One of my favorite shows of the era that I can still bear to watch. And, yes, it was such a mix of visual and verbal humor that the TV couldn't just be on in the background — it had to be watched.
Won't have a chance to watch these on YouTube this weekend, but I should probably dig up my DVDs of them and introduce the daughter …
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Police Squad! was cancelled because the viewer had to watch it in order to appreciate it
Police Squad!, which hit the air in the fall of 1982, was a thirty-minute comedy on ABC created by Zucker Abrahams and Zucker, who’d had enormous success two years earlier with Airplane!
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“We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn’t dead, yet.” OMG, I loved this show.
“We headed for the neighborhood known as Little Italy,” as stock footage of the Leaning Tower and the Colosseum run in the back window of car …
“Who are you, and how did you get in here?”
“I’m a locksmith, and I’m a locksmith.”
@LH – Heh.
I absolutely loved this show, back in the day. I have to agree, it was before it's time.