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Sight-gags and non-sequiturs dominate this spoof of police dramas. The six episodes formed the basis for later very successful "Naked Gun" movies.
Marginally a "straight" police drama in the Jack Webb/Quinn Martin school, Police Squad occurs in a strange universe where everything is taken literally (when a name "rings a bell" we hear bells go off
every time someone mentions it), non sequiturs occur (a mime tries to spell out a ransom note and Officer Nordberg guesses "Theme From a Summer Place") and sight gags abound
(while looking for a corpse, someone wants to know the time
and the dead man's hand drops out of a tree).
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