"Police Squad!" The Complete Series in October

that is definetely one i have been looking out for, please tell me their including some decent sp. features. who am i kidding though i'm just happy to hear this.

Hallelujah!!!!!! Christ this one was a long time coming. Could there be a Naked Gun ultimate box set in the works?

In Color!

My dad knows I follow DVD news, and asks me if this is coming out practically every time I see him. He'll be thrilled. I know I am.

"We think we know how he did it."
"Howie couldn't have done it, he's been on vacation all week."

I've only seen a little of the series. Were most of the gags recycled in the movies, or just a few?

I'd say there wasn't a lot of repeat. I always thought the idea worked better as a half-hour series, though. It was much tighter. Plus, the whole thing was a parody of weekly cop shows, so the format worked. Of course, weekly cop shows have changed a lot, so I'm not sure how well some of the references work for a modern audience.

Awesome news.

I still remember the shootout, where Drebin is shooting from a behind a couple of trashcans and the person he's shooting at it, is two feet away shooting from behind trashcans as well.

I always loved the guest stars being thrown out of a moving car.

The classic intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oPnFYisM6s

Nigel, do you remember the old shoe shine guy Johnny the Snitch who Drebbin went to for street info in every episode? Drebbin would sit on his stand ask him an important question and he say "I wouldn't know anyhing about that." Then Drebbin would hand over some rolled bills, the guy would look around and tell him more info than was thematically possible.

But my favorite was after Drebbin got up out of the guy's shoe shine chair some famous celebrity would come in with a funny question. The two I remember were Dodgers Manager Tommy La sorda and (in another episode) Dick Clark. After Drebbin leaves Clark sits down, puts his shoe up and Willie goes to work (forgive the dialogue errors, it's all from memory):

CLARK: I've run out of that Eternal Youth Formula that stops the aging process. Where can I get more?

JOHNNY: I wouldn't know anything about that...

Clark hands him a roll of bills. Willie pockets them and looks around suspiciously.

JOHNNY: Well, first you need to sacrifice 100 virgins and drain their blood. Then...

Anybody know why the helll this character wasn't in any of the films? He's still alive.


I also loved their "Special Strategic" Guest stars like William Shatner and George Stanford Brown.

Here's a note of Trivia: George Stanford Brown actually directed one of the episodes. And Joe Dante did one concerning a boxer who was getting paid to take a dive. My favorite moment of that one is when the boxer Joey is sitting in his locker room playing this elaborate tune on a saxophone (with his gloves on). Drebbin walks in and grabs the sax from him:

DREBBIN: Sorry, Joey - no sax before a fight.

Classic.

I always loved the final freeze-frame, which wasn't actually a freeze-frame. I think the best one was when Drebin goes to pour the Chief a cup of coffee and they just freeze, and the coffee keeps pouring till the cup overflows and drops out of the Chief's hand. But nothing and nobody else moves. Genius.

I remember that, you can see Drebin trying to maintain his pose while the coffee starts scalding his wrist.

"Who are you, and how did you get in here?!"
"I'm a locksmith.....and I'm a locksmith."

Day=Made.

Man, i's been years since I've seen this show. But I do distinctly remember the one with "tonight's special guest star" Florence Henderson singing and taking a turkey out of the oven just seconds before she is riddled with a hail of machine gun fire. Quality entertainment.

The second person who came to Johhny the Snitch wasn't always a celebrity, though. One time it was just a priest who wanted to ask Johnny about the nature of God.

Buying this just based on that intro.

Really, is there any show that was so unfairly cut off in so little time?

Well, Max Headroom was close. It got seven episodes to Police Squad's six. But other than that, no.

So weird, I was thinking about this series last night. I'll have to buy it, there are just too many great moments in each episode.

Some of the things I always remember are:

The "tow" truck.
The Japanese Garden.
And there's one episode where they do the classic tracking shot of the criminals feet walking along, but with some physics-defying moves thrown in.

And didn't the shoe-shine guy sometimes end up giving back the money for things Drebbin tells him?

Hell, I can't wait for this one!

That episode is so fantastic. There's a great Dick Miller cameo as the club manager. He give one of my favorite lines of all time after Tony D'Wonderful's first performance:

"I've seen all the greats...Wayne Newton...Frank Sinatra...Carl Yastrzemski...but THAT was the greatest performance I ever saw".

"now run along Billy... and next week, don't forget to bring those things you found in your mother's dresser."

or whatever. so happy to hear this is finally making DVD.

what about when george kennedy asks drebbin how he solved the case or something and drebbin say," i had a hunck back at the office... and here's that hunchback right now!" and quasimodo walks up and says hi. cracks me up everytime.

ploice squad, airplane, naked gun 1 & 2 are a lost art. they try to make new comedies like this but they NEVER get it right. even the ones with leslie nielsen in 'em...

Especially the ones with Leslie Neilsen in them.

You know I've been waiting for this for a long time. Best Intro Ever on par with A-Team.

"and next week I'll show you why women can't play professional football!"

cannot wait to get my grubbies on this.

Got this for XMAS and after one episode I'm loving it. My favorite exchange so far is when Frank and his partner are talking to a woman whose husband was killed during a bank robbery:

Mrs Twice: Poor Ralph. And what about my daughter. What am I gonna tell her?

Ed: Yeah, you are gonna have to tell her something. Tell her he went on a long trip.

Frank: No, wait a minute. How about a big monster came and took him to Daddy-heaven.

If I recall correctly, they put the car back together, and the science guy says "we were missing a few parts, but we did the best we could", and Frank looks at the car to find that a dark colored, four door sedan has become a light colored, two door sports car.

I just watched these again on Netflix. They haven't aged a day. I think this show was granted the "Worst Reason to Cancel a Show" award. The network said that the audience had to "pay too much attention" to get the gags. If the show had continued, I think the creators said that the next season Gandhi would be shown in the opening credits gunning down would-be assassins.

And, of course, there's the immortal: "Is this some kind of bust?" sequence.