And he was right. The ratings were bad because people weren't paying attention so they missed half the jokes.

@defenstrator4660 Жыл бұрын

“We would have come earlier but your husband wasn’t dead then.” That one just got me. The perfect delivery out of nowhere, I burst out laughing.

@WillCamx Жыл бұрын

"Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith and I'm a locksmith."

@alexgosling5550 9 ай бұрын

Same here, that was hilarious

@ront769 7 ай бұрын

Good call. That might be #1

@joethaler7921 7 ай бұрын

I see where trump and his gang of idiots got their inspiration. He is not funny, however.

@joestrike8537 4 ай бұрын

Was that the same scene when they were trying to come up with something for the widow to tell their kids? "I know - he was traded to the Dodgers for Reggie Jackson!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 etc!

@shoesncheese Жыл бұрын

I remember watching The Naked Gun downstairs on HBO with my friend and we were laughing so much that my mom yelled for us to keep it down because "nothing is that funny!" She was wrong.

@gamoratitan Жыл бұрын

Hey are you still around?

@lesliebaker1836 Жыл бұрын

My best friends father was Alan North who got second billing on Police Squad. He was a hard working character actor who played second fiddle in movies and television for decades. We all thought that Police Squad was going to be the big break that he so richly deserved, but alas...it was way too ahead of it's time. It's wonderful to see him get the recognition. Thank you.

@stephenmcmahon5833 Жыл бұрын

Spot on Leslie, way too ahead of it's time

@steverakes6182 Жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@jasonwebb5964 Жыл бұрын

I liked him in see no evil, hear no evil. A criminally underrated movie.

@johndickson76 Жыл бұрын

Wasn’t he in Highlander, also as a police chief?

@MatRinaldi Жыл бұрын

"Too ahead of it's time". Oh yes. In italian: "troppo avanti per i tempi". Vanguard is wonderful but... painful.

@jefthereaper Жыл бұрын

Leslie Nielsen really mastered the art of remaining serious while doing comedy. Just delivering every line with so much conviction.

@gamoratitan Жыл бұрын

Are you still around by chance?

@jefthereaper Жыл бұрын

@@gamoratitan Yes?

@jefthereaper Жыл бұрын

@@gamoratitan No thanks.

@marcoestiercol6112 6 ай бұрын

And O.J had other type of conviction.

@davidbrailsford5004 3 ай бұрын

the fact that Adam West is the closest Second says alot.

@MattMcIrvin 2 жыл бұрын

"Police Squad!" was the greatest thing ZAZ ever did and one of the funniest things ever put on a screen. It's amazing.

@ronmailloux8655 Жыл бұрын

it was way a head of its time and the funniest comedy for the time it on only 6 episodes.

@deansnipah2895 2 жыл бұрын

Top secret is a criminally underrated movie!

@thatcanadian6698 Жыл бұрын

I've recommended Top Secret to friends who were looking to watch a comedy they had never seen before. Better Off Dead with John Cusack is another one.

@hunterrgntr Жыл бұрын

@@thatcanadian6698 "Better off dead" is hilarious!!

@arlionheart9744 Жыл бұрын

Nick: can I take a swing of this? Chocolate Mousse: go right ahead Nick: *spits* what is this stuff? Chocolate Mousse: Gasoline. Muahahahahhaa *gulp gulp gulp* I die everytime.

@shoesncheese Жыл бұрын

the underwater fight scene and the scene filmed backwards are iconic

@kettle_of_chris Жыл бұрын

True - and so is _Amazon Women on the Moon_ It was inspired by KFM but I don't know if ZAZ had anything to do with it. Either way it's in the same vein as what we're all enjoying w/this yt video

@HenryRaeburn367 2 жыл бұрын

Leslie wasn't a comedian, he was a great actor who could act like a great comedian

@shoesncheese Жыл бұрын

That time he hosted SNL, he said as much. I can't remember exactly how it said it, but basically, he said he was a serious actor who got paid to say and do silly things and somehow, that worked.

@331SVTCobra Жыл бұрын

Screwball comedies require a serious delivery.

@John-uz2sz Жыл бұрын

His deadpan style made the role.

@fredtaylor3517 Жыл бұрын

Great actors have often stated that Comedy is the hardest thing to do in acting.

