Thanks for the memories!

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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

Though only six episodes, this is a very funny TV series starring Leslie Nielson as the bumbling Lt. Frank Drebin of Police Squad, out to rid the city of dangerous criminals - with his hilarious and unorthodox ways, of course.It's one funny spoof, gag and joke after another, with some suspenseful and exciting story lines to boot and convincing and spot-on acting that kept the characters serious. Some of the jokes made it to the movies as well, as you will instantly recognize the dialog and gags from the series.Fun stuff here that will keep you entertained from start to finish!Grade A

"Police Squad" was a short-lived TV series that aired on ABC in 1982. I remember watching it with my family and we thought it was hilarious. I just watched all six episodes again – 33 years later, and I found it mildly funny in places. My DVD has a bonus interview with the series star, Leslie Nielsen, who plays Detective Sergeant Lieutenant (sic) Frank Drebin. Nielsen explains the failure of the series to catch on. He compared it to the blockbuster hit series "M.A.S.H." that was in its 11th season in 1982. Nielsen said one could get up and go to the refrigerator while "M.A.S.H." was on, and not miss the comedy. But people had to stay glued to their TV sets the whole time during "Police Squad." The reason is because they would miss much of the comedy that was in sight gags extraneous to the dialog taking place. This series indeed had tons of sight gags that added to the humor. And, if one were to leave (we didn't back then), one would miss something for sure. This time around, I still saw and enjoyed the sight gags. So, I can see Nielsen's point and think it's valid for that time. The difference this time is that I thought the dialog was goofy but not that funny. In other words, it is dated – not so much in the content as to the style and what was considered very funny by the culture of the time. Today, the script of "Police Squad" just isn't as funny to me. But it appears that many other viewers still find it very funny. Still, I just don't see that this series rates up there near "Fawlty Towers," (1975) which is one of the greatest comedy series of all time. Or, that it's funnier and better than really great comedies of the period. Yet IMDb viewers overall as of November 2015 rate this TV series better than such classic comedies as "The Jerk" 1979, "Caddyshack" (1980), "Airplane" (1980), "The Naked Gun" (1988), and "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988). To use a modern term, I'll just say, go figure!

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