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Police Squad!
The Complete Series DVD

Police Squad!
Critic Score
Metascore: 87 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.8 out of 10
based on 7 reviews
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Starring Leslie Nielsen, Alan North, Rex Hamilton, William Duell, Ed Williams, and Peter Lupus

Before the "Naked Gun" movies was this short-lived and truly funny ABC detective show spoof (featuring the same lead character) created by the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team after the success of their movie "Airplane!"

GENRE(S): Comedy
CREATED BY: Jim Abrahams
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker
RELEASE DATE: November 7, 2006
# OF DISCS: 1
# OF EPISODES: 6

What The Critics Said

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100
digitallyOBSESSED Rich Rosell
Though the image quality is a little snarky, the gags and humor are still as hilariously dumb. This is one funny show.
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90
TVShowsOnDVD.com Gord Lacey
This is an inexpensive set that'll have you laughing for hours, and then hours more when you rewatch the episodes for a second, third, and fourth time.
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90
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
A lovingly slapped-together collection of six of the least appreciated, laugh-out-loudest half-hours of television ever made.
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90
DVD Town Dean Winkelspecht
The show is just as funny as ever and proudly sits beside "The Tick" and "Greg the Bunny" as great comedy shows that died too young.
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80
LA Weekly Robert Abele
As I watched, even my laughter felt different, as if it had been earned, not dragged out of me the way most spoof humor is today.
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80
Newsday Diane Werts
You hear that brassy theme, you see the straight-faced cop byplay, you watch the "special guest star" get killed before the opening credits - and you're in classic spoof heaven.
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80
Boston Globe Tom Russo
Even now, a couple of decades later, the show's smartly stupid brand of humor is still hilarious.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this tv show is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Decepticon Pom gave it a9:
"Cigarette?" // "Yes, I know". STILL drop-dead funny after all these years. WARNING : The commentaries on this DVD are painfully and disappointingly boring.

Dudley M gave it a7:
Great show, generally funnier than the movies that followed and way too short-lived as a series. Too bad that the DVD is so cheaply put together - the image flicker is very distracting at times, and more attention to a decent mastering job would make this a must-have DVD, rather than an "OK if you liked the show" sort of purchase.

C.S. Strowbridge gave it a10:
(Nearly) perfect spoof that was well before its time.

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