@ackerjawaka4742 Жыл бұрын

When i see him in movies he made before police squad and airplane i can't take him seriously 😂 he always has that sly grin and looks like he is taking the piss lol

@jeffsummstl 2 жыл бұрын

“Who are you, and how’d you get in here?” “I’m a locksmith…and, I’m a locksmith.”

@frequentuser360 3 ай бұрын

My favorite line ever.

@dt-wq7ql 8 ай бұрын

I remember crying ,nearly dying,tears running down my cheeks ,watching some of the gags Frank did . Thanks for the memories .

@Lobossumi Жыл бұрын

Can you imagine 2 or 3 full seasons of Leslie Nielsen in his prime? Dear god that would be glorious. But the show didnt fail because the audience didnt get it. Audience actually loved it, one tv exec didnt get and he got it cancelled.

@markpostgate2551 Жыл бұрын

Or is it the TV exec thought audiences wouldn't get it because he underestimated the intelligence of audiences. It seems to me a lot of management in show biz do that, particularly if their eye is more on potential profit than craftsmanship.

@robf6105 Жыл бұрын

I was 12 when it was on. My friend Shaun and I would call each other during the show and laugh our asses off. That exec was an imbecile. I always felt it worked better as a TV show because it was parodying TV shows.

@hankkingsley9300 Жыл бұрын

@@markpostgate2551 it's based on you'll never go broke misunderestimating the American public. Not you,but the TV guy.

@hankkingsley9300 Жыл бұрын

It's one of those things I do not think you could maintain for three seasons it would be very difficult to keep coming up with stuff like that without returning to formula this is one of these cases where it is what it is enjoy it because it's perfect

@DWNicolo Жыл бұрын

People want to tell you television used to better but for get about brilliant but cancelled shows like this.

@cinemaipswich4636 Жыл бұрын

'...and don't call me Shirley, Is probably one of the most well known lines in the history of comedy.

@AlexanderWernerJr Жыл бұрын

My most favourite scene of all time is when Drebin does everything humanly possible to sneak around Ludwig's apartment without leaving behind one single trace - the chair imprint in the carpet, the house of cards still intact...and then he ends up smashing the complete collection of antique vases, tearing up the painting and almost burning the entire building to the ground.

@jeffoneill8023 3 ай бұрын

I loved the “Bingo” gag.

@kevfrombutterley 3 ай бұрын

And the subsequent dressing down from the mayor for offences including "sexual assault with a concrete dildo"

@davidg2521 Жыл бұрын

Frank singing the star spangled banner at a baseball game was one of the funniest movie scenes ever.

@harukrentz435 Жыл бұрын

The whole baseball scene was glorious and i know the 3rd installment wasnt as good as previous 2 but its oscars scene was just as great as the baseball scene from the 1st movie.

@SimonFoster23111971 9 ай бұрын

You mean to say that it wasn't Enrico Pallazzo?

@carstenweiland7896 8 ай бұрын

Nah, you got it wrong, that was Enrico Palazzo!

@MyLateralThawts 2 жыл бұрын

I Shirley missed this show. RIP Lesley.

@MetzgerFamilyFarms Жыл бұрын

I think Shirley has hacked your account.

@bradwhite5884 Жыл бұрын

I missed the show, but why are you doing here, Shirley?

@MacXpert74 Жыл бұрын

But Shirley your name isn’t Christian then!

@MyLateralThawts Жыл бұрын

@@MacXpert74 😂

@michaeldoran61 Ай бұрын

STOP CALLING ME SHIRLEY!

@davecrowson448 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe most people weren’t ready for Police Squad, but I was. I was in 7th grade, and me, my brother and my dad loved it, and laughed our asses off every week. My poor mom. Until it got canceled. That was a drag, so I was really happy to find it at the video store years later, finally getting to see the two episodes they never aired. When the Naked Gun came out, me and my brother and a buddy went to see it, and I know I’ve never laughed so hard and so much at a movie before. We all did. Forget a reboot, though, without Leslie Neilson, it wouldn’t be Frank Drebin. Love your videos, man, great work!

@gregwatson8219 2 жыл бұрын

Leslie Nielson!!

