Police Squad! Police Squad! Police Squad! is an American television comedy series broadcast on the ABC network in 1982, created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's usual sight gags, wordplay and non sequiturs. While a parody of many television shows and movies, it bore a particular resemblance to the Lee Marvin cop show, "M Squad" (especially the opening credits) and the late 1960s series "Felony Squad". Although cancelled after six episodes, the show spawned "The Naked Gun" film series. In 2013,
The X-Files (season 1) was the only choice after auditions. Carter's initial pitch for "The X-Files" was rejected by Fox executives. He fleshed out the concept and returned a few weeks later, leading to the commission of the pilot. Carter worked with "NYPD Blue" producer Daniel Sackheim in further developing the pilot, drawing stylistic inspiration from the 1988 documentary "The Thin Blue Line", and the English television series "Prime Suspect". Inspiration was also taken from Carter's memories of watching "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and "The Twilight Zone" in his youth; as well as from the then-recently released film "The Silence of the Lambs", which