Synopsis
Police Squad! (1982) is ABC's cult comedy series you can watch online on iFILM, created by the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker trio behind Airplane! and starring Leslie Nielsen as the stone-faced Lieutenant Frank Drebin.
Six episodes aired. Then ABC pulled the plug — famously citing that the show "requires thinking." Every frame is packed with visual gags running several layers deep: background jokes, deadpan non-sequiturs, and freeze-frames that turned into their own comedy tradition. Drebin and his Police Squad colleagues stumble through criminal investigations with spectacular obliviousness, and the writing never tips its hand about what's coming next.
The show was too dense for prime-time 1982, but it quietly built the foundation for The Naked Gun films that launched in 1988. Stream all six episodes of Police Squad! online on iFILM — you'll catch something new on every rewatch.
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