@rbarnett3200 Жыл бұрын

I would've been about the same age as you when I first saw Police Squad!, it was played in the Sunday morning slot here in the UK at the time, so deliberately directed at children (god knows why, there's some adult themes in it). Anyway, my brother and I would watch it and piss ourselves laughing and my mum would turn to us and say "I don't get it". The jokes aren't amazingly complicated but for whatever reason she just couldn't understand why it was funny. A similar phenomena happened when I went to see Ace Ventura with my gf (at the time, circa 1995) and I pissed myself laughing and she didn't laugh once. Hmm...in hindsight my gf probably didn't laugh because it was my film choice that week and I didn't take the hint...our next film pick was her's and it was French Kiss....yeah, so I cock blocked myself at age 14, basically....I had to wait a full 'nother year to score when we were both drunk after a party. God bless the UK! What an absolute shit show...

@markfern2041 Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I was working for a medical supply company at the time. I had all my friends watching it. We’d show up the next morning and talk about all the gags.

@trsidn Жыл бұрын

for sure

@kettle_of_chris Жыл бұрын

Dude!!! Same here! Can't remember if it was 6th or 7th but definitely Jr High! It was just me and my dad at the time and we watched it whenever we could & like you; we were dyin!

@joe6096 Жыл бұрын

I was 12 when The Naked Gun hit the theaters. My Dad took me. I was just about that point in life when I started to catch on to adult humor. He and I both laughed so hard throughout that entire movie I know we missed some things and by the end our guts literally hurt. Everyone in the theater was practically on the floor by the end. It was something to be a part of that initial release of the first Naked Gun. Had an effect on my outlook on life forever since then - 34 years later I still don't take much in life very seriously.

@Nexus-le9bb Жыл бұрын

same for me...laughed so my stomage was hurting...so fun

@adamwhite9330 Жыл бұрын

It was definitely a gut buster.

@hmao4466 Жыл бұрын

Great comment

@craigkdillon Жыл бұрын

I understand. Explains why you have been divorced three times. You should go to The Blue Note, and drink your troubles away.

@MacXpert74 Жыл бұрын

Surely you can’t be serious?

@adrianguinn3331 Жыл бұрын

"Who are you?? How did you get in here??" "I'm a locksmith... and I'm a locksmith." comedy brilliance

@edstonick760 5 ай бұрын

This series' quick cancellation was one of the greatest tragedies in television history!

@PatTheBatmanFan Жыл бұрын

“Who are you and how did you get in here?” “I’m a locksmith. And I’m a locksmith.” Hands down of the best jokes ever written.

@GG-ml3vr Жыл бұрын

I still quote this all the time after 30 odd years,best deadpan line ever👍

@paulinegallagher7821 Жыл бұрын

@@GG-ml3vr the show is so quotable! Ill also randomly say 'what if hes not blindfolded!?!'

@jussikankinen9409 6 ай бұрын

So how did he, by car

@GrumpyGrndad Жыл бұрын

Finland is notorious in translating movie titles to cooooompletely different what they actually are. It was at it's worse during the video movie rental boom in the 80's. "Airplane!" was translated "Hei! Me lennetään!" which is "Hey! We are flying!" :D

@thedevilinthecircuit1414 8 ай бұрын

"I *promise* you we won't rest until we find out who did this. Now let's go get a bite to eat."

@rentslave Жыл бұрын

Leslie Nielsen is truly unique. No other actor in history ever went from all drama to all comedy.

@stickoutofthemud 7 ай бұрын

Much easier than going the other direction.

@BusterDuglas 7 ай бұрын

@@stickoutofthemud Hardly...off the top of my head... Bill Burr Robin Williams Richard Prior Bob Odenkirk Eddie Murphy .... ok that took about 20 seconds

@swrennie 7 ай бұрын

William Shatner - often in the same episode.

@theblacksp1derman 2 жыл бұрын

Airplane and The Naked Gun are still my top 20 comedies, you can watch them now and still be hilarious…..Thank you Zucker, Zucker and Nielsen 🤙🏾

@bennylloyd-willner9667 Жыл бұрын

Lol, that's Nielsen-class😂 "these 2 movies are my top 20" I see what you did there, respect👌

@daveroche6522 Жыл бұрын

Kentucky Fried Moved made 1977!

@vmackey11 Жыл бұрын

Call Zucker,Zucker and Nielsens law office

@sha11235 Жыл бұрын

Only problem with NG is there is a future killer in it.

