This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This show was canceled after just 6 episodes and, I must say, it's justified. Although Naked Gun franchise that I love is based on this show, this was pretty much boring to me. If I saw it as a kid back in 80's I would probably be thrilled, but I do not see how anyone passed elementary school could like this. I can not say it's crap, but it is overrated and I think the main reason for it cult status is the very fact it was canceled so soon. People has strange habit to oppose and many shows grew instant popularity as soon as they were canceled. In some cases, like with Firefly, it's justified, but in this case, the only credit this show deserves is for spawning Naked Gun franchise. 5/10

If there was a nomination for the most unusual film about the cops, the undisputed winner would be a "Police squad"! Before you 6 series is surprisingly hilarious COP show, created by the same "crazy" team that made You laugh over the "Airplane!" and "the Naked gun", only it is necessary to stipulate at once, "the Naked Gun" was later "Police squad!", and many of the gags were borrowed. It was only filmed six episodes, and all of them have become iconic. After all, the series successfully mocked world of crime and police world of the 80s. Here you and kidnapper, and the wily Secretary, and more.But the main feature of the show is Leslie Nielsen. His naivety combined with the incredible idiocy and logic just go mad, and when blended with good acting this actor gives us the Lieutenant of police, a kind of super-agent. He is very absent-minded, or knocks, loves women and is ready to save the world.If we talk about the show, it is decorated with verbal puns and political jokes, and traditional "domestic crimes", which always OK. And the amount of humor is quite large, because of the 25 minutes allotted on humor for about 20 minutes — agree, not so bad!8 out of 10

I have to admit, I really liked the Naked Gun movies (especially the third, which is a guilty pleasure of mine), so I was naturally curious about it's roots.If you've seen the Naked Gun movies, you know what is the basic premise of the show, which is basically a spoof of such TV series like Dragnet or The Streets of San Francisco. Also, most of the gags will be familiar too, as they were reused in the Naked Gun movies.As a spoof, this series works better than the movies. The acting is more serious, the situations are better, the gags are more subtle. A major problem of the Naked Gun movies is, that they loosed focus too quickly, and started to include situations that were out of place. Here a good balance is maintained. Leslie Nielsen's deadpan acting makes the jokes even funnier, and sometimes saves otherwise lame gags (like for example when Drebin talks to a widow about his marriage to another man). Of course it helps that Nielsen was not a comic actor originally, and he have not yet forgotten his roots at this point.Another actor that I feel I should mention is Peter Lupus as Norberg. I was never really satisfied with Norberg in the movies, probably because the stupidity of the character was really played up, although that stupidity was played convincingly by O. J. Simpson. Here Norberg is less stupid are more of a comic relief (if such thing is possible in a comedy), and Peter Lupus' comic delivery is perfect.Of course many people say that it was a crime to cancel the show after only six episodes, and to some degree I agree too. However, I think even these six episodes show, that the writers were running out of steam rapidly. Some of the running gags were becoming tiresome, most notably Johnny, the shoeshiner, a one gag character stretched out into six episodes. The last episode shows probably the best, that they were running out of ideas. Most of the episode is padded out by Leslie Nielsen doing a stand up routine, that is not particularly funny, and singing. Then the episode abruptly ends.So, in summary, Police Squad was a good show, it was a good parody, had some good acting, an unique kind of humor, and it was canceled probably at the right moment, before becoming dull and repetitive.Final verdict: 7/10

Watching Police Squad! again it's a staggering reminder that Leslie Neilson was once actually funny. After spending most of the 90s and the new millennium challenging Steve Martin for the title of "smug, unfunny grey-haired guy of the year" and appearing in dire spoofs with no real wit, this is a real eye opener.The Neilson that appears in these episodes isn't a self-conscious and self-amused comic actor repeating his own schtick for the payday, it's a genuinely inspired send up of stiff TV detectives. Note that when the franchise got resurrected for the lacklustre Naked Gun movies Drebin became stupider and Neilson more of a self-parody rather than a parody of cop show leads.As well as Neilson then there's also the superb co-stars, and great sight gags that never get old, like the difference in the episode titles from narration to on screen. However, while it's always been regarded as a major error on the part of the studio to cancel the show after four episodes, I wonder if this is actually the case? Watching the fifth and sixth, initially unscreened, episodes, then it's clear the well is running dry already. The final episode in particular is the weakest of the run, and the over-reliance on surrealism breaks up the narrative. Suddenly it's no longer a silly-yet-funny send up of Dragnet and M Squad and rather just a linked together series of extreme sight gags. Even the nature of the show itself means that the scope for the series is inherently limited. Still, funny while it lasted... particularly those first four.