Police Squad! Did It (A Bird in the Hand)". The advertisements were shown in British cinemas as well as on television. After the show's cancellation (and well before production on the "Naked Gun" movies), the producers considered turning the show into a movie by linking several episodes together with new scenes. A few of these scenes were actually filmed (including an elaborate "freeze frame" gag involving a burning courtroom) before the project was abandoned. This footage can be viewed on the DVD release. The "Police Squad!" characters were resurrected during the WWE's Summerslam 1994 PPV. In this guise, they were looking for
Racket Squad based on actual case files from United States police departments, business organizations and other agencies. In the original episodes, Braddock addressed the victim in the second person, addressing the victim directly. In later episodes he narrated in the more conventional third person. Shooting was rapid, with 44 pages of script shot in two days. The show featured several guest stars who would achieve starring roles in future film and television roles: After "Racket Squad", Reed Hadley starred from March 1954 to June 1955 in another crime drama on CBS, "The Public Defender". Alpha Video released various episodes on DVD Worldwide