@bennylloyd-willner9667 Жыл бұрын

@@sha11235 that's not really a problem with NG now is it? Or are you saying they should've known and used another actor?

@Buford_T_Justice1 2 жыл бұрын

I was 10 years old when Police Squad! first aired. Me and my friends loved every minute of it and were devastated when it was cancelled.

@jondunmore4268 Жыл бұрын

love the references to "... who probably isn't a double-murderer..." and then when you show the actual double-murderer, you show his prisoner number.

@gavla3550 Жыл бұрын

Sadly a reboot wouldn't work without Leslie. He was a great actor and funny guy. The world has lost a wonderful man.

@shoesncheese Жыл бұрын

Sledgehammer was a decent copy of Police Squad! So it's possible, just very unlikely.

@davidhall2197 Жыл бұрын

I don't know. I think Steve Martin could pull it off.

@charlessouthgate606 Жыл бұрын

@@davidhall2197 possible

@toucansam3 Жыл бұрын

@@davidhall2197 No, it would have to be a straight actor. They tried The Pink Panther with Steve Martin and it was awful.

@davidhall2197 Жыл бұрын

@@toucansam3 I see your point. Have any ideas?

@howardsung108 Жыл бұрын

I was very sad when Police Squad was cancelled but am grateful for the 3 movies it spawned.

@ssenssel Жыл бұрын

Here in Brazil Airplane was named "Apertem os cintos o piloto sumiu!" which translates to "Fasten your seat belts the pilot has gone missing!"

@wdkshow6928 2 жыл бұрын

No one can ever play Frank Drebin the way that Leslie Neilsen did. He was the best of the best!!!

@stevenford727 Жыл бұрын

What about Don Rickles

@ECO473 Жыл бұрын

@@stevenford727 No. Rickles, while a legend in his own right, couldn't pull off the level of obtuseness that Nielsen did.

@stevenford727 Жыл бұрын

@@ECO473 Jonathan Winters could have been a candidate for this role.

@ECO473 Жыл бұрын

@@stevenford727 Yes, Winters could have made it work assuming they wanted a pure comedian.

@thomashaynes8043 Жыл бұрын

Give Jason Bateman another 10 years and we may be looking at an actor worthy of filling Leslie's shoes.

@jacklowe3429 Жыл бұрын

I loved Police Squad. I could watch that show all day. I was heartbroken when it was cancelled. But, in the years since, I've come to understand that Police Squad's type of genius can never be sustained long-term. Still, it's a classic show.

@hankkingsley9300 Жыл бұрын

I think I mentioned the same thing somewhere you cannot grind out TV shows and keep the level up and sometimes it's just better to do one or two and be remembered as being great...although Letterkenny has managed to be consistent over what 10 years. has it been that long?

@gamoratitan Жыл бұрын

Hey are you still around?

@hankkingsley9300 Жыл бұрын

@@gamoratitan unfortunately

@gamoratitan Жыл бұрын

@@hankkingsley9300 Would you be interested in a Naked Gun fanfic?

@OrgaNik_Music 7 ай бұрын

@@gamoratitan what is wrong with you

@thomasthomas2418 2 жыл бұрын

"Cigarette?" "Yes, I know." "Well...." 😂

@andymassingham 3 ай бұрын

Fun fact; John Belushi filmed a “dead guest star” bumper for Police Squad just prior to his own untimely end. I don’t believe that it aired. Thanks for your mini-doc. The four episodes that aired are still the best version in my book. The movies were ok in comparison, with the first far outranking the next two which suffered from the deadly “let’s make Frank funny” thinking that likewise killed the last two Peter Sellers Pink Panther films.

@richardwilliams473 Жыл бұрын

Love the cameo appearances of guest Stars at the beginning of each Police Squad episode where they are instantly killed in inventive ways !!!

@ECO473 Жыл бұрын

The Shatner cameo was just platinum!

@DPMusicStudio Жыл бұрын

@@ECO473 Yes! Good for him for doing something like this... I know he got a paycheck, but he didn't have to do that. He was really in a resurgence of fame at that time.

@mm-gl7sz Жыл бұрын

And wasn't one of the guest stars who got killed in the opening credits Robert Goulet, who would play the bad guy Quentin Hapsburg in Naked Gun 2 The Smell of Fear?

