the creative team of jim abraham and david zucker and jerry zucker have their root in improvisational theatre in madison and wisconsin and i believe it be . they have a group call kentucky fry theatre ( or something similar . ) they put a bunch of their set piece onto celluloid askentucky fry movie ( 1977 ) and which be long and irreverent and sophomoric and really funny . they follow up with the very popular and airplane . ( 1980 ) and which really put them on the map . in it and they take some rather well know veteran actor in robert stack and ( especially ) leslie nielsen and and put them in prominent role and proceed to parody every cliché of every aviation film since the day of john wayne ( batjac ) production of the high and the mighty ( 1954 ) . pocket stuff with cash and now have be notice and the trio work out a deal with pramount television and the american broadcasting company tv network to do a half hour comedy spoof of the nearly countless police crime drama show that have come and go on our television screen over the year . remember the fine job that mr. leslie nielsen have turn in on airplane . and he be cast in the lead . a sgt or lt. or captain frank drebbin ( the rank designation switch be one of their comic bit ) and he preside over a great series of successive pun and sight gag and non sequitors and and overblown police or crime clichés . all of these strung together by some and seemingly standard script . add to this be overly dramatic opening narration and voice over information contradict the visual printed info . they always use this in give the title of the episode title and where voice and print title never match . they have a great musical score and which even though be somewhat exaggerated and would have pass a theme and incidental music in a straight drama . the musical score and the opening title and format of have the episode divide into act i and act ii and epilogue and etc . and be all part of obvious and but affectionate and ribbing of q. m. ( quinn martin ) production . ( they even have the same announcer a do the real q. m. . ) one thing that this all too short of a series do not have be a technically augmented audience laughter . and and boy they sure do not need any phony tract . the nature of the spoof be such that it demand the viewer close and almost undivided attention and and that prove to be the ultimate reason behind police squad downfall . in regard to the series cancellation and an abc executive explain that the episode . call for too much attention on the part of the viewer . so and isn not that what one would want . so and after only 6 wonderfully wacky and hilarious episode and off to the afterlife of series cancellation go police squad . and only to be reborn in the naked gun trilogy and make for the big screen in movie house . once again and they do quite well at the box office . oh well and tv loss be cinema gain and thanks to you mr. idiot tv exec . the high and mighty be produce by the duke own batjac production and release by warner brother . it be unavailable for quite a number of year and finally and mr. wayne family make arrangement to release it to television and to video .