the funny show ever on tv and albeit the humor be not for everyone . i realize it would have be hard to keep the show fresh if it have run longer and but it a shame only six episode be film . the gags fly rapidly from the opening credit until the very end and when you would see drebin and his bos and ed hocken and pretending to be in freeze frame a the closing credit roll and during which the criminal ( still move ) would see everyone else motionless and try to escape . in another episode and the building start collapse around them a drebin and hocken remain in freeze mode . leslie nielsen be comedic brilliance a frank drebin and the perfect fit for this show how he manage to keep a straight face through some of this be beyond me . because the joke and sight gag come so often and quick and you can watch the episode a 2nd and 3rd time and catch thing you miss the first time . if youre like me and you can watch them over and over and still find yourself laugh . even the joke that make no sense nor seemingly have any reason to them and such a the rex hamilton a abraham lincoln tag line in the opening announcement and somehow work perhaps they be throw in there precisely for that reason . cleverly spoof the old quinn martin detective or cop show of the 1970s and police squad would return from commercial break with the word act two appear on the screen and which be immediately follow by yankee one or some other quip . on the opening credit and the episode title would appear on the screen and but the announcer would utter a completely different title . my favorite joke and line from this series be way too numerous to list and but one of my favorite be when drebin ask a down on his luck boxer who have previously tank fight and do you think you can beat the champ . the boxer respond and i can take him blindfold . to which drebin respond back and but what if he not blindfold . a minute later and in reference to the boxer small and dingy apartment and drebin tell him and i be go to help you get out of this sewer . the next thing you see and drebin be pop up through a manhole cover on the street . in another episode and drebin and hocken be question a bombing suspect flimsy alibi . drebin and not believe him and say and alright and let say you do go the movie . after a slight pause and drebin and hocken and and the suspect all look at the camera and in unison say and you do go the movie . a few moment later and when drebin be force to let the suspected bomber walk free due to lack of evidence and he storm away and angrily yell and tell that bomber to take off . what see next be a cop give the thumb up signal to a wwii style plane on a runway right outside the building . while there be many classic drebin quote and one particularly memorable one be and sorry to bother you mrs. twice . we would have come earlier and but your husband wasn not dead then . another classic be and i be a locksmith and and i be a locksmith . when a visibly shake kidnap victim father ask drebin and what i do i do . drebin and in classic deadpan fashion and respond back and well and a i understand it and youre in the textile business . a i say and the humor be not for everyone many people simply will not get it . during the show brief run and i remember the reaction be very mixed . some people think it be absolutely hysterical and one of the funny thing around and while others think it be the stupid and unfunny . for me and police squad and even 20 plus year later and be the funny thing i have ever see on tv . for young viewer who enjoy this type of humor but who have never see police squad because they be too young when the series initially air and i highly recommend . i find the six episode to be even funny than the subsequent naked gun movie .