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Police Squad

The precursor to the popular Naked Gun flicks, Police Squad! still ranks as one of my favorite TV series of all time. Too bad that they pulled the plug after only six episodes, since the movie was a watered down, stretched out re-cycling of the original. The problem (as the boneheads at ABC saw it) was that the show required the viewer to pay too much attention to get the jokes.

I can't wait for the upcoming release of the series on DVD, scheduled for November 7th. Too bad that the DVD won't include deleted material (like special guest star John Belushi's appearance as a corpse, removed from the series when he actually became one) because as Co-creator David Zucker put it "In those days, they just threw stuff away."

Tags: comedy, TV, video