@ECO473 Жыл бұрын

@@mm-gl7sz Yes, that was Goulet.

@fenris6051 Ай бұрын

@@DPMusicStudio - I think Shatner likes doing comedy, he was hilarious on Boston Legal

@csucsu80 Жыл бұрын

Ed: I sent the note to the lab. They’re demanding one million dollars. Frank: Why would the lab demand a million dollars? In the legendary Hungarian overdub Frank's response was much funnier: -So far they've worked for free. 😂

@Lord.Kiltridge Жыл бұрын

I loved Police Squad and eagerly tuned in every week. Was absolutely stunned when it was cancelled so quickly for no obvious, (to me), reason.

@hughmcaloon6506 Жыл бұрын

What an amazingly loving summary! LOVED that show! "We would have been here sooner, but your husband wasn't dead yet."

@markpostgate2551 Жыл бұрын

"We would have come earlier but your husband wasn't dead then" is one of my favourite comedy lines.

@Enevan1968 2 жыл бұрын

This and Sledge Hammer!

@giannizampolli 8 ай бұрын

In times like these that's what we need! Great Leslie Nielsen!

@Gravydog316 2 ай бұрын

my aunt here in Canada lives in the house Leslie lived in when he was born until he was about 4 years old & then they moved ☺

@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont Жыл бұрын

12:57 They left out the commissioner's best line: "You killed five actors, Frank! GOOD ONES!"

@nanajanamike 2 жыл бұрын

For years I've been thinking about getting Police Squad on DVD for my grandson & Stam, this vid just convinced me to do it.Really like your channel. Thanks!

@ShamrockParticle 2 жыл бұрын

It's recently been put out on blu-ray. 🤩🥰

@intercommerce 2 жыл бұрын

I bought the set!

@BrenMurphy1 2 жыл бұрын

To Grandson may not like it and think you are losing your mind and have you sent to a nursing home.

@joeharris3878 Жыл бұрын

I watched the first Police Squad episode on the internet not long ago, some forty years after seeing it on television. Has the birthday party at the beginning. Later I found out the original used "The Birthday Song" which is copyrighted. So when it became available on compact disk, they had dubbed in "Something Different" which was even funnier than the original.

@scottymcdoogle8210 Жыл бұрын

I remember being around 13 and my mum bought me The Naked Gun on VHS. She just told me “Airplane was golden but try this, you’ll love it.” Even at 13 I got the gags and I’ve never laughed so hard at a movie since Airplane! Frank urinating at the press conference with his Mic still on had me on the floor in stitches, Frank and Jane making love while dressed in full body sized condoms, the airbags in his car going off and inflating so over the top that it knocks the car into drive and down the hill while he’s shootings at it while asking “Did anyone get the licence plate? Did anyone get a look at the driver?”, and when he sent Nordberg flying over the railings at the baseball game right at the end, to name but a great many number of gags. I loved the sequels, albeit they seemed like carbon copies of the first one I still found them funny as hell. Leslie Nielsen, was, and still is, a comedy icon

@yabbadabbadoo8225 Жыл бұрын

No DVD collection is complete without this series in it. 40 years on and still busting out tears from laughing

@hdufort Жыл бұрын

"Top Secret" is one of the funniest movies ever. I laughed so hard the first time... but also the other times! So many memorable scenes.

@Deephouse_Gent66 Жыл бұрын

I was in high school when this series ran in 81 or 82. One of the most hilarious experiences I've ever had, to this day! This was a great retrospective!

@evankant277 Жыл бұрын

'Top Secret' is the best film ever!!!

@my75laguna Жыл бұрын

The hardest I ever laughed in my life was watching The Naked Gun in the theater.

@shsrpr 2 жыл бұрын

6:37 "Act II: Bruté" still slays me. :-D

@christopherdunne7848 Жыл бұрын

Oh they did puns on “Act II” in every episode: ACT II: YANKEES ONE ACT II: GESUNDHEIT ACT II: LIEBER + two others I forget.

@throckmortensnivel2850 Жыл бұрын

Leslie Nielsen had a brother named Erik Nielsen who was a very well known politician in Canada. Erik Nielsen had a reputation for being very taciturn with the media, which earned him the name "Velcro Lips". I always found it interesting that two brothers could have such different lives.

