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Summary:

At times so funny that it hurts, Police Squad! Help Wanted! consists of the first three episodes of the legendary TV cop-show spoof Police Squad!. Leslie Nielsen stars as deadpanned, dimwitted Lt. Frank Drebin, Alan North is Drebin's assistant, Capt... At times so funny that it hurts, Police Squad! Help Wanted! consists of the first three episodes of the legendary TV cop-show spoof Police Squad!. Leslie Nielsen stars as deadpanned, dimwitted Lt. Frank Drebin, Alan North is Drebin's assistant, Captain Hocken, and Rex Hamilton costars as Abraham Lincoln. The guest stars are Lorne Greene, George Stanford Brown and Florence Henderson--none of whom survive past the opening credits. The titles of the three episodes are "A Substantial Gift", "Ring of Fear" and "Rendezvous at Big Gulch", titles that have very little relationship with the plot at hand; "Substantial Gift", for example, is the story of a bank clerk who shoots her colleague and claims to be robbed-a storyline stolen from the old Lee Marvin series M Squad, of which Police Squad! is a merciless lampoon. Series creators Jerry and David Zucker and Jim Abrahams (of Airplane fame) serve as directors, along with Joe Dante. The gags, one-liners and nonsequiturs are spewed out at such a fast clip that each episode needs to be seen more than once for maximum enjoyment. And, as always, the Zuckers and Abrahams take every opportunity to poke fun at the city of Milwaukee, as witness the rendezvous at the corner of 53rd and Galena (in real life, those streets are parallels). Originally telecast in March of 1982, the inaugural three Police Squad episodes are gems of comic insanity. The series' remaining three episodes have also been bundled together on videotape, under the title More! Police Squad! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide read more»

Directed by

: Joe Dante Jim Abrahams Jerry Zucker David Zucker

Genres

: Comedy

Released

: 1982

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