@FreddieShreddieTV 6 ай бұрын

'jane your hurting me' is my favourite line from the films when jane is holding franks arm. the series was amazing for me growing up

@MDK2_Radio Жыл бұрын

I actually watched these when they were on TV because I had seen and loved Airplane! I couldn't understand how it wasn't the biggest thing going while MASH was still limping along. Later I was delighted when they made The Naked Gun.

@lucastrask2838 Жыл бұрын

My wife and I saw them before we saw Airplane... and loved them. So disappointed it ended. We saw it cold and it was so funny that we knew it wouldn't be a hit. To much attention needed to be paid.

@justalonesoul5825 2 жыл бұрын

Thank god for Zucker, Abram, Zucker, and the Monty Pythons (oh, and Mel Brooks ^^)! Their absurd humour is otherworldly :) And I hadnt paid attention to "Top Secret"! yet, thanks for the pointer, I'll most definitely have a look at a young Val Kilmer in such a movie :)

@justalonesoul5825 2 жыл бұрын

Top Secret was, unfortunately, not that great! Way too much singing and dancing, among other things...A few gags were really excellent though!

@vanhattfield8292 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed Top Secret. It is not quite as good as the Charlie Sheen "Hot Shots" movies, but well worth the watch. There are some "musical" parts, but that is because Val Kilmer's character is a Rock singer and that is the angle used as part of the plot.

@McOzman479 Жыл бұрын

The singing and dancing parts were brilliant as they were completely taking the piss out of Elvis movies. When the old violinists starting smashing their instruments and his reworking of "Are you lonesome tonight" that was icing on the cake.

@mikeschiesel2852 Жыл бұрын

Wow, this show was brilliant. I was a young kid when it first arrived, you're right every re-watch unearths another comedic gem. Thanks for this, it made my day.

@bobgleaser7106 Жыл бұрын

You hit the nail on the head top shows of all time. Seems that the people don't have the same ideas of what is funny.

@agentorange81 Жыл бұрын

Nielsen was a legend he was a classical style actor and to embrace this idiocy for a new take on a career was epic

@darrylwiggins1156 2 жыл бұрын

I watched every episode of this show.I loved it because they went out of their way to pull you into the joke.I miss it.

@cowlico Жыл бұрын

It was great

@angelataylor4540 Жыл бұрын

Police Squad will never ever be old or boring, theres something for everyone, except for the humourless 😅

@alyzu4755 Жыл бұрын

I watched "Police Squad" with my family when I was a kid, and we all laughed SO hard every week. ❤️

@justice_productions_ Жыл бұрын

The comedy in naked gun is timeless. Silly but just serious enough lol

@hiramlewis3873 6 ай бұрын

Airplane is my favorite movie of all time. I can watch it from start to finish at any time

@HeWhoIsNamedPatrick 2 жыл бұрын

Hands-down one of the best spoof TV show and movie ever invented right next to Airplane and anything Mel brooks made

@cowlico Жыл бұрын

I was 16 turning 17 when Police Squad came out and never laughed so hard in my life!!

@hankkingsley9300 Жыл бұрын

Nobody got it it was a little too much for the time. The airplane movies were toned down a bit...but goddamn I loved Police Squad.

@pocopico7409 Жыл бұрын

Can you imagine the laughs they had while making these movies. What a job THAT would have been! I don't know how they got their lines out, they were so funny! 😂😂

@deebugger 2 ай бұрын

Comedy gold! As far as I’m concerned, Nordberg’s shootout scene in the Naked Gun and the “drinking problem” in Airplane are the funniest gags in cinema.

@aidanmagill6769 2 ай бұрын

"Drebin." "Frank!" "You're both right."

@joeharris3878 Жыл бұрын

Saw Airplane! when it came out, remembered Zero Hour and Airport from my youth, just about the funniest parody I'd ever seen.. In 1982 we had no television, no washing machine, so took our dirty clothes to washateria to watch their TV and do the clothes. I had read about Police Squad so we did that each week on the nights it was on. Police Squad was certainly the best tv comedy along side the Andy Griffith show and Seinfeld

@scottmantooth8785 Жыл бұрын

*imagine if the andy griffith show had been done in the style of police squad or Airplane... in some alternate reality along the multiverse it probably was...and we're stuck in this one ...booo*

@ScottIngram 2 жыл бұрын

I've obviously been missing a load of Stam Fine uploads! Airplane and its brethren are an extraordinary bunch - thank you for featuring them!

@djdon60 Жыл бұрын

loved the show and, now, have seen all, of the too-few episodes. I don't understand the reason it wasn't an hit. It took until "Airplane", tp grasp/embrace the humour? Thank-you, so much, for doing this!

@Dallas-Nyberg Жыл бұрын

I totally agree... it's some of the best comedy I've ever watched...

@Elementa2006 2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching Naked Gun 2 1/2 after my parents rented the film, one of the biggest laughs I remember having at the time.

@joe6096 Жыл бұрын

Great to see Police Squad getting the respect it deserves. It's really a ground breaking comedy.

@bryanbelshaw7725 Жыл бұрын

I still can't believe only 6 episodes were ever made of Police Squad. Every one a complete jem. Alan North was the perfect foil for me. He played it perfectly straight.

@ackerjawaka4742 Жыл бұрын

I totally agree ♠️ also are you a relative of mine...my name is Andrew Belshaw from the north of England and their are hundreds of us up here lol

@johnashley327 2 жыл бұрын

I was so bummed when they canceled the show.

@shipofthesun Жыл бұрын

My Dad and I didn't have a lot in common, but a sense of humor was one thing we shared. We were both heartbroken when Police Squad was cancelled. During the short time it was on, it was the funniest show on TV, by a wide margin. 5:09 Adding "In Color" to the title still makes me laugh. By the end of the premier's show's opening credits I was already in love.

@joestrike8537 4 ай бұрын

It was likely before your time, but before the mid-1960s almost everything on TV was in black & white. The networks would run a bit of animation before the rare color episode or movie to let you know what you were missing: "The following program is brought to you in living color by NBC." (CBS & ABC had their own versions.) In the mid 60's more and more shows were being produced in color; rather than run that animation constantly, it was scaled back to an "In Color" graphic at the show's beginning. Once *everything* was in color there was no need to point it out anymore - which of course is why "Police Squad! (In Color)" did!

@shipofthesun 4 ай бұрын

I'm 60 years old. I remember B&W TV and when it became color just fine, hence my amusement. @@joestrike8537

@ZachGatesHere 15 күн бұрын

"It took me two weeks to find Stella's apartment. She had neglected to give me her address." Absolutely slaughters me every time.

@bmiller9456 2 ай бұрын

As a child of the 80's, I am the grateful recipient of Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker's work!

@daveroche6522 Жыл бұрын

Myself and my eldest still do that fake freeze-frame ending (at weddings and such). Feels great when both of us are told to GROW UP at the same time!

@douglasdavis8395 Жыл бұрын

"Say when."

@daveroche6522 7 ай бұрын

@@douglasdavis8395 "Whe"

@Elenesski Жыл бұрын

1:50 "Apart from this guy" .... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... you made my day. I remember when the movie first came out, I was thinking the exact same thing way back then.

@rbarnett3200 Жыл бұрын

"Hey buddy, no sax before a fight". Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Genius!

@nadeemafzal8984 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent summary Great fun to watch and learnt more about the series

@bigkiwimike 2 жыл бұрын

I loved Police Squad from day one. The series was much better then The Naked Gun movies. Frank Drebin was better as a stronger character in the series rather than the bumbling fool they turned him into for the movies.

@paulinegallagher7821 Жыл бұрын

I prefered the old Nordberg and the old Ed as well

@johnpolhamus9041 Жыл бұрын

14:30. Best gag in the whole series! I wish it circulated more widely!! George Kennedy's delivery was ALWAYS perfect, WHAT a sport!!

@mplsmark222 Ай бұрын

I remember when this showed originally aired, we thought is was the funniest thing ever, and I still do. What makes it so funny is the actors play is straight, parody of the police procedurals. I jokes and gags come so fast, you really have to pay attention.

@gregsquires6201 7 ай бұрын

Abosolutely brilliant, hilarious show. That was a 17 minute video packed with the best parts, and you could easily pack twice that length. He must have had a hard time chosing what to include.

@camerondodge2070 Жыл бұрын

That's usually how you can tell which shows are worth watching, they get cancelled. It happened to "Police Squad!", it happened to "Firefly", and it happened to "Kolchak: The Night Stalker".

@Atheist7 Жыл бұрын

"Kolchak: The Night Stalker". That was an AWESOME show!!!!... Loved how they kept finding these freaks to do bit parts..... As in, Kolchak's "sources"!!!!!!!!! It was SCARY for a TV show, I felt. But PERFECT too!!!! I mean, WHO THE HELL would crawl into the back of a station wagon in the middle of the night???

@Trollificusv2 Жыл бұрын

Does seem to be a law of sorts: Fawlty Towers: 12 episodes. Firefly: 13 episodes. Police Squad: 6 episodes. Kolchak: 20 episodes. Guess that's better than letting some soulless studio use the name for endless sequels, re-imaginings, and remakes.

@joestrike8537 4 ай бұрын

@@Atheist7Hey, wanna hear my "Kolchak" theory? Too late, here it is: The show begins with him sitting down at his typewriter and starting to write a gruesome story...then we see him behind closing credits pulling whatever he was working on out of the typewriter and tossing it into the garbage... ALL THE EPISODES INBETWEEN THE OPEN AND CLOSE WERE KOLCHAK'S FANTASIES OF BEING A FEARLESS COVER-UP-BUSTING NEWSPAPERMAN to make up for his crummy reality of being a third-string reporter for a second-rate news service!

@iandeare1 Жыл бұрын

I remember Police Squad, it was, and still is one of the funniest TV shows I've ever seen!

@sha11235 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for mentioning my cousin Ira, who worked on this and Naked Gun as well as many other film scores.

@naturalobserver1322 Жыл бұрын

The perfect narration for some of the best comedy ever written. 👌

@synaesthesia2010 2 жыл бұрын

this show was awesome, it's a shame it was so short-lived

@earlleeruhf3130 2 жыл бұрын

While Ricardo Montablan was always an excellent actor in every role I liked Robert Goulet's Bad Guy better because of the way He reacted to Frank Drebin's bizarre lines.

@ackerjawaka4742 Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@jeffbrown8861 9 ай бұрын

Police Squad was just too good. Used to watch this with my mum. And we both would be in tears for at least an hour after the episode finished!! Thanks Stam for reminding me of some good times!!! Maybe you could do something on Sledgehammer (i think it was called) another cop show that I felt was birthed from Police Squad

@joestrike8537 4 ай бұрын

"Sledge Hammer" was a Dirty Harry spoof. It had its moments but it was no "Police Squad! (In Color)." The one gag I remember was him pulling a bazooka out of his car trunk and firing at a building the bad guys were hiding in...and the show cut to a controlled demolition video of the entire building collapsing!

@Kaitydid74 Жыл бұрын

Not a double murderer…genius!!!

@riod43 8 ай бұрын

Those Peter Graves jokes never get old for pilots.

@XPBob Жыл бұрын

Just saw this video for the first time. It's really well done and entertaining in its own right. The slammin' Stams down under have a little gem here worth watching. With respect, I should know, as together with my partners in comedy crime, I produced Police Squad and the three Naked Gun movies. At the start of my career, I produced serious training films for the LAPD. To act in some of these, I drafted friends David, Jim and Jerry (ZAZ, respectively...or is it, Jerry, Jim and David?...Hmmm...maybe SF can clear that up in a prequel to this Police Squad!/TNG video.

@StamFine Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words, Mr Weiss. And thanks for these movies and shows!

@JTA1961 Жыл бұрын

@@StamFine I too was thinking it was really well done & entertaining... usually they're impossible to follow along

@christopherdunne7848 Жыл бұрын

An absolute honor to have you post here, Mr. Weiss. I was born in 1959 and have watched a lotta TV (way too much TV, that is) in my life…but Police Squad! still takes the crown as the funniest TV series ever.

@Atheist7 Жыл бұрын

The TV series was HILARIOUS..... A big moment for me was when two guns were compared in a ballistics test, how many Barbara Walters' interviews the bullets could get through. **TOO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**

@timmyteaching Жыл бұрын

This commentary is 100% correct. The genius was dramatic actors playing straight against a ridiculous premise. So funny!

@ackerjawaka4742 Жыл бұрын

Yeah loyd bridges and robert stack were absolutely amazing in airplane as was William Shatner in airplane 2 the sequal, loyd bridges as the president in hot shots was absolute gold.